Posts Tagged ‘MPs’
Tuesday, November 5th, 2024
The Stop the Surcharge campaign is hosting a Drop-In session for MPs in Parliament to inform and seek their support regarding the threatened loss of homes, discriminatory surcharge and disproportionate punitive enforcement faced by the community of boat dwellers without home moorings. The Drop-In session is organised by the NBTA. **The date has been changed!!**
Please write to your MP AGAIN NOW!! and tell him or her that the new date for the MPs Drop-In session in Parliament is Thursday 28th November 2024 in Committee Room 3A at 10.00am to 11.00am.
Please ask your family and friends to write to their MPs as well and circulate this message to any other boaters who may be interested.
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Tags: Bargee Traveller's Association, continuous cruising, enforcement, licence surcharge, liveaboards, MPs, Parliament
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Monday, February 6th, 2023
Last week the Minister for Energy and Climate Graham Stuart announced that the Energy Bills Support Scheme Alternative Funding will launch no later than 27th February 2023. Liveaboard boaters,including many on permanent moorings, and many other off-grid households living in vehicles, caravans and on the land will be waiting even longer for the support that most people got around 4 months ago, including second home owners for both of their homes
This is extremely disappointing news – please write to your MP using this template letter: Template letter to MPs re Energy Bills Support Scheme
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Tags: continuous cruising, cost of living, Energy Bills Support Scheme, fuel costs, Graham Stuart MP, heating, liveaboards, Minister for Energy and Climate, MPs, Travelling communities
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Monday, June 20th, 2022
A petition has been started calling on the Secretary of State for Business to include off-grid households in the Government £400 Energy Bills Support Scheme. Please sign it here:
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/include-off-grid-households-in-government-ps400-energy-bills-support-scheme
Please also write to MPs about this. You can find out who your MP is via these links:
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Tags: continuous cruising, cost of living, heating, liveaboards, MPs, petition, poverty, welfare, welfare benefits
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2021
In the next few weeks CRT will be starting to finalise the changes to the Boat Licence Terms and Conditions following the consultation that ended on 21st December 2020. Please write to your MP, or better still ask for a (virtual) meeting with them – personal contact is far more effective than a letter – and ask him or her to intervene to halt CRT’s proposed changes to the Boat Licence Terms and Conditions. Here is a sample letter to express your concerns and request a meeting with your MP:
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Tags: Boat Licence Terms and Conditions, boat licences, consultation, CRT, enforcement, liveaboards, MPs, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2019
A multi-agency working group on “residential houseboats” was set up by the DEFRA Inland Waterways Policy Land Use section over a year ago in December 2017, “tasked to look at the issue of illegally [sic] moored houseboats”.
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Tags: continuous cruising, DEFRA, FOI requests, Housing and Planning Act 2016, liveaboards, mooring policy, MPs, Public Right of Navigation, Therese Coffey MP, traveller's rights, Waterways Act 1995
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Friday, March 16th, 2012
The draft Order to transfer British Waterways to the Canal and River Trust has been published and is currently being scrutinised by two Parliamentary Committees. It will also be debated in both the House of Commons and House of Lords. Despite many boaters lobbying and submitting evidence when the Public Bodies Bill (now an Act of Parliament) was being drafted, the issue of British Waterways was not discussed at all in the House of Commons committee on the Bill. The subject of the transfer order is BW alone, so it is vital that we take the opportunity to raise all the issues about the risks of homelessness to boat dwellers (both with and without permanent moorings) that arise from the transfer of BW to charity status. The deadline for submissions to the Committees is this Monday 19th March so write to them now!
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Tags: BW charity status, BW Transfer Order, Don Foster, Duncan Hames, liveaboards, MPs, Parliament, traveller's rights
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