| Publisher | Business for New Europe |
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| Publication Date | November 2014 |
| Content Type | Report |
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Business for New Europe, the business group that makes the positive economic case for the United Kingdom's EU membership, published a report in November 2014 calling for the UK government to take a series of practical steps to address short-term immigration pressures. The proposed measures would retain the benefits of free movement of people, be relatively simple to implement, and would not require changes in EU treaties - which might be impossible to achieve. The report, titled Managing Migration: A Practical Approach, also clarified the true level of immigration in the UK, which is less than some people believed. For example, it highlighted statistics showing that the proportion of non-nationals in the UK is currently 7.7% of the population, which is lower than 10 other EU states including Germany (9.4%) and Spain (10.9%). It also emphasised that EU migrants come to the UK to work. For example, only 2.5% of the people claiming jobseeker’s allowance are EU migrants. The 10 simple, practical measures proposed included: reintroducing a Migration Impacts Fund to help local authorities facing particular pressures; collecting data on the use of public services by different nationalities to provide better information on the impact of migration; and more clearly defining migrants to make statistics more informative by excluding Britons returning to the UK, and students who will likely to return to their country of origin. |
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| Source Link | http://www.bnegroup.org/images/uploads/publications/files/Managing_Migration.pdf |
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| Subject Categories | Internal Markets, Justice and Home Affairs |
| Countries / Regions | Europe, United Kingdom |
