Bibby Stockholm: MP demands safety reports on asylum barge as it nears Dorset dock – By Jennifer Scott (Sky News) / July 17, 2023
Tory Chris Loder claims the Bibby Stockholm is designed to hold half the number of people the government plans to house there.
A Tory MP has demanded to see safety reports for a barge that the government plans to use to house asylum seekers.
The Bibby Stockholm – which will accommodate 500 people waiting for decisions on their applications – departed from Cornwall today to head to its new dock at Portland Port in Dorset.
But Chris Loder, who represents West Dorset, claimed the figure was double the capacity the barge had been designed to hold.
Mr Loder has called on the home secretary to “stop” the vessel or provide the assessments that show it is “safe to cope with double the weight that it was designed to bare”.
