The recent report published by the Centre for Migration and Control, based on the latest official ONS 1 numbers, suggests that immigration has costed the British taxpayers up to £36billion since 2020 for services such as education, police services, transport, and housing.
Here's the breakdown for the previous year.
According to the report:
The economic benefits of immigration are at best transient.
The government’s immigration policy is based on unreliable models and inflated numbers. For example, since 2019, the economic contribution of recent migrants have been overstated by £8billion, owing to a pretty rudimental error in the formula being used!
The £36billion of taxpayers money is spent on 1.1 million "economically inactive" 2 people from "non-UK" nations, i.e. legal migrants who came to Britain on a visa.
Assuming the report is not flawed, i wonder what the political consequences and implications would be.
Economic Inactivity is defined by the ONS as “people not in employment who have not been seeking work within the last 4 weeks and/or are unable to start work within the next 2 weeks.” They are individuals that are considered to have fallen out of the labour market. Reasons for this include long-term health, housekeeping, the ambiguous category of ‘other’, or being a student. ↩
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