I wonder if this is the real reason behind it.
UK hotel bill for 37,000 migrants is £1.2m a day, MPs told
By Jennifer Meierhans
BBC News
8 mins ago UK
Some 37,000 asylum seekers and Afghan refugees are living in UK hotels at a cost of £1.2m per day, MPs were told.
The Home Office was developing better ways of working with local authorities to find permanent homes, MPs heard.
Ms Patel said: "We do not want people in hotels, we are looking at dispersed accommodation."
She said there were efforts under way to use Ministry of Defence buildings for more asylum accommodation.