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Britain to have '9.1m immigrants
by 2030'
Christopher Hope
London
Telegraph
Thursday January 31, 2008
Britain's immigrant population will top nine million in a little
over two decades - an increase of more than two thirds - a leading
Blairite think-tank has said.
The Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) used data from
the United Nations to forecast that there would be 9.1 million
migrants from abroad by 2030 compared with 5.4 million today.
The increase of 3.7 million is the same as adding a city the size
of Coventry to Britain's population every two years.
Last year, the Office for National Statistics projected that
there would be more than 70 million people living in Britain by
2031 but failed to say how many would be immigrants.
The forecasts were presented to a conference organised by the
Local Government Association to discuss how councils could deal
with the impacts on their areas of the increase in immigration.
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Jill Rutter, a researcher, said the extra numbers would inevitably
create "pinch points" at local level. She said: "We
need to acknowledge that migration is here to stay. Our future
population will be more diverse ethnically.
"The absolute scale of migration does put pressure on particular
public services but the issue is to make sure that the funding
of public services is flexible and responsive enough to deal with
these localised pinch points."
Prof David Shepherd, from the IPPR, suggested that the Government
would have to allow hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants
and asylum seekers to stay in Britain permanently if ministers
were going to establish a system of managed migration.
Controversy rages about the 450,000 asylum claims uncovered by
the Home Office in 2006 following the foreign prisoner scandal.
They were left lying around in boxes, with some files dating from
the mid-90s.
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