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Gypsies and Travellers (Hertfordshire)

Adjournment debate on Wednesday, 20 June 2007, in the House of Commons, led by Anne Main. The answering member was Meg Munn.
Westminster hall adjournment debate on the provision of gypsy and traveller sites in Hertfordshire
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
461 c471-93WH 
Session
2006-07
Department
Minister for Women
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
Proceeding contributions
Lord Pickles | 461 c489-90WH (Link to this contribution) But apparently not in St. Albans. I was not demonising Councillor Brazier; I think that I was trying...
Baroness Burt of Solihull | 461 c489WH (Link to this contribution) I am disappointed that the hon. Gentleman seeks to demonise any individual who cannot stand in this ...

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Lord Pickles | 461 c488WH (Link to this contribution) I shall give way to the hon. Lady in a second. We were also quite astounded to see the way in which ...
Meg Munn | 461 c491-2WH (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Lady will bear with me, I shall get to the situation in Hertfordshire. Providing more a...
Baroness Burt of Solihull | 461 c492WH (Link to this contribution) I have done the maths and there are 444,000 households in Hertfordshire. The number of pitches that ...
Meg Munn | 461 c490-1WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for St. Albans (Anne Main) on securing the debate. The Government bel...
Anne Main | 461 c491WH (Link to this contribution) If the Minister so roundly believes that my area is being unfair in not wanting to accept any more s...
Meg Munn | 461 c493WH (Link to this contribution) I do have only two minutes left and I want to finish answering hon. Members’ other questions. Local...
Meg Munn | 461 c492-3WH (Link to this contribution) I have some further maths: it is less than 1 per cent. of the number of new houses that Hertfordshir...
Anne Main | 461 c493WH (Link to this contribution) I am conscious that the Minister has only two minutes, but I wish to say that local Labour councillo...
Speaker | 461 c493WH (Link to this contribution) Order. We must move on to the next debate.
Oliver Heald | 461 c480WH (Link to this contribution) The Government’s figures seem to show that in July 1979 there were 1,000 caravans on unauthorised si...
David Gauke | 461 c480WH (Link to this contribution) If I may, I shall explore the point a little further. I appreciate that because of court judgments ...
Meg Munn | 461 c480WH (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman saying that it is Conservative policy not to have more authorised sites?
Oliver Heald | 461 c484-5WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for St. Albans (Anne Main) on securing this debate on an im...
Lord Lilley | 461 c482-4WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. People are concerned because they are expected to have new authorised sites...
Anne Main | 461 c482WH (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend makes a really powerful point, and I draw his attention again to why the public...
Lord Lilley | 461 c482WH (Link to this contribution) I, too, congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for St. Albans (Anne Main),who is a fellow Member for...
David Gauke | 461 c481-2WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes the point that the provision of authorised sites does not necessarily mean that...
Mike Penning | 461 c481WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point, but we are making an assumption that all Travellers travelling ar...
David Gauke | 461 c480WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an eloquent and important point, which underlines my point. Increasing authoris...
Lord Pickles | 461 c474-5WH (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend share my concern about the strong and provocative language that those Labour cou...
Anne Main | 461 c474WH (Link to this contribution) Absolutely, and I hope that the Minister will take on board the fact that in my district council are...
David Gauke | 461 c479-80WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs. Dean. I, too, congratulate my hon. Friend th...
James Clappison | 461 c478-9WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend hits the nail on the head. The whole process might be fulfilled, and the sites might ...
David Gauke | 461 c480WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend’s description of the position of the Liberal Democrats does not surprise me in the sl...
Anne Main | 461 c480WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend may find that Liberal Democrat support alters to meet whatever the electorate want to...
Speaker | 461 c476WH (Link to this contribution) Before I call the next speaker, I remind hon. Members that I intend to start calling the Front Bench...
Anne Main | 461 c475-6WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right, and I thank him for making that point. Councillors are often directed to ma...
Lord Pickles | 461 c478WH (Link to this contribution) Surely the approach is topsy-turvy. The Government will never know whether their targets have been m...
James Clappison | 461 c476-8WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs. Dean. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Mem...
Anne Main | 461 c487WH (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Lady discuss Hertfordshire? That is what this debate is about.
Speaker | 461 c488WH (Link to this contribution) I remind the hon. Lady that she has about another two minutes to speak.
David Gauke | 461 c487-8WH (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Lady believes in localism, as many of us do, she should surely believe in decisions bein...
Baroness Burt of Solihull | 461 c487WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady asks me to discuss Hertfordshire. I am attempting to draw some conclusions, which she ...
Lord Pickles | 461 c488WH (Link to this contribution) I will in a second; I have not yet finished with the hon. Lady. Despite the fact that Councillor Bra...
Lord Pickles | 461 c488WH (Link to this contribution) Good afternoon, Mrs. Dean. I have never had the privilege of serving under your chairmanship. It has...
Baroness Burt of Solihull | 461 c488WH (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mrs. Dean. My worry is about the continuing demonisation of Gypsies and Travellers; it m...
Oliver Heald | 461 c485-6WH (Link to this contribution) That is a worrying intervention from the Minister. There is not a five-fold increase in household fo...
Meg Munn | 461 c485WH (Link to this contribution) I am puzzled that the hon. Gentleman says the Government must have played a substantial part in the ...
Anne Main | 461 c486WH (Link to this contribution) I draw the hon. Lady’s attention, before she goes any further, to something issued today by the noti...
Baroness Burt of Solihull | 461 c486WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship this afternoon, Mrs. Dean. To describe my reactio...
Lord Lilley | 461 c486WH (Link to this contribution) I do not know what country the hon. Lady has been living in. I have been a Member of this place for ...
Baroness Burt of Solihull | 461 c486WH (Link to this contribution) I am making a general point. The tone of the argument from the Hertfordshire Members has been quite ...
Oliver Heald | 461 c486WH (Link to this contribution) I am happy to lend the hon. Lady the Government’s own document, ““Gypsies and Travellers: Facts and ...
Baroness Burt of Solihull | 461 c486WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that intervention from the right hon. Gentleman, who has clearly been around a lit...
Baroness Burt of Solihull | 461 c486-7WH (Link to this contribution) My source is the Government figures, which were given to me a few weeks ago by the Minister. I shal...
James Clappison | 461 c474WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making an excellent case. I agree with her point about consultation, and I am sure...
Anne Main | 461 c472-4WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point. Crucial to today’s debate, and to my argument, is the fact that t...
Oliver Heald | 461 c472WH (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that in making provision, it is important that the traditional routes used...
Anne Main | 461 c471-2WH (Link to this contribution) In debates earlier this year, I drew the Minister’s attention to our concern about regional housing ...
Subjects
Camping sites
Travellers
Hertfordshire
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