Gypsy Travellers' Right to Homes

The motion

That the Parliament utterly condemns discriminatory attacks on the gypsy traveller community by the Conservative Party leader, Michael Howard; acknowledges that it was the discriminatory policies of the 1994 Conservative Government, of which Michael Howard was part, which abolished the legislation that compelled councils to provide travellers’ sites; further acknowledges that the sites that do exist for gypsy travellers are of an insufficient standard and inadequate for their family and community needs, and calls on the Scottish Executive to introduce legislation to compel councils to create and maintain sites for gypsy travellers.


No recorded vote on this motion. Most motions are never debated, and many that are debated are agreed without a division. Vote records are published from 2011.

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Party shown is each supporter’s party when the motion was published.

No contribution in the Official Report cites S2M-02658 by reference.