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Bibby Stockholm: Legionnaires' Disease

Question for Home Office

UIN 389, tabled on 7 November 2023

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department became aware of legionnaire's disease on the Bibby Stockholm.

Answered on

13 November 2023

As a temporary precaution to reduce the health risk as much as possible, on 11 August the Home Office went beyond the UKHSA advice and disembarked all 39 asylum seekers from the vessel to contingency asylum accommodation.

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Home Office
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