Our response to the Home Office Immigration Stats 2024

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February 27, 2025

Migration Watch Chairman Alp Mehmet said:

The latest Home Office immigration statistics for 2024 show that inflows, particularly for work, have remained damagingly high. Any decreases from the previous year were largely the result of measures put in place by the Tories.

In other news we learned that the number of 16 to 24-year-olds not in work or education has hit an 11-year high at nearly 1,000,000.

The government must shake off its complacency, tackle legal and illegal inflows, stop importing cheaper workers and start prioritising the future of our own young people. Nothing they have done or said so far will do this.

Note to Editors

There were:

• 850,000 long-term visas issued
• 160 2000 grants for settlement
• 417,000 extensions of stay for work
• 108,000 asylum applications, 18% up on 2023 and greater than the previous highest of 103,000 in 2002.