The Shadow Immigration Minister, Damian Green, has announced the latest Conservative immigration proposals to crack down on the scourge of forced marriage. Unveiling the proposals which include a requirement for spouses to register, before going abroad, the name of their potential husband or wife, the Shadow Minister said:

"The continuing existence of forced marriages in modern Britain is a stain on our social fabric. It is the extreme and unacceptable end of the clash of values between a plural democracy which values individual human rights and belief systems that regard women as second class citizens. Shockingly, forced marriages are not isolated events.

"The Government's Forced Marriage Unit does some good work but more effective action is needed. The Conservative Party has a number of proposals which we are putting out to consultation this week to minimise the incidence of forced marriage."

These policy proposals would introduce a requirement for a prerequisite declaration of intention to marry abroad and a time requirement before those who have been previously married to a spouse from overseas are allowed to bring in another spouse from overseas.

They would also require potential spouses coming to the UK to take the 'Life in the UK' citizenship test.

Damian Green added: "Our aim is that all those who come here to live will participate fully in British society, and that British society will be confident enough to allow diversity (as it always has) without losing its central values. One of those values is individual freedom over the key decisions in our lives. Choosing who to marry is one of those decisions, so there is no place in Britain for forced marriage."

This is the latest in a series of Conservative Immigration announcements under David Cameron. The Conservatives have already announced that they would introduce an explicit annual limit on the number of economic migrants who come to the UK to settle from outside the EU and would establish a dedicated UK border police to secure our borders and tackle immigration crime, human trafficking and illegal overstayers.

At the beginning of the year the Conservatives also revealed they would sign up to the European Convention on trafficking in Human Beings as part of a series of measures to combat human traffickers and assist the victims of human trafficking.

On the specific issue of forced marriages the Conservatives previously announced they would, for marriages from abroad, raise the age limit for both spouse and sponsor to 21 years of age and that the spouse must have a basic knowledge of English before they come to the UK.