The report analysed figures from 1995 to 2011, during most of which the Labour
government was pursuing
vigorously pro-immigration policies.
It found that migrants from outside the European Economic Area (EEA) made a
negative contribution to the public purse of £117.9 billion because they
consumed more in public expenditure – including NHS costs, welfare hand-outs
and education – than they contributed in taxes.....
Sir Andrew Green, chairman of MigrationWatch, said the report confirmed the huge cost of immigration.
"As for recent European migrants, even on the authors' own figures - which we dispute - their contribution to the Exchequer amounts to less than £1 a week per head of population," he said....... Between 1995 and 2011 the foreign-born population in the UK doubled from 3.5 million to about 7 million. ......
At the same time the number of European immigrants in this country grew at a far higher rate, tripling from 723,000 to 2.3 million.
That huge surge was mainly due to the previous Labour government’s decision not to impose controls on the eight eastern Europeans, including Poland, which joined the EU in 2004."
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Sir Andrew Green, chairman of MigrationWatch, said the report confirmed the huge cost of immigration.
"As for recent European migrants, even on the authors' own figures - which we dispute - their contribution to the Exchequer amounts to less than £1 a week per head of population," he said....... Between 1995 and 2011 the foreign-born population in the UK doubled from 3.5 million to about 7 million. ......
At the same time the number of European immigrants in this country grew at a far higher rate, tripling from 723,000 to 2.3 million.
That huge surge was mainly due to the previous Labour government’s decision not to impose controls on the eight eastern Europeans, including Poland, which joined the EU in 2004."
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