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Commons Chamber
Caravan Site Licensing (Exemptions of Motor Homes) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 03 Feb 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Christopher Chope (CON - Christchurch) The issue here is that a lot has happened since the Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act was - Speech Link
2: Christopher Chope (CON - Christchurch) , and would thereby be excluded from the site licensing arrangements that exist for caravan sites. - Speech Link
3: Christopher Chope (CON - Christchurch) Obviously there is specific legislation dealing with Gypsies and Travellers, and nothing in the Bill - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
High Speed Rail (Crewe - Manchester) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 20 Jun 2022
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Esther McVey (CON - Tatton) calculated that, across Cheshire, HS2 will irreparably damage five internationally protected wildlife sites - Speech Link
2: Kieran Mullan (CON - Crewe and Nantwich) A huge workforce is mobilising on various sites, including in Crewe, to deliver construction, and local - Speech Link
3: James Grundy (CON - Leigh) Most people spend their 70s with their feet up in a caravan somewhere. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
Lords Hansard - Part 1 - Mon 13 Dec 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None ”, “caravan site”, “relevant caravan site”, “relevant site manager” and “registered social landlord” - Speech Link
2: None They may provide sites or share sites with other local authorities where Travellers can park their vehicles - Speech Link
3: None That is why my proposed subsection (1B) says that, if there are no relevant caravan sites or if, within - Speech Link
4: None Although local authorities have a duty to assess the need for caravan sites in their assessment of housing - Speech Link
5: Lord Rosser (LAB - Life peer) The Caravan Sites Act 1968 laid down a statutory duty to establish authorised sites with funding from - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
Lords Hansard - part one - Mon 08 Nov 2021
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Baroness Brinton (LDEM - Life peer) trespassers to remove themselves and their vehicles and property from land where a suitable pitch or relevant caravan - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LDEM - Life peer) It therefore follows that planning for Gypsy, Traveller and Roma sites should be part of this. - Speech Link
3: Lord Paddick (LDEM - Life peer) have no suitable legal pitch on a relevant caravan site situated in the local authority’s area, the - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Gypsies and Travellers - Thu 04 Nov 2021
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of London (Bishops - Bishops) Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the availability of places for nomadic Gypsies and Travellers - Speech Link
2: Lord Greenhalgh (CON - Life peer) The Government do not undertake an assessment on the availability of places for nomadic Gypsies and Travellers - Speech Link
3: Baroness Greengross (CB - Life peer) for Gypsies and Travellers? - Speech Link
4: Lord Greenhalgh (CON - Life peer) there has been an increase of 1,291 new affordable permanent pitches, and in the January 2020 Traveller caravan - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
Lords Hansard - part two - Wed 03 Nov 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None It should also be recognised that living on caravan sites is part of the traditional culture of Gypsies - Speech Link
2: None The Caravan Sites Act 1968, brought in by the much-lamented Lord Avebury, resulted in a large number - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of Manchester (Bishops - Bishops) It will repair the damage caused by the repeal of the Caravan Sites Act 1968 and give local authorities - Speech Link
4: None Some 184 of the 285 authorised sites in operation today were built following the passage of the Caravan - Speech Link
5: Baroness Williams of Trafford (CON - Life peer) The Traveller caravan count is a count of caravans, rather than sites. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
2nd reading - Tue 14 Sep 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Williams of Trafford (CON - Life peer) These measures are not about restricting the nomadic lifestyle of Travellers but about protecting all - Speech Link
2: Baroness Whitaker (LAB - Life peer) That is because of the shortage of sites. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer (LDEM - Life peer) for Gypsies and Travellers, that leads me to realise what an utter disgrace this part is. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LDEM - Life peer) The power to evict someone from their home, albeit a caravan, and then imprison them if they return should - Speech Link
5: Baroness Brinton (LDEM - Life peer) Gypsies and Travellers have for centuries had a right to a nomadic life. - Speech Link


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
2: Anne McLaughlin (SNP - Glasgow North East) Member for Ashfield (Lee Anderson) has been allowed by his party to get away with claiming that Travellers - 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) Of those, 419 were on sites not tolerated and 275 were on tolerated sites. - Speech Link
2: Bambos Charalambous (LAB - Enfield, Southgate) in the caravan count. - Speech Link
3: 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
4: 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
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

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