Oral Answers to Questions
Debate between Caroline Dinenage and Richard Graham
Caroline Dinenage (Gosport) (Con)
10. Whether he plans to bring forward proposals to facilitate local authorities in moving Travellers on from private and public property.
Richard Graham (Gloucester) (Con)
15. If he will take steps to accelerate the process for local authorities to gain possession of public land upon which there are unauthorised Traveller encampments.
The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (Mr Eric Pickles)
The Government will ensure that, where local authorities have made appropriate provision for authorised sites in their area, reflecting genuine local need and historic demand, they will have stronger enforcement powers to deal with unauthorised encampments. We are reviewing how this can be achieved.