Results 1-20 of 455 for squatting
- Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Topical Questions (21 May 2013)
Tracey Crouch: Will the Secretary of State update the House on progress towards criminalising squatting in commercial premises?
- Secondary Schools: Newark (13 March 2013)
Patrick Mercer: ...been made so far. The town’s two desperately important secondary schools are under capacity. Mrs Sue Jenkins says: “My concern is the environment of my year 7 daughter, who eats lunch squatted on the floor because the building she learns in fails her. Unless the school is rebuilt sooner, she and her cohort will do this for the rest of their time at secondary school. As parents,...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Squatting (5 February 2013)
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- Afghanistan (17 January 2013)
Richard Burden: ...emergency relief at the moment in particular. The article came out with a striking quote from 77-year-old Shah Ghasi: “Each family already has two or three people who are sick”. He has squatted in a camp on the outskirts of Kabul for nearly a decade. He says: “We only have hot water to try and keep warm—no stoves, no fuel.” If we look at the forecast, we see...
- Israel: Arab Citizens — Motion to Take Note (13 December 2012)
Baroness Uddin: ...and brutal response by the police. Around half the Bedouin population in Israel live in 45 so-called "unrecognised villages". The Israeli Government intend to force them out, claiming that their "squatting" is taking over the Negev desert. The truth is that while they make up 30% of the region's population, the Bedouin actually live within less than 5% of the total area. Although the law...
- Written Answers — Justice: Trespass (9 November 2012)
Damian Green: ...force to defend themselves and others. Force which is grossly disproportionate will still not be permitted. We will bring forward legislation as soon as parliamentary time allows. A new offence of squatting in a residential building came into force on 1 September 2012 and applies throughout England and Wales. The offence was created by section 144 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and...
- Written Answers — Justice: Squatting (22 October 2012)
Mike Weatherley: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) if he will estimate the total cost of damage to buildings by squatters in the latest period for which figures are available; (2) if he will estimate the total amount that property owners spent on removing squatters in the latest period for which figures are available.
- Written Answers — Home Department: Squatting (18 October 2012)
Mike Weatherley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will estimate the total cost of policing for dealing with squatters in (i) 2007, (ii) 2008, (iii) 2009, (iv) 2010 and (v) 2011.
- Written Ministerial Statements — Communities and Local Government: DCLG (Summer Recess Work) (3 September 2012)
Eric Pickles: ...who charge them extortionate rents to live in cramped conditions. Councils in the worst affected areas have at their disposal £1.8 million of central funding to help tackle the problem of rogue landlords. On 1 September, new laws came into effect in England and Wales to make squatting in residential buildings a criminal offence. My Department has worked with the Ministry of Justice...
- Written Answers — Justice: Squatting (13 July 2012)
Mike Weatherley: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) what factors he plans to take into account in deciding when the squatting provisions of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 will be enacted; (2) if he will estimate the total cost to the taxpayer of squatters in (a) social housing and (b) council-owned buildings in each of the last five years.
- Written Answers — Justice: Squatting (5 July 2012)
Mike Weatherley: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) whether he has made any plans to extend the squatting provisions of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 to public parks; (2) what discussions he has had with representatives of the police on the commencement of the squatting provisions of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012.
- Written Answers — Justice: Squatting (3 July 2012)
Mike Weatherley: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) whether he has any plans to carry out a cost-benefit analysis of the squatting provisions of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 in respect of their effects on the cost of policing and number of instances of squatting; (2) what representations he has received from police forces on the squatting provisions of the Legal...
- Written Answers — Justice: Squatting (28 June 2012)
Mike Weatherley: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) whether he plans to bring forward proposals to extend the provisions relating to squatting in the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 to all commercial premises; (2) if he will consider bringing forward proposals to create an offence of intentional trespass for vehicles in national parks; (3) when he plans that the...
- Written Answers — Justice: Squatting (14 June 2012)
Gordon Henderson: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice whether the Government plan to review the law on adverse property possession.
- Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (23 May 2012) See 1 other result from this debate
Mike Weatherley: ...to campaign against what they call Weatherley’s law. Will the Prime Minister condemn, with me, the Green party’s support for squatters and welcome, as I do, the criminalisation of squatting?
- Written Answers — House of Lords: Homeless People (28 March 2012) See 1 other result from this answer
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer: To ask Her Majesty's Government whether squatters who leave their squat and become homeless are regarded as intentionally or unintentionally homeless; and what impact Clause 136 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill will have on this designation if it becomes law.
- Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill — Third Reading (27 March 2012) See 11 other results from this debate
Baroness Northover: ...an individual who happens to have an empty property. If that person is well off, he should be paying his taxes, those taxes should go to society and society should look after its vulnerable people. Squatting is not the answer; nor is placing such a responsibility on the shoulders of an individual in that way. That is why it is important that we address squatting but, when a problem such as...
- Amendment of the Law (23 March 2012) See 1 other result from this debate
John Woodcock: ...to listen, it was the Secretary of State’s job to prise open his ears and tell him just how hard it is for Britain’s motorists. In the Budget negotiations, however, she secured diddly squat—[ Interruption. ] Instead, faced with rising and record petrol prices, she set her face against calls for relief in fuel tax, including the call for a temporary—[ Interruption. ]
- Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill: Report (5th Day) (20 March 2012) See 8 other results from this debate
Lord Ramsbotham: ...163 and 164 Moved by Lord McNally 163: In the Title, line 5, after "otherwise;" insert "to make provision about the collection of fines and other sums;" 164: In the Title, line 12, after "squatting;" insert "to increase penalties for offences relating to scrap metal dealing and to create a new offence relating to payment for scrap metal;" Amendments 163 and 164 agreed.
- Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill: Report (3rd Day) (12 March 2012) See 1 other result from this debate
Lord Wallace of Tankerness: ...relate apply to trespassers generally, whoever they are. They are not specifically targeted at the Gypsy and Traveller communities. My noble friend asked whether, given the criminal offence of squatting created elsewhere in this Bill, the trespasser exclusion in paragraph 28 now specifically targets Gypsies and Travellers only. The exclusion in paragraph 28(1) of Part 1 of Schedule 1...