PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Travellers: Caravan Sites (7 June 2016)

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the cost to the public purse of (a) eviction notices and (b) legal action related to the clearance of sites of unauthorised encampments in England in 2015.

Asked by:
Wendy Morton (Conservative)

Enforcement action against unauthorised encampments is primarily a matter for local authorities, landowners and the police. The Department does not collect information centrally on the total costs of such clearances.

Answered by:
Sir Brandon Lewis (Conservative)
14 June 2016