Its cute how easily you are fooled by such obviously flawed statistics.... I say cute because the alternative is you are deliberately being disengenious....
Lets take a look shall we....
The average UK-based migrant from Europe contributed approximately £2,300 more to UK public finances in 2016/17 than the average UK adult.
So what's misleading here then?
Well anyone with half brain should spot the careful dodge of refering to '
average adult'....
Because if they compared working age vs working age the proganda would all fall to pieces....
You see I'm going to give you an early hint here.... and point out that 'average adult' includes thoose of pensionable age (you know that group who tend to cost the state lot whilst contributing very little on average).
The EU8 coutries (including Poland - top contributer to migrants entering the UK from the EU) have only had freedom of movement into the UK from 2004 and most migrants tend to be young adults. Hence not many EU migrants have yet reached their expensive (to the state) retirement age!
Hence we square the circle of how the 'average' EU migrant can
(currently) represent an annual £2,300 benefit to the Uk vs the 'average' UK born adult.
This supposed benefit is entirely predicated on the current relatively youthful demographic that is EU migrants vs Uk adult!
The average European migrant arriving in the UK in 2016 will contribute £78,000 more than they take out in public services and benefits over their time spent in the UK (assuming a balanced national budget), and the average non-European migrant will make a positive net contribution of £28,000 while living here. By comparison, the average UK citizen’s net lifetime contribution in this scenario is zero.
so what's wrong here then? Well of course the 'average' migrant be they EU or not will be far more likely to have already completed at least their childhood education
before they have entered the UK and after they have gone through the relatively expensive (to the state) childhood years. Just educating a child costs the state around £73,000 so I think we can conclude that the average cost of childhood far exceeds the £78,000 for the average EU migrant cited above.
Which tends to confirm what was already known.... That the average migrant in the UK
earns less in their working years (and therefore pays less tax) vs the average uk born individual....and people wonder why we have wage stagnation and productivity issues?
"Health tourism" is such a tiny tiny percentage of people that use the NHS.
Problem is we don't know the full figure because the best the goverment can offer us is a 'rough' estimate!
https://fullfact.org/health/health-tourism-whats-cost/
From this source ...
It’s difficult to put a figure on exactly how much “health tourism” costs the NHS. 0.3% reflects the upper end of the government’s rough estimates of “deliberate health tourism” and visitors “taking advantage” of the system
So it's only a figure the goverment estimates for 'deliberate health tourism/ taking advantage of the system ' I. E thoose that attend the UK for the purpose of solely/primarily obtaining health care....
I wonder if you would trust a 'rough estimate' from the UK goverment if it didn't accord with your prejudices?
Personally I don't trust goverment 'rough estimates' when it comes to immigration because they are all too often directed by ideology and wildly wrong...
(
like this one where they were wrong with an actual figure twenty times the 'rough estimate')
You are far more likely to be treated by a foreign nurse or doctor within the NHS than have a foreign patient come over specifcally for healthcare.
And that nurse or doctor will be being paid a salary via the UK taxpayer. The evidence suggests however that the the NHS isn't particularly effective at recouping the cost of treating EU nationals....
There are currently more than double the amount of EU nationals living in the UK then vice versa (although it would only be fair to note the demographic makeups of the two groups are different)