Gypsies, Travellers and Roma APPG
First Registered: 13/11/2015 • Last updated on: 21/04/2021
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TwitterTo provide a forum for parliamentarians concerned about issues facing Gypsy, Traveller and Roma communities and seek to address these issues and challenge inequalities.
1. Gypsies and Travellers
09/05/2019 - Parliamentary Research
Found: 2019 Gypsies and Travellers By Hannah Cromarty Contents: 1. Who are Gypsies and Travellers? 2. Inequalities
2. Traveller Movement and the Gypsy Roma Traveller Police Association (GRTPA) - written evidence
14/05/2019 - Inquiry: The Macpherson Report: Twenty Years On - Home Affairs Committee
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Found: Written evidence - Traveller Movement and the Gypsy Roma Traveller Police Association (GRTPA)Written submission
3. Friends, Families and Travellers - written evidence
06/06/2018 - Inquiry: Benefit sanctions - Work and Pensions Committee
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Found: Friends Families and Travellers (ANC0030) Introduction Friends Families and Travellers are the only national
4. OPERATION REPORT HATE
13/12/2016 - Early Day Motions
Found: awareness of hate crimes within the Gypsy, Traveller and Roma communities and the need to report them; notes that
5. Written Evidence: The Traveller Movement (HPB80)
24/11/2015 - Bill Documents
Found: working in partnership with the Gypsy, Traveller and Roma communities, service providers and policy makers
1. Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Communities
08/03/2018 - Grand Committee
1: Accommodation and the Living Environment on Gypsies’ and Travellers’ Health by Professor Margaret Greenfields - Speech Link
2. Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Communities: Inequalities
25/02/2020 - Grand Committee
1: Committee, Tackling inequalities faced by Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities, published on 5 April - Speech Link
2: the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Gypsies, Travellers and Roma.This excellent report sets out - Speech Link
3. Gypsies, Travellers and Roma: Racism and Discrimination
25/03/2021 - Lords Chamber
1: further to reports of the blacklisting of Irish Travellers by Pontins, what steps they are taking to tackle - Speech Link
2: spoken to many Roma, Gypsy and Traveller leaders, such as Zeljko Jovanovic from the Roma Initiatives Office - Speech Link
3: enforcement action if needed. The problem is that Gypsy, Roma and Traveller groups face particular discrimination - Speech Link
4. Planning System: Gypsies and Travellers
29/01/2020 - Westminster Hall
1: move,That this House has considered Gypsies, Travellers and the planning system.It is a huge - Speech Link
2: not include only residents and businesses, but Travellers. During one of his excellent debates on this - Speech Link
3: historically, planning laws have discriminated against Travellers who live a nomadic lifestyle, the percentage - Speech Link
5. Trespass
19/04/2021 - Westminster Hall
1: points with Abbie from Friends, Families and Travellers during a really brilliant conversation. She expressed - Speech Link
2: several hundred, and by over 8% in total. Gypsies and Travellers are among the most marginalised and discriminated - Speech Link
3: authorities and regional governments, treats Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people. His work has been very important - Speech Link
asked by: Nadia Whittome
02/10/2020
... Roma and Irish Traveller communities are reached as part of the National Tutoring Programme for children; and if he will ring-fence funding from that programme for those communities. 2. Coronavirus: Roma
asked by: Gill Furniss
20/05/2020
... what recent assessment he has made of the rate of (a) infection and (b) death from covid-19 within the Roma community. 3. Immigration: Roma
asked by: Lord Bishop of St Albans
12/04/2021
... experienced by that community. 4. Kosovo: Roma
asked by: Baroness Whitaker
25/02/2021
...To ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they have made to the government of Kosovo about permitting to Kosovan Roma who were forced to leave Kosovo as a result of war the right to vote in the forthcoming elections in that country. 5. Immigration: Roma
asked by: Baroness Whitaker
13/07/2020
... who may have their applications for naturalisation refused because they did not have Comprehensive Sickness Insurance before settled status was granted throughout any period of self-sufficiency or as a student.
10 Current APPG Officers
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Martin Docherty-Hughes
Chair & Registered Contact
Scottish National Party - West Dunbartonshire
Joined: 28th September 2017Blockchain , British Sikhs , Canada , Charities and Volunteering , Deaths Abroad, Consular Services and Assistance , Estonia , Global Security and Non-Proliferation , Ireland and the Irish in Britain , Occupational Safety and Health , Russia , Scotch Whisky , Textiles and Fashion
Chagos (British Indian Ocean Territory) , Death Penalty , Human Rights , Opera , Race and Community , Speech and Language Difficulties , Theatre
Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville
Vice Chair
Liberal Democrat - Life peer
Joined: 10th October 2018
Adult Education , Ageing and Older People , Arts and Heritage , Austria , BBC , Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Business Owners , British Overseas Territories , Carbon Monoxide , Citizens Rights , Commonwealth , Dark Skies , Democracy and Human Rights in the Gulf , Disability , Domestic Violence and Abuse , Equitable Life Policyholders , Fatherhood , Flags and Heraldry , Foster Care Work , Frozen British Pensions , Global Security and Non-Proliferation , Governance and Inclusive Leadership , Haemophilia and Contaminated Blood , Holocaust Memorial , Immigration Detention , Insurance and Financial Services , Internet, Communications and Technology , Ireland and the Irish in Britain , Kosovo , Leasehold and Commonhold Reform , Limits to Growth , Liver Health , Longevity , Mayflower 400 , Media , Music , Olympic and Paralympic Games , Park Homes , Period Equality , Photography , Race and Community , Religion in the Media , Religious Education , Republic of Korea , Reuniting Britain Post-Brexit , Road Freight and Logistics , Rowing , Scientific , Scotch Whisky , Sexual and Reproductive Health in the UK , Social Enterprise , Social Integration , Social Science and Policy , Social Work , St George's Day , Tibet , Transport Safety , United Nations , Vascular and Venous Disease , Votes at 16 , Western Rail Link to Heathrow , Western Sahara , Wine and Spirits , Wine of Great Britain , Women in Transport , Youth Affairs , Zimbabwe
Australia and New Zealand , BBC , Commonwealth , Electoral Campaigning Transparency , Fisheries , Food and Drink , Geographically Protected Foods , Hospitality and Tourism , Japan , Marine Energy , Norfolk Island , Performers' Alliance , Women and Work
22q11 Syndrome , Albania , American Football , Antisemitism , Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder , Baseball and Softball , Basketball , British Jews , Climate Change , Conservation, Places and People , Critical Minerals , Drones , East Coast Main Line , Electoral Reform , Electric Vehicles , Esports , Estonia , Greenland , Holocaust Memorial , Hydrogen , International Conservation , Internet, Communications and Technology , Kosovo , Montenegro , Music , Net Zero , North Macedonia , Northern Culture , Pacific Islands , Park Homes , Rare, Genetic and Undiagnosed Conditions , Religion in the Media , Renters and Rental Reform , Small Island Developing States , Social Enterprise , Sustainable Finance , Sustainable Resource , Uzbekistan , Vegetarianism and Veganism , Video Games and Esports , West Papua , Western Sahara
Contact Details
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Martin Docherty-Hughes MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 020 7219 4609.
Email: martin.docherty.mp@parliament.uk
Public Enquiry Point:
Abbie Kirkby, Friends, Families and Travellers, Community Base, 113 Queens Road, Brighton BN1 3XG. Tel: 01273 234 777
Email: appg@gypsy-traveller.org
Secretariat:
Friends, Families and Travellers acts as the group's secretariat. https://www.gypsy-traveller.org/
Group's Website:
Benefits in Kind
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Friends, Families and Travellers
Friends, Families and Travellers is paid by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust to act as the group's secretariat From : 22/01/2020 To : 21/01/2021
£21,001
18 Jul 2019
Friends, Families and Travellers (funded by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust)
Secretariat From : 18/07/2019 To : 17/07/2020
£19,501
18 Jul 2018
Friends, Families and Travellers (funded by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust and Allen Lane Foundation)
Secretariat From : 18/07/2018 To : 17/07/2019
£22,501
1 Apr 2018
Friends, Families and Travellers (funded by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust)
Secretariat From : 01/04/2018 To : 17/07/2018
£6,001
1 Jan 2017
Traveller Law Reform Project
Secretariat From : 01/01/2017 To : 31/12/2017
£9,001
1 Jan 2015
Traveller Law Reform Project
Secretariat From : 01/01/2015 To : 31/12/2015
£13,501
No direct financial benefits are on record for the Gypsies, Travellers and Roma APPG
Former APPG Officers
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Kate Green
Chair & Registered Contact
Labour - Stretford and Urmston
Joined: 29th March 2017Departed: 1st July 2020
Baroness Harris of Richmond
Vice-Chair
Liberal Democrat - Life peer
Joined: 28th April 2016Departed: 29th August 2018
Greece , Ireland and the Irish in Britain , Isle of Man (Manx) , Mindfulness , Policing and Security
Neil Coyle
Chair & Registered Contact
Labour - Bermondsey and Old Southwark
Joined: 28th April 2016Departed: 15th February 2017
Assistive Technology , Food Banks , Homelessness , Ireland and the Irish in Britain , Learning Disability , Migration , Nuclear Energy , Taxis , University of Hull , Wine and Spirits
Graham Evans
Vice Chair
Conservative - Former Member for Weaver Vale
Joined: 13th November 2015Departed: 15th February 2017
Harry Harpham
Chair & Registered Contact
Labour - Former Member for Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
Joined: 13th November 2015Departed: 3rd February 2016
Lord Avebury
Co-Chair
Liberal Democrat - Deceased - 14 February 2016
Joined: 13th November 2015Departed: 3rd February 2016