Immigration

Great British PAC demands immediate publication of financial costings after Government abandons proposed 15-year settlement requirement for thousands of migrant care workers

Great British PAC is demanding that Labour publish the full financial implications of its immigration policy reversal after Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood announced that qualifying migrant care workers would retain a five-year route to permanent settlement, rather than face the previously proposed 15-year wait.

Vicky Richter · 4 November 2026

Immigration

Great British PAC Challenges Labour Over Immigration U-Turn and Unpublished Taxpayer Costings

A Government that promised control has retreated on a significant part of its own settlement reforms after sustained opposition from its own benches, and has yet to publish what that retreat costs. Great British PAC is demanding the financial assessment, the evidence behind the decision, and a straight answer on whether the Home Secretary is running immigration policy or reacting to her own party.

Vicky Richter · 4 November 2026

Immigration

Great British PAC Questions Labour's £150m Asylum Accommodation Plan as Communities Demand Answers

The Treasury has found £150m to build more large-scale asylum accommodation, but has not said how many sites, where they will be or what they will cost to run. In Piddington, Barnham and Linton-on-Ouse, residents have already discovered what that uncertainty means in practice. Chris Philp says the money proves Labour has "no intention whatsoever" of removing illegal immigrants. The published evidence suggests something more awkward: the government may be buying a costlier version of the system it promised to end.

Vicky Richter · 29 October 2026

Immigration

Great British PAC Challenges Burnham Over EU Free Movement Return Four Months After Makerfield Brexit Pledge

Four months after promising Makerfield he would not re-run Brexit, the Prime Minister wants an "honest discussion" about readmitting EU free movement, and his Housing Secretary says nothing is "off the table". The National Director of Great British PAC calls it "a calculated attempt to overturn a democratic decision through the back door".

Vicky Richter · 26 October 2026

Immigration

Four in five additional UK payroll jobs went to non-UK nationals while the benefits bill soared by £50 billion. This was a political choice, made in Whitehall.

Just 734,000 of the 3.7 million additional payroll employments created since 2014 went to British nationals. Non-EU nationals took around 2.5 million. Over the same period, the out-of-work benefits caseload grew by 2.3 million people and the working-age welfare bill rose by £50 billion in real terms. A devastating new report chaired by Sir Iain Duncan Smith says this was not an accident. It was the planned outcome of a decade of decisions.

Vicky Richter · 16 October 2026

Immigration

Record 275 terrorism-related prisoners held in Britain, with Islamist extremism accounting for 57 per cent

The terrorism-related prison population has reached its highest level in the published Home Office series, with 57 per cent of those in custody classified as holding Islamist-extremist views.

Vicky Richter · 9 October 2026

Immigration

Home Secretary admits criminal gangs, not Britain, decide who reaches our shores

The Home Secretary has said Britain is ‘not in control’ of the Channel border and that criminal gangs conduct the ‘sifting’ of migrants preparing to cross in northern France. She also said almost every woman waiting there to make the journey has probably been raped.

Vicky Richter · 5 October 2026

Immigration

Labour's UK-France 'one in, one out' migrant deal scrapped after just over a year

The Home Office has confirmed the returns pilot with France is "no longer processing new cases". Around 1,500 people were sent back at a reported cost of £56,000 each, as ministers point to a fall of more than 40 per cent in small boat arrivals so far this year.

Vicky Richter · 2 October 2026

Immigration

More migrants have crossed the Channel since the election than there are regular soldiers in the British Army

Some 83,279 people have arrived in small boats since the general election, compared with 73,660 regular soldiers in the British Army. The milestone came in a record week: 781 crossings on Wednesday and two dinghies landing unchallenged on the Kent coast.

Vicky Richter · 25 September 2026

Immigration

France could demand almost £1bn to renew Channel patrols, inquiry chief warns

France's parliamentary inquiry into the Channel accords has warned that the next three-year deal could reach €1 billion, equivalent to roughly £860 million. Sébastien Huyghe's figure is conditional, and nothing has been agreed.

Vicky Richter · 24 September 2026

Immigration

Record £11.9bn in universal credit paid to households with foreign nationals

The share of the universal credit bill going to households with at least one foreign national has barely moved in years, sitting at 15.6 per cent. The bill has gone from £7.5bn to £11.9bn in two.

Vicky Richter · 21 September 2026

Immigration

'One in, one out' deal has cost £56,000 per migrant returned, Mahmood reveals to MPs

Shabana Mahmood has told MPs the 'one in, one out' Channel returns deal with France has cost £78 million so far, at £56,000 per migrant returned. Just 1,400 people have been sent back in 11 months, while 28,000 have crossed the Channel.

Vicky Richter · 16 September 2026