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Points-Based Immigration System

I would not like to leave the subject of the House of Lords report without pointing out one fact. I agree with the Minister that the press reporting of the report was rather partial—I do not know why. The report contained some surprising quotations. For example, it stated:"““Significant gross immigration of highly skilled non-EU nationals may well be desirable””" and that there are"““important dynamic gains from the exchange and movement of people.””" There is a lot of evidence in the report, such as that given by Professor Steve Nickell, David Blanchflower and other distinguished economists, that suggested that there could be dynamic gains from migration. That evidence was quite possibly underestimated in the report's conclusion, since it was cited after the recommendation on the conclusion was mentioned in the report.