Explore Challenges
- 13 OCTOBER 2010: Plastic pollution in the oceans
- 1 DECEMBER 2010: Can the UK ever be sustainable?
- Natural disasters: how can we improve?
- Not In My Back Yard
- Digital Divide in the UK?
- Importing goods, exporting drought?
- The challenges and opportunities of an ageing society
- Engineering our climate
- The future shape of Capitalism
- Migration: skills and the job market
- Razing the Rainforest
- London under water
- Concreting the countryside
- Future of low carbon energy
- Africa in the 21st Century
Balanced Migration report
Balanced Migration: a new approach to controlling immigration was produced by Migraionwatch, and introduced by Frank Field MP and Nicholas Soames MP in September 2008. The report is based on a simple principle: that the number of immigrants who are given permission to settle permanently in this country should be kept to approximately the same level as the number of British citizens who are emigrating.
Source: Balanced Migration 2008
Every 3 minutes
A new British passport is issued in England
8 minutes
Average time that Government claims that it is removing an immigration offender although this number includes those turned away at the borders
87%
agree that immigration is putting too much pressure on public services
81%
of people agree that government should substantially reduce immigration levels in Britain
Source: YouGov November 2007
7 million
People will be added to the British population by immigration alone by 2031 – equivalent to seven cities the size of Birmingham
2009
The estimated year when Britain will become the most populated country in Europe
1/3
The approximate number of doctors and dentists registered to practice in the NHS which had qualified abroad
Source: Hansard, 27 February 2008; Column 1746W
62p
The annual benefit of immigration to individuals in Britain per head per week
25%
Percentage of schools in Birmingham which have a non-English speaking majority
