There is no contract currently in place to house 1,800 asylum seekers on a boat off the coast of Wirral, the ECHO understands.
It was first revealed in the Liverpool ECHO that the government was considering plans to house asylum seekers on a boat close to the Wirral Waters developments near Seacombe.
This comes as the government is making plans to move asylum seekers out of hotels and onto boats in an effort to reduce costs, but the plans have sparked widespread condemnation from politicians across the Liverpool City Region.
