A NEW home will need to be built every five minutes to cope with Britain's migrant crisis and booming population.

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

2 A new home will need to be built every five minutes to house migrants coming to the UK, according to government figures Credit: Alamy

An extra 5.3million new properties could be needed to house the growing population - with 2.4million of those going to migrants, says the Department for Communities and Local Government.

Soaring immigration means Britain will have to house up to 243,000 new households each year for the next 22 years, according to government statistics.

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.

Lord Bourne said: "Net ­migration accounts for an estimated 45 per cent of this growth."

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The figures were published after a question by Lord Green of Deddington, chairman of think tank Migration Watch.

The group claims at least 300 homes a day will need to be built just to house new arrivals, reports the Sunday Express.

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.

2 Lord Green of Deddington, whose group Migrant Watch says at least 300 new homes must be built every day in Britain to house new arrivals Credit: Channel 4

"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."

But the estimates are based on projections of popular growth from 2014 and doesn't take Brexit into account, which is expected to reduce net migration by ending free movement.

Migration Watch claims the most recent projections are lower than actual net migration numbers.

And new immigration controls are likely to be phased in after Brexit - so the number of new migrants could take years to fall.

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