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Commons Chamber
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Court Bill
Report stage - Mon 05 Jul 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Harriet Harman (LAB - Camberwell and Peckham) for Gypsies, Roma and Travellers—‘(1) It is the duty of every local authority to exercise their powers - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Tenth sitting)
Committee stage: 10th sitting - Tue 08 Jun 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Bambos Charalambous (LAB - Enfield, Southgate) partly why there are so few sites. - Speech Link
2: Bambos Charalambous (LAB - Enfield, Southgate) Of those, 419 were on sites not tolerated and 275 were on tolerated sites. - Speech Link
3: Bambos Charalambous (LAB - Enfield, Southgate) in the caravan count. - Speech Link
4: Ian Levy (CON - Blyth Valley) A few years ago, we had the tall ships regatta in Blyth, and all the caravan sites were full, the bed - Speech Link
5: Victoria Atkins (CON - Louth and Horncastle) We recognise that the vast majority of Travellers are law-abiding citizens, but unauthorised sites can - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Transit Site: Walsall - Wed 26 May 2021
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Valerie Vaz (LAB - Walsall South) The council had already identified and approved sufficient new Travellers sites to accommodate a transit - Speech Link
2: Christopher Pincher (IND - Tamworth) sites, which are, as I say, to the detriment both of local residents and of the Travellers themselves - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fourth sitting)
Committee stage: 4th sitting - Thu 20 May 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lee Anderson (CON - Ashfield) at least since the Caravan Sites Act 1968 and up to the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994? - Speech Link
2: Victoria Atkins (CON - Louth and Horncastle) and around the right number of pitches on those sites. - Speech Link
3: Victoria Atkins (CON - Louth and Horncastle) areas, it is not uncommon for other people to notice that it is Travellers coming in and use that as - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Second sitting)
Committee stage: 2nd sitting - Tue 18 May 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Siobhan Baillie (CON - Stroud)sites, transit sites and authorised encampments. - Speech Link
2: Siobhan Baillie (CON - Stroud) sites in planning policy. - Speech Link
3: Sarah Jones (LAB - Croydon Central) The number of permanent sites has gone down over the last few years. - Speech Link
4: Victoria Atkins (CON - Louth and Horncastle) We are not talking about all Gypsies and Travellers. - Speech Link
5: Sarah Jones (LAB - Croydon Central) for Gypsies and Travellers to live on. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Trespass - Mon 19 Apr 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Andy Slaughter (LAB - Hammersmith) , be they permanent or transit sites. - Speech Link
2: David Simmonds (CON - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner) Both the settled and the temporary residents of local caravan sites, which are made available for public - Speech Link
3: Sarah Jones (LAB - Croydon Central) There was consensus that more needs to be done to provide authorised sites for Travellers.”As I mentioned - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
2nd reading Day 2 - Tue 16 Mar 2021
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Paul Beresford (CON - Mole Valley) changes relating to illegal Traveller camping.My constituency has a number of legitimate Traveller sites - Speech Link
2: Richard Graham (CON - Gloucester) They take action against Travellers camping on land without permission of the owner, if they fail to - Speech Link
3: David Johnston (CON - Wantage) to be able to set up camps inside sites that are designated—caravan camp data suggests that those sites - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Mobile Homes (Requirement for Manager of Site to be Fit and Proper Person) (England) Regulations 2020 - Thu 03 Sep 2020
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Lord Greenhalgh (CON - Life peer) Park home sites make a valuable contribution to the housing sector. - Speech Link
2: Lord Bhatia (Non-affiliated - Life peer) The site owners run these sites as a business and are entitled to receive the monthly rents. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) I have seen sites where residents have had to buy gas bottles at grossly inflated prices, and where a - Speech Link
4: Lord Kennedy of Southwark (LAB - Life peer) That right is just as important for people living on caravan sites and in park homes, so for that reason - Speech Link
5: Lord Greenhalgh (CON - Life peer) are predominantly park home sites. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Communities: Inequalities - Tue 25 Feb 2020
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Whitaker (LAB - Life peer) in the register, including that I am co-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Gypsies, Travellers - Speech Link
2: Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Caravans are not recognised as a legitimate home, which leads to difficulty for Travellers in getting - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Planning System: Gypsies and Travellers - Wed 29 Jan 2020
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Mark Francois (CON - Rayleigh and Wickford) Basildon Council has a number of sites, but part of the problem is that the Travellers often do not want - Speech Link
2: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (LAB - Brighton, Kemptown) If he is, there should not be overcrowding, because there would be other sites for Travellers to go to - Speech Link
3: Philip Hollobone (CON - Kettering) Yes, there are two additional sites for Gypsies and Travellers with up to 16 plots that are not occupied - Speech Link
4: Paul Beresford (CON - Mole Valley) Most Travellers in our area are on settled sites and are part of the community, and most of the kids - Speech Link
5: Andrew Selous (CON - South West Bedfordshire) There are no tenancy contracts—this is sub-letting to non-Travellers on Traveller sites, enforced with - Speech Link