IMMIGRATION policies must ensure "the right people are coming here", the Immigration Minister said today.

Damian Green said immigrants must "add to the quality of life in Britain" as the Government strives to be more selective in who it lets into the UK.

It is time to move away from the debate over numbers and ask "how we can benefit from immigration", he said.

The Government has pledged to cut net migration from the current 242,000 to the "tens of thousands" last seen in the 1990s, with crackdowns on forced and sham marriages, bogus students and an annual cap on immigrants coming from outside the EU.