An Australian travel firm has been given a two-year contract worth £1.6bn to handle the UK’s new asylum barges and accommodation, according to an investigation by a British newspaper. It’s reported that, despite being criticised for poor handling of covid quarantine hotels, Corporate Travel Management (CTM) was quietly given the lucrative contract in February 2023, before […]
A giant barge that will house migrants off the UK coast has arrived in Falmouth for a refit, taking its capacity from 222 to 506 people. The Bibby Stockholm, which was towed from its former berth in Italy to the UK south coast, will later will be moved to its final destination of Portland in […]
The Home Office is set to reveal plans for a ‘mega barge’ to be the UK’s first offshore accommodation for asylum seekers. Reports in several outlets, including the Mirror and the Guardian, claim that Home Secretary Suella Braverman has signed a deal for the Bibby Stockholm to be used to house people arriving on small […]
The UK’s Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab has said “nothing is off the table” in the government’s plan to reduce the use of hotels to house asylum seekers, as the Home Office announces plans to house asylum seekers in barges and vessels, including disused cruise ships and ferries. The Guardian reports a former cruise ship […]