A company managing hotel accommodation for thousands of asylum seekers has been axed by the Home Office due to performance concerns and replaced by the firm that ran the Bibby Stockholm barge. As a result the 51 hotels it runs will close.In a late-night statement the Home Office said it ...
The Syrian asylum seeker, who is challenging his move onto the Bibby Stockholm on mental health grounds, told Sky News he came to the UK to escape war, but the small rooms offered on the barge are similar to what he was hiding in at home....
Bibby Stockholm: Barge 'is perfectly decent accommodation' for migrants, says Robert JenrickHe told Sky News it was not up to the government to provide four-star hotels for those seeking to live in the UK.Wednesday 9 August 2023 09:46, UK Migrant Crisis ...
The immigration minister has suggested it could be weeks before migrants are moved back on board the Bibby Stockholm barge. | ITV National News
The Home Office will not renew the licence of the controversial Bibby Stockholm barge which houses Asylum Seekers off the coast of Dorset, our Political Correspondent Harry Horton explains. The Government will end the use of the Bibby Stockholm barge for housing migrants off England’s south coast...
The Bibby Stockholm barge was towed intoFalmouthdocks to be refitted by A&P, and it is set to be towed out again and taken to Portland in Dorset where it will house 500 migrants while their cases are being processed. A group of up to 30 members of Cornwall Resists and other community ...
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The Bibby Stockholm barge will stop housing asylum seekers from the end of January 2025 as part of the government's overhaul of the asylum system. The barge, currently moored in Dorset, was set up by the last Conservative government as one of its attempts to cut hotel bills for people who...
The barge - named the Bibby Stockholm - departed from Falmouth, Cornwall, to head to Portland Port in Dorset on Monday morning asRishi Sunakand Home SecretarySuella Bravermanfaced fresh criticism over the Illegal Migration Bill. The bill, which is part of a package of measures t...
Watch the latest from ITV News - The Home Office had been expecting to send an initial group of people to the UK’s first floating barge for asylum seekers on Tuesday, but that has been delayed.