Immigration has pushed property prices up by a fifth in 25 years, housing minister Dominic Raab has said.

He is demanding that post-Brexit immigration rules take account of the negative effects of arrivals on the need for homes.

Mr Raab has passed his concerns on to the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC), which is to publish a report to help the Government formulate new immigration plans.

He said: 'You've got to deal with demand as well as supply. You can't have housing taken out of the debate around immigration.

'If we delivered on the Government's target of reducing immigration to the tens of thousands every year, that would have a material impact on the number of homes we need to build every year.'

Immigration has pushed property prices up by a fifth in 25 years, housing minister Dominic Raab has said

He said Office for National Statistics figures from 1991 to 2016 showed the impact on property prices, adding: 'In the last 25 years we have seen immigration put house prices up by something like 20 per cent.'

Acknowledging that immigration benefited the building industry by supplying workers, he added: 'The MAC is right to look at the positive impact immigration has had on the country.

'At the same time you can't just airbrush the costs and the impact it has on housing.'

Mr Raab has to get the number of new homes being built up from 217,000 last year to 300,000 by 2025.

He told The Sunday Times: 'We've really got an opportunity to revive the dream of home ownership and make it more of a reality for the nurse, the teacher, those on low and middle incomes and the younger generation.

'The key is to yank every lever we've got 40 per cent harder.'

Mr Raab (pictured) is demanding that post-Brexit immigration rules take account of the negative effects of arrivals on the need for homes

Meanwhile, a report claims the value of cheaper homes falls when asylum seekers move into an area.

The study for the years 2004 to 2015 showed the impact left more expensive ones unaffected.

It said the effect was more acute in areas that voted for Brexit in 2016.

The paper by US academics William Lastrapes, of the University of Georgia, and Thomas Lebesmuelbacher, of Xavier University in Cincinnati, said asylum seekers put greater pressure on the local population than other immigrants.