Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 21 June 2021 to Question 16972 on Travellers: Caravan Sites, if he will publish the programme that the Planning Advisory Service used for its recent series of events it provided for local authorities to enhance their understanding of planning for Gypsies, Roma and Traveller communities to support the future site provision for those communities; and how many local authorities took part in those events.

Details of the main topics covered in recent events held by the Planning Advisory Service (PAS) to support authorities in planning for gypsies and travellers are published on the PAS website (under past events). Any further details can be obtained by contacting PAS directly.

A total of 102 local authorities registered to attend one or more of the six events that were held.