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Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage - Mon 17 Nov 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LD - Life peer) The Gypsies and Travellers are evicted and thrown in prison; their caravan homes and vehicles are seized - Speech Link
2: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) available to Gypsies and Travellers, and that is an important point. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
2nd reading - Thu 16 Oct 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bertin (Con - Life peer) Homepages of major porn sites display material with titles including words like “attack”, “kidnap”, “ - Speech Link
2: Baroness Whitaker (Lab - Life peer) and of Friends, Families and Travellers, to which I am grateful, as ever, for expert briefing, together - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Committee stage - Thu 11 Sep 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Baroness Whitaker (Lab - Life peer) , whose traditional way of life and culture is to live in their communities on caravan sites. - Speech Link
2: Lord Fuller (Con - Life peer) Evidentially the use of transit sites has reduced, and the annual caravan count supports this assertion - Speech Link
3: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) for Gypsies and Travellers. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Hazards in Social Housing (Prescribed Requirements) (England) Regulations 2025 - Wed 10 Sep 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Baroness Whitaker (Lab - Life peer) Indeed, I asked her a Question about this very thing because Gypsies and Travellers are not covered. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) living permanently in caravans on sites with amenity blocks that are rented from social landlords”. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
2nd reading - Wed 25 Jun 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LD - Life peer) I turn now to the lack of stopping places and permanent sites for Gypsies and Travellers, which the right - Speech Link
2: Lord Mawson (XB - Life peer) This should speed up the delivery of sites. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Whitaker (Lab - Life peer) of Romany and other Travellers. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Report stage - Wed 18 Jun 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Andy Slaughter (Lab - Hammersmith and Chiswick) These punitive and hostile powers led to the victimisation of Romani, Gypsy and Irish Travellers, who - Speech Link
2: Andy Slaughter (Lab - Hammersmith and Chiswick) : temporary stop notices, injunctions to protect land from unauthorised encampments, licensing of caravan - Speech Link
3: Andy Slaughter (Lab - Hammersmith and Chiswick) area from three months to 12 months constituted unjustified discrimination against Gypsies and Travellers - Speech Link
4: Jess Asato (Lab - Lowestoft) New clause 104 would ensure that all pornography sites must adhere to illegal content duties.Finally, - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Report stage (day 1) - Mon 09 Jun 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Should it not be the policy of Government to ensure that brownfield sites are used first? - Speech Link
2: Andrew George (LD - St Ives) Those sites should not be called rural exception sites; they should be called rural norm sites. - Speech Link
3: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab - City of Durham) Leaving out Gypsy and Traveller sites would repeat the mistakes of the past. - Speech Link
4: Sarah Bool (Con - South Northamptonshire) , rather than simply to those who live near energy transmission sites. - Speech Link
5: None By developing on these known sites we are sleepwalking into a crisis. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Sentencing Guidelines (Pre-sentence Reports) Bill
Committee stage - Mon 19 May 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LD - Life peer) My Lords, I declare my interest as a member of the APPG for Gypsies, Travellers and Roma, and I apologise - Speech Link
2: None I have spoken in favour of planning applications for caravan sites and taken a couple of Roma girls around - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Renters’ Rights Bill - Wed 14 May 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Baroness Whitaker (Lab - Life peer) Undercliffe for her earlier support for this amendment.This amendment simply brings the homes that caravan - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Renters’ Rights Bill - Wed 14 May 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Lord Best (XB - Life peer) Today, some 200,000 people—many of them elderly—occupy such mobile homes, on about 2,000 sites. - Speech Link
2: None sites, so I echo my noble friend’s emphasis on the importance of amenity blocks. - Speech Link
3: None Gypsies and Travellers are an important part of Britain’s population, heritage and social fabric. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) sites only have a licence to occupy the pitch. - Speech Link