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elements that you mentioned, the idea of ferries being acquired, or barges being used to house people, i am not sure that that is at a particularly advanced stage yet, certainly people i have been speaking to in government this morning have been playing down the idea that that might be imminent, not least because there are some practical difficulties in doing that. but the argument i think the government is going to make today is that it needs to get the bill for hotels down, that it is spending far too much money, about £6 million a day, on housing asylum seekers and migrants in hotels around the uk. it also wants to increase what it calls also wants to increase what it calls a deterrence for asylum seekers crossing the channel, it wants to say to people, if you come to the uk over the channel on a small boat, you won't end up in a hotel, you will end up in somewhere a lot more basic. but in terms of how far this plan is going to go, this is what the deputy prime minister dominic