Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government who owns the Bibby Stockholm barge in Portland Harbour; and how much the Government are paying for usage of the barge for accommodation of asylum seekers.

The Bibby Stockholm is owned by the Bibby Line Group.

Accommodation costs are considered to be commercially confidential. Therefore, the Home Office does not publish this information. However, total expenditure on asylum is published in the Home Office Annual Report and Accounts, available at:

Home Office Annual Report and Accounts 2022-2023 (publishing.service.gov.uk)