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Commons Chamber
Gypsies and Travellers and Local Communities - Mon 09 Oct 2017
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Alok Sharma (CON - Reading West) I agree that the police can act much faster when there are sites to direct Travellers to. - Speech Link
2: Mark Francois (CON - Rayleigh and Wickford) sites for Travellers. - Speech Link
3: Tony Lloyd (LAB - Rochdale) sites for Travellers. - Speech Link
4: Jack Lopresti (CON - Filton and Bradley Stoke) sites for Travellers. - Speech Link
5: Tony Lloyd (LAB - Rochdale) By negotiating with Travellers on stopping sites, the council has been able to establish better processes - Speech Link
6: Andy Slaughter (LAB - Hammersmith) I particularly pay tribute to the late Lord Avebury, who introduced the Caravan Sites Act 1968 and was - Speech Link
7: Giles Watling (CON - Clacton) We have legal Traveller sites, but that is not where Travellers necessarily want to go.In May this year - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 07 Sep 2017
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Philip Hollobone (CON - Kettering) The police refused to use the section 61 powers open to them to request the Travellers to move on. - Speech Link
2: Andrea Leadsom (CON - South Northamptonshire) I know that all Members suffer from the problem of unauthorised Travellers’ camps. - Speech Link
3: Robert Jenrick (CON - Newark) Almost 1,000 of my constituents are Travellers. I know many of them, and they are good people. - Speech Link
4: Stephen Kerr (CON - Stirling) allow time for a debate on the proposals announced yesterday by Babcock DSG to close three of its sites - Speech Link
5: Lord Coaker (LAB - Life peer) Members for an urgent debate on Travellers? - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Gypsies and Travellers - Wed 12 Oct 2016
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Simon Burns (CON - Chelmsford) sites within the city boundaries. - Speech Link
2: Andrew Selous (CON - South West Bedfordshire) for sites to be licensed, which leads to many unlicensed sites being given planning permission. - Speech Link
3: Andrew Selous (CON - South West Bedfordshire) How can my constituents have confidence that these people are indeed Travellers? - Speech Link
4: Peter Bone (CON - Wellingborough) A group of Travellers came to the old prison site in my constituency. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Housing and Planning Bill - Mon 18 Apr 2016
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LDEM - Life peer) This is something of a red rag to a bull on Gypsy sites. - Speech Link
2: None The definition in Planning Policy for Traveller Sites relates to the provision of sites and is relevant - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Housing and Planning Bill - Thu 17 Mar 2016
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LDEM - Life peer) , some of whom are called “new age” Travellers. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Whitaker (LAB - Life peer) Sites Act 1968, which resulted in a few hundred more sites, he sought tirelessly to bring in replacement - Speech Link
3: Lord Lansley (CON - Life peer) That district has one of the largest numbers of sites for Travellers, relative to its population and - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Housing and Planning Bill - Tue 26 Jan 2016
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of St Albans (Bishops - Bishops) sites and inland waterways. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Young of Old Scone (LAB - Life peer) of sites; it is often about the availability of finance for small builders for whom such small sites - Speech Link
3: Baroness Whitaker (LAB - Life peer) If not enough sites are provided, how can this small minority who travel and who have no authorised sites - Speech Link
4: Baroness Williams of Trafford (CON - Life peer) The provision of caravan sites and moorings for houseboats are considered under the duty to assess housing - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Housing and Planning Bill (Ninth sitting) - Thu 26 Nov 2015
No Department present

Mentions:
1: None It highlights the concern that, as a result of the shortage of authorised sites, Gypsies and Travellers - Speech Link
2: Teresa Pearce (LAB - Erith and Thamesmead) It highlights the concern that, as a result of the shortage of authorised sites, Gypsies and Travellers - Speech Link
3: None That would make sure that safe sites can continue to be identified for Gypsies and Travellers, avoiding - Speech Link
4: Teresa Pearce (LAB - Erith and Thamesmead) That would make sure that safe sites can continue to be identified for Gypsies and Travellers, avoiding - Speech Link
5: None for Gypsies and Travellers; a rise in unauthorised sites; less safety for Gypsies and Travellers; and - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Gypsies and Travellers (Local Communities) - Wed 10 Jun 2015
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Philip Hollobone (CON - Kettering) Kettering, not only when Travellers travel, but when they decide not to be Travellers any more and to - Speech Link
2: Julian Sturdy (CON - York Outer) that when it was calculating the need for those sites, it counted Travellers in bricks and mortar—Travellers - Speech Link
3: Andy Slaughter (LAB - Hammersmith) As far back as the Caravan Sites Act 1968, history shows us that because of inflammatory rhetoric and - Speech Link
4: Lord Evans of Rainow (CON - Life peer) The fact is that the Gypsies move on and set up caravan sites with no planning permission whatsoever, - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Illegal Encampments (East of England) - Wed 26 Nov 2014
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Jackie Doyle-Price (CON - Thurrock) The Travellers who live there want to do the right thing. - Speech Link
2: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (CON - Life peer) Friend the Member for Harlow referred to the alternative sites in Peterborough. - Speech Link
3: Brandon Lewis (CON - Great Yarmouth) back into use, and it outlined to me the number of sites it had available. - Speech Link
4: Brandon Lewis (CON - Great Yarmouth) Our planning policy for Traveller sites puts the provision of sites into the hands of local councils. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Newlands Park (Mobile Home Site) - Wed 05 Nov 2014
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Anne Main (CON - St Albans) There are more than 2,000 park home sites in the UK. - Speech Link
2: Anne Main (CON - St Albans) and Traveller sites. - Speech Link