Bibby Stockholm migrant barge ‘to cost more per head than hotels’ despite Home Office pledge to cut bill

PA Wire

Housing asylum seekers on the Bibby Stockholm barge will cost more than putting them up in hotels, according to new estimates – despite a government pledge that it would be cheaper.

Around 70 asylum seekers are now living on the barge at Portland port, Dorset, after it was finally given the all clear two months after 39 migrants were moved off the vessel following the discovery of legionella bacteria in the water supply.