Research

Migration Watch approaches our research output carefully and diligently; while we have a proven track record of getting it right on the issue, we know how sensitive the topic is and ensure we provide neutral, non-partisan and numbers-based analysis. On that basis, we source our numbers from officially published statistics reports, most usually the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the National Audit Office (NAO), the Home Office (HO), and other arms of His Majesty’s Government.

Where needed, we make projections guided by statistical inference and modelling guided by one of our co-founders, Dr David Coleman, Emeritus Professor of Demographics at the University of Oxford. We place the highest possible premium on numbers-based analysis, and ensure and encourage a calm and level-headed approach to the facts concerning this paramount issue.

Real impact of migration ‘concealed’ in Government figures… | Migration Watch UK

The Government has been accused of concealing the true impact of immigration on our future population growth. Government population projections, published in December, claimed that three million, or just over 50%, of the projected population increase in the UK between 2002 and 2031 of 5.6 million would be due to

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March 22, 2004

MW100 : Population Projections – Further Analysis | Migration Watch UK

1. Further analysis of the Government Actuary’s population projections has revealed that the impact of migration on the projected population has been grossly understated. 2. According to Government Actuary’s press release issued on the 18 December [1]: “Of the projected 5.6 million increase [in the overall UK population] between 2002 and

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March 21, 2004

Lid blown on migrant cover-up | Migration Watch UK

Following a story in the Sunday Times of March 7, 2004 headed ‘Lid blown on migrant cover-up’ Migrationwatch issued the following comment: ‘The Sunday Times story takes us behind the spin to the heart of what is really going on at the Home Office. The Government’s claims of ‘managed migration’

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March 7, 2004

MigrationWatch comment on publication of asylum statistics. February 24… | Migration Watch UK

The reduction in claims is welcome but the UK was the largest recipient of asylum seekers in the Western world in 2003. [1] This will continue for as long as we fail to remove those whose claims are rejected. A recent House of Commons report confirmed that only one in five failed

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February 24, 2004

MigrationWatch response to Home Secretary’s statement in the House of Commons re 10 accession countries joining EU in May. | Migration Watch UK

We welcome the measures to tighten up the benefit system which are long overdue. We do not believe the registrations scheme is enforceable any more than the work permit scheme has been. But the real weakness appears to be that the Government has no policy as to how many people

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February 23, 2004

MigrationWatch comment on EU immigration… | Migration Watch UK

David Blunkett seems to have grasped the stick firmly by the wrong end. Migrationwatch is not opposed to all immigration, as we have repeatedly and publicly made clear. Any attempt to suggest otherwise is to wilfully misrepresent our position. The issue is not whether Eastern Europeans should be allowed to

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February 9, 2004