The Bibby Stockholm barge, a 'floating prison' moored off the Dorset coast, is being phased out of use for housing asylum seekers.
Residents were evacuated days after arriving when bacteria causing Legionella disease was found in the water supply last year Hundreds of asylum seekers have been removed from a barge dubbed a ‘floating prison’ by charities. Up to 400 men will be told if they can stay in the UK once they have been moved into hotels as part of a plan to save £7.7 billion in asylum costs.
Before the first asylum seekers were moved onto the Bibby Stockholm, the Care4Calais charity, said: ‘Human beings should be housed in communities, not barges. ‘The government could just get on with processing people’s asylum claims, instead they are playing to a gallery that seems to thrive on human suffering.’ Now the government appears to be doing that, with the Home Office saying it expects demand for accommodation to fall as it clears the asylum backlog.
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