The controversy over the transfer of asylum-seekers onto a barge moored in southern England deepened on Monday, when public health experts warned of the possible risk of infection in living conditions that campaigners branded as inhumane.
A group of 15 have migrants boarded the boat, named Bibby Stockholm, which is docked in Portland, on the Dorset coast of southwest England. “Accommodation is offered to individuals on a no-choice basis,” said Cheryl Avery, director for asylum accommodation at the UK Home Office, noting that there have been legal challenges to the plan.
More people were expected to embark later on Monday, but 20 had their transfers canceled after legal representatives intervened, the refugee charity Care4Calais told CNN later on Monday. Use of the Bibby Stockholm is part of a raft of measures by the Conservative government intended to slash the cost of housing migrants in hotels and ease the backlog of unprocessed asylum claims.
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