THE government has announced plans to move migrants from hotels to military bases and possibly disused ferries in the coming weeks.

The migrant housing plans, which were announced by the Minister for Immigration Robert Jenrick on March 29, suggests that migrants who are currently staying in hotels are to be moved out into alternative accommodation.

It follows the government's announcement they are spending almost £7million a day housing asylum seekers in hotels. 

Mr Jenrick told the Commons plans to include 'exploring the possibility of accommodating migrants in vessels', but no decision has been made yet. 

Carlisle Refugee Action Group (CRAG) said the plans 'fail to show a modicum of human decency'. 

The announcement comes after the use of a Royal Air Force base in Lincolnshire used to house asylum seekers was met with opposition from both parties. 

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A spokesperson from CRAG said: "The government have tried to house people seeking asylum on ships before and the courts have found it to be illegal.

"Trying to get around the law by renaming the ships 'hotels' does nothing to address the real problem and just continues a failed policy wasting time and public money.

"Taking people who have fled their homes for the sake of their lives and locking them up in what are basically floating prisons shows an incredible indifference to their rights to be treated with even a modicum of human decency.

"Isolating people like this will also make their efforts to navigate the already complex asylum process even more difficult and slow down their applications even further worsening the very problem the government claim to be trying to ease.

"It is time for a change of course away from punishing victims for easy headlines, towards a grown up, comprehensive asylum process that will help us all maintain our humanity," they said.