Raising awareness of central London’s population and migration issues was CLF’s first area of work just after its inception in 2007.
Central London attracts large numbers of migrants; this includes long-term international migrants as well as more transitory movements from visitors and people from outer London and the south-east.
This migration produces substantial economic gains for London but places equally as substantial burdens on the costs of services which central London boroughs need to provide.
Central London’s position was weakened by inaccurate population records in the 2001 Census and a number of subsequent readjustments which led to increased uncertainty about how much funding central London boroughs could expect from Central Government.
CLF commissioned LSE to produce a report to make a case for central London’s position on this issue. You can download this report here.
This year, CLF issued a number of key challenges for Government in its Promoting Central London campaign. As part of this campaign, CLF advocates that the new Government should:
- Conduct an urgent review of the 2011 Census methodology for hard to count areas such as central London
- Carry out a long overdue review of migration population measurement
- Agree to fund councils for short term migrants through the use of a specific grant
You can read more about CLF's 2009 promotion and lobbying campaign here.
