The Home Office is exploring housing migrants in ‘Portakabins’ as it looks to speed up the closure of controversial asylum hotels .

The i Paper understands that pop-up modular accommodation is being looked at as an alternative to hotels, alongside the use of ex-military sites.

No final decision has been made on what new types of accommodation to use, with ministers keen to ensure any new sites have infrastructure in place around them, such as access to healthcare and transport. New Feature

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But after a Commons committee’s damning report on the billions wasted on asylum hotels by Home Office mismanagement , a plan on opening up new accommodation sites to potentially house thousands of migrants – with 32,059 in hotels as of June 2025

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