Immigration: Commonwealth
(asked on 30th April 2018) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the net contribution to the UK economy of immigrants from the Commonwealth or its predecessor dominions and colonies, in each year since 1948.
This question was answered on 15th May 2018
No such estimate has been made.
We value the contribution the Windrush generation have made to the United Kingdom. They were invited to come immediately after the second world war and in the decades that followed to help us to build modern Britain. No formal estimate has been made of the net contribution to the UK economy, but the Government is in no doubt about the debt of gratitude that this country owes to them.