Travellers: Caravan Sites

(asked on 27th March 2019) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to his Department’s publication, Government response to the consultation on powers for dealing with unauthorised development and encampments: A summary of consultation responses and the way forward, published in February 2019, how many (a) police forces and (b) police representative bodies responded to that consultation; and how many of those responses favoured the criminalisation of unauthorised encampments.


Answered by
Nick Hurd Portrait
Nick Hurd
This question was answered on 3rd April 2019

The consultation on powers for dealing with unauthorised development and encampments received 2,198 responses. These came from a wide range of stakeholders, including police forces, offices of police and crime commissioners, law enforcement representative bodies, local authorities, private sector bodies, representative groups of the Gypsy and Traveller community and members of the public.

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