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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Matthew Weaver

Bibby Stockholm policy is discriminatory, Home Office report finds

The Bibby Stockholm barge
Campaigners say the assessment opens the way for legal challenges against housing people on the barge. Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images

A government assessment of housing asylum seekers on the Bibby Stockholm barge has found that the policy discriminates on the grounds of sex and age, in the latest blow to the controversial initiative.

The vessel, which is moored off Portland on the Dorset coast, has the capacity to house up to 500 single men, and has so far cost the taxpayer £22.5m.

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