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The authorities is expected to marque an announcement successful the coming weeks connected however it plans to halt lodging migrants successful hotels.
Home Secretary Suella Braverman has signalled it wants to extremity the practice, which she says costs astir £6m a day.
The Daily Telegraph reports that disused ferries are being considered to location radical - but this has not been confirmed.
Former airbases successful Lincolnshire and Essex are among sites being looked at.
Private hotels are presently utilized to location asylum seekers arsenic portion of the government's ineligible work to supply radical seeking assistance with a basal level of accommodation.
The authorities says backstage accommodation options are astatine maximum capableness and reason they bash not correspond bully worth for wealth for the taxpayer.
It has made reducing amerciable migration a cardinal precedence and has unveiled measures it says volition deter radical crossing the English Channel successful tiny boats.
More than 45,000 reached the UK via the unsafe way past year, up from astir 300 successful 2018.
The government's Illegal Migration Bill would prohibition anyone who enters the state illegally from claiming asylum connected accomplishment - oregon successful the future.
It would besides make an yearly headdress connected the fig of refugees the UK volition settee done "safe and ineligible routes", and enforce a ineligible work connected the Home Secretary to swiftly detain and region anyone who arrives illegally.
The government's argumentation to deport migrants to Rwanda has been ruled to beryllium ineligible by the High Court, but is facing further challenges successful the courts.
The location caput has said determination is nary bounds to however galore migrants Rwanda would beryllium capable to instrumentality - nevertheless nary flights person taken off.
A Home Office spokesperson said: "We person ever been upfront astir the unprecedented unit being placed connected our asylum system, brought astir by a important summation successful unsafe and amerciable journeys into the country. We proceed to enactment crossed authorities and with section authorities to place a scope of accommodation options.
"The authorities remains committed to engaging with section authorities and cardinal stakeholders arsenic portion of this process."
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