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    Post Immigration from Europe 'cost the British taxpayer £3m a day' last year

    EU migration, taken as a whole, is not making the positive fiscal contribution that has so often been claimed
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    Border check: European immigration cost Britain £1.2bn last year, says report
    David Barrett, home affairs correspondent 17 MAY 2016 12:01AM

    European immigrants to Britain cost the taxpayer £3 million a day last year, according to a new analysis.

    MigrationWatch UK, which campaigns for tougher border controls, said the overall cost of immigration from Europe – including recent arrivals and those who have lived here many decades - was £1.2 billion last year.

    The sum was calculated by deducting the cost of benefits and public services, such as the NHS, which were consumed by migrants from the amount of money they contributed to the Exchequer through tax.

    In another important finding, the new research said immigrants who have arrived since 2001 – including hundreds of thousands of arrivals from the eastern European countries which joined the EU from 2004 – had been “cost neutral” to Britain.

    Those coming here in the last 15 years contributed as much to the economy as they took out in welfare payments and public services, according to MigrationWatch’s calculations.

    Within that group
    eastern European migrants cost the Exchequer £2.8 billion in 2014-15 but this deficit was cancelled out by a £2.8 billion surplus generated by migrants from other European countries such as France and Spain.

    Lord Green of Deddington, Migrationwatch’s chairman, said: “This report shows that EU migration, taken as a whole, is not making the positive fiscal contribution that has so often been claimed.

    “Furthermore, it is adding to the rapidly increasing pressures on housing and public services.

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    “It also contributes to our population increase of half a million every year - roughly a city the size of Liverpool.”

    The paper also looked at all types of immigration from across the world, which will include arrivals from Commonwealth countries in the post-war waves of immigration.

    MigrationWatch concluded the cost to the Exchequer was far greater than European-based migration.

    Last year migrants from all parts of the world cost the British Exchequer £17 billion, or £46.5 million a day, reflecting the fact that migrants who arrived in the 1960s, for example, are now pensioners with greater healthcare costs.

    MigrationWatch said it had based its research on methods similar to those used in a 2014 report by University College London’s (UCL) Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration, which said iimmigration from Europe gave the economy a £4.4 billion boost between 1995 and 2011.

    However, the UCL report found that fiscal contributions from Europe were in decline in the final three years of that period, said MigrationWatch.

    The new study concluded that decline had continued, leading to the £1.2 billion cost of European migration over the 12 months from April 2014 to March 2015.

    The MigrationWatch report said: “The [UCL]finding that recent immigrants have made substantial net contributions to public finances, appears to have resulted from the strong economic growth in the UK leading up to the recession in 2008.
    “These net contributions were not maintained in the subsequent years.

    “Furthermore, the present analysis of the contribution made in 2014/15 suggests that the subsequent recovery from recession has not resulted in a return to a positive contribution.”



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    I've been a month vacation in London in 2013 i had met with people from my country what i agree about them they are all working or owning businesses none told me i am on welfare benefits but what about third world immigrants or commonwealth countries and Island in UK how much they cost to english tax payers ? i guess we could say ten time then European immigration

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