FOI - Immigration Processing Vessels [Sep 2023]

Your request

Please provide details and copies of any correspondence between the Greater London Authority and/or London’s Royal Docks and the Home Office/Secretary of State for the Home Department in relation to the possibility of the Home Office placing an accommodation barge for asylum seekers at/in London’s Royal Docks and/or the Greater London Authority

Our response

Please find attached the information the GLA holds within the scope 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

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