§ Mr. ByersTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will state for 1990, 1991 and 1992 the number of travellers in England and Wales in(a) authorised local authority encampments, (b) authorised private encampments and (c) unauthorised encampments; and if he will break the figures down by region.
§ Mr. BaldryThe Department has no reliable information about numbers of travellers. I am placing in the Library of the House a table showing the number of gypsy caravans on the three types of encampment requested by the hon. Member, for each region in England. The information is derived from bi-annual counts by local authorities. Similar information for Wales is available from my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales.