From 2001 to 2011, immigrants from the EU-15 countries contributed 64% more in taxes than they received in benefits.

University College, London. Nov 2014

Immigration Facts #2

The value of the education of immigrants in the UK labour market who arrived since 2000 and that has been paid for in the immigrants’ origin countries amounts to £6.8bn over the period between 2000 and 2011.

University College, London  Nov 2014

Nobody’s saying it, so I have to.

Here we go.

Immigration facts #1

The positive net fiscal contribution of recent immigrant cohorts (those arriving since 2000) from the A10 (“accession”) countries amounted to almost £5bn, while the net fiscal contributions of recent European immigrants from the rest of the EU totalled £15bn.

Recent non-European immigrants’ net contribution was likewise positive, at about £5bn.

Over the same period, the net fiscal contribution of native UK born was negative, amounting to almost £617bn.

University College, London Nov 2014