Quelling public disquiet is worth extra cost of barracks asylum housing, says No 10

Government defends prospect of paying more for barracks, saying people don't want asylum seekers in hotels'

Downing Street has defended the prospect of paying more to house asylum seekers in disused barracks instead of hotels, arguing that quelling public disquiet was worth any extra cost.

As refugee organisations and local politicians described plans to house tens of thousands of people in ex-military sites as fanciful" and too expensive", No 10 said that communities don't want asylum seekers housed in hotels, and neither does the government".