Housing 37,000 of the UK's 88,000 asylum-seekers in hotels currently costs taxpayers £4.7m a day.

As the public finances creak, that's £1.72bn a year ploughed into basic hotels and temporary accommodation: not the most hospitable of places to live while awaiting a decision on whether families can remain in the UK. No doubt the price tag is also down to the large proportion of asylum-seekers currently in London – the most expensive part of the UK.