period last year, which was nearly 10,000. here is immigration minister robert jenrick speaking to the bbc s laura kuensberg earlier. we cannot be reliant on hotels, we have to use things like barges or disused army bases. we also cannot allow the uk to be seen to be a soft touch and i have spent the last week visiting european countries, france, italy, those further upstream in north africa and other european countries are grappling with the same challenge, how to accommodate very large numbers of mostly economic migrants, how to deal with their cases in an efficient manner. the asylum system is riddled with abuse, we have be honest. you have been in charge of it for 13 years. - we have to be honest with the public and the way to tackle to tackle that is changing fundamentally the way we handle asylum and that is what we are