A report by the Centre for Social Justice, titled "State of Dependency", reveals that British nationals accounted for only one in five additional payroll jobs created in the UK since 2014. Out of 3.7 million new jobs recorded between 2014 and 2025, British nationals filled 734,000 positions.
The majority of this increase in jobs has occurred since 2020, with non-EU nationals accounting for 2.5 million new jobs. Over the same period, the number of individuals receiving out-of-work benefits rose by 2.3 million.
Iain Duncan Smith commented on the findings, stating that Britain has engaged in a form of "human quantitative easing," importing workers while allowing millions already in the country to disengage from the labour market.