Almost half of new homes built in the next five years will go to migrants, government figures have revealed.

Soaring immigration means that Britain will need to accommodate as many as 243,000 new households each year for the next 22 years, the Department for Communities and Local Government has said.

It is been estimated that an extra 5.3 million new properties could be needed to meet the growth in population, and an extra 2.4 million of the new homes will be needed for migrants alone.

This means that one new home needs to be built every five minutes to house Britain's burgeoning migrant population.

One new home will need to be built every five minutes to house Britain's burgeoning migrant population, it has been revealed

Integration minister Nicholas Bourne told peers that an 109,000 extra homes will be needed every year by migrants and their families as Britain's population grows.

'Net ­migration accounts for an estimated 45 per cent of this growth,' he said.

The figures were published last week in response to a question by Lord Green of Deddington, the chairman of think tank Migration Watch.

Lord Green of Deddington has said a new home will need to be built every five minutes night and day to house incoming migrants

The group claims that as a conservative estimate, 300 homes a day will need to be built each day just to house the new arrivals, the Sunday Express reports.

Addressing the House of Lords, Lord Green said: 'To put the point slightly more dramatically, that would mean building a new home every five minutes night and day, for new arrivals until such a time as we can get those numbers down.

It has been revealed that new immigration controls will have to be phased in after Brexit takes place meaning it could take years for net migration to fall

'I know there is a strong view in the House that there is a lot to be said for migration. All I am pointing out is that there are also costs.'

However, the estimates are based on projections of popular growth from 2014, which does not take into account Britain's decision to leave the European Union, which is expected to reduce net migration by ending free movement.

But Migration Watch claims that the most recent projections are lower than actual net migration numbers, meaning housing demand from migrants has been underplayed.

It was also revealed that new immigration controls will have to be phased in after Brexit takes place raising fears it could take years for the number of new arrivals to fall.