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The total number of people in asylum accommodation continues to rise on Labour's watch. And now Labour are simply shifting the problem into ordinary residential neighbourhoods, from asylum hotels to the house next door.

Dispersal accommodation is the model of asylum accommodation where immigrants are housed in ordinary, privately rented properties across towns and cities through government contracts. These are everyday residential homes, often Houses in Multiple Occupation or converted flats, located within existing neighbourhoods. However, unlike hotels, which concentrate people in a single managed site, dispersal housing scatters them across multiple private properties, making oversight fragmented and enforcement complex.

There are far fewer checks and safeguards in dispersal accommodation, which allows illegal immigrants to work in the black market, become involved in criminality, and disappear into your community.

Every property used for dispersal accommodation is a property taken out of the local rental market. Every house converted is one less home available to a working family, a young couple, or someone stuck on a council waiting list.

This tightens already stretched rental markets, pushes up demand in areas where supply is limited. And then places additional strain on local schools, GP surgeries and services.

But this issue fundamentally comes down to the issue of Labour's failure to deport illegal immigrants. Since the election, only 6% of small boat arrivals have been returned - that means 94% of people arriving illegally remain in Britain.

If people are not being returned, how can we ever begin to deter crossings? Under a Conservative government, every illegal arrival would be removed within a week.

Keir Starmer has presided over the highest number of Channel crossings of any prime minister on record, and more have crossed so far this year than last year. Labour have lost control of crossings, lost control of returns, lost control of accommodation, and lost control of the system.

We will go further too. Through our BORDERS plan, we will leave the European Convention on Human Rights and the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings, and ban asylum and other protection claims for illegal entrants, ending the endless cycle of appeals.

These barriers frustrate removals and make deportation very difficult. The next Conservative government will tackle this and increase the number of deportations to 150,000 a year, removing all illegal immigrants within a week of arrival and all foreign national offenders.

Only the Conservatives have the plan to restore control over our borders and the backbone to tackle illegal immigration.