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Migrants DO cost UK jobs says 'buried' report: BBC attacked after claiming document was

suppressed by No 10Fierce row has broken out over a Government reportNewsnight said it was

being 'suppressed' by the CoalitionProgramme said it would undermine Tory immigration policy

But study will say some Britons have suffered 'displacement'

ByJames Slack

PUBLISHED:18:51 EST, 5 March 2014|UPDATED:18:52 EST, 5 March 2014

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British workers have been 'displaced' from the jobs market by migrant workers - especially during

the recession, a controversial Whitehall study claims.

A fierce row has broken out inside the Coalition over a Government report on the economic impact

of mass migration.

Newsnight on BBC2 claimed on Tuesday that the still-unpublished document would undermine the

Tory Party's case for imposing stricter controls on workers from overseas.

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The Corporation said that, as a result, it was being 'suppressed' by Downing Street - with pro-

immigration Lib Dem MPs demanding its immediate publication.

But the Mail now understands that the study - written by civil servants in the Home Office, Treasury

and Department for Business - will clearly state that some Britons have suffered 'displacement' from

the jobs market. It says this has been particularly noticeable for 'low-skilled natives', especially

during the last recession.

Last night, the row led to renewed claims of the BBC having an 'habitual lack of impartiality on the

subject of immigration'.

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Its own executives have repeatedly admitted to the Corporation that they had a pro-immigration,

liberal bias in the past - but insist that has now changed. The dispute centres on two studies on the

impact of immigration.

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The first was published in 2012 by the independent Migration Advisory Committee, which wasestablished by the last Labour government and is run by the respected economist Sir David Metcalf.

The second, unpublished, report was commissioned by the Government two years ago as part of

William Hague's EU 'balance of competences' review.

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Despite being focused on Brussels, the Whitehall study also deals more broadly with the impact ofmigration on the jobs market.

(File picture) Newsnight on BBC2 claimed on Tuesday that the still-unpublished document wouldundermine the Tory Party's case for imposing stricter controls on

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The row led to renewed claims of the BBC having an 'habitual lack of impartiality on the subject of

immigration'

The MAC report found that for every 100 extra foreign-born working-age migrants in the UK, therewas a reduction of 23 in the number of Britons in employment.

The report added that, between 2005 and 2010, 160,000 people in the UK had been 'displaced', or

left jobless, by the influx of foreign workers. In a broadcast on Tuesday evening, BBC Newsnight

reporter Chris Cook said of this research: 'There's just one problem: it's wrong.'

He said the Government's own unpublished report would contradict MAC's findings, and that it was

being suppressed as a result.

But as the Corporation's own political editor Nick Robinson conceded yesterday, the Government's

study deals with a different time period to MAC and the two are 'not directly comparable'.

MAC's report covers the period to 2010. Whitehall's report brings the subject up to date. Since 2010,

restrictions on non-EU migration introduced by the Government have led to an increase in the

number of British workers getting jobs.

UK nationals accounted for 92 per cent of the total rise in employment in the year to July-September

2013. Under Labour, the lion's share went to foreign-born workers.

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Insiders suggest that, far from undermining the case for immigration controls, it suggests the new

regime is working.

In any event, the Government's report - due to be published 'shortly' - does confirm the

'displacement' of British workers by mass migration, particularly the less well-off. As well as running

on Newsnight, the immigration story dominated early BBC news bulletins yesterday.

Radio 4's flagship Today programme highlighted the story in a discussion between presenter John

Humphrys and the BBC's political editor Nick Robinson.

Sir Andrew Green of MigrationWatch said: 'The BBC's enthusiasm for anything that might

undermine the Government's immigration policy was demonstrated yet again by the excitable tone of

Newsnight's report.'

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He said the programme had claimed the new report 'undermined the Government's case for

restricting immigration.' Writing for the Spectator magazine, he added: 'In fact, this is only one

aspect of a much wider case concerning the impact of mass immigration on public services, housing

and transport - not to speak of the social impact.'

The row comes at a time of high Coalition tensions over migration policy. Lib Dem Business

Secretary Vince Cable said figures that show net migration rose by a third to 212,000 in the year to

September 2013 was 'good news'. In Whitehall, the finger of blame for the selective leak to

Newsnight was being aimed at the Business Department.

David Cameron's spokesman said the Whitehall report was not yet complete but would be published

'shortly' - possibly by May. Asked whether the PM thought it right now to drop his ambition to

reduce annual net migration below 100,000, the spokesman said: 'No. It is the objective which we

are very much working towards.'

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