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'INHUMANE' ASYLUM BARGE TO BE CLOSED
Daily Record
|July 24, 2024
Labour pull the plug on Conservatives' controversial Bibby Stockholm facility
THE Bibby Stockholm asylum barge will be shut down in January after months of concern for its residents.
Ministers confirmed the contract for the three-storey vessel, which houses around 400 people, will not be renewed.
It costs more than £40,000 a day just to lease, and the Home Office said it would have to pay over £20million to continue using it next year.
Campaigners have welcomed the closure of the "inhumane" barge docked in Portland Port in Dorset but called for people to be moved immediately.
This story is from the July 24, 2024 edition of Daily Record.
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