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1692968

registered interest
date	01/03/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Travellers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will bring forward a Race Action Plan to tackle (a) systemic inequalities affecting and (b) discrimination faced by (i) Romani, (ii) Roma and (iii) Irish Travellers in the (A) education, (B) economic, (C) criminal justice and (D) health sectors.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Bell Ribeiro-Addy
uin	16514
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2024 answer text <p>The Government takes its responsibilities and statutory obligations to all our communities seriously. Simultaneously we emphasise the importance of governing on behalf of everyone, irrespective of background, race, ethnicity or any other characteristics.</p><p>Constant attempts to atomise public policy making will neither be successful nor help the communities they erroneously purport to assist.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley grouped question UIN 16515 question first answered 06/03/2024 15:48:13 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4764 label Biography information for Bell Ribeiro-Addy

1692969

registered interest
date	01/03/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Travellers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he is taking to ensure that the lived experiences of Romani, Roma and Irish Travellers are taken fully into account in consideration of policy affecting them.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Bell Ribeiro-Addy
uin	16515
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2024 answer text <p>The Government takes its responsibilities and statutory obligations to all our communities seriously. Simultaneously we emphasise the importance of governing on behalf of everyone, irrespective of background, race, ethnicity or any other characteristics.</p><p>Constant attempts to atomise public policy making will neither be successful nor help the communities they erroneously purport to assist.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley grouped question UIN 16514 question first answered 06/03/2024 15:48:13 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4764 label Biography information for Bell Ribeiro-Addy

1689398

registered interest
date	16/02/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Travellers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps his Department is taking to tackle racism against Romani (Gypsy), Roma and Irish Traveller communities.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham East
tabling member printed	Nadia Whittome
uin	14297
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2024 answer text <p>All forms of discrimination are unacceptable, and they have no place in our communities.</p><p>No one should ever be a victim of discrimination because of their race, or their religion or belief, and the Government continues to work with police and community partners to monitor and combat it.</p><p>True Vision is an online reporting portal, maintained by the police and funded by the Government. We will continue to support the police to maintain this and reinforce their relationships with communities so that they feel confident to report any instances of illegal discrimination.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley question first answered 27/02/2024 14:52:25 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4869 label Biography information for Nadia Whittome

1672617

registered interest
date	23/11/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Travellers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to his Autumn Statement 2023 on 22 November 2023, Official Report, column 326, what funding he provides to tackle racism against Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	3470
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2023 answer text <p>The Government is committed to the right of individuals to freely practise their religion. That is why in June 2023, building on the work of the Places of Worship Protective Security Funding Scheme, the Security Minister pledged £24.5 million of funding in 2023-24 to protect mosques and Muslim faith schools through the Protective Security for Mosques Scheme, providing security measures like CCTV and intruder alarms. In light of the crisis in Israel and Gaza, the Home Secretary announced in October that the Government will grant an additional £3 million to the Community Security Trust to support Jewish communities in the UK. At the Autumn Statement, the Chancellor announced that this would be extended to 2024-25. The Home Office has also increased available funding for the Protective Security for Mosques Scheme by 20%</p><p> </p><p>The Government is also taking strides to combat ethnic discrimination and hate crime. Through the Online Safety Act 2023, we are compelling social media companies to tackle discriminatory content posted on their platforms. The also Government provides £300,000 in annual grant funding to the National Online Hate Crime Hub, which provides expert advice to police investigating hate crimes.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott grouped question UIN 3468 3469 3471 question first answered 28/11/2023 16:57:38 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1652413

registered interest
date	12/07/2023
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Travellers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make it his policy to change the definition of Gypsies and Travellers in the document published by his Department entitled Planning policy for traveller sites in 2015 to that used in the 2012 version.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	193742
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2023 answer text <p>The Secretary of State is carefully considering the policy contained in the Planning Policy Traveller Sites 2015 following the court judgment in Lisa Smith v SSLUHC [2022].</p> answering member constituency Redditch answering member printed Rachel Maclean question first answered 17/07/2023 14:29:27 answering member 4668 label Biography information for Rachel Maclean
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1644665

registered interest
date	14/06/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Travellers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 30 March 2023 to Question 173047 on Travellers, whether she plans to review the Equality Impact Assessment for the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	189635
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2023 answer text <p>The measures relating to unauthorised encampments in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 will be subject to the normal post-legislative review three to five years after Royal Assent. This will include a review of the Equality Impact Assessment.</p><p>The current overarching equality impact assessment was published in September 2021 and is publicly available. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/police-crime-sentencing-and-courts-bill-2021-equality-statements/home-office-measures-in-the-police-crime-sentencing-and-courts-bill-equalities-impact-assessment" target="_blank">Home Office measures in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill: Equalities Impact Assessment - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 23/06/2023 09:24:53 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1607055

registered interest
date	24/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Travellers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the impact of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 on Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	173047
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2023 answer text <p>We have carefully considered the impact the new measures might have on people with protected characteristics, including race and ethnicity, in accordance with the Public Sector Equality Duty under the Equality Act 2010.</p><p>The overarching equality impact assessment was published in September and is publicly available. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/police-crime-sentencing-and-courts-bill-2021-equality-statements/home-office-measures-in-the-police-crime-sentencing-and-courts-bill-equalities-impact-assessment" target="_blank">Home Office measures in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill: Equalities Impact Assessment - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 30/03/2023 14:27:28 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1216287

registered interest
date	22/06/2020
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Travellers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government on the effect of the Channel 4 documentary entitled, Dispatches: The Truth about Traveller Crime, on relations between traveller and non traveller communities; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	62524
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2020 answer text <p>I have not discussed this matter with the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government. Like all other broadcasters, Channel 4 is editorially independent from the government, and is subject to independent regulation by Ofcom.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Maldon answering member printed Mr John Whittingdale question first answered 26/06/2020 15:57:45 answering member 39 label Biography information for Sir John Whittingdale
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

839030

registered interest
date	08/02/2018
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Travellers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what discussions Minsters of his Department have had with the Equality and Human Rights Commission on the effect of the revised definition of Traveller in PPTS 2015 in relation to local planning authorities’ policy provision.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	127590
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2018 answer text <p>We have no record of any discussions between Ministers in this Department and the Equality and Human Rights Commission regarding the Planning Policy for Traveller Sites published in 2015.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 22/02/2018 17:05:26 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

445758

registered interest
date	19/01/2016
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Travellers
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what estimate they have made of the number of Gypsies and Travellers in the UK.
tabling member printed	Lord Black of Brentwood
uin	HL5168
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2016 answer text <p>In the 2011 census, 63,500 people in the United Kingdom identified their ethnic group as Gypsy or Traveller.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 28/01/2016 16:59:17 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	4171 label Biography information for Lord Black of Brentwood