Extract from End of day adjournment debate (Commons)
on Travellers in Mole Valley Sir Paul Beresford (Mole Valley)
(Con):...Last Traveller season, Surrey had hundreds of these
incidents, and Mole Valley had more than its share. Surrey’s
councils and the population accept the need for Traveller sites,
but not without limit. Currently, the Surrey districts are working
together to provide one or two transit sites, which will help the
police and councils to justify their action. Elmbridge...Request free trial
Extract from End of day
adjournment debate (Commons) on Travellers in Mole
Valley
(Mole Valley)
(Con):...Last Traveller season, Surrey had hundreds of
these incidents, and Mole Valley had more than its share. Surrey’s
councils and the population accept the need for Traveller sites,
but not without limit. Currently, the Surrey districts are working
together to provide one or two transit sites, which will help the
police and councils to justify their action. Elmbridge Borough
Council, a Surrey council, has tried something revolutionary. It
mapped every public space—churchyards, schools, playgrounds and so
on—in Elmbridge and then obtained a three-year injunction against
Traveller squatting on those mapped sites. That meant the police in
Elmbridge could act straightaway, regardless of who the individuals
were, and whom the vehicles and caravans belonged to. However, this
approach has several downsides. As a member of
the National Farmers Union, I note that no
private land, including farm land, was covered by the injunction.
The injunction was for only three years, and huge public efforts
and expenditure went into setting up the maps. What this approach
does provide is an indication that if such land squatting was
criminalised nationally, as I believe applies in Ireland, direct
action by the police could take place, whoever owns the land,
although obviously at the landowner’s request...
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Extract from Lords debate
on Brexit: Food Prices and Availability (EUC
Report)
(Lab):...On
13 March, the Government issued a schedule of tariffs that would
apply in the case of a no-deal Brexit. This gave industry and
agriculture next to no time in which to absorb
the details and formulate plans in response, if 29 March had indeed
been the date of leaving the European Union. High tariffs were
proposed for beef, sheepmeat, poultry, pigmeat, butter and some
cheeses. These were aimed at protecting the producers whose exports
will suffer from the aforementioned high European Union import
tariffs. To the dismay of the National Farmers’ Union, protection
was not extended to eggs, cereals, fruit or vegetables...
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