Question follow-through · 120665

Travellers: Caravan Sites

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to require that, once an eviction notice has been served to a traveller encampment, the same group cann

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
13 Mar 2026
Target answer date
17 Mar 2026
Answer
23 Mar 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 13 Mar 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to require that, once an eviction notice has been served to a traveller encampment, the same group cann

  2. 17 Mar 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 23 Mar 2026

    Answer published

    Planning policy is clear that local authorities should assess the need for traveller sites in their area, and then plan to meet that need, in the same way they plan for all forms of housing.The Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government recent...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

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Asylum: Housing

18 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential merits of recognising school examinations as grounds to delay a long-distance move of families between asylum accommodations

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Asylum: Housing

18 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of a family's long-distance move between asylum accommodations when the child is taking major exams such as GCSEs on that child's education.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Asylum: Housing

18 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has reviewed any individual requests to postpone a move between asylum accommodations in the case of a child undertaking examinations in the last year.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Crime: Freight

17 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether additional resources have been allocated to the National Police Chiefs' Council lead for freight crime and the Opal unit since their establishment.