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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


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: Victoria Atkins (CON - Louth and Horncastle) We are not talking about all Gypsies and Travellers. - Speech Link
4: Sarah Champion (LAB - Rotherham) room, has not been addressed since 1960, when the Government and Parliament of the day introduced the Caravan - 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
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lord German (LDEM - Life peer) For the final few years, he lived in a caravan in terrible conditions, wearing filthy clothes and losing - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) My Lords, I declare my interest as a member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Gypsies, Travellers - Speech Link
3: Lord Kennedy of Southwark (LAB - Life peer) We have heard that the regulations’ purpose is to prohibit the use of land as a protected caravan site - Speech Link
4: 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) and Roma on their lists, especially if they have a caravan site address; and many parts of the criminal - Speech Link
2: Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Why are local authorities not making more of an effort during that first year to find permanent sites - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LDEM - Life peer) Nevertheless, Somerset did set up both permanent and transit sites for Gypsies and Travellers.It was - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist (CON - Life peer) safe place to live is a right for everyone, whether you are in bricks and mortar, a mobile home or a caravan - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Planning System: Gypsies and Travellers - Wed 29 Jan 2020
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: 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
2: Andy Slaughter (LAB - Hammersmith) the different policies adopted by different Governments over the past 50 years, which go back to the Caravan - Speech Link
3: 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
4: Andrew Selous (CON - South West Bedfordshire) Many are caravaners, perhaps with a caravan they keep in their front garden. - Speech Link
5: Jim McMahon (LAB - Oldham West and Royton) We have heard before, “Why live in a caravan if you can live in bricks and mortar?” - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Park Home Residents: Legal Protection - Tue 01 Oct 2019
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Christopher Chope (CON - Christchurch) The Government’s response was quick, enacting the Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960. - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) That is because we have three park home sites—not caravan parks, but park homes—in my constituency in - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Summer Adjournment - Thu 25 Jul 2019
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: David Amess (CON - Southend West) head, and Mrs Beverley Williams, on all that they have achieved.I was once a paid advocate for the Caravan - Speech Link
2: Jeremy Lefroy (CON - Stafford) England is grossly underfunded and cannot do the work that needs to be done on all these fantastic sites - Speech Link
3: Bob Blackman (CON - Harrow East) have raised before at questions to the Leader of the House the impact of the illegal occupation by Travellers - Speech Link