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The most reliable, directly reported figure from the sources provided is the 2021 census count of , which makes and equates to roughly in that census . None of the supplied analyses gives a standalone...
Estimates of the number of people in the UK without legal immigration status vary widely; reputable recent analyses place the range at roughly 700,000–900,000 after corrections to an earlier Pew figur...
Publicly available analyses find that, overall, foreign nationals in England and Wales are imprisoned or convicted at roughly similar rates to British nationals once the younger age profile of many mi...
UK law does not set universal, fixed retention periods for most types of personal data; controllers must justify retention based on purpose and document retention schedules (ICO guidance and Practical...
London is a majority‑minority city: roughly 46% of Londoners are from non‑white ethnic groups according to multiple syntheses of the 2021 census and recent estimates, a sharp rise from 2011 when the w...
Available UK research since 2010 finds no clear evidence that immigrants commit more crime than native-born once key factors—especially age and socio‑economic status—are controlled for, and several la...
The Daily Mail has a long record of strong anti‑migrant framing and repeated accuracy problems that have required corrections or regulator admonishments; most recently it was reprimanded by IPSO for a...
Available sources show that Muslim women in the UK historically have had higher fertility than non‑Muslims — Pew estimated a UK Muslim TFR of about 3.0 versus 1.8 for non‑Muslims in 2005–10 (Channel 4...
The £71,000 “working-family benchmark” appears in research from the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) as the gross annual income their modelled three-child working household would need to match the post...
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...
The available research and reporting show that Muslim women in the UK historically have had higher fertility than non-Muslim women and a younger childbearing profile, but fertility has been converging...
Official UK figures show non-UK nationals made up about 12–13% of key criminal justice counts in recent reporting: 12.4% of the prison population in June 2025 and roughly 13% of cautions and convictio...
London’s overall crime rate in recent datasets is roughly mid‑table among UK police areas — about 107 offences per 1,000 residents in the year to Dec 2024 in one compilation — while poverty and income...
Over the last two decades the United States has trailed peer Anglophone countries — especially Australia and Canada — in life expectancy, with studies finding the U.S. the worst performer among six hi...
Policing practices, reporting behaviour and data systems shape whether and how migration and crime appear linked: police recording and enforcement practices can inflate foreign-national representation...
Conviction and charging rates vary markedly across CPS areas and police forces: CPS operational data shows conviction rates by CPS area ranging roughly from mid-70s percent to high-80s percent (for ex...
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 ...
Estimates and multiple studies converge on one clear finding: London and its surrounding South East corridor host the largest share of the UK’s undocumented or unauthorised population, though precise ...
Recent regional shifts in UK crime rates are driven less by a simple immigration story than by a bundle of measurable forces: changing police recording and enforcement priorities, local economic condi...
For official UK data on the flu vaccination status of hospitalised patients you should start with the UK Health Security Agency’s (UKHSA) National flu and COVID‑19 surveillance reports, which publish ...