Director’s Note:

Today, Labour Chancellor John Healey announced the Autumn Budget to British parliament. According to the Institute for Fiscal Studies, the Chancellor faces a “35 billion black hole” by 2030 based on spending commitments.

The most common objection to reasonable immigration restriction is: “We need immigration to support the economy!” This is false.

In fact, as we’ve illustrated before, and do so again here, restricting immigration is the fiscally responsible choice.

Therefore, in preparation, we sent this policy brief, authored in partnership with our UK Visiting Fellow Lucy White to MPs who have previously advocated reasonable immigration policies to help close this black hole.

Now, we are releasing it to you!

Please download, print, and share this information on social and in person far and wide.

The future of Britain depends on it!

PRESS RELEASE

White Papers Policy Institute calls for £23 billion in savings by cutting wasteful spending on foreign nationals and hostile migrants who have failed to assimilate, as well as taxing remittances.

POLICY BRIEF

Billions Wasted on Mass Immigration

How to cut spending in the Autumn Budget 2026

Text of the press release:

Mass immigration is costing us a fortune. We cannot afford it.

On 28th October 2026, Labour’s Chancellor John Healey will announce the Autumn Budget. According to analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies, the Chancellor faces a £35 billion black hole by 2030-31, based on spending commitments.

There are many ways to tackle this £35 billion black hole. The most obvious way is to stop spending the British taxpayers’ money on foreign nationals and hostile migrants who have failed to assimilate.

This is just the tip of the iceberg.

Follow the evidence…

• Billions spent on welfare for foreign national households
• Billions spent on illegal migrants.
• Millions spent on Foreign Nationals in our prisons.
• Billions leaving the UK economy through remittances.
• Millions of jobs handed to non-EU foreign nationals.
• Millions spent on foreign translation services in schools.
• Millions spent on foreign translation services in the NHS.
• Black, Asian & Mixed Households are Net Fiscal Dependents.
• Billions spent on welfare for foreign national households.
• £12 billion a year on benefits for migrant households.

Problem

~£12 billion was spent on universal credit for migrant households with at least one foreign national in 2025. Almost £8 billion (two-thirds) of this went to migrant households where at least one foreign national was not in work at all [1].

Universal credit spent on migrant households with at least one foreign national has increased year on year

• £12 billion in 2025
• £9.5 billion in 2024

Solution

Universal credit must be restricted to British citizens only. Foreign nationals should not be eligible to access state welfare.

Billions spent on illegal migrants.

£8 billion a year on illegal migrants.

Problem

~£8 billion a year is spent a year on ‘asylum seekers’, more accurately known as illegal migrants [2].

This includes: £4.2 billion on ‘Asylum support, resettlement & accommodation’, as well as millions spent on immigration enforcement, Border Force and Border Security Command, healthcare, transport, legal aid, tribunals, post-decision welfare, a weekly allowance and so much more.

Their weekly allowance is £49.18 per ‘asylum seeker’ in self-catered accommodation, or a weekly allowance of £9.95 per ‘asylum seeker’ in catered hotels.

Solution

Through Mandatory Remigration Policies (MRPs), all illegal migrants can and must be deported.

For perspective, if the government can pay for 40,000+ beds for illegal migrant arrivals, it can certainly afford to pay for repurposing these 40,000+ beds in detainment centres for deportees [3].

Millions spent on Foreign Nationals in our prisons.

£600 million a year on Foreign National Offenders.

Problem

£600 million was spent on foreign nations in our prisons. There were 10,134 foreign national offenders in our prisons in 2026, representing 12% of the total prison population across England and Wales [4]. The average cost is £59,026 per prisoner per year.

£300,000 per prisoner per year in a high-security psychiatric hospital is also spent. This includes second-generation migrants like Axel Rudakubana who murdered three girls in Southport, and the Afghan illegal migrant Dawood Safi who murdered Wayne Broadhurst who was just walking his dog. Both Rudakubana and Safi are staying in Broadmoor high-security hospital at a huge expense to the British taxpayer, 6x the cost of a normal prison.

Solution

Through Mandatory Remigration Policies (MRPs), all foreign national offenders can and must be deported.

Second-generation migrants like Axel Rudakubana can obtain citizenship in their ancestral homelands and be deported from Britain. Rudakubana can obtain citizenship through Rwanda’s nationality law (Organic Law No. 002/2021), which allows people of Rwandan origin to apply for nationality by origin if they were born to at least one parent of Rwandan ancestry.

Billions leaving our economy through remittances.

£24.5 billion a year leaves our economy in remittances.

Problem

£24.5 billion a year leaves the UK in remittances (most recent data from 2021) [5]. The top 3 destination countries for remittances leaving the UK in 2021 were:

• India (£4.46bn)
• Pakistan (£2.94bn)
• Nigeria (£2.76bn)

In 2024, the average cost of sending remittances from the UK was 6%. However, the cost of sending remittances to India and Pakistan was less than 3%, which is less than half the average cost. This cost is spent on money-transfer providers and intermediaries. There is currently no tax on sending remittances.

Solution

A tax on remittances must be introduced, with the exact percentage to be determined. Kuwait, for example, is proposing a 1%-5% tax on all remittances. The Republic of Palau has a 4% tax on all remittances sent by non-citizens.

If the UK government enforces 6% tax on all remittances (sent by both citizens and non-citizens), this would generate £1.5 billion a year. If a 10% tax on remittances was introduced, this would generate £2.5 billion a year.

Millions of jobs handed to non-EU foreign nationals.

68% of all new jobs created over the last decade went to non-EU foreign nationals.

Problem

• 2.5 million of the 3.7 million new jobs created over the past decade (from 2014-2025) went to non-EU foreign nationals [6]. Of the 3.7 million news jobs created:
• 734,000 new jobs went to British Nationals (20%)
• 408,000 new jobs went to EU nationals (12%)
• 2.5 million new jobs went to non-EU nationals (68% of all new jobs)*

*2.1 million of these 2.5 million jobs that went to non-EU nationals were only created since 2020. The top non-EU nationals that have arrived in the UK since 2020 were from, in order: India, Nigeria, China, Pakistan, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Bangladesh.

For every 1 young Brit aged 16-24 hired since 2020 (since the Boriswave), 27 young non-EU migrant workers were hired [7]. The number of non-EU workers aged under 25 on UK payrolls rose by 355% since January 2020, while the young British workforce grew by just 0.3%. At the same time, almost one million 16 to 24-year-olds are not in education, employment or training (NEETs). The youth unemployment rate for 16-to-24-year-olds in the UK stands at 16.4%.

Solution

It must be ensured that British citizens are prioritised in jobs opportunities over foreign nationals. In the United States, by comparison, an employer must generally show that no qualified, available U.S. worker can fill the role, and that hiring a foreign worker will not adversely affect the wages of Americans.

Millions spent on foreign translation services in our schools.

£539 million a year on ‘English as an Additional Language’.

Problem

£539 million was spent on funding ‘English as an Additional Language’ across state schools in England in 2025. This is because 1.7 million students across all state schools (21% of all state school students) now have English as a second language [8].

The most spoken non-English languages are Punjabi, Bengali, Urdu, Arabic, Polish and Romanian.

This £539 million could have been better used to fund:

• 15,820 qualified primary or secondary school teachers (on the minimum annual salary of £34,069) [9], or
• 10,202 qualified primary or secondary school teachers (on the maximum annual salary of £52,835), or
• 8,892 headteachers (on the minimum annual salary of £60,619)
• ‘Free’ breakfast clubs for all the schools in the country [10].

‘English as an Additional Language’ funding has increased each year [11]:

• £572 million in 2026-27
• £539 million in 2025-27
• £484 million in 2024-25
• £434 million in 2023-24
• £412 million in 2022-23

Solution

Through Voluntary Remigration Policies (VRPs), the government can offer a stipend to naturalized migrant households who voluntarily wish to leave the country. £65,000 per migrant (double the median average income) is a suggested figure. A 2024 Word on the Curb survey revealed that 66% of 18 – 34 year old ethnic minorities in Britain wished to leave the country. For comparison, the Home Office spent £56,000 per illegal migrant to be deported to France under the failed ‘One in, One out scheme’ [12]. 7

Millions spent on foreign translation services in the NHS.

£64 million a year on NHS foreign language translation.

Problem

£64 million was spent by the NHS on foreign language translation and interpretations in 2024-25. This £64 million could have instead funded:

• 1,639 experienced registered nurses with 4+ years of experience (on an annual salary of £39,043) [13]
• 813 GPs (on an annual salary of £78,699)
• 564 Consultants (on an annual salary of £113,565)
• 130,879 ambulance callouts, which includes taking the patient to hospital.
• NHS spending on translation services for non-English speaking patients has increased year on year, and doubled from 2020-21 to 2024-25 [14]:
• £64 million in 2024-25
• £58 million in 2023-24
• £48 million in 2022-23
• £42 million in 2021-22
• £31 million in 2020-21

Solution

Restrict NHS use to British citizens only. Conduct administrative review of citizenship applications to uncover fraud such as false asylum claims and denaturalize those who obtained citizenship illegally. Offer a Voluntary Remigration Policy incentive as described above to those who wish to leave.

Black, Asian & Mixed Households are Net Fiscal Dependents.

Native Britons are the only group making a net fiscal contribution.

Problem

The Native British are the only group making a net fiscal contribution. Every other group, on average, receives more in benefits than they pay in taxes [15].

Per the latest ONS data broken down by ethnicity, Whites pay £1,444 more in tax than they receive in benefits, per household per year.

Meanwhile…

• Asians receive £4,135 more in benefits than they pay in taxes, per household per year.
• Blacks receive £4,584 more in benefits than they pay in taxes, per household per year.
• Mixed groups receive £5,545 more in benefits than they pay in taxes, per household per year.

Solution

Foreign national households should not be eligible to access state welfare. In addition, those who have obtained citizenship in recent years and are now living on benefits should have their citizenship reviewed.