Changing the debate: video animation on the impact of immigration on the UK — Transcript

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1. 0:03immigration is a big issue in a recent
2. 0:06poll it topped the list of the most
3. 0:07important issues facing Britain but what
4. 0:10evidence do we have about its impact on
5. 0:12jobs on services and on the UK the first
6. 0:15thing we know is that the number of
7. 0:17immigrants has been increasing and they
8. 0:18are now about 8 million people just
9. 0:21under half of new immigrants are from
10. 0:23the European Union most of these come
11. 0:26here to work most immigrants from
12. 0:29outside the European Union come here to
13. 0:31study some people believe immigrants are
14. 0:34taking jobs from British workers it's
15. 0:37true that if an immigrant takes a job
16. 0:38than a British worker can't at the same
17. 0:41time immigrants create new jobs by
18. 0:44setting up their own businesses and by
19. 0:46spending the money they
20. 0:48earn immigrants also enable employers to
21. 0:51recruit to less desirable jobs sometimes
22. 0:53allowing British workers to carry out
23. 0:55better paid and more desirable tasks
24. 0:58while immigration has reduced uced pay
25. 1:00in some jobs it has increased it in
26. 1:03others overall the result is a larger
27. 1:06more diverse and more productive
28. 1:10economy almost 2 million more people are
29. 1:13in work now compared to 2010 half are
30. 1:16immigrants half are
31. 1:19British immigrants are not just workers
32. 1:23like everyone else they use services and
33. 1:25this worries some people they are
34. 1:27concerned about the impact on our
35. 1:29schools and believe that British
36. 1:31children can't get school places new
37. 1:33immigrants are often single and
38. 1:35childless however if they stay then it's
39. 1:38no surprise that they created their own
40. 1:39families
41. 1:41here while some people believe that
42. 1:43children who speak another language at
43. 1:44home perform badly research evidence
44. 1:47shows that they often do well and so do
45. 1:50other pupils in the same
46. 1:53schools it's also said that immigrants
47. 1:55are a drain on our Health
48. 1:57Service no one knows exactly how much
49. 2:00immigrants cost the NHS what we do know
50. 2:04is that recent immigrants are younger
51. 2:06than the average UK resident and it's
52. 2:08older people who make the most frequent
53. 2:10trips to the doctor and with 26% of
54. 2:12doctors born outside the UK you are more
55. 2:15likely to be treated by an immigrant
56. 2:17than meet one in the waiting room we
57. 2:19hear a lot about benefit tourism yet
58. 2:21only one in 20 immigrants claim out of
59. 2:24work benefits half the rate of British
60. 2:28people immigrants also help pay for
61. 2:31public services through income tax and
62. 2:33other taxes such as vat in the long run
63. 2:36much lower immigration would almost
64. 2:38certainly mean higher taxes for the rest
65. 2:40of us or Worse Public
66. 2:43Services some people believe that
67. 2:45immigration only benefits London because
68. 2:48of its opportunities and long history of
69. 2:50immigration 40% of the UK's immigrants
70. 2:53live there this brings the city both
71. 2:56benefits and costs in the end London
72. 2:58makes a major 34 billion positive net
73. 3:02contribution to UK public
74. 3:04finances everyone benefits from a
75. 3:07thriving capital city and strong economy
76. 3:09and immigrants help that to
77. 3:11happen the evidence shows that
78. 3:14immigration is overall a good thing for
79. 3:16the British economy although there are
80. 3:17winners and
81. 3:19losers that is also true of other types
82. 3:22of economic and social change for
83. 3:24example globalization technological
84. 3:26change or equal rights for women the
85. 3:30question is whether government and
86. 3:31policy can limit the negative impacts of
87. 3:34immigration and spread the benefits this
88. 3:37might take a bit of working
89. 3:57out