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  Archived Briefing Papers

1. Economic 7. Housing
2. Education 8. Legal
3. Employment 9. Migration Trends
4. European Union 10. Cohesion and Other Papers
5. Health 11. Policy
6. History 12. Key Facts

1. Economic
1.2 The fiscal impact of immigration to the UK (Jan 2004) [View PDF]
1.4 Costs of Illegal Immigration (Aug 2004)
1.7 Inquiry into economic migration to the EU (Jun 2005) [view PDF]
1.9 The fiscal contribution of migrants (Apr 2006) [View PDF]
1.15 The Impact of Immigration on GDP per head (Jan 2007) [View PDF]
   
2. Education
2.1 Education: The Impact of Asylum Seekers (Feb 2003)  [View PDF]
   
3. Employment
   
4. European Union
4.2 Draft EU constitution: Implications for asylum and immigration. (Nov 2003)
[view PDF]
4.4 The treaty establishing a constitution for Europe: Implications for asylum and immigration in the UK. (Oct 2004) [view PDF]
5.Health
5.1 Health Consequences of Current Immigration Policy (Jun 2003) [View PDF]
   
6. History
   
7. Housing
7.1 Housing Report - The impact of immigration on housing in the UK (Jan 2004) [View PDF]
7.2 The impact of immigration on England’s housing (Jul 2003) [View PDF]
7.3 MigrationWatchUK Briefing Paper - Migration and Housing (Mar 2004) [View PDF]
7.4 Housing and immigration an update (Oct 2004) [View PDF]
   
8. Legal
8.1 Implications of the Government's appeal on asylum benefits 2003. (Feb 2003) [View PDF]
8.3 Asylum Laws: A Way Forward (Jul 2003) [View PDF]
8.16 Legislation (Jun 2007) [View PDF]
   
9. Migration Trends
9.3 The Present and Future Scale of Immigration (Jul 2003) [View PDF]
9.4 Exceptional Leave to Remain (Apr 2003) [View PDF]
9.5 2003 Population Projections (Dec 2003) [View PDF]
9.6 Population Projections – Further Analysis (Mar 2004) [View PDF]
9.7 International migration in 2002 (May 2004) [View PDF]
9.8 Government Actuary’s Department 2003-based population projections. (Oct 2004) [View PDF]
9.9 Bull Points on Report, Minority Ethnic Groups in Britain By Ruth Lupton & Anne Power (Dec 2004) [View PDF]
   
10. Cohesion and Other Papers
10.1 Response to the Home Affairs Committee Inquiry Into Asylum Applications
(Apr 2003) [View PDF]
10.2 Balkan Asylum Seekers - Time for a new approach? by Professor James Pettifer (Jan 2004) [View PDF]
10.3

Migration into Scotland (Jan 2004) [View PDF]

10.4 Book Review: Human Visas, Human Rights Body Challenges Arranged Marriages (Jan 2004)[View PDF]
10.5 The full statement by Stephen Moxon, the Home Office whistle blower reported recently in the Sunday Times. (Feb 2004) [View PDF]
10.6

How skilled are immigrants to Britain? (Apr 2004) [View PDF]

10.9 Opinion Poll on asylum and inmmigration (Feb 2005) [View PDF]
10.11 Pressure on the UK visa system (Aug 2005) [View PDF]
10.13 Home Office consultation on managed migration routes Comments by MigrationwatchUK (Oct 2005) [View PDF]
   
11. Policy
11.1 Unmanaged Migration (May 2003) [View PDF]
11.2 A New Approach to Identity Cards (Oct 2003) [view PDF]
11.3 Asylum and Immigration: A programme of action (Nov 2003) [View PDF]
11.5 Immigration: A Comparison of Party Policies (May 2005) [View PDF]
   
12. Key Facts
 
13. Achievements
13.1 Ten MigrationWatch achievements (May 2006) [View PDF]