3 Housing Bill
| Date introduced to the House of Commons
Date introduced to the House of Lords
Current Bill Number
Previous Reports
| 8 December 2003
13 May 2004
House of Lords 118
8th, 10th and 20th
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3.1 We have reported previously on the Housing Bill in our Eighth,
Tenth and Twentieth Reports of this session. On 21 October 2004
the Minister wrote to us commenting on a point we raised in relation
to clause 207 (then clause 185) in our Eighth Report concerning
the disclosure of information to registered social landlords for
the purposes of section 1 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998.[139]
3.2 In our Twentieth Report, we noted the recent
decision of the European Court of Human Rights in Connors v
UK, which found that the summary eviction of a family from
a local authority gypsy caravan site breached Article 8 ECHR.
We wrote to the Office of Deputy Prime Minister, suggesting that
amendments be introduced to the Housing Bill to rectify this incompatibility.[140]
The Rt Hon Keith Hill MP replied to our letter on 1 November 2004,
noting that amendments had been made to the Bill at report stage
in the House of Lords, which seek to establish security of tenure
on county council gypsy and traveller sites. We welcome these
amendments. We publish the Minister's letter as an Appendix
to this report.[141]
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