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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


Lords Chamber
Gypsy and Traveller Communities: Accommodation - Wed 06 Nov 2024
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) We will also consider how planning policy for Traveller sites should be set out in future, including - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LD - Life peer) Since 1994, only 30 new sites have been built. - Speech Link
3: Lord Young of Cookham (Con - Life peer) My Lords, if Gypsies and Travellers are not to camp illegally then, of course, authorised sites must - Speech Link
4: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) I cannot help but feel that the issue of further caravan provision is partly to do with that. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Planning Policy: Traveller Sites - Wed 11 Sep 2024
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) For the family I mentioned, sites were available. - Speech Link
2: Olivia Blake (Lab - Sheffield Hallam) When the Caravan Sites Act 1968 gave councils a statutory duty to create sites, many people opposed having - Speech Link
3: Bradley Thomas (Con - Bromsgrove) Those sites are often outside of the conventional planning process where sites are identified, and problems - Speech Link
4: Sarah Dyke (LD - Glastonbury and Somerton) it impossible for Travellers to legally travel. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Gypsy and Traveller Sites - Wed 15 May 2024
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Philip Hollobone (Con - Kettering) In my assessment, the current planning policy enables Gypsies and Travellers to develop sites in the - Speech Link
2: Philip Hollobone (Con - Kettering) Of the unauthorised sites, most—83%—were on land owned by Gypsies and Travellers, and 17% were unauthorised - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Caravan Site Licensing (Exemptions of Motor Homes) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 03 Feb 2023
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Christopher Chope (CON - Christchurch) Bill completing Second Reading, and I thank him for giving me time to say a little bit about the Caravan - Speech Link
2: Christopher Chope (CON - Christchurch) , and would thereby be excluded from the site licensing arrangements that exist for caravan sites. - Speech Link