Economic Affairs - First Report
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CONTENTS
Terms of Reference
REPORT
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
The UK's immigration debate
Objectives and key issues
CHAPTER 2: KEY FEATURES OF IMMIGRATION
AND IMMIGRANTS IN THE UK
Past and future net immigration and population
growth
Key features of recent migration to the UK
A profile of immigrant workers in the UK
Improving data on immigration and migrants
CHAPTER 3: IMPACTS ON THE LABOUR MARKET
AND MACRO-ECONOMY
Impacts of immigration on the resident
population in theory
Empirical evidence for the UK
Wages
Unemployment
Training and apprenticeship
Macro-impacts: Inflation and unemployment
CHAPTER 4: IMMIGRATION AND LABOUR SHORTAGES
Immigration and vacancies
Immigrants' work ethic
Price adjustments and other alternatives
to immigration
CHAPTER 5: IMPACTS ON PUBLIC SERVICES
AND PUBLIC FINANCE
Existing estimates of net fiscal impacts
Uncosted externalities: Impacts on public
services
Health
Funding for local councils
Impacts on pensions
CHAPTER 6: RISING POPULATION DENSITY:
IMPACTS ON HOUSING AND WIDER WELFARE ISSUES
House prices and rental market
Housing conditions, homelessness and social
housing
Wider welfare issues
CHAPTER 7: IMMIGRATION POLICY
Objectives and limitations of UK immigration
policy
Key issues in the current reform of the UK's
immigration policies
Temporary or Permanent?
CHAPTER 8: CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Key features of immigration and migrants
in the UK
Impacts on the labour market and macro-economy
Immigration and labour shortages
Impacts on public services and public finance
Rising population density: Impacts on housing
and wider welfare issues
Immigration Policy
APPENDIX 1: Economic Affairs Committee
APPENDIX 2: List of Witnesses
APPENDIX 3: Call for Evidence
APPENDIX 4: Immigration—public
opinion and numbers
APPENDIX 5: Components of population
growth in the UK, 1971-2006
APPENDIX 6: Stocks of foreign-born
population in selected OECD countries
APPENDIX 7: Projected population growth
by country 2006-2081
APPENDIX 8: Rights and restrictions
for different types of immigration status of non-EEA migrants
APPENDIX 9: Measuring and predicting
immigration from Eastern Europe
APPENDIX 10: Immigration rules and
recent statistics
APPENDIX 11: Immigration policy in
the UK before the new points-based system
APPENDIX 12: The new points-based
system
APPENDIX 13: Glossary
NOTE:
(Q) refers to a question in oral evidence
(p) refers to a page of written evidence
The Report of the Committee is published in Volume I, HL Paper
82-I.
The Evidence of the Committee is published in Volume II, HL Paper
82-II
MINUTES OF EVIDENCE - VOLUME II (HL 82-II)
WRITTEN EVIDENCE - VOLUME II (HL 82-II)
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