1)Has your authority had to spend anything in connection with any unauthorised encampments of Gypsies or Travellers during the year between 1 September 1998 and 31 August 1999? YES/NO

If so, please state how many encampments, and how many Travellers (put ‘E’ if estimate).

2) Is there a budget for some or all of this activity? How much is it, and who manages it?

3)Does your authority record the financial costs it bears in responding to these encampments? YES/NO

4) If the answer to question 3 was ‘yes’, please provide details of these costs in the table overleaf [see Table 3.1, page 42].

If your answer was ‘no’, do you feel able to provide a ‘guesstimate’ of the costs to your authority of responding to unauthorised encampments? If so, please complete the table overleaf as well as you are able.

5)Does your authority employ a Gypsy/Traveller Liaison Officer? YES/NO If so, would your authority employ such an officer if there were significantly fewer (or no) unauthorised encampments in your area? YES/NO

6)What percentage of the cost of responding to unauthorised encampments would you estimate is in respect of Travellers with local connections, and with those Travellers who could be termed ‘long-distance’? (By ‘long distance’ we mean Travellers who come to your area only once or twice a year and often only remain for relatively short periods).

7)Do you believe that the annual cost to your authority of responding to unauthorised encampments is increasing or decreasing in real terms? INCREASING/DECREASING

Please briefly state your reasons for this belief.

8)Do you have any other comments on the issue of the costs of responding to unauthorised encampments?