(extract from a article on illegal migration)
Last December, a report from the government’s official advisors on immigration policy, the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC), said people entering the UK through asylum and refugee routes make an ‘unambiguously negative’ contribution to public funds.
The committee cited research in the Netherlands which put the ‘lifetime net fiscal impact’ of each asylum seeker at minus £390,000, and a similar study in Australia which estimated a figure of minus £198,000.
MAC chairman Prof Brian Bell said at the time: ‘I would be very surprised if Australia and the Netherlands were not good comparators for us in terms of general labour markets [and] in terms of the types of people who are coming on asylum.
‘I don’t want to put a figure on it, but I think those sort of headline numbers that come from those countries, it wouldn’t surprise me if a similar order of magnitude was true in the UK’
The MAC report said: ‘We expect the lifetime net fiscal impact of those entering through asylum and refugee routes to be unambiguously negative’
good luck to all
