§ Mr. Newensasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will provide a list showing the number of places provided on authorised sites for gipsies and other travellers by each of the local authorities responsible together, with the comparable figure, one year and five years ago, respectively.
§ Mr. MarksFor details of sites provided and the number of pitches at 1st January 1978, I refer my hon. Friend to the reply that I gave my hon. Friend the Member for Luton, East (Mr. Clemitson) on 16th March.—[Vol. 946, c. 327–34.]
Details of the situation at 1st January 1977 were printed in the Official Report for 29th June 1977, pursuant to a Question from my hon. Friend the Member for Stockport, North (Mr. Bennett)—[Vol. 934, c. 414–20.] This showed that there were 142 sites provided at that date in England and Wales with 2,254 pitches.
Because of the disruption of local records caused by local government reorganisation it is not possible to provide a table in similar format for sites provided five years ago. However, it is estimated that 67 sites with 950 pitches had been provided in England and Wales by the end of 1972.