HC Deb 01 July 1976 vol 914 c241W
Mr. Forman

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the powers available to the police under existing law to move on gipsies and other itinerant caravan dwellers when they have settled on land owned by local authorities.

Dr. Summerskill

We have no authority to interpret the law or to define in detail the powers of the police, but our understanding is that the police have no such power.