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Westminster Hall
Gypsy and Traveller Policy - Tue 04 Feb 2014
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Andrew Selous (CON - South West Bedfordshire) has been developed in this country since part II of the Caravan Sites Act 1968 was enacted. - Speech Link
2: Iain McKenzie (LAB - Inverclyde) Travellers require a range of accommodation provision, encompassing sites, housing and roadside camps - Speech Link
3: Iain McKenzie (LAB - Inverclyde) for them, which will result in calls for Travellers to be moved on from unofficial stopping sites as - Speech Link
4: Tim Loughton (CON - East Worthing and Shoreham) going to leave the site—as we hope you will if it is an illegal encampment—you can only go with your caravan - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Town and Country Planning (Temporary Stop Notice) (England) (Revocation) Regulations 2013 - Mon 17 Jun 2013
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Whitaker (LAB - Life peer) sites irrespective of the availability of other sites, special circumstances of health and education - Speech Link
2: Lord Beecham (LAB - Life peer) The numbers of unauthorised caravan sites have declined, as the consultation document shows. - Speech Link
3: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (CON - Life peer) Unauthorised development related to caravan sites often happens very quickly because caravans are mobile - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Caravan Sites Bill [HL] - Fri 29 Jun 2012
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Avebury (LDEM - Excepted Hereditary) Under the Caravan Sites Act 1968, local authorities were required to provide sites for Gypsies residing - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hanham (CON - Life peer) The provision of sites for local Travellers is very much a local issue. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Caravan Sites Bill [HL] - Wed 16 May 2012
No Department present

Mentions:
1: None in England for the use of Gypsies and Travellers. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 19 Apr 2012
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Angela Eagle (LAB - Wallasey) pie and pasty makers, Church and charity leaders, philanthropists, university vice-chancellors and caravan - Speech Link
2: Lord Young of Cookham (CON - Life peer) He will know that on 23 March we introduced a new light-touch policy on sites for Travellers, and I hope - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Finance (No. 4) Bill - Wed 18 Apr 2012
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Alan Reid (LDEM - Argyll and Bute) In my area, which is a large, rural, coastal area, there is a large number of caravan sites, which bring - Speech Link
2: Gordon Marsden (LAB - Blackpool South) sites as well as wonderful beaches.My right hon. - Speech Link
3: David Gauke (IND - South West Hertfordshire) For example, those with static caravans and those who run park homes or caravan sites are registered - Speech Link
4: Angus Brendan MacNeil (SNP - Na h-Eileanan an Iar) to negotiate our own air routes, we therefore need other economic levers to attract businesses and travellers - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill - Mon 12 Mar 2012
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Avebury (LDEM - Excepted Hereditary) application with the council by asking it to find them a pitch where they can lawfully place their caravan - Speech Link
2: Baroness Whitaker (LAB - Life peer) The result will be that Gypsies and Travellers living on rented sites will be deprived of legal aid and - Speech Link
3: Baroness Turner of Camden (LAB - Life peer) It seems to me that local authorities have an obligation in law to provide sites for Travellers and their - Speech Link
4: Lord Bach (LAB - Life peer)sites that would accommodate the number of Travellers in each area, as determined by an independent - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Traveller Sites (Dorset) - Mon 12 Mar 2012
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lord Stunell (LDEM - Life peer) were being allocated for Gypsies and Travellers. - Speech Link
2: Lord Stunell (LDEM - Life peer) The powers include temporary stop notices, which do not normally allow the removal of a caravan that - Speech Link


Petitions
Definition of Gypsy Status - Wed 29 Feb 2012
No Department present

Mentions:
1: None Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government published a draft new planning policy for Traveller sites - Speech Link
2: None The current definition for planning purposes reflects the fact that many gypsies and Travellers stop - Speech Link
3: None suggested that the Government hold a full, separate consultation on the definition of “gypsies and Travellers - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Gypsies and Travellers - Thu 16 Feb 2012
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Baroness Whitaker (LAB - Life peer) which would entitle all persons with a cultural tradition of nomadism or of living in a caravan to - Speech Link
2: Baroness Whitaker (LAB - Life peer) one place—such as a doctor or an architect of my acquaintance—could not get planning permission for a caravan - Speech Link
3: Earl Attlee (CON - Excepted Hereditary) Some of the responses to our consultation on our draft new planning policy for Travellerssites suggested - Speech Link
4: Lord Tebbit (CON - Life peer) assumption that those of us who live at a fixed abode cannot have the advantages of also living in a caravan - Speech Link