The BBC understand around 400 hotels were being used to house asylum seekers at a cost of £8m a day.
In March, the BBC learned around 400 hotels were being used to house record numbers of asylum seekers.The use of hotels has increased exponentially as the number of people claiming asylum in the UK has increased, reaching a near 20-year high of 74,751 last year, according to Home Office data.
In August, the number of asylum seekers having their application processed reached a record high of 175,000 people.
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