First Registered: 13/11/2015 • Last updated on: 10/03/2021
To provide a forum for parliamentarians concerned about issues facing Gypsy, Traveller and Roma communities and seek to address these issues and challenge inequalities.
1. Gypsies and Travellers
09/05/2019 - Parliamentary Research
Found: 2019 Gypsies and Travellers By Hannah Cromarty Contents: 1. Who are Gypsies and Travellers? 2. Inequalities
2. OPERATION REPORT HATE
13/12/2016 - Early Day Motions
Found: awareness of hate crimes within the Gypsy, Traveller and Roma communities and the need to report them; notes that
3. Friends, Families and Travellers - written evidence
06/06/2018 - Inquiry: Benefit sanctions - Work and Pensions Committee
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Found: Friends Families and Travellers (ANC0030) Introduction Friends Families and Travellers are the only national
4. Written Evidence: The Traveller Movement (HPB80)
24/11/2015 - Bill Documents
Found: working in partnership with the Gypsy, Traveller and Roma communities, service providers and policy makers
5. Traveller Movement and the Gypsy Roma Traveller Police Association (GRTPA) - written evidence
14/05/2019 - Inquiry: The Macpherson Report: Twenty Years On - Home Affairs Committee
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Found: Written evidence - Traveller Movement and the Gypsy Roma Traveller Police Association (GRTPA)Written submission
1. Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Communities
08/03/2018 - Grand Committee
1: Accommodation and the Living Environment on Gypsies’ and Travellers’ Health by Professor Margaret Greenfields - Speech Link
2. Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Communities: Inequalities
25/02/2020 - Grand Committee
1: Committee, Tackling inequalities faced by Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities, published on 5 April - Speech Link
2: the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Gypsies, Travellers and Roma.This excellent report sets out - Speech Link
3. Gypsies, Travellers and Roma: Racism and Discrimination
25/03/2021 - Lords Chamber
1: further to reports of the blacklisting of Irish Travellers by Pontins, what steps they are taking to tackle - Speech Link
2: spoken to many Roma, Gypsy and Traveller leaders, such as Zeljko Jovanovic from the Roma Initiatives Office - Speech Link
3: enforcement action if needed. The problem is that Gypsy, Roma and Traveller groups face particular discrimination - Speech Link
4. Planning System: Gypsies and Travellers
29/01/2020 - Westminster Hall
1: move,That this House has considered Gypsies, Travellers and the planning system.It is a huge - Speech Link
2: not include only residents and businesses, but Travellers. During one of his excellent debates on this - Speech Link
3: historically, planning laws have discriminated against Travellers who live a nomadic lifestyle, the percentage - Speech Link
5. Trespass
19/04/2021 - Westminster Hall
1: points with Abbie from Friends, Families and Travellers during a really brilliant conversation. She expressed - Speech Link
2: several hundred, and by over 8% in total. Gypsies and Travellers are among the most marginalised and discriminated - Speech Link
3: authorities and regional governments, treats Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people. His work has been very important - Speech Link
Registered Contact:
Martin Docherty-Hughes MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 020 7219 4609.
Email: martin.docherty.mp@parliament.uk
Public Enquiry Point:
Abbie Kirkby, Friends, Families and Travellers, Community Base, 113 Queens Road, Brighton BN1 3XG. Tel: 01273 234 777
Email: appg@gypsy-traveller.org
Secretariat:
Friends, Families and Travellers acts as the group's secretariat. https://www.gypsy-traveller.org/
Group's Website:
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