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Government documents and independent overviews show that direct spending on immigration enforcement is a small fraction of total UK government outlays — on the order of a few tenths of a percent. The ...
England (and the wider UK) is experiencing a sharp political and social debate about migration: official long‑term net migration fell to 204,000 in the year to June 2025 — down from 649,000 a year ear...
Available reporting shows the UK government does not routinely give asylum seekers free iPhones or other smartphones as part of standard asylum support; phones were provided as a temporary Covid-era m...
Available reporting shows no single, definitive national figure that directly compares crime rates of migrants with UK‑born residents after fully adjusting for age, sex and socioeconomic status; acade...
Official UK crime reporting between 2015 and 2025 does not provide a clear, comprehensive picture of offending by immigration status because the Ministry of Justice does not systematically record immi...
Peer‑reviewed academic work on migrants and crime in the UK typically uses longitudinal, local‑level or administrative datasets and careful controls (age, sex, labour‑market exposure) rather than raw ...
No — not all asylum seekers arriving by boat in the UK are male, but men form a clear majority of recent arrivals. Government statistics show adult men made up 59% of all asylum claims in the year end...
Taxpayer exposure for migrant and asylum accommodation rose sharply between 2021 and 2024, driven by heavy use of hotels and emergency “large sites,” mounting case backlogs and contracts that produced...
Granting asylum seekers the right to work after six months would require explicit changes to the UK’s Immigration Rules and Home Office guidance — removing the current 12‑month “waiting” condition and...