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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) When their father came out of his caravan, instead of stopping the fight he taught them how to really - Speech Link
3: Andrew Selous (CON - South West Bedfordshire) The Planning Inspectorate even ignores advertisements on “Right Move” for Traveller sites. - Speech Link
4: Andrew Selous (CON - South West Bedfordshire) for sites to be licensed, which leads to many unlicensed sites being given planning permission. - Speech Link
5: Lord Barwell (CON - Life peer) that local authority housing needs assessments cover all those who live and resort to the area, on caravan - 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) If Gypsies and Travellers have the money to provide their own sites, why should they be on local authority - Speech Link
2: Viscount Younger of Leckie (CON - Excepted Hereditary) include all those who are assessed at present and potentially those who simply choose to live in a caravan - Speech Link
3: None it, including those with or without an existing nomadic way of life and those who wish to resort to caravan - Speech Link
4: None whom it is recognised that caravan dwelling is a cultural part of their identity. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: 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
2: Lord Lansley (CON - Life peer) That district has one of the largest numbers of sites for Travellers, relative to its population and - Speech Link
3: Viscount Younger of Leckie (CON - Excepted Hereditary) it is recognised that caravan-dwelling is a cultural part of their identity. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of St Albans (Bishops - Bishops) consider the needs of the area’s Traveller community specifically, and instead to make provision through caravan - 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 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: 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
2: Andy Slaughter (LAB - Hammersmith) As far back as the Caravan Sites Act 1968, history shows us that because of inflammatory rhetoric and - Speech Link
3: 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 Haselhurst (CON - Life peer) There is nothing more infuriating for anyone than to wake up and find a caravan or caravans on greensward - Speech Link
3: 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) pruned.As I was saying, one elderly lady at the site said to me that this gentleman—Mr Golby—burst into her caravan - Speech Link
3: Anne Main (CON - St Albans) site—they happen to be a Traveller family—show the same concern for residents that my council shows to Travellers - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Cross-border Rail Services in Wales - Wed 02 Jul 2014
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Jessica Morden (LAB - Newport East) would provide new journey-to-work opportunities to take advantage of the development and employment sites - Speech Link
2: Chris Ruane (LAB - Vale of Clwyd) did—so they would place their cases on our prams and we would take them to the guesthouses, hotels and caravan - Speech Link
3: Stephen Hammond (CON - Wimbledon) says, and I am keen not only to specify services that provide the best value and best opportunity for travellers - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Water Bill - Tue 11 Feb 2014
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Humphreys (LDEM - Life peer) the duties of local authorities under the Government’s own guidance, Planning Policy for Traveller Sites - Speech Link