Title: Recent immigrants to UK 'make net contribution' - BBC News
Headings: Recent immigrants to UK 'make net contribution'
Recent immigrants to UK 'make net contribution'
Immigrants to the UK since 2000 have made a "substantial" contribution to public finances, a report says.
'Highly-educated immigrants'
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Content: "We've had roughly four million immigrants under the previous government - two-thirds of those were from outside the European Union," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. He said the report found that, "since 1995, they have made a negative contribution overall". He added: " So the verdict for non-EU is that the benefit to the exchequer is minimal or negative." He accepted that "if you take the whole of the EU", the benefit was "clearly positive". But Sir Andrew said this would be expected "because you are including German engineers, French fashion designers and - as it's the European Economic Area - even Swiss bankers [sic]". "The real issue for the future is the very large numbers of low-paid immigrants from eastern Europe," he said. He added: " The report looks backwards but doesn't look forwards. "The professor's report does not take into account - no doubt for good reason - future health costs as migrants get older nor the pension bill, which is huge."