Gypsies, Travellers and Roma APPG
First Registered: 13/11/2015 • Last updated on: 10/03/2021
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TwitterTo 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
asked by: Nadia Whittome
02/10/2020
... Roma and Irish Traveller communities are reached as part of the National Tutoring Programme for children; and if he will ring-fence funding from that programme for those communities. 2. Coronavirus: Roma
asked by: Gill Furniss
20/05/2020
... what recent assessment he has made of the rate of (a) infection and (b) death from covid-19 within the Roma community. 3. Immigration: Roma
asked by: Baroness Whitaker
13/07/2020
... who may have their applications for naturalisation refused because they did not have Comprehensive Sickness Insurance before settled status was granted throughout any period of self-sufficiency or as a student. 4. Kosovo: Roma
asked by: Baroness Whitaker
25/02/2021
...To ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they have made to the government of Kosovo about permitting to Kosovan Roma who were forced to leave Kosovo as a result of war the right to vote in the forthcoming elections in that country. 5. Kosovo: Roma
asked by: Baroness Whitaker
23/02/2021
...To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to make representations to the government of Kosovo about allowing Kosovan Roma in other countries the right to vote in the forthcoming elections.
10 Current APPG Officers
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Martin Docherty-Hughes
Chair & Registered Contact
Scottish National Party - West Dunbartonshire
Joined: 28th September 2017
Chagos (British Indian Ocean Territory) , Death Penalty , Human Rights , Opera , Race and Community , Speech and Language Difficulties , Theatre
Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville
Vice Chair
Liberal Democrat - Life peer
Joined: 10th October 2018
Adult Education , Ageing and Older People , Arts and Heritage , Austria , BBC , Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Business Owners , British Overseas Territories , Carbon Monoxide , Dark Skies , Democracy and Human Rights in the Gulf , Domestic Violence and Abuse , Equitable Life Policyholders , Fatherhood , Flags and Heraldry , Foster Care Work , Frozen British Pensions , Global Security and Non-Proliferation , Governance and Inclusive Leadership , Haemophilia and Contaminated Blood , Health , Holocaust Memorial , Immigration Detention , Insurance and Financial Services , Internet, Communications and Technology , Ireland and the Irish in Britain , Kosovo , Leasehold and Commonhold Reform , Limits to Growth , Liver Health , Longevity , Mayflower 400 , Media , Music , Olympic and Paralympic Games , Park Homes , Period Equality , Photography , Race and Community , Religion in the Media , Religious Education , Reuniting Britain Post-Brexit , Road Freight and Logistics , Rowing , Scientific , Scotch Whisky , Sexual and Reproductive Health in the UK , Social Enterprise , Social Integration , Social Science and Policy , Social Work , St George's Day , Tibet , Transport Safety , United Nations , Vascular and Venous Disease , Votes at 16 , Western Rail Link to Heathrow , Western Sahara , Wine and Spirits , Wine of Great Britain , Women in Transport , Youth Affairs , Zimbabwe
Australia and New Zealand , BBC , Commonwealth , Electoral Campaigning Transparency , Food and Drink , Geographically Protected Foods , Japan , Marine Energy , Norfolk Island , Performers' Alliance , Women and Work
22q11 Syndrome , Albania , Antisemitism , Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder , Baseball and Softball , Basketball , British Jews , Climate Change , Conservation, Places and People , Critical Minerals , Drones , East Coast Main Line , Electric Vehicles , Esports , Estonia , Greenland , Holocaust Memorial , Hydrogen , International Conservation , Internet, Communications and Technology , Kosovo , Montenegro , Music , Net Zero , North Macedonia , Northern Culture , Pacific Islands , Park Homes , Rare, Genetic and Undiagnosed Conditions , Religion in the Media , Social Enterprise , Sustainable Finance , Sustainable Resource , Vegetarianism and Veganism , Video Games and Esports , West Papua
Contact Details
Show/HideRegistered 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:
Benefits in Kind
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Friends, Families and Travellers
Friends, Families and Travellers is paid by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust to act as the group's secretariat From : 22/01/2020 To : 21/01/2021
£21,001
18 Jul 2019
Friends, Families and Travellers (funded by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust)
Secretariat From : 18/07/2019 To : 17/07/2020
£19,501
18 Jul 2018
Friends, Families and Travellers (funded by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust and Allen Lane Foundation)
Secretariat From : 18/07/2018 To : 17/07/2019
£22,501
1 Apr 2018
Friends, Families and Travellers (funded by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust)
Secretariat From : 01/04/2018 To : 17/07/2018
£6,001
1 Jan 2017
Traveller Law Reform Project
Secretariat From : 01/01/2017 To : 31/12/2017
£9,001
1 Jan 2015
Traveller Law Reform Project
Secretariat From : 01/01/2015 To : 31/12/2015
£13,501
No direct financial benefits are on record for the Gypsies, Travellers and Roma APPG
Former APPG Officers
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Kate Green
Chair & Registered Contact
Labour - Stretford and Urmston
Joined: 29th March 2017Departed: 1st July 2020
Baroness Harris of Richmond
Vice-Chair
Liberal Democrat - Life peer
Joined: 28th April 2016Departed: 29th August 2018
Greece , Ireland and the Irish in Britain , Isle of Man (Manx) , Mindfulness , Policing and Security
Neil Coyle
Chair & Registered Contact
Labour - Bermondsey and Old Southwark
Joined: 28th April 2016Departed: 15th February 2017
Assistive Technology , Food Banks , Homelessness , Ireland and the Irish in Britain , Learning Disability , Mental Health , Migration , Nuclear Energy , Taxis , University of Hull , Wine and Spirits
Graham Evans
Vice Chair
Conservative - Former Member for Weaver Vale
Joined: 13th November 2015Departed: 15th February 2017
Harry Harpham
Chair & Registered Contact
Labour - Former Member for Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
Joined: 13th November 2015Departed: 3rd February 2016
Lord Avebury
Co-Chair
Liberal Democrat - Deceased - 14 February 2016
Joined: 13th November 2015Departed: 3rd February 2016