Key information
Request reference number: MGLA190623-0099
Date of response:
Summary of request
You request
- FOI request for information pertaining to any request made by the government to the Mayor of London with regards to the mooring on a vessel, in the River Thames London, of asylum seekers.
- FOI request for information, as to whether the Mayor of London has been approached by the UK government Home Office to support any scheme in which immigrants/asylum seekers would be resident on a barge/floating vessel on the River Thames during the processing of their application to stay in the UK.
- FOI request for information as to whether the Mayor of London has ever commented publicly about the use of barge vessels or any form of floating berthed vessel anchored in an expanse of water and used for the purposes of processing asylum seekers or immigrants seeking the right to stay in the UK
Our response
We do not hold any information within the scope of parts 1 and 2 of your request. It was the Royal Docks Management Authority (RoDMA) that were approached rather than the GLA/Mayor. The Mayor issued a press release on the subject matter of the Governments Illegal Migration Bill here: Mayor calls on Government to urgently rethink ‘cruel and unworkable’ Illegal Migration Bill | London City Hall