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The Fire Brigades’ Union say the vessel docked in Portland on the Dorset coast is a ‘potential deathtrap’
Oliver Dowden said asylum seekers will be housed on the Bibby Stockholm barge “in the coming weeks”.
The plans to move migrants on to the barge, docked in Portland on the Dorset coast, have been beset by delays, with government sources suggesting the first arrivals may not be on board until next week.
We have to undertake a number of inspections and other measures to make sure that these vessels, and this vessel in particular, is suitable and ready.
But I am confident that in the coming weeks we will have people on those barges.
We are confident that we will be able to address all of these concerns, I’m absolutely certain of that, and I’m absolutely certain we will be able to get people on this vessel in the coming weeks.
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