The British government is expected to announce within weeks new plans to move migrants from hotels to military bases or even abandoned ferries, Sky News reported on Saturday.

Previous proposals to use holiday camps and student hostels to house migrants are unlikely to be implemented, the report said.

The Government has indicated that it wishes to end the use of hotels for accommodation for asylum-seekers.

An Interior Ministry spokesman said: "We always state the unprecedented pressure on our asylum system, which has resulted from a significant increase in risky and illegal journeys into the country."

"We continue to work at the government level and with local authorities to identify a range of accommodation options."

Earlier this month, the government detailed a new law banning asylum seekers arriving by small boat across the English Channel, denying those who arrive in the country in this way the right to apply for asylum, detain them and deport them to a "safe third country", Rwanda.


The bill has faced criticism from many international and local rights groups in Britain, with some charities saying it could be impractical and criminalize attempts by thousands of asylum seekers.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak justified his government's inability to find a solution to the boats pouring into the country, and that he had "tried in every way" and was left with no choice but to deny asylum to anyone arriving by these boats.

Sunak has made preventing boat access a key priority after the number of migrants arriving on England's south coast rose by 500 per cent in two years to 45,<> last year.