MPs fear C4 documentary on the cost of immigrants will fuel race hatred

''Channel4 was at the centre of a race row over a documentary containing new league tables showing which ethnic groups cost taxpayers the most in benefits and council housing.

Monday night's Dispatches, presented by news anchorman Jon Snow, discloses the immigrant communities who are a 'debit' on 'Britain's balance sheet'.

The documentary has come under fire from MPs who warn that ranking ethnic minorities according to their contribution to society could fuel race hatred.....

Dispatches reveals that people from Iran, Somalia and Bangladesh claim the most unemployment benefit – five per cent of them from each nationality against the average one per cent of Britain's overall adult population. The programme says almost 40 per cent of Somalis claim income support, ten times the figure for people born in Britain..........

Immigrants from Somalia also top the council house league table – with 80 per cent living in subsidised social housing.

And one in ten Pakistanis claim sickness or disability benefit – almost twice the level claims by people born in the UK. .....

It confirms the popular stereotype of the hard-working but cheap Polish tradesman. Poles work almost the longest hours of almost any ethnic group – they are second only to the Americans – and earn the lowest hourly wage, just £7.30.

Only a tiny fraction of Polish people burden the state by claiming benefits. ''

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