It is clear that the figures are a gross distortion of the real situation. I would urge members of the forum to take a look at analysis of the data at https://fullfact.org/factchecks/migratio...nals-18654 before jumping to the same conclusions as George Whale.

1. Figures refer to new applications for social housing, not to existing tenants, so the claim that "40 percent of Lewisham social housing is occupied by non-British nationals" has no basis whatsoever.
2. The figures used have regarded all individuals with no nationality status as if they must be foreign. It would be most accurate to say that 6% (rather than 40%) of successful new applicants in Lewisham are known to be foreign nationals.
3. It is unclear how much of Lewisham applications are covered by the CORE data, so the figure could be much higher or lower than the 6% (especially considering the 36% of applications with no data).

I hope that George Whale will accept that the claim of "40 percent of Lewisham social housing is occupied by non-British nationals" is not supported by the figures from MigrationWatch, and that the MigrationWatch statistics make it incredibly unlikely that the level is anywhere near 40%.