Labour’s push to pay landlords to house Channel migrants could see thousands given properties in 120 communities, a new list has revealed.

Asylum accommodation provider Serco wants more landlords, investors and agents with properties in the North West, the Midlands and the east of England to lease for more than five years.

In promotional literature, Serco declared it is already responsible for more than 30,000 asylum seekers in an “ever growing” portfolio of more than 7,000 properties.

And Serco has admitted it is trying to expand its asylum accommodation portfolio, despite councils already feeling the strain of the Channel migrant crisis.

One council leader told LBC: “It’s Serco who are encouraging landlords to exploit taxpayers, then it’s blamed on councils because of the impact it has on local rents, services and social cohesion.

“I don’t think it’s good for the fabric of society or the individuals involved.”

Putting an asylum seeker in a house, bedsit or flat costs as little as £14 a night, the National Audit Office said.

This compares to £145 a night in a hotel room.

Labour has expanded the use of landlords so that it can move migrants out of hotels.

More than 38,000 migrants are staying in hotel rooms, costing £5.5 million a day. A further 65,707 are in other forms of accommodation.

The Serco list, broken down into three regions, revealed the list of towns and areas where asylum seekers could be housed as the Government scrambles to end the use of hotels.

In the East of England:

• Babergh/Mid Suffolk

• Breckland

• Broadlands/South Norfolk

• Cambridge

• East Cambridgeshire

• East Suffolk

• Fenland

• Great Yarmouth

• Ipswich

• Kings Lynn & West Norfolk

• Mid Suffolk

• North Norfolk

• Norwich

• Peterborough

• South Cambridgeshire (Cambourne, Sawston)

• South Norfolk

• West Suffolk (Bury, Newmarket, Brandon, Haverhill, Mildenhall)

The Midlands:

• Amber Valley

• Ashfield

• Bassetlaw

• Birmingham

• Blaby

• Bolsover

• Boston

• Bromsgrove and Redditch

• Broxtowe

• Cannock Chase

• Charnwood

• Chesterfield

• Derby

• Derbyshire Dales

• Dudley

• East Lindsey

• East Staffordshire (Burton-upon-Trent and Uttoxeter)

• Erewash (Derbyshire)

• Gedling

• Harborough

• Herefordshire County

• High Peak

• Hinkley & Bosworth

• Huntingdonshire

• Leicester

• Lincoln

• Lichfield

• Malvern Hills

• Mansfield

• Melton

• Newark and Sherwood

• Newcastle-under-Lyme

• North East Derbyshire

• North Kesteven (Lincolnshire)

• North Northamptonshire (Kettering, Corby, Wellingborough)

• North Warwickshire

• North West Leicestershire (Coalville)

• Nottingham

• Nuneaton and Bedworth

• Oadby & Wigston

• Rugby

• Rushcliffe

• Rutland

• Sandwell

• Shropshire

• Solihull

• South Derbyshire (Swadlincote)

• South Holland

• South Kesteven (Lincolnshire)

• South Staffordshire

• Stafford

• Staffordshire Moorlands

• Stoke-on-Trent

• Stratford-on-Avon

• Tamworth

• Telford and Wrekin

• Walsall

• Warwick ( Leamington Spa, Kenilworth)

• West Lindsey

• West Northamptonshire (Northampton & Daventry)

• Wolverhampton

• Worcester

• Wychavon

• Wyre Forest

The North West of England:

• Allerdale

• Barrow-in-Furness

• Blackburn & Darwen

• Blackpool

• Bolton

• Burnley

• Bury

• Carlisle

• Cheshire East

• Cheshire West and Chester

• Chorley

• Copeland

• Eden (Penrith)

• Flyde

• Halton

• Hyndburn

• Knowsley

• Lancaster

• Liverpool

• Manchester

• Oldham

• Pendle

• Preston

• Ribble Valley

• Rochdale

• Rossendale

• Salford

• Sefton

• South Lakeland

• South Ribble

• Stockport

• St Helens

• Tameside

• Trafford

• Warrington

• West Lancashire

• Wigan

• Wirral

• Wyre

A Home Office spokesperson said: “The list of local authorities Serco shared on its website for landlords is not a Home Office list, nor is it a list of any existing or future asylum accommodation.

“Serco is one of several companies contracted by the previous government 6 years ago to provide dispersal asylum accommodation in different regions and this list simply appears to reflect the geographical list of local authorities covered by the Serco contracts at that time.

“We are restoring order to the asylum system and cutting costs to taxpayers by reducing the number of people we are required to accommodate through a rapid increase in asylum decision-making and the removal of more than 24,000 people with no right to be in the UK.”

A Serco spokesman added: “The list of councils on our website reflects local authority areas covered by our Asylum Accommodation and Support Services contract, which we have had for six years with the Home Office.

“This does not indicate the Government will be opening new accommodation in these areas.”