Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make it his policy to commission an independent research report on the effect of the (a) Equality Act 2010 and (b) Human Rights Act 1998 on the ability of local authorities to tackle unauthorised traveller (i) encampments and (ii) development.

The government has no plans to commission such an independent research report.