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APPG Guide • July 2011

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Foreword

Publisher Advertising The first recognised all-party parliamentary group (APPG), Gerry Murray Manager Managing Editor Lenny Rolles the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee, was formed Richard Hall Advertising & in 1939. Since then APPGs have been bringing together political Editor Sponsorship groups of MPs and peers from across the political divide Sam Macrory Director Rob Ellis together with experts and campaigners to deepen Chief Sub-editor Commercial understanding of the issues of the day that concern Andrew Schofield Director Philip Eisenhart parliamentarians. There are now nearly 400 all-party Head of Production subject groups. To help you find your way through the John Levers The House Magazine Design 21 Dartmouth Street, rich variety, we have produced this guide. It includes the Kaz Kapusniak , SW1H 9BP most up-to-date information available on the aims and Charlotte O’Neill Editorial Matt Titley editorial@housemag. membership of the APPGs. We hope you find it useful. commissioning co.uk Tel 020 7593 5664 Editor gisela stuart mp, editor Sally Dawson Advertising Communications housemagazinesales2 manager @dods.co.uk Adam Lake Tel 020 7593 5650 Advertising Subscriptions PURPOSE [email protected] Accident Prevention Tim Burgess To focus on current political and legislative Sue Reynolds Tel 020 7593 5683 TITLE Dominic Slonecki issues before Parliament which affect people A All-Party Parliamentary Group on Accident in later life. Prevention Annual UK subscription £195 Europe £235 ROW £245 Two-year UK subscription £351 PURPOSE OFFICERS Co-Chairs: Con The House Magazine is published by Dods To save lives and reduce injuries, and to promote the reduction of accidents in the Malcolm Wicks Lab The House Magazine is printed in the UK by The Greg Mulholland LD Magazine Printing Company using only paper from home, in the workplace and on the roads. FSC/PEFC suppliers. www.magprint.co.uk Secretary: Stephen Lloyd LD OFFICERS The publisher and editor are most grateful to the Chair: Lord Jordan Lab Clerk of the Parliaments, the Clerk of the House and Agriculture and Food Vice-Chairs: Con other senior officers of both Houses for the support Lord Brougham and Vaux for Development and advice they readily give. Baroness Masham of Ilton CB TITLE ISSN 0309-0426 © Dods Reproduction in any Treasurer: Lord Faulkner of Worcester Lab form is prohibited without prior written consent. Secretary: Russell Brown Lab All-Party Parliamentary Group on Agriculture and Food for Development Editor Gisela Stuart MP Associate Editors Graham Brady MP, Adoption and Fostering PURPOSE Charles Kennedy MP, MP, To bring together parliamentarians concerned TITLE MP, Jenny Willott MP with agriculture, nutrition and wider food/ All-Party Parliamentary Group on Adoption Life President Lord Cormack water security in the developing word. and Fostering Dods is widely respected for producing highly Also, to engender progressive and informed PURPOSE authoritative and independent political publications. Its debated both within Westminster and beyond policy is to accept advertisements representing many To promote and disseminate knowledge of by bridging the gap between policy makers sides of a debate from a variety of organisations. Dods adoption and fostering to ensure best policy and practitioners in the field, whilst also takes no political stance on the messages contained and practice. within advertisements but requires that all content is giving a voice to the 700 million smallholder in strict accordance with the law. Dods reserves the OFFICERS farmers worldwide. right to refuse advertisements for good reason (for example if it is libellous, defamatory, pornographic, Chair: Con OFFICERS socially unacceptable, insensitive or otherwise Vice-Chair: Tom Harris Lab Co Chairs: Lord Cameron of Dillington CB contrary to editorial policy). Treasurer: Lisa Nandy Lab Con Secretary: Jessica Lee Con Certified Vice-Chairs: Roger Williams LD circulation: 2341 Countess of Mar CB Ageing and Older People Heidi Alexander Lab TITLE The sponsors who have logos printed in All-Party Parliamentary Group for Ageing this guide are not necessarily sponsors or and Older People supporters of the all-party groups themselves

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Agro-Ecology Treasurer: Lab allergy and related issues; and to work Secretary: Lord Tope LD towards a better deal for those living with TITLE allergy. A All-Party Parliamentary Group on Agro-Ecology Alcohol Misuse OFFICERS PURPOSE TITLE Chair: Jo Swinson LD To provide a parliamentary focus for the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Alcohol Vice-Chair: Baroness Finlay of CB contribution of agro-ecology to food security Misuse Treasurer: Lab Secretary: LD in the UK and worldwide. PURPOSE Dr Julian Huppert To promote discussion of alcohol-related OFFICERS Aluminium Industry Co-Chair/Treasurer/Secretary: Baroness issues and to raise issues of concern and make Miller of Chilthorne Domer LD recommendations to government and other TITLE Co-Chair: Robert Flello Lab policy makers. All-Party Parliamentary Group for the UK OFFICERS Aluminium Industry Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Chair: Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town Lab Purpose Vice-Chairs: Con To work with the Aluminium Federation TITLE Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe Lab Ltd (the UK Aluminium Industry’s Trade All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Treasurer: Russell Brown Lab Association) to represent the UK aluminium Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Secretary: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff CB industry. PURPOSE OFFICERS To promote in Parliament the Ahmadiyya Allergy Muslim community and advance their Chair: Albert Owen Lab interests in the UK and abroad. TITLE Vice-Chairs: Sir Alan Beith LD All-Party Parliamentary Group for Allergy Baroness Gardner of Parkes Con OFFICERS Treasurer: Lab PURPOSE Lord Brookman Chair: Siobhain McDonagh Lab Secretary: Lord Davies of Coity Lab Vice-Chair: Stephen Hammond Con To raise awareness of allergic disease; to provide a forum for MPs and Peers to discuss

in depth: Armed Forces APPG With over 300 MPs and Peers as members, the All Party Parliamentary year these have included a talk from the Captain of a Group for the Armed Forces is the largest APPG in Parliament. It was Royal Navy ship which rescued civilians from Libya; a formed after the General Election by the merger of separate APPGs for Royal Marines Colonel back from anti-piracy duties off the Royal Navy, the Army, the Royal Air Force and the Royal Marines. East Africa; a Royal Air Force anti-IED operative; and Its primary purpose is to ensure that Parliamentarians have a better officers who have led battalions in Afghanistan. understanding of the workings of the Armed Forces. In pursuit of this it The Chiefs of Staff and Commanders in Chief of all works very closely with every level of all four services. three Services, plus the Commandant General of the One of our most visible activities are Parliamentary Welcome Royal Marines, have all visited Parliament to brief MPs. Before Christmas Homes for troops returning from operations. Twice a year 120 service this year we expect to hear from each Service’s leading personnel people representing the Brigade returning from Afghanistan (most specialist, as well as an RAF Choir and the Royal Marines Band. recently 16 Air Assault Brigade) march behind a military band from We are currently working on the future programme which will Wellington Barracks, round Parliament Square, through Carriage Gates include a welcome to Battle of Britain pilots at a dinner in September, and halting at the Great North Door of Westminster Hall. There they are Royal Navy Warrant Officers to a Pickle Night in November; and we are greeted by the Serjeant at Arms and Black Rod, and by large numbers of proud to be able to honour gallantry award winners from the Army ministers, MPs and Peers as well as staff from both Houses of Parliament. – including recently one who holds both the Conspicuous Gallantry Over tea on the Terrace we thank them for their outstanding Cross for his bravery in Iraq plus a Military Cross for his bravery in service, remembering of course those who were not able to return with Afghanistan. them, those who sustained terrible injuries, and thinking especially of The APPG for the Armed Forces has been amongst the most active the families whose support is so essential. They are given tours of both and best supported of all groups in the last year, organising several the House of Commons and the , escorted by Members of events each month, as a result of which the profile of our Armed Services Parliament often including a visit to one or other of the public galleries. is now higher in Parliament than it has been for very many years. There are four ‘sub-groups’ – representing each of the four services, and each has its own very active programme of activities. Meetings are James Gray is the Conservative MP for North and Chair of the very well attended, usually with at least 40 parliamentarians. In the last Armed Forces APPG

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Angling Arab League Archives and History TITLE Title Title All-Party Parliamentary Angling Group Arab League All-Party Parliamentary Group All-Party Parliamentary Group on Archives A PURPOSE Purpose and History To raise issues of concern to anglers. To strengthen relations between the Arab Purpose League, the transitional Arab parliament and To consider and promote public policy issues OFFICERS the UK Houses of Parliament; to develop and internal matters related to the archives Chair: Charles Walker Con long term channels of communication and records sector and the study of history Vice-Chair: George Hollingbery Con between Arab and British parliamentarians; and associated business. Secretary: Baroness Golding Lab and to discuss issues of mutual interest. OFFICERS Animal Welfare OFFICERS Chair: Dr Hywel Francis Lab Chair: Baroness Morris of Con Vice-Chairs: Lord Howarth of Newport Lab TITLE Vice-Chairs: Sir Lab Lord Redesdale LD Associate Parliamentary Group for Animal Mark Pritchard Con Secretary: Lord Bew CB Welfare Lord Kilclooney CB PURPOSE Treasurer: Anas Sarwar Lab Armed Forces (see To promote and further the cause of Secretary: Lab Q&A opposite) animal welfare by all means available to the Title parliaments at Westminster and in Europe. Archeological To seek to influence the development and All-Party Parliamentary introduction of effective wide-ranging Title Group for the Armed Forces legislation to improve animal welfare. All-Party Parliamentary Archeological Purpose Group To promote in Parliament better OFFICERS Purpose understanding of the UK’s armed forces, and Chair: Con To further the understanding of archaeology their objectives and activities. Vice-Chairs: Jim Fitzpatrick Lab and to promote archaeology and Green OFFICERS archaeological education. Mike Hancock LD Chairman: James Gray Con Treasurer: Lord Soulsby of Swaffham Prior OFFICERS Deputy Chairmen: Lord Lee of Trafford LD Con Chair: Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn Con Lab Secretary: Con Treasurer: Lab Angus Robertson SNP Secretary: Lord Redesdale LD Vice-Chairman (Royal Navy): Caroline Dinenage Con Vice-Chairman (Army): Bob Stewart Con Title Architecture and Planning Vice-Chairman (Royal Air Force): All-Party Parliamentary Group against Title Madeleine Moon Lab Antisemitism Associate Parliamentary Group on Vice-Chairman (Royal Marines): Oliver Architecture and Planning Purpose Colvile Con To combat antisemitism and help develop Purpose Co-Treasurers: Lord Moonie Lab and seek implementation of effective public To inform parliamentarians about issues Mark Pritchard Con policy to combat antisemitism. affecting architecture and planning; to raise Secretary: Jonathan Reynolds Lab the profile of architecture and planning OFFICERS within Parliament; and to develop better Chair: John Mann Lab Arms Length Management links between architects, planners and Vice-Chairs: Lord Boswell of Aynho Con Organisations (ALMOs) parliamentarians. Phil Wilson Lab Title Tom Brake LD OFFICERS All-Party Parliamentary Group for Arms Treasurer: Matthew Offord Con Chair: Lord Howarth of Newport Lab Length Management Organisations Secretary: Sylvia Hermon Ind Honorary Chair: Lord Rogers of Riverside (ALMOs) Presidents: Lord Hunt of Wirral Con Lab Purpose Lord Janner of Braunstone Lab Vice-Chairs: Lab To promote the benefits of ALMOs; to Vice-Presidents: Louise Ellman Lab Nick Raynsford Lab seek the further development of ALMOs; Mike Freer Con Treasurer: Lord Palmer CB to provide a forum for discussion by parliamentarians about issues relevant to ALMOs; and to provide access to parliamentarians by ALMO residents.

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Athletics

OFFICERS Athletics Autism Chair: Clive Betts Lab Title Title A Vice-Chairs: Tom Brake LD All-Party Parliamentary All-Party Parliamentary Group on Autism Heidi Alexander Lab Athletics Group Secretary: Sarah Newton Con Purpose Purpose To raise awareness of autism in Parliament, Arts and Heritage To protect and nurture the future of athletics, and to campaign and lobby for increased from grassroots to the elite, including awareness and improved support for people Title disabled athletes. with autism and their carers. All-Party Parliamentary Arts and Heritage Group OFFICERS OFFICERS Chair: Alan Keen Lab Chair: Con Purpose Vice-Chairs: Con Vice-Chairs: Con To promote interest in the arts and heritage at Tracey Crouch Con Annette Brooke LD Westminster. Treasurer: Lab Robert Flello Lab OFFICERS Secretary: Thomas Docherty Lab Jonathan Reynolds Lab Chair & Secretary: Lord Crathorne Con Treasurer: Charlotte Leslie Con Vice-Chair: Sir Alan Beith LD Atrial Fibrillation Secretary: Russell Brown Lab Treasurer: Baroness Noakes Con Title All-Party Parliamentary Group on Atrial Aviation Asthma Fibrillation Title Title Purpose All-Party Parliamentary All-Party Parliamentary Group on Asthma To raise awareness of atrial fibrillation (AF) Aviation Group Purpose and ensure the diagnosis, care, treatment, Purpose To raise awareness in Parliament of asthma management and research of AF is a priority To encourage interest in aviation and to and to work towards a better deal for people for the NHS. arrange meetings and briefings on aviation issues with airlines, airports, the Civil with asthma. OFFICERS Aviation Authority, trade unions and other OFFICERS Chair: Glyn Davies Con relevant organisations and individuals. Chair: Stephen McPartland Con Vice-Chairs: Madeleine Moon Lab Vice-Chair: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff CB Lord Colwyn Con OFFICERS Lord Jones of Cheltenham LD Chair: Brian H. Donohoe Lab Joint Vice-Chairs: Anne McIntosh Con Alan Keen Lab Secretary: Mark Pritchard Con

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Bahá’ís Balanced and Sustainable Treasurer: Nicky Morgan Con Secretary: Con TITLE Communities All-Party Parliamentary Friends of the TITLE B Bahá’ís Group All-Party Parliamentary Balanced and BBC PURPOSE Sustainable Communities Group TITLE To take appropriate action, through the good PURPOSE All-Party Parliamentary BBC Group offices of Parliament, in defence of Bahá’ís The group strives to promote positive PURPOSE who are persecuted on grounds of their faith changes in communities with the aim To encourage debate and discussion about the throughout the world, and to provide a forum of achieving better levels of integration future of public service broadcasting and the for the exchange of ideas central to Bahá’í and cohesion between student and local BBC’s role in the digital age. principles that are of relevance to Members of populations. Emphasis will be placed on Parliament. identifying successful examples of balanced OFFICERS Chair: LD and sustainable communities and using Don Foster OFFICERS Vice-Chairs: Lab them as benchmarks to develop policy Tom Watson Acting Chair:: Lord Avebury LD recommendations which will provide a Lord Gordon of Strathblane Lab Vice-Chair: Lab regulatory framework and planning system Con Acting Treasurer:: Louise Ellman Lab Treasurer: Con that promote the creation of fully integrated Dr Therese Coffey Secretary: Mark Williams LD Secretary: Lab and balanced communities. Dame OFFICERS Chair: Roberta Blackman-Woods Lab Vice-Chair: Greg Mulholland LD

Q&A: Betting and gaming APPG What is the purpose of the all-party group? According to the Gambling Commission’s own To act as a forum for the discussion of issues concerning betting and statistics, in 2009/10, the UK gambling industry gaming in the UK. generated a Gross Gaming Yield (customers’ stakes minus customers’ winnings) of £5.7bn. This was How do you engage with ministers and other parliamentarians? produced by 3,997 licensed gambling companies When the group deems it necessary, we have written to and met with employing over 114,000 staff across the UK. relevant parties to express our concerns and debate issues. In the past According to the British Gambling Prevalence the group has been asked to prepare reports on policy issues for the Survey 2010, 73 per cent of the adult population (aged 16 and over) minister responsible for gambling. Our members are some of the best participated in some form of gambling in the past year. This equates informed parliamentarians about gambling issues and so are always to around 35.5 million adults. Excluding those who had only gambled the main speakers in gambling-related debates within both Houses. on the National Lottery Draw, 56 per cent of adults participated in some other form of gambling in the past year (27.2 million adults). What have you achieved since the start of the Parliament? According to HMRC, in 2010 receipts from betting, gaming and lottery The all-party group exists to educate, inform and debate issues to do duties were over £1.5bn. with betting and gaming. We do this by holding regular meetings The UK’s gambling industry is one of the most well regulated and where we invite industry speakers to discuss contemporary issues well respected gambling industries in the world. It offers a legitimate concerning betting and gaming. So far in this Parliament we have form of adult entertainment that is participated in by a majority of debated whether the Gambling Commission is value for money; the adult population, by far the majority of whom do so in a safe and heard from the Association of British Bookmakers; listened to responsible manner. The industry employs people across the whole regulators of British dependency offshore internet jurisdictions, and country, in every parliamentary constituency. had a presentation from the main trade association representing Gambling has always been a politically controversial issue, with Britain’s land-based casinos. many implications for social policy. Members of the All Party Betting & Gaming Group get to hear from industry leaders, trade association What are your goals for the rest of the Parliament? representatives and others and enter into debate with them about To have many more meetings regarding the current issues pertaining the key issues of the day. Gambling is a national pastime which is part to the gambling industry and gambling policy issues. of the very fabric of British culture and history.

What benefits do MPs and peers get from membership of the Baroness Golding is a Labour peer and joint chair of the Betting & Gaming APPG all-party group?

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Beer Vice-Chairs: Con Vice-Chair: Stephen Williams LD Edward Timpson Con Treasurer: Con TITLE Treasurer: John Hemming LD Secretary: Mary Glindon Lab B All-Party Parliamentary Beer Group Secretary: Luciana Berger Lab PURPOSE Boxing To promote the wholesomeness and Biodiversity enjoyment of beer and the unique role of the TITLE pub in UK society; to increase understanding TITLE All-Party Parliamentary Group on Boxing of the social, cultural and historic role of All-Party Parliamentary Group for PURPOSE brewing and pubs in the UK and their Biodiversity To provide a forum for debate, and political value to tourism; to broaden recognition PURPOSE and practical support for the sport of boxing. of the contribution of brewing and pubs To provide a forum for cross- OFFICERS to employment and to the UK’s economy; parliamentarians, senior policy makers, Chair: Charlotte Leslie Con to promote understanding of the social academics, leading industry figures and Vice-Chairs: Baroness Golding Lab responsibility exercised by the brewing and other interested parties to have an informed Con pub industries; to support the UK’s brewing discussion on all aspects of protecting Stephen Hepburn Lab industry worldwide; and to promote a biodiversity in the UK and abroad. positive future for beer and the pub. Dr Phillip Lee Con OFFICERS Lab OFFICERS Chair: Lab Greg Mulholland LD Chair: Andrew GriffithsC on Vice-Chairs: Tom Blenkinsop Lab Treasurer: Penny Mordaunt Con Vice-Chairs: Con Katy Clark Lab Secretary: Con Con Con Dan Rogerson LD Nic Dakin Lab Brain Tumours Dr Therese Coffey Con LD TITLE Thomas Docherty Lab Caroline Lucas Green All-Party Parliamentary Group for Brain Charlotte Leslie Con Mary Glindon Lab Lord Kennedy of Southwark Lab Tumours Lab Boarding Schools PURPOSE Tony Cunningham Lab To raise awareness of the issues facing the TITLE brain tumour community in order to improve All-Party Parliamentary Group for State research, diagnosis, information, support, Betting and Gaming Boarding Schools (see Q&A on p.7) treatment and care outcomes. PURPOSE TITLE OFFICERS To uphold and protect the interests of state All-Party Parliamentary Betting and Gaming Chair: James Arbuthnot Con boarding schools in the UK. Group Vice-Chair: Lord Carlile of Berriew LD OFFICERS Vice-Chair & Secretary: Lab PURPOSE Kevin Brennan Chair: Con To act as a forum for the discussion of issues Vice-Chair: Con concerning betting and gaming in the UK. Julian Smith Brass Bands Treasurer: Margot James Con TITLE OFFICERS Secretary: Con Chairs: Baroness Golding Lab All-Party Parliamentary Group for Brass Bands Philip Davies Con Body Image Vice-Chairs: Lord Lipsey Lab PURPOSE Sir Alan Meale Lab TITLE To discuss and campaign on the issues Treasurer: Viscount Falkland LD All-Party Parliamentary Group on Body affecting the future of brass bands in the UK. Secretary: Lord Donoughue Lab Image OFFICERS PURPOSE Chair: Lab To provide a cross-forum for MPs to conduct Bingo Vice-Chair: Nigel Adams Con an inquiry and monitor on an ongoing TITLE Secretary: Lord Foster of Bishop Auckland basis the causes of body image anxiety. To All-Party Parliamentary Group on Bingo Lab explore what steps can be taken to promote PURPOSE body confidence, working with advertisers, To represent the interests of the bingo the media, fashion industry and youth Breast Cancer industry in Parliament. organisations. TITLE All-Party Parliamentary Group on Breast OFFICERS OFFICERS Cancer Chair: Brian Binley Con Chair: Jo Swinson LD

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PURPOSE PURPOSE Treasurer: Lord Howie of Troon Lab To provide a froum for MPs and Peers To discuss and support building societies and Secretary: Alison Seabeck Lab to work on behalf of people affected by financial mutuals. B breast cancer, raising issues of concern with OFFICERS Business, Finance and government and other policy makers and Joint Chairs: Jonathan Evans Con Accountancy keeping breast cancer high on the political Baroness Maddock LD agenda. TITLE Cathy Jamieson Lab Associate Parliamentary Group on Business, OFFICERS Vice-Chair: Lord Naseby Con Finance and Accountancy Joint Chairs: Annette Brooke LD Treasurer: Kelvin Hopkins Lab PURPOSE Sharon Hodgson Lab Secretary: Russell Brown Lab To enable high level discussion between Steve Brine Con Parliament and business leaders on major Vice-Chair: Baroness Morris of Bolton Con Built Environment issues relating to business, finance and TITLE accountancy, including social responsibility Bridge All-Party Parliamentary Group on Excellence and sustainability. TITLE in the Built Environment OFFICERS All-Party Parliamentary Bridge Group PURPOSE Chair: Lab PURPOSE To promote excellence in the built Vice-Chairs: Lord Newby LD To develop an awareness of the benefits of environment. Baroness Goudie Lab bridge (particularly for young people and for Karen Bradley Con OFFICERS senior citizens) and to promote enjoyment Treasurer: Lab Chair: Tony Baldry Con of the game, and bridge events, with the Secretary: Con Vice-Chair: Oliver Colvile Con legislatures of other countries. OFFICERS Business, finance and accountancy Chair: Baroness Henig Lab Vice-Chairs: Con Lord Harrison Lab Treasurer: John Hemming LD Secretary: Lord Hamilton of Epsom Con

British Council TITLE British Council All-Party Parliamentary Group PURPOSE For parliamentarians to learn more about, and better understand the British Council, and to support the British Council, offering advice and encouragement in both its every day and long term work. OFFICERS Chair: Lord Bach Lab Vice-Chairs: Baroness Grey-Thompson CB Baroness Hooper Con Huw Irranca-Davies Lab Treasurer: Stephen Gilbert LD Secretary: Con

Building Societies and Financial Mutuals TITLE All-Party Parliamentary Group for Building Societies and Financial Mutuals

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CAFOD (Catholic Agency for Treasurer: Russell Brown Lab Treasurer: Russell Brown Lab Overseas Development) Secretary: Nic Dakin Lab Secretary: Con C TITLE All-Party Parliamentary Friends of Cardiac Risk in the Young Chemical Industry CAFOD (Catholic Agency for Overseas TITLE TITLE Development) Group All-Party Parliamentary Group for Cardiac Chemical Industry All-Party Parliamentary PURPOSE Risk in the Young Group To increase awareness among members of PURPOSE PURPOSE both Houses about the work of CAFOD and To raise awareness of cardiac risks in young To discuss issues of importance to the future to support the work of CAFOD in tackling people. of the chemical industry in the UK. poverty overseas. OFFICERS OFFICERS OFFICERS Chair: Lab Chair: Esther McVey Con Chair: Tom Clarke Lab Vice-Chairs: Con Vice-Chairs: Graham Evans Con Vice-Chairs: Con John Pugh LD Ian Swales LD Baroness Williams of Crosby LD Treasurer: Con Michael Connarty Lab John Pugh LD Secretary: George Howarth Lab Treasurer: Luciana Berger Lab Paul Goggins Lab Secretary: Lord Willis of Knaresborough LD Treasurer: Lord Alton of CB Carers Secretary: Helen Jones Lab TITLE Child and Youth Crime All-Party Parliamentary Group on Carers TITLE Cancer PURPOSE All-Party Parliamentary Child and Youth TITLE To encourage the equality of opportunity Crime Group All-Party Parliamentary Group on Cancer for carers in the UK by liaising with carers’ PURPOSE PURPOSE organisation, lobbying government and To find (or identify or formulate) practical To keep cancer on the political agenda, promoting legislation on their behalf; to solutions and policies for those aged between monitor implementation of government promote awareness amongst members of 0-25, be they perpetrators or victims of crime; initiatives, provide briefings to both Houses of the needs of carers and and to look at cause and effect for gun and parliamentarians, and ensure policy-making former carers; to liaise with members of the knife crime, persistent and prolific offenders, is evidence based and patient centred. devolved administrations within the UK gang crime, bullying, abuse, drug and alcohol OFFICERS in order to share best practice; and to link addiction and homelessness. with appropriate bodes, including careers’ Chair: Con OFFICERS organisations, on an international basis. Vice-Chairs: Lab Chair: John Leech LD Grahame M. Morris Lab OFFICERS Vice-Chairs: Lab Baroness Masham of Ilton CB Joint Chairs: Tony Baldry Con Stephen McPartland Con Lord Lewis of Newnham CB Baroness Pitkeathley Lab Andrew GriffithsC on Baroness Finlay of Llandaff CB Vice-Chairs: Dr Hywel Francis Lab Treasurer: David Burrowes Con Lab LD Secretary: Lab Stephen Metcalfe Con Dr Eilidh Whiteford SNP Treasurer: Cathy Jamieson Lab Child Protection Secretary: Lab Cannabis and Children TITLE TITLE All-Party Parliamentary Group on Child All-Party Parliamentary Group on Cannabis Cheese Protection and Children TITLE PURPOSE PURPOSE All-Party Parliamentary Group for Cheese To raise the profile of child protection in To inform members of both Houses of PURPOSE Parliament and to investigate policy matters Parliament and, using sound scientific and To increae awareness of issues surrounding and receive briefings from experts. medical evidence, to raise awareness and the dairy industry and focus on economic OFFICERS stimulate debate about the impact of cannabis issues affecting the dairy industry and Chair: Meg Munn Lab on children and young people. producers. Vice-Chair: Con OFFICERS OFFICERS Treasurer: Annette Brooke LD Chair: Charles Walker Con Chair: Dan Rogerson LD Secretary: Cathy Jamieson Lab Vice-Chairs: George Howarth Lab Vice-Chair: Mark Williams LD Robert Buckland Con

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Childcare PURPOSE PURPOSE To promote the integration of the British To raise awareness of chronic pain in TITLE Chinese into UK society and their children and adults and to provide a All-Party Parliamentary Group on Childcare C participation in the UK democratic process. forum for discussion and debate amongst PURPOSE parliamentarians on those issues relating to OFFICERS To raise awareness of and promote the the prevention, treatment and management Chair: Barry Gardiner Lab importance of high quality, affordable of chronic pain and its associated conditions. childcare and early years provision in the UK. Vice-Chairs: David T. C. Davies Con Lord Triesman Lab OFFICERS OFFICERS Treasurer: Lord Wei Con Chair: Linda Riordan Lab Chair: Lab Secretary: Nigel Dodds DUP Secretary: Baroness Masham of Ilton CB Vice-Chair: Lab Choir Cider Children in TITLE TITLE TITLE All-Party Parliamentary Choir Group (the All-Party Parliamentary Cider Group All-Party Parliamentary Group for Children Parliament Choir) PURPOSE in Wales PURPOSE To promote the cause of cider as a drink; to PURPOSE To enable Members of both Houses and staff raise its profile; and to inform and educate To ensure Members have the opportunity to within Parliament who enjoy choral singing people about is role and importance, engage with issues of importance in relation to do so on a regular basis; to provide support especially in rural areas. to children and families in Wales. and encouragement to young musicians as OFFICERS the start of their professional careers; and to OFFICERS Chair: Ian Liddell-Grainger Con organise public and private concerts for the Chair: Jessica Morden Lab Treasurer: Con Vice-Chair: Lord Roberts of Conwy Con choir. Treasurer: Roger Williams LD OFFICERS Citizens Advice Secretary: Siân C. James Lab Chair: Lord German LD TITLE Vice-Chairs: Baroness Walmsley LD All-Party Parliamentary Group on Citizens Children Baroness Corston Lab Advice Con TITLE PURPOSE All-Party Parliamentary Treasurer: Lord Shutt of Greetland LD To provide a forum for members to discuss Group for Children Christians in Parliament how Citizens Advice evidence, compiled PURPOSE from the 2.75 million clients seen each year, To raise greater awareness in the Houses TITLE can help assess the impact of public policy and of Parliament of aspects of the well-being Christians in Parliament All-Party legislation and offer pragmatic solutions to of the nation’s children aged 0-18 years Parliamentary Group the problems identified. and our obligations under the Convention PURPOSE OFFICERS on the Rights of the Child; and to work To provide an opportunity for Christians Chair: Stephen Lloyd LD with children, young people, children’s of all denominations to come together at Vice-Chairs: Stephen Hammond Con organisations, and politicians from all sides to the for fellowship, Lab promote first class policy for children. worship, prayer and discussion. Secretary: Jonathan Edwards PC OFFICERS OFFICERS Chair: Baroness Massey of Darwen Lab Chair: Con Civil Society Vice-Chairs: Baroness Blood Lab Vice-Chairs: Jeffrey M. Donaldson DUP TITLE Baroness Walmsley LD Tim Farron LD All-Party Parliamentary Group for Civil Lab Lord Bates Con Society Jessica Lee Con Gavin Shuker Lab Treasurer: Earl of Listowel CB Treasurer: Lab PURPOSE Secretary: Baroness Howarth of Breckland CB Secretary: Sharon Hodgson Lab To discuss issues affecting the voluntary and community sector and to conduct reviews of Chinese in Britain specific policy areas that impact on the sector including volunteering. TITLE Chronic Pain All-Party Parliamentary Group on the TITLE OFFICERS Chinese in Britain All-Party Parliamentary Group on Chronic Chair: Alun Michael Lab Pain Vice-Chairs: Rachel Reeves Lab

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Andrew George LD Products Industry Association and its OFFICERS Mark Spencer Con members, so that MPs and peers are informed Joint Chairs: Con C Baroness Pitkeathley Lab about the environmental and educational Dr Therese Coffey Con Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts Con initiatives undertaken by the industry and Vice-Chairs: John Woodcock Lab Treasurer: Baroness Masham of Ilton CB about its general interests and needs Amber Rudd Con Secretary: Lord Rix CB OFFICERS Chair: Jim Dobbin Lab Coeliac Disease and Classical Music Vice-Chair: Lord Evans of Parkside LD Dermatitis Herpetiformis TITLE Treasurer/Secretary: David Crausby Lab TITLE All-Party Parliamentary Group on Classical All-Party Parliamentary Group on Coeliac Music Climate Change Disease and Dermatitis Herpetiformis PURPOSE TITLE PURPOSE To bring together parliamentarians who All-Party Parliamentary Climate Change To raise awareness of Coeliac Disease and have an interest in and wish to further the Group Dermatitis Herpetiformis and lobby for appreciation of classical music; to act as an improvements in government policy in this PURPOSE interface between British orchestras’ on area. To raise awareness of the threat of climate and off-stage activities, the wider classical change and to promote policies to counter OFFICERS music industry, including broadcasters and that threat. Chair: Kevan Jones Lab the recording industry, and key decision Vice-Chairs: Lord Dholakia LD makers and opinion formers; and to look at OFFICERS Lord Brookman Lab the potential for establishing parliamentary Chair: Joan Walley Lab Secretary: Gordon Banks Lab classical music awards and promoting and Vice-Chair: Lord Redesdale LD supporting young musicians. Treasurer: Con Secretary: Caroline Lucas Green Commercial Radio OFFICERS TITLE Chair: Lord Lipsey Lab All-Party Parliamentary Commercial Radio Vice-Chairs: Jonathan Evans Con Coalfield Communities Group Lord Maclennan of Rogart LD TITLE Treasurer: Baroness McIntosh of Hudnall Coalfield Communities All-Party PURPOSE Lab Parliamentary Group To seek a better understanding between broadcasters and parliamentarians about the Secretary: Tom Watson Lab PURPOSE vital role that commercial radio plays in our To promote awareness amongst MPs of issues communities and our economy. Clean Coal facing coalfield communities; to support the TITLE regeneration of coalfield areas; to raise the OFFICERS All-Party Parliamentary Group for Clean profile of economic, social and environmental Chair: Dame Anne Begg Lab Coal issues affecting such areas; and to ensure a Vice-Chairs: Don Foster LD fair deal for UK-mined coal investment in Lord Kilclooney CB PURPOSE cleaner coal technologies. Treasurer & Secretary: Lord Gordon of To gain an understanding about the Strathblane Lab technologies, processes and developments OFFICERS within the clean coal industry. Chair: David Anderson Lab Vice-Chairs: Sir Alan Beith LD Communications OFFICERS Brian Binley Con TITLE Co-Chairs: Brian Binley Con Ann Clwyd Lab All-Party Parliamentary Group on David Anderson Lab Treasurer: Cathy Jamieson Lab Communications Vice-Chair: William Cash Con Secretary: Ian Lavery Lab Treasurer: Thomas Docherty Lab PURPOSE Secretary: Ian Lavery Lab To provide a discussion forum between Coastal and Marine the communications industry and Cleaning and Hygiene TITLE parliamentarians. Coastal and Marine All-Party Parliamentary TITLE OFFICERS Group All-Party Parliamentary Cleaning and Chair: John Robertson Lab Hygiene Group PURPOSE Vice-Chairs: John Thurso LD To raise awareness regarding coastal and Alun Michael Lab PURPOSE marine issues and to debate, consider and Treasurer: Earl of Errol CB To act as a forum for an exchange of views recommend solutions to issues of concern to Secretary: Jim Sheridan Lab between parliamentarians and the Cleaning Members.

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Community Development to develop policies to enhance the sector; and Vice-Chairs: Sir Con in Europe to champion an industry that responsibly Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer LD creates content for an audience ranging from Madeleine Moon Lab TITLE C children to adults. Lord Moran CB All-Party Parliamentary Group for Roger Williams LD Community Development in Europe OFFICERS Secretary: Mark Pritchard Con PURPOSE Co-Chairs: Tom Watson Lab To raise awareness among British Con Vice-Chairs: SNP Constitution, Parliament parliamentarians of methods and best and Citizenship practice to improve the stability of families Luciana Berger Lab and communities; to establish and maintain Treasurer: Jim McGovern Lab TITLE contacts between British and other European Constitution, Parliament and Citizenship parliamentarians; to address the aim of family Conflict Issues Associate Parliamentary Group and community stability within Europeapn TITLE PURPOSE states, including those within South Eastern All-Party Parliamentary Group on Conflict To provide a forum in which Europe; and to evaluate evidence from Issues parliamentarians and other interested parties methods and good practice, including that can discuss aspects of political reform and PURPOSE from smaller projects, from voluntary, private citizenship. and other non-governmental institutions, and To encourage dialogue, on the basis of from partnerships between public and private expert information and opinion from across OFFICERS Chair: Con sectors. the political spectrum, on issues relating to Ian Liddell-Grainger conflict, especially on the practical means Vice-Chair: Brian Binley Con OFFICERS to prevent, transform and resolve violent Treasurer: Kelvin Hopkins Lab Chair: Earl of Dundee Con conflict. Secretary: Chris Heaton-Harris Con Vice-Chair: Lord Grenfell Lab OFFICERS Secretary: Robert Walter Con Co-Chairs: Simon Hughes LD Constitution Gary Streeter Con TITLE Complex Needs and John McDonnell Lab All-Party Parliamentary Group on the British Dual Diagnosis Constitution TITLE Connecting Communities PURPOSE All-Party Parliamentary Group on Complex To promote understanding of the history of Needs and Dual Diagnosis TITLE All-Party Parliamentary Group on the British Constitution and potential for PURPOSE Connecting Communities further development. To give parliamentarians a greater understanding of the barriers faced by those PURPOSE OFFICERS Chair: Con with complex needs or dual diagnosis, who To encourage twinning arrangements Lord Norton of Louth Vice-Chairs: Lab may have to negotiate a number of issues in between schools, community groups, Lord Howarth of Newport their lives whilst often living in deprivation local authorities, faith groups, healthcare Lord Rennard LD Treasurer: Con and lacking access to stable housing or institutions and others with counterpart Secretary: Lab meaningful daily activities. communities and groups in deleveloping Lord Hunt of Kings Heath countries. OFFICERS OFFICERS Consumer Affairs and Co-Chairs: Lord Adebowale CB Chair: Claire Perry Con Trading Standards David Burrowes Con Vice-Chair: Sir Peter Bottomley Con Vice-Chair: Baroness Barker LD TITLE Treasurer: Linda Riordan Lab All-Party Parliamentary Group for Consumer Secretary: Mike Hancock LD Conservation and Wildlife Affairs and Trading Standards TITLE PURPOSE Computer and Video Conservation and Wildlife All-Party To promote the charter of consumer rights Games Industry Parliamentary Group subscribed to by the United Nations and the ; to consider consumer TITLE PURPOSE legislation and related matters, including All-Party Parliamentary Group for the To provide a forum for the discussion and access and goods, services and choices; and to Computer and Video Games Industry promotion of policies affecting wildlife and liaise with other parliamentary groups. PURPOSE the natural environment. OFFICERS To provide a forum to discuss business issues OFFICERS Chair: Austin Mitchell Lab affecting video games’ software developers; Chair: Angela C. Smith Lab Vice-Chairs: Lord Borrie Lab

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Baroness Wilcox Con Rasen Lab Vice-Chairs: Andrew Miller Lab Secretary: Stephen Lloyd LD Baroness Howe of Idlicote CB Baroness Massey of Darwen Lab C Lord Sheppard of Didgemere Con Lord Kilclooney CB Continence Care Jo Swinson LD Treasurer: Matthew Hancock Con John Robertson Lab Secretary: Nigel Adams Con TITLE Viscount Younger of Leckie Con All-Party Parliamentary Group for Treasurer: Lord Newby LD Continence Care Crossrail Secretary: Martin Horwood LD PURPOSE TITLE All-Party Parliamentary Crossrail Group To break the taboo by raising awareness and Credit Unions understanding of continence issues for adults PURPOSE and children and to promote cost effective TITLE To promote the successful completion of funding for continence services and product All-Party Parliamentary Group on Credit Crossrail, and other related matters. provision. Unions OFFICERS PURPOSE OFFICERS Chair: Mike Gapes Lab To provide a forum for discussing the work Chair: Baroness Greengross CB Vice-Chairs: Rob Wilson Con of credit unions and the need to secure Vice-Chairs: Lord McColl of Dulwich Con Lord Brougham and Vaux Con a flexible legislative regime which will Baroness Finlay of Llandaff CB Treasurer: Angie Bray Con allow credit unions to scale-up and provide Jim Dobbin Lab Secretary: Tom Brake LD inclusive financial services to many more Baroness Tonge LD people. Treasurer: Baroness Masham of Ilton CB Cycling Secretary: Rosie Cooper Lab OFFICERS TITLE Chair: Con All-Party Parliamentary Cycling Group Corporate Governance Vice-Chairs: Simon Hughes LD Madeleine Moon Lab PURPOSE TITLE Treasurer: Chris Evans Lab To promote the use of bicycles as a mode of All-Party Parliamentary Corporate Secretary: Yvonne Fovargue Lab transport and to raise both inside and outside Governance Group the House the practice and status of cycling. PURPOSE Cricket Club OFFICERS To influence and develop understanding of Chairs: Dr Julian Huppert LD corporate governance through the promotion TITLE Lab of a culture based on responsible leadership Associate Parliamentary Group for the Lords Vice-Chairs: Tom Brake LD and investment thus enabling corporates and and Commons Cricket Club Steve Brine Con their shareholders to enhance prosperity for PURPOSE Lab the benefit of shareholders, economies and To organise cricket matches for Emily Thornberry Lab society. parliamentarians. Treasurer: Viscount Craigavon CB OFFICERS OFFICERS Secretary: Lord Berkeley Lab Chair: Lord Myners Lab Vice-Presidents: Lord King of Bridgwater Patron: Lab Vice-Chairs: Lord Harrison Lab Con Andrew Tyrie Con William Cash Con Alun Michael Lab Graham Allen Lab Treasurer: Lord Wade of Chorlton Con Con Secretary: Con Henry Bellingham Con President: Lord Gordon of Strathblane Lab Treasurer: Nigel Adams Con Secretaries: Alan Keen Lab Corporate Responsibility Matthew Hancock Con TITLE Associate Parliamentary Corporate Cricket Responsibility Group TITLE PURPOSE All-Party Parliamentary Cricket Group To promote debate and understanding of PURPOSE corporate responsibility. To support and promote the interests of cricket at all levels. OFFICERS Chair: Baroness Greengross CB OFFICERS Vice-Chairs: Baroness Gibson of Market Chair: Sir Alan Haselhurst Con

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Dalits OFFICERS Tracey Crouch Con Chair: Baroness Stern CB Tim Farron LD TITLE Vice-Chairs: Greg Mulholland LD Stephen Lloyd LD All-Party Parliamentary Group for Dalits D Lord Faulkner of Worcester Lab Mike Hancock LD PURPOSE Lord Macdonald of River Glaven LD To draw attention to the discrimination Treasurer: Dennis Skinner Lab Dentistry against Dalits (the former ‘untouchables’) Secretary: Mike Crockart LD wherever it occurs and to support attemps to TITLE All-Party Parliamentary Group for Dentistry eliminate it. Debt Aid and Trade PURPOSE OFFICERS TITLE Chair: Lord Harries of Pentregarth CB To act as a focus for dental and oral health All-Party Parliamentary Group for Debt, Aid issues and raise the profile of dentistry, Vice-Chair: Baroness D’Souza CB and Trade Treasurer: Lord Kakkar CB highlighting the views of both patients and PURPOSE Secretary: Jeremy Corbyn Lab the profession. To bring together parliamentarians OFFICERS concerned with macroeconomic issues within Chair: Sir Con Dance international development. Vice-Chairs: Lord Colwyn Con TITLE OFFICERS Alison Seabeck Lab All-Party Parliamentary Dance Group Chair: Alison McGovern Lab Lord Lea of Crondall Lab PURPOSE Vice-Chairs: Sir Peter Bottomley Con To promote dance as an art form and as an John Leech LD Design and Innovation important element of healthy living and Secretary &Treasurer: Lab the fight against obesity; and to promote its TITLE educational and social benefits. Associate Parliamentary Design and Debt and Personal Finance Innovation Group OFFICERS TITLE Chair: Sir Gerald Kaufman Lab PURPOSE All-Party Parliamentary Group on Debt and To be a forum for open debate between Vice-Chairs: Chris Heaton-Harris Con Personal Finance Jo Swinson LD Parliament and the UK’s design and PURPOSE Secretary: Frank Doran Lab innovation communities. To provide a forum for MPs and peers to OFFICERS discuss debt and personal finance issues; to Co-Chairs: Lab Deafness monitor legislative developments in this Con TITLE area; and to provide an opportunity for Vice-Chairs: Lord Bichard CB All-Party Parliamentary Group on Deafness liaison between Members and consumer Baroness Whitaker Lab PURPOSE organisations with an interest in these issues. To promote the interests of deaf and hard of OFFICERS Diabetes hearing people. Chair: Yvonne Fovargue Lab TITLE Vice-Chairs: Andrew George LD OFFICERS All-Party Parliamentary Group for Diabetes Chair: Malcolm Bruce LD Damian Hinds Con Vice-Chairs: Rosie Cooper Lab Mike Weir SNP PURPOSE Baroness Wilkins Lab Treasurer & Secretary: Nic Dakin Lab To raise, in Parliament, the profile of diabetes Stephen Phillips Con and its prevention; to monitor new initiatives; Stephen Lloyd LD Dementia and to work to ensure a better deal for people with diabetes. Sir Peter Bottomley Con TITLE President: Lord Ashley of Stoke Lab All-Party Parliamentary Group on Dementia OFFICERS Chair: Adrian Sanders LD PURPOSE Vice-Chairs: Keith Vaz Lab Death Penalty To raise awareness of the condition amongst Anne McIntosh Con TITLE parliamentarians and to influence legislation Lord Harrison Lab All-Party Parliamentary Group for the and policy making with the aim of improving Abolition of the Death Penalty the lives of people with dementia and their Digital EConomy PURPOSE carers. SEE: Information & Communications To campaign for the abolition of the death OFFICERS Technology Forum (PICTFOR) penalty in all circumstances and to raise Chair: Baroness Greengross CB The Digital Economy APPG merged awareness of death penalty cases. Vice-Chairs: David Blunkett Lab with the Information Technology APPG Hazel Blears Lab

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(PITCOM) to form PICTFOR on July 18 Specifically the group will promote funding PURPOSE and investment for paralympic governing To work towards the elimination of domestic D Digital TV Switchover bodies. and sexual violence; to highlight issues arising; and to contribute to the development OFFICERS TITLE of policies. All-Party Parliamentary Group on Digital Chair: Lab TV Switchover Vice-Chair: Jason McCartney Con OFFICERS Treasurer: Con Chair: Baroness of Asthal Lab PURPOSE Secretary: Lab Vice-Chairs: Baroness Stern CB To provide a forum for members to discuss Linda Riordan Con the issues around digital switchover and its Treasurer: Stephen Twigg Lab progress; to act as a liaison point through Disability Secretary: Bridget Phillipson Lab which parliamentarians can raise questions TITLE with those responsible for the delivery All-Party Parliamentary of switchover; and to help ensure that Disability Group Down’s Syndrome parliamentarians remain informed about PURPOSE TITLE switchover and the associated issues that will To work on an all-party Down’s Syndrome All-Party Parliamentary affect their constituents. basis within Parliament for the interests of all Group OFFICERS disabled people, their families and friends. PURPOSE Chair: Jamie Reed Lab To raise awareness of issues affecting people OFFICERS Vice-Chair: Alun Michael Lab with Down’s Syndrome and the prospects Chairs: Anne McGuire Lab Secretary: Sir Peter Bottomley Con for improving life outcomes; to campaign for Baroness Campbell of Surbiton CB changes to government policy to improve the Vice-Chairs: Sir Peter Bottomley Con lives of people with Down’s Syndrome; and Disability Sports (see Baroness Wilkins Lab to significantly increase public and private Q&A Below) Secretary: Con research aimed at eradicating the ill effects TITLE associated with Down’s Syndrome. All-Party Parliamentary Group on Disability Domestic and Sports Sexual Violence OFFICERS Chair: Virendra Sharma Lab PURPOSE TITLE Vice-Chair: Dr Hywel Francis Lab To promote and support disability sports with All-Party Parliamentary Group on Domestic Treasurer: Baroness Verma Con an eye to the 2012 Paralympics and beyond. and Sexual Violence Secretary: Dan Rogerson LD

Q&A: Disability sports APPG Why did you get involved with the group? What have you achieved since the start of this My involvement with the group goes back to when was minister Parliament? for sport, when I got involved in the Paralympics and the Special We have raised the profile of disability sports and Olympics for people with learning disabilities. There’s a lot of continue to work to do that. individual sporting bodies connected with disability and whilst you understand why they want to keep and maintain their individuality, What are the goals for the rest of the collectively they were losing out because they didn’t come together Parliament? as a body. To ensure that we widen the interest and involvement of people with disabilities in sport at every level – and address issues of access How do you engage with ministers and other parliamentarians? and support. I’ve spoken to the sports minister and we intend to have a work programme that sets out issues that will be discussed – and ministers What benefits do MPs and peers get from membership of the and spokespeople from the main parties will be invited to give us APPG? their view about what’s taking place. And we’re doing it with a back- We get to hear first-hand what the current issues are affecting drop obviously of the Olympics and Paralympics taking place next disability sports and we get that from people involved in the year to raise the profile of disability sport. governance of disability sports and from other experts. It’s wide ranging and, obviously with members like Baroness Grey-Thompson involved, we’ve got people who have direct Gerry Sutcliffe is Labour MP for South and Chair of the Disability Sports APPG experience of the issues.

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Drug Misuse TITLE All-Party Parliamentary Drug Misuse Group D PURPOSE To educate Members of both Houses of Parliament and stimulate debate on issues surrounding drug misuse. OFFICERS Chair: Lord Mancroft Con Vice-Chairs: Lab Lord Rea Lab Baroness Masham of Ilton CB Secretary: Andrew GriffithsC on

Drug Policy Reform TITLE All-Party Parliamentary Group on Drug Policy Reform PURPOSE To discuss drug policy reform. OFFICERS Chair: Baroness Meacher CB Vice-Chairs: Dr Julian Huppert LD Paul Flynn Lab Baroness Stern CB Treasurer: Barones Thomas of Winchester LD

Dying Well TITLE All-Party Parliamentary Group on Dying Well PURPOSE To promote understanding of how good palliative care can enable terminally ill people to die peacefully and naturally; to work with hospice care providers to support efforts to widen and improve palliative care provision; and to oppose the legislation of assisted suicide and euthanasia. OFFICERS Chair: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff CB Vice-Chair: Jim Dobbin Lab drug misuse Treasurers: Lord McColl of Dulwich Con Sir Peter Bottomley Con Secretaries: Con Specific Learning Difficulties OFFICERS Baroness Emerton CB PURPOSE Chair: Ian Liddell-Grainger Con To understand dyslexia and learning Vice-Chair: Kelvin Hopkins Lab Dyslexia and Specific difficulties across the UK and the need to Treasurer: Brian Binley Con Learning Difficulties keep government appraised of the situation in schools and education in general. The group TITLE will also look at what statutory and non- All-Party Parliamentary statutory bodies are achieving in this field. Group on Dyslexia and

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Earth and Environmental results broadly reflect the votes cast during and how one dies. The group believes that Sciences the elections of the UK. mentally competent adults should have the right to refuse treatment and, provided E TITLE OFFICERS sufficient legal safeguards are in place, the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Earth and Chair: Richard Burden Lab right to an assisted death. Environmental Sciences Vice-Chairs: Austin Mitchell Lab PURPOSE Baroness Maddock LD OFFICERS To acquaint, educate and inform Members of Simon Hart Con Chair: Penny Mordaunt Con Parliament on matters relating to the earth Treasurer: Baroness Gould of Potternewton Vice-Chairs: Heidi Alexander Lab sciences. Lab Baroness Greengross CB Secretary: Lord Rennard LD Dr Julian Huppert LD OFFICERS Baroness Jay of Paddington Lab Chair: Lab Martin Caton Emergency Ambulance and Caroline Lucas Green Vice-Chairs: LD Roger Williams Paramedic Services Secretary: Lord Joffe Lab Duke of Montrose Con Treasurer: CB TITLE Lord Oxburgh Energy Intensive Industries Secretary: Kevin Barron Lab All-Party Parliamentary Group on Emergency Ambulance and Paramedic TITLE Economics, Money and Services Energy Intensive Industries All-Party Banking PURPOSE Parliamentary Group To raise the quality of care, effectiveness and PURPOSE TITLE efficiency of the Emergency Ambulance and To discern issues surrounding efficient All-Party Parliamentary Group on Paramedic Services for patients, through energy users, carbon pricing strategies, Economics, Money and Banking closer engagement with political leaders security of supply, manufacturing incentives, PURPOSE and policy makers. To promote a better infrastructure, planning issues. To provide Members with information, new understanding of the ambulance and pre- OFFICERS ideas, talks and debating opportunities on hospital care sector and highlight particular Chair: Lab economics, money and banking. issues of concern and examples of good Vice-Chair: Ian Swales LD practice with Members. OFFICERS Treasurer: Graham Evans Con Chair/Treasurer/Secretary: Con OFFICERS Secretary: Angela C. Smith Lab Vice-Chair: Con Chair: Lord Colwyn Con Vice-Chair: Dr Sarah Wollaston Con Energy (see Q&A on p.20) Education TITLE TITLE Employee Ownership Parliamentary Group for All-Party Parliamentary TITLE Energy Studies (an Associate Group for Education All-Party Parliamentary Group on Employee Parliamentary Group) PURPOSE Ownership PURPOSE To promote and stimulate debate across all PURPOSE To discuss energy and environment policy sectors of education. To raise awareness of employee ownership outside the timescales of general elections. and the benefits it can offer to the business OFFICERS OFFICERS community and economy. Chair: Lab Chair: Ian Liddell-Grainger Con Vice-Chairs: Martin Horwood LD OFFICERS Vice-Chairs: Lord Boswell of Aynho Con Baroness Perry of Southwark Con Chair: Jesse Norman Con Lord Con James Gray Con Co Vice-Chairs: Martin Horwood LD Simon Hughes LD Treasurer: Baroness Walmsley LD John Woodcock Lab Lord Hunt of Kings Heath Lab Secretary: Nic Dakin Lab Treasurer: Lord Best CB Lord O’Neill of Clackmannan Lab Secretary: Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe Lab Treasurers: Lord Fraser of Carmyllie Con Electoral Reform Neil Parish Con TITLE End of Life Secretaries: Ian Lavery Lab John Thurso LD All-Party Parliamentary Group on Electoral TITLE Reform All-Party Parliamentary Group on Choice at PURPOSE the End of Life Engineering To foster discussion on, and promote the PURPOSE TITLE cause of, electoral reform so that election To promote greater patient choice at the All-Party Parliamentary end of life, particularly over where, when Engineering Group

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PURPOSE Treasurer: Stephen Williams LD Epilepsy To promote the role of engineering and the Secretary: Con TITLE future of engineering in the UK. E Epilepsy All-Party Parliamentary Group Entrepreneurship OFFICERS PURPOSE Chair: Lord Broers CB TITLE To spread awareness of the nature of epilepsy Vice-Chairs: Lord Willis of Knaresborough All-Party Parliamentary Group on amongst parliamentarians and to raise the LD Entrepreneurship political profile of epilepsy and its related Dr Julian Huppert LD PURPOSE problems. Meg Munn Lab To encourage, support and promote OFFICERS Q&A: energy studies APPG entrepreneurship and to engage with Chair: Laura Sandys Con entrepreneurs; and to ensure that Parliament Vice-Chairs: Baroness Ford Lab What is the purpose of is kept up-to-date on what is needed to create the all-party group? Con and sustain the most favourable conditions Diana R. Johnson Lab It was founded in for entrepreneurship. Teresa Pearce Lab 1980 to form a bridge OFFICERS Treasurer: Owen Smith Lab between the two Houses Chair: Lord Ahmed Lab Secretary: Edward Timpson Con of Parliament and the Vice-Chairs: Earl of Errol CB outside energy world Con Equalities (industry, consumer groups, academics Vice Chair & Secretary: Baroness Morris of TITLE etc) to discuss long-term energy issues Bolton Con All-Party Parliamentary which largely fall outside the time-span Treasurer: Lorely Burt LD Group on Equalities of general elections. A reception to mark PURPOSE its 30th anniversary was held at No 11 Environment To address discrimination based on all Downing Street just before the election. TITLE equality grounds and seek to advance equal All-Party Parliamentary opportunities for all. How do you engage with ministers and Environment Group other parliamentarians? OFFICERS PURPOSE Chair: Lab Two or three ministers a year, and other Sandra Osborne To raise awareness of environmental issues to Vice-Chair: Lord Lester of Herne Hill LD Members of Parliament, participate in our both Houses. Treasurer/Secretary: Baroness Greengross CB programme of speakers, visits, receptions OFFICERS and dinners. Chair: Dr Phillip Lee Con Equitable Life Policy Vice-Chairs: Baroness Young of Old Scone Holders What have you achieved since the start CB TITLE of this Parliament? Martin Horwood LD All-Party Parliamentary Group for Justice for A series of high-level speakers on strategic Lab Equitable Life Policy Holders and emerging energy issues. Dr Alan Whitehead Lab Dr Therese Coffey Con PURPOSE To provide a cross-party forum in which to What are your goals for the rest of the Mike Weir SNP hold the government to account on the issue Parliament? Environmental Health of properly compensating Equitable Life To engage with more ministers, MPs, policy holders. peers and MEPs and to publish the papers TITLE of our speakers. Associate Parliamentary Group for OFFICERS Environmental Health Chairs: Fabian Hamilton Lab Bob Blackman Con What benefits do MPs and peers get PURPOSE Secretary: Stephen Lloyd LD from membership of the all-party To raise awareness and understanding of the group? contribution of environmental health and environmental interventions in improving European Secure Vehicle High-level discussion and networking. Alliance The opportunity to raise constituency public health. TITLE issues. OFFICERS European Secure Vehicle Alliance (an Chair: Joan Walley Lab Associate Parliamentary Group) Ian Liddell Grainger is Conservative MP for Secretary: Baroness Hamwee LD Bridgwater and West Somerset and chair of the energy studies APPG

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PURPOSE Events Industry OFFICERS To reduce vehicle related crime and disorder Chair: Andrew Tyrie Con TITLE whilst enhancing road user compliance. Treasurer: Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts All-Party Parliamentary Group for the UK E Con OFFICERS Events Industry Chair: Lord Brougham and Vaux Con PURPOSE Vice-Chair: Viscount Simon Lab Eye Health and Visual To represent the UK events industry in Impairment Secretary: Steve McCabe Lab Parliament; to highlight the value of the industry, engage with politicians and industry TITLE European Union representatives; and to ensure that the UK All-Party Parliamentary Group on Eye Health and Visual TITLE benefits from the success of events like the Impairment All-Party Parliamentary European Union 2012 Olympics. PURPOSE Group OFFICERS To inform and educate parliamentarians PURPOSE Chair: Nick de Bois Con about the importance of high quality eye care To promote discussion about Britain’s Vice-Chair: Ian Murray Lab for the prevention of eye disease, sight loss constructive engagement in the European Treasurer: Steve Brine Con and blindness and for the eye health of the Union. Secretary: Paul Uppal Con nation; and to promote better understanding OFFICERS of visual impairment and greater social Chairs: Mike Gapes Lab Extraordinary Rendition inclusion. Lord Dykes LD TITLE OFFICERS Vice-Chairs: Lord Hannay of Chiswick CB All-Party Parliamentary Group on Co-Chairs: John Baron Con Lord Lea of Crondall Lab Extraordinary Rendition Lord Low of Dalston CB Denis MacShane Lab PURPOSE Vice-Chairs: Nicky Morgan Con Baroness Quin Lab To examine extraordinary rendition and Annette Brooke LD Secretary: Robert Walter Con related issues, in response to allegations of Alun Michael Lab British involvement in the extraordinary rendition programme.

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Fair fuel for motorists PURPOSE Treasurer: Rob Wilson Con To look at issues that fall within the Secretary: Roger Williams LD TITLE jurisdiction of the Family Courts, including F Fair Fuel for Motorists All-Party the Court of Protection and other associated Parliamentary Group Film Industry issues. PURPOSE TITLE To investigate the high cost of petrol and OFFICERS All-Party Parliamentary Film Industry diesel and to campaign against high motoring Chair: John Hemming LD Group Vice-Chair: Baroness Deech CB taxes. PURPOSE To enhance understanding of and promotion OFFICERS Fashion and Textile Chair: Robert Halfon Con of the British film industry, and film culture Vice-Chairs: Angus MacNeil SNP TITLE in the UK. Caroline Nokes Con All-Party Parliamentary Fashion and Textile OFFICERS Treasurer: Con Group Chair: Kevin Barron Lab PURPOSE Vice-Chair: Richard Harrington Con Fairs and Showgrounds To promote a better understanding of the Treasurer: Lord Corbett of Castle Vale Lab fashion and textile industry. Secretary: Brandon Lewis Con TITLE All-Party Parliamentary Group on Fairs and OFFICERS Showgrounds Chair: Con Financial Education for Young People PURPOSE Vice-Chair: Lord Davies of Coity Lab To help the industry to convene meetings Treasurer: Con TITLE with government departments which are Secretary: Tessa Munt LD All-Party Parliamentary Group on Financial introducing legislation or changing existing Education for Young People legislation to the detriment of the industry. Fatherhood PURPOSE OFFICERS TITLE To provide a medium through which MPs, Co Chairs: Brian H. Donohoe Lab All-Party Parliamentary Group on Peers and organisations with an interest in Brian Binley Con Fatherhood financial education can discuss the current provision of financial education in schools; Co Vice-Chairs: Sir Peter Bottomley Con PURPOSE ensure young people are equipped to make Jim Dobbin Lab To promote the wellbeing of children by informed financial decisions; help make Treasurer: Kwasi Kwarteng Con ensuring that legal and policy frameworks resources and qualifications available to Secretary: David Crausby Lab keep up with the changing nature of family young people in education or training; life and that legislation encourages active and support schools in the delivery of financial responsible fatherhood. Family Business capability; and encourage the introduction of TITLE OFFICERS a requirement on schools to provide financial All-Party Parliamentary Group for Family Chair: Lab education. Business Vice-Chairs: John Hemming LD OFFICERS Charles Walker Con PURPOSE Chair: Con Treasurer: Con To promote and facilitate communication Vice-Chairs: Duncan Hames LD Secretary: Annette Brooke LD and understanding between the UK family Lab business sector and members of both Houses. Education Officer: Andrew Percy Con Fibromyalgia OFFICERS Chair: Chris Kelly Con TITLE Financial Markets and Vice-Chairs: Con All-Party Parliamentary Group on Services Fibromyalgia Lord Cotter LD TITLE Con PURPOSE Associate Parliamentary Group on Wholesale Lindsay Roy Lab To raise awareness of fibromyalgia among Financial Markets and Services parliamentarians and to provide a cross-party PURPOSE forum for discussion of the illness. Family Law and the Court To provide a medium through which MPs of Protection OFFICERS and Peers with a financial services interest TITLE Chair: Rosie Cooper Lab may be briefed on matters affecting the UK’s All-Party Parliamentary Group on Family Vice-Chairs: Philip Davies Con financial services industry. Law and the Court of Protection Russell Brown Lab

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OFFICERS Flags and Heraldry PURPOSE Chair: Stephen Hammond Con To provide a cross-party, independent forum TITLE Vice-Chairs: Baroness Cohen of Pimlico Lab for the exchange of views and information on Flags and Heraldry All-Party Parliamentary F David RuffleyC on food policy and to provide an environment Group Lord Teverson LD for well informed debate and the opportunity Treasurer: Andy Love Lab PURPOSE to contribute to the development of policies Secretary: Con To promote the flying of the Union Flag and on food, diet and health. all flags associated with the UK and British Territories and related matters. OFFICERS Fire Safety and Rescue Chair: Lord Rea Lab TITLE OFFICERS Vice-Chairs: Roger Williams LD All-Party Parliamentary Fire Safety and Chair: Andrew Rosindell Con Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer LD Rescue Group Vice-Chairs: Lord West of Spithead Lab Countess of Mar CB Tom Watson Lab Treasurer: PURPOSE Baroness Gibson of Market Rasen Con To meet and discuss topical fire safety and Lab Angus MacNeil SNP Secretary: Earl Baldwin of Bewdley CB rescue issues with apropriate specialists in Lord Kilclooney CB these fields. Treasurer: Philip Davies Con Football OFFICERS Secretary: Robert Halfon Con Joint chairs: David Amess Con TITLE Roger Williams LD Flood Prevention All-Party Parliamentary Football Group Treasurer: Andrew Rosindell Con PURPOSE TITLE Secretary: Jim Fitzpatrick Lab To focus on policy issues affecting the football All-Party Parliamentary Flood industry, from grassroots and fans to the Prevention Group First Past the Post professional end of the game. PURPOSE TITLE To provide a forum for parliamentarians OFFICERS All-Party Parliamentary Group for the and other interested parties to discuss issues Chair: Alan Keen Lab Promotion of First Past the Post relating to flooding and flood prevention. Vice-Chairs: Mark Field Con Lab PURPOSE Lord Faulkner of Worcester OFFICERS To provide a forum for the discussion of the Joan Walley Lab Chair: Anne McIntosh Con Treasurer: Lab promotion of electoral stability and fairness Clive Betts Vice-Chairs: Laurence Robertson Con Secretary: Stephen Hepburn Lab under the first-past-the-post system. Nia GriffithLa b OFFICERS Secretary: Anne Marie Morris Con Foreign Affairs Chairs: Con Brian H. Donohoe Lab Food and Drink TITLE Treasurers: Sir Stuart Bell Lab Manufacturing All-Party Parliamentary Group on Foreign Jack Lopresti Con Affairs TITLE Secretaries: Graham Stringer Lab PURPOSE Food and Drink Manufacturing All-Party Jacob Rees-Mogg Con To examine issues of UK foreign policy and Parliamentary Group the likely challenges of achieving prosperity, Fisheries PURPOSE security and prevention of conflict. To consider the issues of concern to the food TITLE and drink manufacturing industry and raise OFFICERS All-Party Parliamentary Fisheries Group awareness of these matters in Parliament. Chair: Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne LD PURPOSE OFFICERS Vice-Chairs: Lord Alton of Liverpool CB To promote and support the UK fishing Chair: John Stevenson Con industry in Parliament. Lord Burnett LD Vice-Chair: Russell Brown Lab Lord Desai Lab OFFICERS Treasurer: Lord Dykes LD Lord Ryder of Wensum Con Chair: Austin Mitchell Lab Secretary: Linda Riordan Lab Lord West of Spithead Lab Vice-Chairs: Angus MacNeil SNP Treasurers: Lord Boateng Lab Andrew George LD Food and Health Lord Brett Lab Treasurer: Sir Robert Smith LD LD TITLE Lord Clement-Jones Secretary: Frank Doran Lab Associate Parliamentary Food and Health Baroness Falkner of Margravine LD Group Lord Sheikh Con Secretaries: Ronnie Campbell Lab

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Lord Foulkes of Cumnock Lab Freight Transport Secretary: Margaret Ritchie SDLP Rory Stewart Con TITLE F All-Party Parliamentary Group on Freight Funerals and Bereavement Forestry Transport TITLE TITLE PURPOSE All-Party Parliamentary Group for Funerals All-Party Parliamentary Group on Forestry To promote freight transport issues and and Bereavement PURPOSE provide a forum to discuss challenges and PURPOSE To address all aspects of forestry, from opportunities facing the industry in all its To provide a forum for the discussion of forest production to end use, pulp and paper forms. funeral and bereavement issues. making, wood and timber product and wood OFFICERS OFFICERS for energy generation. Chair: Robert Flello Lab Chair: Lorely Burt LD OFFICERS Treasurer: Andrew Bridgen Con Vice-Chairs: Rosie Cooper Lab Chair: Lord Clark of Windermere Lab Secretary: Chris Heaton-Harris Con Con Vice-Chairs: Lord Boswell of Aynho Con David Amess Con Roger Williams LD Fruit Industry Treasurer: Baroness Sharples Con TITLE Furniture Industry Secretary: Dr Therese Coffey Con Assoicate Parliamentary British Fruit TITLE Industry Group All-Party Parliamentary Furniture Industry Foyers PURPOSE Group TITLE To cover issues relating to all fruit crops PURPOSE All-Party Parliamentary Group on Foyers produced in the UK, in particular top fruit To raise awareness of the furniture industry PURPOSE (apples and pears), stone fruit (cherries and to publicise and promote the industry To promote information about, and and plums) and soft fruit (strawberries, in the UK in order to protect jobs and understanding of the Foyer network and raspberries, currants), and to provide investments. the young people they work with, among information and stimulate discussion on fruit OFFICERS parliamentarians; and to raise in parliament related topics. Chair: Stephen McPartland Con issues of concern to Foyers and young people. OFFICERS Vice-Chair: Lord Davies of Coity Lab OFFICERS Chair: Earl of Selborne Con Executive Officers: Duncan Hames LD Chair: Lisa Nandy Lab Vice-Chair: Sarah Newton Con Jessica Lee Con Vice-Chairs: Baroness Sharp of Guildford LD Secretary: Con Baroness Stedman-Scott Con Further Education, Skills Fuel Poverty and Energy and Lifelong Learning Freelance Sector Efficiency TITLE TITLE TITLE All-Party Parliamentary All-Party Parliamentary Group on the All-Party Parliamentary Fuel Poverty and Group for Further Freelance Sector Energy Efficiency Group Education, Skills and Lifelong Learning PURPOSE PURPOSE PURPOSE To raise awareness of freelancers and To maintain awareness in Parliament of To promote and develop the interests of the freelance way of working; to act as a fuel poverty issues; to monitor and comment further education, adult learning and skills bridge between the freelance community on progress against government targets to sectors and to advise government ministers on and politicians; to support and promote eradicate fuel poverty; to advocate policies matters of concern to those sectors. freelancers and provide a voice for freelancers to deliver affordable warmth for vulnerable OFFICERS within Westminster; to highlight the households with emphasis on how this can Co-Chairs: Kelvin Hopkins Lab contribution that freelancers make to the be achieved though improved domestic Robert Halfon Con UK economy; and to draw attention to energy efficiency including effective thermal Stephen Lloyd LD the challenges faced by freelancers and the insulation and efficient and economic heating Vice-Chairs: Baroness Sharp of Guildford LD barriers to their growth. systems. Baroness Wall of New Barnet Lab OFFICERS OFFICERS Chair: Brian Binley Con Co-Chairs: Con Vice-Chair: Stephen Hammond Con Vice-Chair: Kelvin Hopkins Lab Treasurer: Jim Dowd Lab Caroline Lucas Green Secretary: Stephen Gilbert LD Baroness Maddock LD Treasurer: David Amess Con

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Game and Wildlife OFFICERS Baroness Williams of Crosby LD Conservation Chair: Michael McCann Lab Secretary: Lord Lea of Crondall Lab Vice-Chairs: Matthew Offord Con TITLE G Lord Carlile of Berriew LD All-Party Parliamentary Game and Wildlife Greyhound Treasurer: Lord Dubs Lab Conservation Group TITLE Secretary: Stephen Twigg Lab PURPOSE All-Party Parliamentary Greyhound Group To provide a forum for the discussion of Global Education for All PURPOSE science-based wildlife conservation policies in To raise parliamentary awareness of issues the countryside. TITLE relating to the greyhound industry and to All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global promote the sport. OFFICERS Education for All Chair: Con OFFICERS PURPOSE Vice-Chair: Roger Williams LD Joint Chairs: Lord Bilston Lab To raise greater awareness in the Houses Secretary: Baroness Byford Con Andrew Rosindell Con of Parliament of the factors affecting the Joint Vice-Chairs: Lord Evans of Parkside provision of education globally, and the Lab Gardening and Horticulture government’s obligations to help to meet the Brandon Lewis Con TITLE education-related Millennium Development Treasurer: Baroness Golding Lab All-Party Parliamentary Gardening and Goals and Education for All Goals; and Secretary: Ian Lavery Lab Horticulture Group to work with politicians from all parties, international development organisations, PURPOSE Gurkha Welfare To promote and facilitate communication and education sector stakeholders (including understanding between representatives of unions) both nationally and internationally, to TITLE the world of gardening and horticulture and help secure education for all as agreed by the Gurkha Welfare All-Party Parliamentary Members of both Houses. international community at Dakar in 2000. Group OFFICERS OFFICERS PURPOSE Chair: Baroness Fookes Con Co-Chairs: Justin Tomlinson Con To provide a forum to bring together Vice-Chairs: Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope LD Baroness Goudie Lab supporters of and campaigners for the welfare Lord Palmer CB Vice-Chairs: David Blunkett Lab of Gurkhas and Gurkha veterans. LD Baroness Royall of Blaisdon Lab Mark Williams OFFICERS Pamela Nash Lab Roger Williams LD Chair: Robert Buckland Con Annette Brooke LD Treasurer: Earl of Courtown Con Vice-Chair: Jackie Doyle-Price Con Jason McCartney Con Secretary: Brian H. Donohoe Lab Treasurer: Lab Fiona O’Donnell Lab Secretary: Roger Williams LD Gas Safety Chris Heaton-Harris Con Alison McGovern Lab TITLE Gypsy Roma Travellers All-Party Parliamentary Gas Safety Group Global Security and TITLE PURPOSE Non-Proliferation All-Party Parliamentary Group for Gypsy To provide a forum for discussion on issues Roma Travellers TITLE affecting the gas industry and consumers. All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global PURPOSE OFFICERS Security and Non-Proliferation To address the social inclusion of gypsy Roma and traveller communities, Co-Chairs: Barry Sheerman Lab PURPOSE Jason McCartney Con improve community relations, and tackle To encourage discussion and debate, on accommodation issues. Mike Hancock LD the basis of expert information and opinion from across the political spectrum, on OFFICERS Genocide and Crimes matters relating to global security and the Chair: Andrew George LD against Humanity proliferation of weapons of mass destruction Vice-Chairs: Baroness Whitaker Lab Caroline Lucas Green TITLE – whether nuclear, chemical or biological. Secretary: Lord Avebury LD All-Party Parliamentary Group for the OFFICERS Prevention of Genocide and Crimes against Joint Convenors: Lord Hannay of Chiswick Humanity CB PURPOSE Tony Lloyd Lab To further the punishment and prevention of Vice-Convenors: Sir Peter Bottomley Con genocide and crimes against humanity. Austin Mitchell Lab

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Headache Disorders PURPOSE Highway Maintenance To inform and educate parliamentarians TITLE TITLE about heart and circulatory disease, the single H All-Party Parliamentary Group on Primary All-Party Parliamentary Group on Highway most common cause of death in the UK; to Headache Disorders Maintenance encourage and promote work undertaken PURPOSE to prevent heart disease and improve its PURPOSE To promote awareness of the incidence, diagnosis and treatment; and to inform To promote understanding and awareness suffering, types and development of primary parliamentarians about the work of the of the fundamental importance of the headache disorders. Cardio and Vascular Coalition and issues highway network and to promote the safety, environmental, economic and social case for OFFICERS concerning cardiac and vascular health. a properly maintained sustainable network in Chair: Jim Fitzpatrick Lab OFFICERS the UK. Vice-Chairs: Viscount Simon Lab Chair: Chris Ruane Lab Lord Rea Lab Vice-Chairs: Nigel Dodds DUP OFFICERS Secretary: Baroness Masham of Ilton CB Lord Haworth Lab Chair: Christopher Chope Con Baroness Masham of Ilton CB Vice-Chair: Viscount Simon Lab Health and Safety Michael Dugher Lab Treasurer: Lord Evans of Parkside Lab Con Secretary: Lord Davies of Coity Lab TITLE Justin Tomlinson All-Party Parliamentary Health and Safety Treasurer: Baroness Gardner of Parkes Con Group Secretary: Lord Elder Lab Hill Farming PURPOSE TITLE To promote occupational health and safety. All-Party Parliamentary Group on Hill Heritage rail Farming OFFICERS TITLE PURPOSE Chair: Jim Sheridan Lab All-Party Parliamentary Heritage Rail Group The purpose of the group is to promote Vice-Chair: Gordon Henderson Con and protect hill farming interests and the Secretary: Ian Lavery Lab PURPOSE To brief parliamentarians about Heritage communities that depend upon hill faming throughout the and to raise Health Railways, the contribution they make to their local and regional economies and the issues of concern with government ministers, Title opportunities for skills training they can European bodies and relevant national Associate provide. assemblies. Parliamentary OFFICERS Health Group OFFICERS Chair: Nicky Morgan Con Chair: Tim Farron LD PURPOSE Vice-Chairs: Lord Faulkner Lab Vice-Chairs: John Woodcock Lab To provide high quality information to all Karen Bradley Con Julian Smith Con parliamentarians on local and national health Lab Secretary: Rory Stewart Con issues in order to generate greater awareness Treasurer: Mark Garnier Con of and participation in the national health Historic Churches debate. Hepatology title OFFICERS TITLE Associate Parliamentary Group on Historic Chair: Baroness Cumberlege Con All-Party Parliamentary Hepatology Group Churches Co-Chairs: Kevin Barron Lab PURPOSE Mark Simmonds Con PURPOSE To ensure that Parliament is kept informed of Baroness Masham of Ilton CB To promote discussion of hepatology, changes in the position of historic churches in Andrew George LD including viral hepatitis and related public the nation’s heritage. Dr Sarah Wollaston Con health issues, and to raise matters of Treasurer: Lord Hunt of Kings Heath Lab concern with, and make representations to, OFFICERS Secretary: Neil Carmichael Con government and other policy makers. Chair: Frank Dobson Lab OFFICERS Vice-Chair: Claire Perry Con Heart Disease (see Q&A Co-Chairs: David Amess Con Secretary: Sir Alan Beith LD on p.28) Baroness Masham of Ilton CB LD TITLE Baroness Randerson Historic Vehicles Vice-Chairs: Con All-Party Parliamentary Group on Heart Jason McCartney TITLE Disease Virendra Sharma Lab All-Party Parliamentary Historic Vehicles Group

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PURPOSE HIV and AIDS OFFICERS To encourage interest in, and the promotion Chair: Pamela Nash Lab TITLE and use of, vintage historic and classic Vice-Chairs: Pauline Latham Con All-Party H vehicles. Jenny Willott LD Parliamentary Group on HIV and AIDS Baroness Masham of Ilton CB OFFICERS PURPOSE Vice-Chair and Treasurer: Simon Kirby Con Chair: Con To facilitate good policy making, respectful Vice-Chair and Secretary: Russell Brown Lab Vice-Chair: Kelvin Hopkins Lab of human rights, that will limit the spread of Treasurer: Lab HIV, mitigate its impact and support those Hockey Secretary: Christopher Chope Con already living with the virus, in the UK and internationally, and to hold the government TITLE to account for its relevant commitments. All-Party Parliamentary Group for Hockey

Q&A: Heart disease APPG What is the purpose of the all-party group? The APPG also held a successful awareness- Heart and circulatory disease is the UK’s biggest killer and everyone has raising event around women and heart disease. It been touched by it in some way, whether it’s themselves or a loved one. helped MPs get the message out to their female The group aims to inform and educate Parliamentarians about heart constituents that heart disease affects them too – and circulatory disease so they are better equipped to champion our with three times more women dying of heart disease campaigns in Parliament and to support constituents who have been than of breast cancer every year. touched by the disease. The APPG held a meeting encouraging The group also supports the work of the Cardio and Vascular Parliamentarians to back the BHF’s campaign for emergency life- Coalition (CVC) in Parliament. The CVC is a national coalition of 41 support skills to be taught to all school children. Parliamentarians voluntary organisations that have come together to improve health, received a quick lesson in how to save a life; and heard from Tabatha and prevent illness and premature death from cardiovascular disease – McElligot who was just 17 when she went into cardiac arrest at her a really powerful voice the group is proud to back. south school in 2009. So far 62 MPs have signed our EDM in support of the campaign – and APPG members have been making a How do you engage with ministers and other parliamentarians? loud noise in support of this vital issue. We engage parliamentarians by holding interesting, engaging and relevant meetings on topical issues. Reform of the national curriculum, What are your goals for the rest of the Parliament? and tobacco industry lobbying, are just some of the issues we have Right now, we’re focusing on getting emergency life support (ELS) skills tackled this year. We make sure there is an opportunity for a photo so on the National Curriculum. The government wants to strip it down but that MPs’ constituents know about the great work they are doing to we believe that children learning ELS is an exception – it’s life or death. support the APPG. We use lots of different parliamentary mechanisms to engage What benefits do MPs and peers get from membership of the all- ministers – we held a Westminster Hall debate on a national strategy party group? for cardiovascular disease, for example. Where possible we try to work Heart disease affects everyone. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the jointly with other APPGs. We also engage with ministers by letter. In biggest cause of death in the UK, and every six minutes someone dies November we held a parliamentary reception – and were lucky enough from a heart attack. This means that around 2.7 million people in the UK to have Earl Howe in attendance. are living with coronary heart disease. Nearly 1.6 million of these people are under 75 years of age. Overall cardiovascular disease is estimated to What have you achieved since the start of this Parliament? cost the UK economy £30.7bn a year. The APPG has provided a vital role helping MPs to help constituents By becoming a member of the APPG on Heart Disease MPs can affected by heart and circulatory disease. show their constituents, many of whom will have been affected, that Our reception in November introduced the Cardio Vascular they are taking action to tackle the UK’s biggest killer. Joining the APPG Coalition (CVC) to Parliamentarians when we came together to press on Heart Disease will help keep MPs and peers informed about our home the need for government action to tackle the increasing number latest campaigns, the latest developments in heart health policy and of people living with heart and circulatory disease. As chair of the APPG, the work of the CVC. We can also help them with constituent enquiries I introduced and launched Let’s Start the Debate, a report written by the about preventing and living with heart disease. CVC providing advice to the new government on priority areas and how they could be addressed given the stringent financial times. Chris Ruane is Labour MP for the Vale of Clwyd and Chair of the Heart Disease APPG

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PURPOSE PURPOSE PURPOSE To promote and play hockey. To raise awareness of the subject of home To promote the welfare of horses (including education in Parliament and to provide a all equines, horse riders and users) and H OFFICERS platform for a full range of views about matters affecting the horse industry. Chair: Stephen Hammond Con future policy on home education. Treasurer: Mark Simmonds Con OFFICERS Secretary: Meg Munn Lab OFFICERS Chair: Baroness Mallalieu Lab Chair: Graham Stuart Con Vice-Chairs: Ian Liddell-Grainger Con Holy See Vice-Chair: Andrew GriffithsC on Tony Cunningham Lab Treasurer: David Anderson Lab Secretary: Roger Williams LD TITLE Secretary: Tim Farron LD Treasurer: Baroness Masham CB All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Holy See Homeland Security Hospice and Palliative Care PURPOSE To monitor the relationship between the UK TITLE TITLE and the Holy See and call representatives of All-Party Parliamentary Group on Homeland All-Party Parliamentary Group on Hospice faith communities and the foreign/diplomatic Security and Palliative Care service to brief the group on issues pertaining PURPOSE PURPOSE to the Vatican and the work of the Catholic To research into and create awareness about To maintain and develop and interest in church. homeland security issues and contribute to hospice and palliative care, and generally, in the development of government policy in the case of those with life-limiting or life- OFFICERS the areas of homeland security and national threatening conditions. Chairs: David Amess Con resiliance. Joe Benton Lab OFFICERS Vice-Chairs: Mark Pritchard Con OFFICERS Chair: Fabian Hamilton Lab Keith Vaz Lab Chair: Bernard Jenkin Con Vice-Chairs: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff CB Treasurers: Angus MacNeil SNP Vice-Chairs: Lord Reid of Cardowan Lab Baroness Neuberger LD Jim McGovern Lab Lord Carlile of Berriew LD Treasurer: Stuart Andrew Con Secretaries: Dan Rogerson LD Treasurer: Mark Pritchard Con Secretary: Jim Dobbin Lab Baroness Hooper Con Secretary: Lord Harris of Haringey Lab Housing and Care for Home Education Horse Older People TITLE TITLE TITLE All-Party Parliamentary Group on Home All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Horse All-Party Parliamentary Group on Housing Education and Care for Older People PURPOSE To promote discussion and set the agenda for housing and planning developing better, more joined up housing care for older people, promising greater choice in later life. OFFICERS Chair: Lord Best CB Vice-Chairs: Margot James Con Anne McIntosh Con Baroness Falkner of Margravine LD Nick Raynsford Lab Secretary: Baroness Howarth of Breckland CB

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both urban and rural areas by providing Human Trafficking Members with access to information and opportunities for informed debate. H OFFICERS Co-Chairs: Tim Yeo Con Clive Betts Lab Vice-Chair: Andrew George LD Secretary: Lord Howarth of Newport Lab

Housing TITLE All-Party Parliamentary Group on Housing PURPOSE To raise greater awareness in the Houses of Parliament of housing issues and provide a forum for parliamentarians to discuss developments in housing policy. OFFICERS Chair: Stephen Gilbert LD Treasurer: Jon Cruddas Lab Secretary: Lord Best CB

Human Dignity Robert Walter Con Humanist TITLE Lord Avebury LD TITLE All-Party Parliamentary Group on Human Treasurer: Tom Brake LD All-Party Parliamentary Humanist Group Dignity Secretary: Patrick Mercer Con PURPOSE PURPOSE To bring together non-religious MPs and To promote the recognition that every single Human Trafficking Peers to discuss matters of shared interest. human person is made in the image and TITLE likeness of God; to encourage expressions All-Party Parliamentary Group on Human OFFICERS of Christianity in the public arena in a spirit Trafficking Chair: Lord Warner Lab of dialogue and tolerance; and to support Vice-Chairs: Dr Julian Huppert LD universal declaration of human dignity. PURPOSE Baroness Flather CB To raise awareness of the scale and effects Lord Garel-Jones Con OFFICERS of human trafficking into the UK and the Kelvin Hopkins Lab Chair: Lord Alton of Liverpool CB EU; to seek solutions to reduce supply and Lord Taverne LD Vice-Chair: David Amess Con demand; and to improve welfare provisions Secretary: Baroness Massey of Darwen Lab Treasurer: Jim Dobbin Lab for victims. Treasurer: Lord Dubs Lab Secretary: Lord Hylton CB OFFICERS Chairs: Con Human Rights Huntington’s Disease Baroness Butler-Sloss CB TITLE TITLE Vice-Chairs: Baroness Nicholson of All-Party Parliamentary Group on All-Party Parliamentary Human Rights Winterbourne LD Huntington’s Disease Group Margot James Con PURPOSE PURPOSE Frank Field Lab To raise the public profile of Huntington’s To raise the profile of international human Treasurers: Baroness Goudie Lab Disease and give a voice in Parliament to rights issues within Parliament and to Angie Bray Con those suffering from the disesase as well as to investigate and publicise human rights abuses Mark Durkan SDLP their families and carers. occurring outside the UK. Secretaries: Louise Ellman Lab Lab OFFICERS OFFICERS Elizabeth Truss Con Chair: Lord Walton of Detchant CB Chair: Ann Clwyd Lab Treasurer: Mark Field Con Joint Vice-Chairs: Jeremy Corbyn Lab Secretary: Frank Dobson Lab

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India Trade and Investment Infertility Information & Communications TITLE TITLE Technology Forum (see Q&A I All-Party Parliamentary Group on UK-India All-Party Parliamentary Group on Infertility Below) Trade and Investment PURPOSE TITLE PURPOSE To raise awareness in Parliament of infertility Parliamentary Information & To encourage and foster greater and the associated ill health that it causes, and Communications Technology understanding of international trade between to draw attention to the need to implement Forum – PICTFOR (an Associate the UK and India, including its historical fully the National Institute for Health and Parliamentary Group). This new group was importance, current trends and future Clinical Excellence’s clinical guidelines on formed by the merger of PITCOM and the potential for both countries. assessment and treatment for people with DEAPPG (Digital Economy all party group) infertility problems. on July 18. OFFICERS PURPOSE Chair: Barry Gardiner Lab OFFICERS The new group’s purpose is to promote Vice-Chair: Ian Liddell-Grainger Con Chair: Con an informed awareness of the social and Secretary: Lab Vice-Chair: Karl McCartney Con economic impact of internet related issues

Q&A: information & communications technology forum (PICTFOR) What was the purpose of the former Digital Economy APPG? is we have been able to get loads of people to come DEAPPG was set-up to brief MPs, and get involved on all issues to do in from all parts of the industry, from the open rights with digital economy and digital media – particularly social media. group to the copyright holders, the record labels, and Up until now the assumptions you made about people’s views – how the BPI – everybody gave really freely of their time. you campaign and how you get to people to have a discussion – had been limited to emails. But since the advent of social media events now What did DEAPPG achieve since the start of this move incredibly quickly. Parliament? The Digital Economy Act went through last year but there was All of the debates around the Digital Economy Act were, in the relatively low engagement between politicians and the panoply beginning, highly polarised between the creators on the one hand of issues implied by things becoming much more highly digitised. and the distributors on the other – but actually there is much more DEAPPG has had loads of meetings with all the interested stakeholders, common ground. And that is our single primary achievement: to get representing all levels of the industry, and it has been really more common ground. The debate has become much more intelligent constructive. than it was.

Tell us about the work of the new APPG: PICTFOR. What are your goals for PICTFOR now the groups have merged? DEAPPG has now joined forces with a traditional big associate all Over the next year we want to develop a really good website that party parliamentary group called PITCOM, and the new group is to be everybody finds useful and accessible. PICTFOR is going to have the called PICTFOR – the Parliamentary Information & Communications Speaker as the president and our primary objective is to set up a really Technology Forum. good communications device that all MPs, and the public too, find PICTFOR will carry on the work engaging with the IT industry as really useful. PITCOM did but with a particular interest in social media. And hopefully what we will have is a nice kind of symbiosis between the groups. Our What benefits will former PITCOM members get from joining with objective is to be a really good gateway for MPs going out to talk to folk DEAPPG? who are interested in policy areas to do with the digital economy, and PITCOM was quite a traditional group – its members included lots of the also people who want to talk to MPs. great and good, such as David Puttnam and others – but it has primarily been about the software industry and not really about social media. How did DEAPPG engage with ministers and other DEAPPG had a good coherent set of social media accounts so parliamentarians? when we tweeted and blogged it had an almost instantaneous impact The DEAPPG sent out regular briefs every week on coming issues. with folk. It is a whole new audience, very immediate, so DEAPPG Because parties will only brief their members when there is a highly tended to hold events at relatively short notice. So we’ll be acting as the political line, we have quite a lot of researchers ringing us up for details ‘front of house’ in PICTFOR as far as the social media is concerned. and information on the digital economy. Ministers have been great, really accessible – and opposition is Labour MP for Falkirk and a Vice-Chair PICTFOR. He was frontbenchers came along to meetings too. And the nice thing about it previously the chair of Digital Economy APPG.

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and by information and communication Lord Newby LD Interfaith technology among the members of both Secretaries: Con TITLE Houses of Parliament and to improve the Edward Leigh Con All-Party Parliamentary Interfaith Group I quality of public policy nationally and internationally. This is about promoting Integrated Healthcare PURPOSE constructive discussion involving To help parliamentarians be aware of the TITLE parliamentarians, government, industry religious dimension to current issues. All-Party Parliamentary Group for Integrated and drawing upon appropriate and relevant Healthcare OFFICERS inputs from civil society including academics, Chair: Lord Harries of Pentregarth CB NGOs, consumers and young people. PURPOSE Vice-Chairs: Lord Ahmed Lab To facilitate among politicians the exchange Baroness Afshar CB OFFICERS of information on integrated healthcare; President: SPEAKER Treasurer: Jack Straw Lab to stimulate well-informed debate; and Chair: Lab Secretary: Baroness Neuberger LD Alun Michael to contribute towards the development of Vice-Chairs: Con Nigel Adams knowledge and policies on the subject. Andrew Miller Lab Intergenerational Futures OFFICERS John Robertson Lab TITLE Chair: David Tredinnick Con Eric Joyce Lab Intergenerational Futures All-Party Vice-Chair: Penny Mordaunt Con Julian Huppert LD Parliamentary Group Stephen McPartland Con President: Lord Colwyn Con PURPOSE Treasurer: Lord Harris of Haringey Lab To promote understanding of the impact Secretary: Stephen Mosley Con Intellectual Property of policy on intergenerational relationships TITLE and the way in which policy affects people at Infrastructure All-Party Parliamentary Intellectual Property different life stages. TITLE Group OFFICERS All-Party Parliamentary Group on PURPOSE Chair: Baroness Greeengross CB Infrastructure To debate and highlight the value of Vice-Chair: John Leech LD PURPOSE intellectual propery rights to the economy Treasurer: Baroness Thomas of Walliswood To highlight the importance of infrastructure and the importance of intellectual property LD to the economy and society, and to hear expert protection and enforcement. Secretary: Baroness Howe of Idlicote CB speakers and discuss matters arising. OFFICERS OFFICERS Chair: John Whittingdale Con International Corporate Chair: Nick Raynsford Lab Vice-Chair: SNP Responsibility \ Business, Vice-Chairs: Lord Chidgey LD Treasurer: Jim Dowd Lab Human Rights and the Naomi Long Alliance Secretary: Mike Weatherley Con Environment Graham Brady Con TITLE Treasurer: Lord Berkeley Lab Intelligent Energy All-Party Parliamentary Group on Secretary: Mark Garnier Con TITLE International Corporate Responsibility/ All-Party Parliamentary Group for Business, Human Rights and the Insurance and Intelligent Energy Environment Financial Services PURPOSE PURPOSE TITLE To develop among parliamentarians and key To raise awareness of the impact that All-Party Parliamentary opinion formers a deeper understanding of corporate activities can have on human rights Group on Insurance and the new energy efficiency technologies and and the environment and consider how Financial Services processes through parliamentary actitivy, human rights and the environment can be PURPOSE public information and broad political debate. best protected. The group will act as a forum To examine issues of interest to the for discussion about how business can operate OFFICERS ethically across national boundaries. insurance industry and broader financial Chair: Malcolm Wicks Lab sectors, especially where there are legislative Vice-Chair: Chris White Con OFFICERS implications. Treasurer: Mike Weir SNP Chair: Lisa Nandy Lab OFFICERS Secretary: Lord Redesdale LD Vice-Chairs: Martin Horwood LD Chair: Jonathan Evans Con Caroline Lucas Green Vice-Chairs: Andy Love Lab Jon Cruddas Lab Lord Hunt of Wirral Con Treasurer: Virendra Sharma Lab Secretary: Teresa Pearce Lab

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International Development PURPOSE OFFICERS and the Environment To raise awareness and represent within Co-Chairs: Jack Straw Lab Parliament the interests and concerns of the Simon Hughes LD I TITLE Irish community in Britain. Sir Peter Bottomley Con All-Party Parliamentary Group for International Development and the OFFICERS Environment Chair: Chris Ruane Lab ITV PURPOSE Vice-Chairs: Sir Peter Bottomley Con TITLE To provide a forum for greater discussion Simon Hughes LD All-Party Parliamentary ITV Group Treasurer: Lab of sustainable development, ensuring that Lord Dubs PURPOSE international development is fully rooted in To provide a forum for parliamentarians to environmental stewardship and the need for Islamic Finance and Diversity consider and discuss the role and contribution careful management of natural resouces, and in Financial Markets of ITV in broadcasting in the UK and further ensuring that environmental policy TITLE regulatory issues. takes full account of the needs of the poor and Associate Parliamentary Group on Islamic OFFICERS their aspirations for a better quality of life. Finance and Diversity in Financial Markets Chair: Lord Dubs Lab OFFICERS PURPOSE Vice-Chair: Anna Soubry Con Joint Chairs: Martin Horwood LD To give the Islamic finance industry a voice Treasurer: Richard Ottaway Con Caroline Lucas Green in the House in order to address issues Secretary: Baroness Bonham-Carter of Michael Meacher Lab of concern, specifically but not limited to Yarnbury LD Lord Teverson LD Sovereign Sukuk and positioning the UK Lord Chidgey LD as the European hub of Islamic financial Vice-Chairs: Sir Peter Bottomley Con services, and to address other issues as they Mark Durkan SDLP arise, such as inclusivity, diversity, Islamic Lord Foulkes of Cumnock Lab LIBOR, regulation and taxation. Lord Hannay of Chiswick CB OFFICERS Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead Lab Chair: Roger Williams LD Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer LD Vice-Chairs: Lord Sheikh Con Lord Newby LD Iraq and the Region Andy Slaughter Lab TITLE Treasurer: Barones Nicholson of All-Party Parliamentary Group for Economic Winterbourne LD Development in Iraq and the Region Secretary: Lord Smith of Clifton LD PURPOSE To encourage and foster the economic Islamophobia development of Iraq and its neighbours with TITLE particular awareness of the significance of All-Party Parliamentary Group on education and training. Islamophobia OFFICERS PURPOSE Chair: Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne To investigate the forms, manifestations LD and extent of prejudice and discrimination Vice-Chairs: Geoffrey Clifton-Brown Con against Muslims in the UK today. To review Lord Darzi of Denham Lab the effectiveness of all legislation with a Lord Robertson of Port Ellen Lab view to improving the rate of success in the Lord Ryder of Wensum Con prosecution of hate crimes. To review existing Treasurers: Lord Christopher Lab mechanisms for the recording of anti-Muslim Lord Razzall LD hate crimes both through police forces across Secretararies: David Anderson Lab the country and through third party reporting Ronnie Campbell Lab sites with a view to improving data quality and comprehensiveness. To investigate and Irish in Britain review the role of the media in fostering mutual respect and tolerance and guarding TITLE against misrepresentations of Islam and All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Irish intolerance towards Muslims. in Britain

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Jazz Appreciation Learning Disability Legal and Constitutional TITLE TITLE Affairs All-Party Parliamentary Jazz Appreciation All-Party Parliamentary Group on Learning TITLE J Group Disability All-Party Parliamentary Group for Legal and PURPOSE PURPOSE Constitutional Affairs To promote an appreciation of jazz music To promote the equal rights and PURPOSE K and to engage parliament in an awareness of opportunities of people with a learning To promote parliamentary understanding of the issues facing jazz music, musicians and disability. legal and constitutional issues and facilitate promoters. greater interaction between Parliament and OFFICERS the different branches of the legal profession. OFFICERS Chairs: Tom Clarke Lab L Chair: Michael Connarty Lab Lord Rix CB OFFICERS Co-Chair: Lord Colwyn Con Vice-Chairs: Mike Hancock LD Chair: Lord Hunt of Wirral Con Secretary: Joan Walley Lab Grahame M. Morris Lab Vice-Chairs: Lord Brennan Lab Treasurer: Baroness Wilkins Lab Lord Neill of Bladen CB Kidney Secretary: Viscount Tenby CB Lord Bach Lab Lord Burnett LD TITLE Lord Clinton-Davis Lab All-Party Parliamentary Kidney Group Legal Aid (SEE Q&A below) Keith Vaz Lab TITLE PURPOSE Treasurer: Lab All-Party Parliamentary Group on Legal Aid To improve understanding in Parliament of Secretary: Con kidney disease and transplant medicine and PURPOSE promote improvements in the health and To promote parliamentary and public Leisure care services that are available to improve the understanding of the importance of the role health of people with renal failure. of publicly funded legal services as a pillar TITLE of the welfare state and in reducing the All-Party Parliamentary Leisure Group OFFICERS inequalities in society. PURPOSE Chairs: Owen Smith Lab To inform MPs and Peers on issues relevant Duncan Hames LD OFFICERS to the leisure industry. Robert Buckland Con Chair: Yvonne Fovargue Lab Vice-Chairs: Lord Davies of Coity Lab Vice-Chair: Lord Carlile of Berriew LD OFFICERS Madeleine Moon Lab Treasurer: Lord Bach Lab Chair: Clive Betts Lab Secretary: Rosie Cooper Lab Secretary: Gareth Johnson Con Vice-Chairs: Justin Tomlinson Con Baroness Grey-Thompson CB

Q&A: legal aid APPG What is the purpose of the all-party group? widened and views put forcefully to the minister. The purpose is to provide a forum where parliamentarians and The APPG has worked hard to raise awareness of the practitioner groups – both solicitors and not-for-profit – can meet impact of the bill both in and outside Parliament. to discuss developments in legal aid, proposals for change and, particularly, the effect on clients and the public and any other issues What are your goals for the rest of the regarding the delivery of legally aidable services. It’s a wide-ranging Parliament? and open group and works with other groups too, for example, the To protect legal aid as a vital part of the welfare state Credit and Debt APPG. and to engage in debate about the future of legal services delivery to protect access to the law for the most vulnerable. How do you engage with ministers and other parliamentarians? Ministers are often invited and accept invitations to speak to the group What benefits do MPs and peers get from membership of the on topics of interest. Meetings are arranged around topical areas, for all-party group? instance, our next meeting will examine the operation of the telephone The opportunity to engage with providers and hear examples of how gateway and its appropriateness for different groups of clients. legal aid works in practice, from both the viewpoints of providers and clients. What have you achieved since the start of this parliament? The debate on the proposals in the consultation document, now the Yvonne Fovargue is Labour MP for Makerfield and the new chair of the Legal Aid APPG Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill, has been

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Libel Reform OFFICERS Vice-Chairs: Jim Fitzpatrick Lab Joint Chairs: Joan Walley Lab Lord King of West Bromwich Lab TITLE Tony Baldry Con Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer LD L All-Party Parliamentary Libel Reform Group Secretary: Clive Efford Lab PURPOSE Local Government To promote and raise awareness of the issue Limb Loss of reform of the laws of libel. TITLE TITLE All-Party Parliamentary Local Government OFFICERS Associate Parliamentary Limb Loss Group Group Chair: Paul Farrelly Lab PURPOSE Treasurer: Sir Peter Bottomley Con PURPOSE Secretary: Dr Julian Huppert LD To promote the prevention of limb loss To discuss issues of interest and concern to and the provision of prosthetic, orthotic, parliamentarians about local government. wheelchair/special seating, medical and OFFICERS Life Sciences other vital rehabilitation services to persons Chair: Heather Wheeler Con TITLE of all ages suffering limb loss and associated Vice-Chairs: Alison Seabeck Lab All-Party Parliamentary Group on Life complex physical disabilities in the UK and Dr Julian Huppert LD Sciences internationally. Lord Best CB PURPOSE OFFICERS Treasurer: Eric Ollerenshaw Con To investigate how life science can improve Chair: Lord McColl of Dulwich Con Secretary: Brandon Lewis Con quality of life in the United Kingdom. Baroness Tonge LD OFFICERS Steve McCabe Lab Looked after Children and Chair: Penny Mordaunt Con Alison Seabeck Lab Care Leavers Daniel Byles Con Vice-Chairs: Dr Julian Huppert LD TITLE Secretary: Dame Anne Begg Lab Anne Marie Morris Con All-Party Parliamentary Group for Looked after Children and Care Leavers Local Democracy Light Rail PURPOSE TITLE TITLE To work with children and young people in All-Party Parliamentary Light Rail Group All-Party Parliamentary Group on Local care, practitioners, children’s organisations Democracy PURPOSE and politicians to promote first-class To examine issues concerning light rail PURPOSE government policy for children in care. To promote the virtues of existing forms of and to raise awareness of those issues OFFICERS first tier local authorities and stimulate debate among parliamentarians, provide a forum Chair: Edward Timpson Con on suitable alternative models of community for discussion and debate on those issues, Vice-Chairs: Earl of Listowel CB governance. and generate recommendations for the Lisa Nandy Lab government to improve light rail in all its OFFICERS Treasurer/Secretary: Jessica Lee Con varied forms and applications, including ultra Chair: Rory Stewart Con light rail and trams. Vice-Chair: Tristram Hunt Lab Low Carbon Transport Deputy Chair: Fiona Bruce Con OFFICERS TITLE Treasurer: Dan Rogerson LD Chair: John Leech LD All-Party Parliamentary Low Carbon Secretary: Julian Smith Con Vice-Chair: Graham Stringer Lab Transport Group Secretary: Kelvin Hopkins Lab Local Environment Quality PURPOSE To provide a forum for the low carbon Lighting TITLE transport industry, parliamentarians and TITLE Local Environment Quality All-Party other interested parties to have an informed All-Party Parliamentary Lighting Group Parliamentary Group discussion about the key issues affecting low PURPOSE PURPOSE carbon transport. To discuss issues related to local To extend the knowledge of MPs and peers OFFICERS environmental quality; to raise these issues on lighting issues in respect of constituency Chair: Dr Alan Whitehead Lab on the parliamentary agenda and to provide concerns and government policy; to link Vice-Chairs: Con a forum for an exchange of views between lighting issues into local authority and cross- Lord Palmer CB cutting policy; and to promote improved parliamentarians and those with local application of lighting technologies. environmental quality issues. OFFICERS Chair: Anne McIntosh Con

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Malaria and Neglected PURPOSE Maritime and Ports To promote debate and foster a closer Tropical Diseases (see TITLE understanding between parliamentarians and Q&A Below) All-Party Parliamentary Maritime and Ports M UK managers from across all sectors. TITLE Group All-Party Parliamentary OFFICERS PURPOSE Group on Malaria and Chair: Barry Sheerman Lab To provide a forum for the exchange of views Neglected Tropical Diseases Vice-Chairs: Lorely Burt LD between parliamentarians and leading figures PURPOSE Sir Peter Bottomley Con in the shipping and ports industries. To raise awareness of malaria amongst Lord Haskel Lab OFFICERS parliamentarians; to understand more about Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts Con Chairs: Lord Greenway CB this complex disease and neglected tropical Baroness Kingsmill Lab Con diseases which are pandemic in sub-Saharan Vice-Chairs: Dr Alan Whitehead Lab Africa, parts of Asia and South Central Manufacturing Dr Therese Coffey Con America; and to encourage governments TITLE Treasurer: Mike Hancock LD to provide the political will, leadership and Associate Parliamentary Secretary: Lord Berkeley Lab sustainable funds for the necessary prevention Manufacturing Group and treatment. PURPOSE Markets OFFICERS To encourage the exchange of knowledge and TITLE Chair: Jeremy Lefroy Con understanding between Parliament and the All-Party Parliamentary Markets Group Vice-Chairs: Lord Rea Lab manufacturing industries, helping to raise Eleanor Laing Con the profile of manufacturing both inside and PURPOSE Kevin Barron Lab outside of Parliament. To promote and support traditional street and Treasurer: Gareth Thomas Lab covered markets and to promote the creation OFFICERS Secretary: Pauline Latham Con of new businesses and jobs. Co-Chairs: Barry Sheerman Lab Chris White Con OFFICERS Management Co-Vice-Chairs: Jonathan Reynolds Lab Chair: Lab TITLE John Stevenson Con Vice-Chairs: Lord Wade of Chorlton Con All-Party Parliamentary Group on Lord Broers CB Lord Bilston Lab Management Treasurer: Gordon Birtwistle LD Lorely Burt LD

Q&A: malaria and neglected tropical diseases APPG (APPMG) What is the purpose of the all-party group? What are your goals for the rest of the To bring together parliamentarians, professionals, NGOs and other parliament? interested people who have anything to do with, or wish to learn about, To continue to raise awareness of the importance of Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases. prevention and treatment which feeds into delivering the MDGs; try to persuade more private sector How do you engage with ministers and other parliamentarians? companies to put funding into their employees so Every month there is a meeting where members of the group, including that they take less time off and that the families have parliamentarians are invited to hear speakers on a range of subjects a healthier lifestyle; and to engage with more parliamentarians of all including how close we are getting to a vaccine for Malaria and the kind parties so that they are better informed than before. of research that is being funded. Ministers come as speakers as well. They also are sent the Annual Report each year. What benefits do MPs and peers get from membership of the all- party group? What have you achieved since the start of this parliament? Close collaboration on the work of the APPMG; greater awareness of the We have raised the awareness for many parliamentarians about issues issues surrounding Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases which they relating to Malaria. We visited Uganda in January to see for ourselves can take with them on other APPGs, committees and various study trips the difficulties and the successes of a variety of projects ranging from to areas where these diseases are prolific, and a greater understanding the distribution of bednets, the problem of drug ‘stockouts’ and how the of how DfiD and NGOs have problems trying to reduce the incidence of issue can be resolved, hospital conditions, private sector involvement Malaria. for prevention of Malaria and HIV/Aids – and resolved some of these issues upon our return. We continue to learn more about the various Pauline Latham is the Conservative MP for Mid and Secretary of the Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases APPG drugs being used to treat each disease.

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Marcus Jones Con Medical Research Vice-Chairs: Brian Binley Con Jenny Chapman Lab David Ward LD TITLE Nicky Morgan Con Vice-Chairs & Treasurer: David Crausby Lab All-Party Parliamentary M Secretary: Jim Dobbin Lab Secretary: Lord Bilston Lab Group on Medical Research Maternity Men’s Health PURPOSE TITLE To provide an ongoing forum and network TITLE All-Party Parliamentary Group on Maternity for parliamentarians with an interest in All-Party Parliamentary Group on Men’s PURPOSE medical research; to facilitate collaboration Health To improve the quality of maternity services between parliamentarians and medical PURPOSE and to raise awareness of the contribution research bodies; to provide MPs and peers To raise awareness of health issues affecting maternity care can make to public health. with up-to-date information on developments men. in medical research, including aspects of OFFICERS public health, ethics of research, and the OFFICERS Chair: Con Chair: Lab Dr Daniel Poulter implications of research findings for society. Lord Patel of Bradford Vice-Chairs: Baroness Cumberlege Con Vice-Chairs: Baroness Masham of Ilton CB Lord Patel CB OFFICERS Chris Heaton-Harris Con Karen Bradley Con Chair: Lord Turnberg Lab Paul Uppal Con Treasurer: Annette Brooke LD Vice-Chair: Lord Kakkar CB Secretary: Katy Clark Lab Treasurer: Dr Julian Huppert LD Mental Health Secretary: Lord Davies of Coity Lab TITLE Media Literacy Mental Health All-Party Parliamentary TITLE Medical Technology Group TITLE Associate Parliamentary Media Literacy PURPOSE All-Party Parliamentary Group on Improving Group To inform parliamentarians about all aspects Patient Access to Medical Technology PURPOSE of mental health. To promote the importance of media literacy PURPOSE OFFICERS skills, support policies that strengthen media To raise awareness amongst parliamentarians Chair: Charles Walker Con literacy in the population, and encourage of the developments and the benefits to Vice-Chairs:: Alison Seabeck Lab greater understanding of the social impacts of patients of medical technology. To highlight Nicky Morgan Con media use and content. the barriers to the uptake of medical Secretary: CB technology. To improve access to proven, cost Baroness Murphy OFFICERS effective medical technologies. To highlight Chair: Con David Morris the economic advantages to the NHS and the Methodist Vice-Chairs: Jo Swinson LD fiscal benefits to the wider British economy. TITLE Roger Gale Con To develop recommendations to improve All-Party Parliamentary Methodist Group access to medical technology and get more PURPOSE Media value and better quality outcomes for the To provide a forum for Methodists of both patient, the NHS, the taxpayer and the wider TITLE Houses. All-Party Parliamentary Media Group economy. OFFICERS PURPOSE OFFICERS Chair: Meg Munn Lab To provide a forum for the discussion of Chair: Ian Liddell-Grainger Con Vice-Chair: Sir Alan Beith LD public policy on the media. Vice-Chair: Virendra Sharma Lab Treasurer: Lord Griffiths of Burry PortLa b OFFICERS Secretary: Annette Brooke LD Chair: Austin Mitchell Lab Members’ Clubs Vice-Chairs: Lord Lipsey Lab TITLE Metropolitan Areas’ Dame Anne Begg Lab All-Party Parliamentary Group for Non- Transport Don Foster LD Profit Making Members’ Clubs TITLE Hon Secretaries: Sir Peter Bottomley Con PURPOSE All-Party Parliamentary Metropolitan Areas’ Roger Gale Con To support non-profit making members’ Transport Group clubs around the country. PURPOSE OFFICERS To promote parliamentary debate and Chairs: Greg Knight Con discussion on transport issues in the Stephen Hepburn Lab metropolitan areas.

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OFFICERS Migration PURPOSE Chair: Graham Stringer Lab To explore the educational, skills-related, TITLE Vice-Chairs: Greg Mulholland LD employment, competitive and cultural M All-Party Parliamentary Group on Migration Philip Davies Con benefits of learning and using modern PURPOSE languages throughout the UK; to provide Micro Businesses To provide a forum for members to access a parliamentary forum for information accurate and up-to-date information on exchange, discussion and consultation; and to TITLE migration issues and maintain a dialogue encourage and support policies and action to All-Party Parliamentary Group for Micro with key stakeholders to promote a balanced improve the take-up of modern languages in Businesses debate on migration and its impact on the schools, further and higher education, in the PURPOSE UK economy and society. workplace and in the community. To promote the objectives of micro businesses OFFICERS to a parliamentary audience and to offer a OFFICERS Chair: Jack Dromey Lab Chair: CB forum where micro business employers and Baroness Coussins Vice-Chairs: Lord Roberts of Llandudno LD Vice-Chairs: Luciana Berger Lab employees can come together to discuss issues Stewart Jackson Con of concern to the sector. Baroness Sharp of Guildford LD Jon Cruddas Lab Paul Maynard Con OFFICERS Secretary: Fiona Mactaggart Lab Co-Chairs: Anne Marie Morris Con Motor Neurone Disease Julian Smith Con Minerals Treasurer: Mark Pawsey Con TITLE TITLE Secretary: Lord West of Spithead Lab All-Party Parliamentary Group on Motor Associate Parliamentary Minerals Group Neurone Disease Microfinance PURPOSE PURPOSE To promote parliamentary awareness of the To raise awareness in Parliament of motor TITLE importance of minerals, provide information neurone disease (MND) and to provide a All-Party Parliamentary Group on on developments in minerals usage, policy forum for discussion among parliamentarians Microfinance and regulation and act as an information on issues that affect MND sufferers. PURPOSE exchange between parliamentarians and To raise awareness of microfinance and the industry. OFFICERS Chair: Con role it can play in reducing poverty, especially Gavin Williamson OFFICERS Vice-Chairs: Paul BlomfieldLa b in the developing world, and to provide a Co-Chairs: James Gray Con forum for discussion on new development in Greg Mulholland LD Roger Williams LD Treasurer: Lord Walton of Detchant CB the field of microfinance. David Hanson Lab OFFICERS Motor Co-Chairs: Con Mobile Homes Annette Brooke LD TITLE TITLE Vice-Chairs: Kerry McCarthy Lab All-Party Parliamentary Motor Group Mobile Homes All-Party Parliamentary Stephen Lloyd LD PURPOSE Group Treasurer: Con To debate and address issues of strategic PURPOSE importance to the UK automtotive industry, Middle Way To act as a forum for all elements in the park the motorsport industry and vehicle users; home industry, in particular those of park to focus on the role of the motor vehicle, TITLE home owners. including the environmental impact; and All-Party Parliamentary Middle Way Group OFFICERS to promote diaglogue between politicians, PURPOSE Chair: Christopher Chope Con industry, vehicle users and other stakeholders. To resolve the issue of hunting and improve Vice-Chair: Annette Brooke LD animal welfare in the countryside. OFFICERS Treasurer: Lord Evans of Parkside Lab Chair: Richard Burden Lab OFFICERS Acting Secretary: Lord Graham of Edmonton Vice-Chairs: Lord Corbett of Castle Vale Lab Co-Chairs: Baroness Golding Lab Lab Lorely Burt LD Edward Leigh Con Edward Timpson Con Roger Williams LD Modern Languages Treasurer: Heather Wheeler Con Vice-Chair: Sir Alan Beith LD Lab TITLE Secretary: Gavin Shuker Treasurer: Baroness Sharples Con All-Party Parliamentary Group on Modern Secretaries: Lord Carlile LD Languages Kate Hoey Lab

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Motorcycling Treasurer: Kris Hopkins Con OFFICERS Secretary: Lord Howarth of Newport Lab Chair: Mike Weatherley Con TITLE Vice-Chair: Diana R. Johnson Lab Associate Parliamentary Group for M Secretary/Treasurer: Baroness Finlay of Motorcycling Multiple Sclerosis Llandaff CB PURPOSE TITLE All-Party Parliamentary Group for Multiple To safeguard motorcycling interests by Music monitoring legislation for matters affecting Sclerosis motorcycling in both the UK and Europe PURPOSE TITLE and taking remedial action where necessary; To promote the interests of people affected All-Party Parliamentary Group on Music to represent motorcycling issues to fellow by MS. PURPOSE parliamentarians; to organise social events; to To provide a discussion forum between the OFFICERS foster the good image of motorcycling and, music industry and parliamentarians. Chair: Lab by example, to encourage others to take up Catherine McKinnell Vice-Chairs: LD OFFICERS motorcycling. Stephen Lloyd David Amess Con Chair: John Robertson Lab OFFICERS Treasurers: Lord Dubs Lab Vice-Chairs: Pete Wishart SNP Chair: Con Pamela Nash Lab Louise Mensch Con Treasurer: Stephen Pound Lab Secretary: Lord Corbett of Castle Vale Lab Kerry McCarthy Lab Secretary: Viscount Falkland LD Treasurer: Mike Weatherley Con Muscular Dystrophy Secretary: Jim Sheridan Lab Mountain Rescue TITLE TITLE All-Party Parliamentary Group for Muscular Myalgic Encephalomyelitis All-Party Parliamentary Group for Mountain Dystrophy (ME) Rescue PURPOSE TITLE PURPOSE To promote awareness of all forms of All-Party Parliamentary Group on Myalgic To promote the virtues of mountain rescue muscular dystrophy and to promote links Encephalomyelitis (ME) and to campaign for improved support and between parliament, charities, scientists and PURPOSE increased awareness of mountain rescue. families affected by muscular dystrophy. To raise awareness on ME and support the improvement of health, social care, education OFFICERS OFFICERS and employment opportunities for people Chair: Rory Stewart Con Chair: David Anderson Lab affected by ME. Vice-Chairs: Angela C. Smith Lab Vice-Chairs: Paul Maynard Con Lord Dubs Lab John Leech LD OFFICERS Lord Clark of Windermere Lab Dan Rogerson LD Chair: David Amess Con Tony Cunningham Lab Treasurer: Baroness Thomas of Winchester Vice-Chair: Annette Brooke LD Tim Farron LD LD Treasurer: Martin Vickers Con Secretary: John Woodcock Lab Secretary: Lord Walton of Detchant CB Secretary: John Leech LD

Mountaineering Music Education TITLE TITLE Mountaineering All-Party Parliamentary All-Party Parliamentary Group for Music Group Education PURPOSE PURPOSE To promote the sporting and recreational To inform, provide briefings and support interests of climbers, hill walkers and parliamentarians engaging in debates relating mountaineers; to raise awareness of to music education from early years through the physical and social benefits of primary, secondary, further and higher mountaineering; and to campaign for education and beyond into lifelong learning. sustainable access to cliffs, mountains and Particularly, this will focus on the review open countryside. of the National Curriculum, the English OFFICERS Baccalaureate, the National Plan for Music Chairs: John Mann Lab Education, challenges facing higher education Con and progression into the creative and cultural Vice-Chairs: Lab sector, and other issues as they arise. Angela C. Smith Lab

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National Parks PURPOSE Occupational Pensions To discuss the issue of media convergence, TITLE TITLE N digital policy, regulation of the internet and All-Party Parliamentary Group on National All-Party Parliamentary Group on related matters. Parks Occupational Pensions PURPOSE OFFICERS PURPOSE O To inform members about key issues relating Chair: John Hemming LD To develop and encourage occupational to the national parks of the UK and their Secretary: Tom Watson Lab pension schemes in the UK. authorities, including the Broads and areas OFFICERS which may merit national parks status Nuclear Energy Chair: Richard Graham Con in the UK; to pay particular attention to TITLE Vice-Chairs: Harriett Baldwin Con conservation and promotion of the special All-Party Parliamentary Group on Nuclear Lord Davies of Coity Lab qualities of these areas; and to foster the socio- Energy Secretary: Mark Durkan SDLP economic well-being of the communities PURPOSE within them. To provide a discussion forum between Offshore Oil and Gas OFFICERS the nuclear energy industry and TITLE Chair: Clive Betts Lab parliamentarians. British Offshore Oil and Vice-Chair: Roger Williams LD OFFICERS Gas Industry All-Party Treasurer: David Rutley Con Chair: John Robertson Lab Parliamentary Group Secretary: Alun Michael Lab Vice-Chairs: Stephen Mosley Con PURPOSE Ian Liddell-Grainger Con New Media To provide a forum for discussion of issues Treasurer: Fiona O’Donnell Lab relevant to the British offshore oil and gas TITLE Secretary: Michael Connarty Lab industry and other related industries, and to All-Party Parliamentary Group on New raise matters with government and with the Media industry itself.

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OFFICERS Opera Outsourcing and Shared Chair: Dame Anne Begg Lab TITLE Services Vice-Chairs: Lord Fraser of Carmyllie Con All-Party Parliamentary Opera Group TITLE O Sir Robert Smith LD All-Party Parliamentary Group on Mike Weir SNP PURPOSE Outsourcing and Shared Services Treasurer: Frank Doran Lab To provide a focal point for MPs and Peers Secretary: Michael Connarty Lab with an interest in opera; to further the PURPOSE appreciation of opera; and to provide a To raise awareness of the benefits and best Olympic and Paralympic contact point between opera and Parliament. practices of the outsourcing and shared services industries; to address the issues that OFFICERS TITLE face the industry; and to promote dialogue Chair: Sir Gerald Kaufman Lab All-Party Parliamentary London 2012 and understanding between industry Vice-Chair: Lord Trimble Con Olympic and Paralympic Group representatives and Members of Parliament. Treasurer: Mark Pritchard Con PURPOSE Secretary: Andy Love Lab OFFICERS To support and monitor progress of the Chair: Bob Blackman Con London 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Osteoporosis Vice-Chairs: Siobhain McDonagh Lab Games. Tom Blenkinsop Lab TITLE OFFICERS Secretary: Ian Swales LD All-Party Parliamentary Osteoporosis Group Chair: Richard Ottaway Con Vice-Chairs: Baroness Grey-Thompson CB PURPOSE Ovarian Cancer Nick Raynsford Lab To inform both Houses about osteoporosis. TITLE Treasurer: Sir Robert Smith LD OFFICERS All-Party Parliamentary Group on Secretary: Edward Leigh Con Co-Chairs: Baroness Cumberlege Con Ovarian Cancer Lab PURPOSE Vice-Chair: Lorely Burt LD To provide a forum for MPs and Secretary: Linda Riordan Lab Peers to discuss ovarian cancer related issues; to raise areas of concern with government or other policy makers; to raise the profile of ovarian cancer within Parliament and seek opportunities to help improve survival and qualify of life for women. OFFICERS Chair: Sharon Hodgson Lab Vice-Chairs: Lord Clement-Jones LD Tim Farron LD Dr Sarah Wollaston Con Treasurer: Russell Brown Lab

Overseas Development TITLE All-Party Parliamentary Group on Overseas Development PURPOSE To keep under review all actions and initiatives which promote economic and social development of the poorer countries. OFFICERS Chair: David Laws LD Vice-Chairs: Tony Baldry Con Lord McFall of Alcluith Lab Treasurer: Tom Clarke Lab Secretary: Nicola Blackwood Con olympic and paralympic

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Packaging Manufacturing for the reform of the basic services that will within the UK in order to share best practice. enable children and young peope to receive Industry OFFICERS the equipment they need. P TITLE Lab Chair: Baroness Gale All-Party Parliamentary Group for the OFFICERS Vice-Chairs: Steve Brine Con Packaging Manufacturing Industry Chair: Greg Mulholland LD Baroness Finlay of Llandaff CB PURPOSE Vice-Chair: Paul Maynard Con Treasurer: Duncan Hames LD To create a better understanding of UK Secretaries: Lord Brooke of Sutton packaging manufacture; to address issues Parkinson’s Disease Mandeville Con Madeleine Moon Lab facing industry from regulation; and to TITLE promote the UK as a centre of excellence for All-Party Parliamentary Group for packaging manufacture. Parkinson’s Disease Parliament First OFFICERS PURPOSE TITLE Chair: Dan Rogerson LD To keep Parkinson’s disease on the political Parliament First All-Party Parliamentary Vice-Chair: Mark Pawsey Con agenda; to investigate, monitor, report on, Group Treasurer: Russell Brown Lab provide a forum for discussion and exert PURPOSE Secretary: John Pugh LD pressure on issues relating to implementation To promote parliamentary reform. of relevant government initiatives, with the OFFICERS ultimate goal of ensuring equal access to Paediatric Mobility Reform Chair: Michael Meacher Lab recommended and appropriate health and TITLE Secretary: Peter Bone Con social services to all people with Parkinson’s All-Party Parliamentary Group for Paediatric and their carers.; to provide regular briefings Mobility Reform to parliamentarians in order to ensure Patient and Public PURPOSE awareness of the needs of people with Involvement in Health and To raise awareness about the need for reform Parkinson’s and their carers; to ensure policy- Social Care within wheelchair services that provide making is evidence-based and focused around TITLE wheelchairs to children. The group would the needs of service-users; and to liaise with Patient and Public Involvement in Health like to see it recognised that there is a need members of the devolved administrations and Social Care All-Party Parliamentary Group PURPOSE peak oil and gas To promote engagement between healthcare and social care providers and users in order to provide a more responsive patient-centred way of supplying medical care; and to inform the parliamentary debate on patient and public involvement and public participation. OFFICERS Chair: John Pugh LD Vice-Chair: Baroness Marsham of Ilton CB

Peak Oil and Gas TITLE All-Party Parliamentary Group on Peak Oil and Gas PURPOSE To study and highlight the issue of ‘peak oil’, namely the fact that each energy supply from a non-renewable resource will have a year in which the production peaks. OFFICERS Chair: John Hemming LD Vice-Chair: Caroline Lucas Green Treasurer: Mark Williams LD Secretary: Stephen Williams LD

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Penal Affairs PURPOSE current and potential contribution to the To discuss issues to do with the operation of health of the nation. TITLE the pharmaceutical industry in the UK; to All-Party Parliamentary Penal Affairs Group OFFICERS P debate pharmaceutical developments and Chair: Kevin Barron Lab PURPOSE their impact on patients and UK healthcare; Vice-Chair: Baroness Cumberlege Con To increase Members’ knowledge of penal and to exchange information and views with Oliver Colvile Con affairs and to work though parliamentary the pharmaceutical industries. channels for reform of the penal system. Treasurer: Margot James Con OFFICERS Secretary: Stephen Lloyd LD OFFICERS Chair: Ian Liddell-Grainger Con Chair: Lab Lord Corbett of Castle Vale Vice-Chair: Lord Hunt of Kings Heath Lab Philately Vice-Chairs: Claire Perry Con Treasurer: Karen Bradley Con Lord Ramsbotham CB TITLE Associate Parliamentary Group on Philately Baroness Stern CB Pharmacy Secretary: Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts PURPOSE Con TITLE To bring together all who are interested in All-Party Parliamentary Group on Pharmacy philately; to promote and educate; to co- Pharmaceutical Industry PURPOSE operate with the Royal Mail and the Royal To raise awareness of the profession of Philatelic Sociey; and to hold meetings, TITLE pharmacy and to promote pharmacists’ discussions and events relating to philately. All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Pharmaceutical Industry

Q&A: population, development and reproductive health APPG What is the purpose of the all-party parliamentary group? and other conferences, written correspondence, The APPG on PD&RH aims to ensure the full implementation of consultations and APPG on PD&RH hearings. the International Conference on Population and Development’s Members engage with other national, regional Programme of Action (ICPD PoA), with specific reference to stabilising and international parliamentarians and networks the world’s population though choice and ensuring sustainable via official committee and expert briefings, development in the UK and abroad. meetings, national, European and international The International Conference on Population and Development’s conferences and study tours. Programme of Action of 1994 is a landmark multi-country agreement, signifying the dawn of a new era in how the world community views What have you achieved since the start of this Parliament? the interface between population and development. The overriding Please visit www.appg-popdevrh.org.uk/ for further information on objective of the Cairo Programme of Action is to raise the quality of APPG on PD&RH activities. life and individual well-being, and to promote human development by recognising the complexity of interrelationships between What are your goals for the rest of the Parliament? population and development policies and programmes. The UK APPG on PD&RH will continue to recruit new UK MPs to help The ambitious aim is to achieve poverty eradication; sustained ensure that the UK government does all it can to protect women’s economic growth in the context of sustainable development; wider and children’s sexual and reproductive health and human rights. access to education, especially for girls; gender equity and equality; the reduction of infant, child and maternal mortality; the provision What benefits do MPs and peers get from membership of the of universal access to reproductive health services, including family all-party group? planning and sexual health; sustainable patterns of consumption The APPG on PD&RH, along with its network of partner and production; food security; human resources development; organisations from across the continent – namely the European and the guarantee of all human rights, including the right to Parliamentary Forum on Population and Development – help development as a universal and inalienable right and an integral its members to be informed about national and international part of fundamental human rights (UN, 1994 and UN, 1999). population, family planning, sexual and reproductive and maternal health issues. Both organisations provide MPs with free advice, How do you engage with ministers and other parliamentarians? briefings ahead of parliamentary debates and trips to the field to Members of the APPG on Population Development & Reproductive visit projects and meet experts. Health engage with ministers via meetings (briefing meetings, report launches, receptions etc), parliamentary questions, early day Baroness Tonge is a Lib Dem peer and Chair of the Population, motions, debates, party-, United Nations- and inter-governmental Development and Reproductive Health APPG

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OFFICERS Population, Development Primary Care and Chair/Treasurer/Secretary: Andrew Rosindell and Reproductive Health Public Health Con P (sEE Q&A on p.43) TITLE Vice-Chairs: Lord Jones of Cheltenham LD TITLE All-Party Parliamentary Group on Primary Lee Scott Con All-Party Care and Public Health Malcolm Wicks Lab Parliamentary Group on Population, PURPOSE Development and Reproductive Health Photography To raise the profile of primary care and PURPOSE public health within parliament; to speak TITLE To ensure the full implementation of the within parliament on behalf of both users All-Party Parliamentary Group for International Conference on Population and and those working in the NHS; to place Photography Development’s Programme of Action with primary care and public health high on the PURPOSE specific reference to stabilising the world’s government’s agenda; and to inform debate To promote interest in photography. population though choice and ensuring by parliamentarians with outside bodies. sustainable development in the UK and OFFICERS OFFICERS abroad. Chair: Austin Mitchell Lab Chair: Lord Hunt of Kings Heath Lab Vice-Chairs: Andrew Miller Lab OFFICERS Executive Officers: Baroness Gardner of Viscount Allenby of Megiddo CB Chair: Baroness Tonge LD Parkes Con Barones Hilton of Eggardon Lab Vice-Chairs: Geoffrey Clifton-Brown Con Julie Elliott Lab Gerald Howarth Con Richard Ottaway Con Treasurer: Baroness Masham of Ilton CB Secretaries: Lord Crathorne Con Treasurer: Lab Sir Peter Bottomley Con Secretaries: Jenny Willott LD Print Baroness Flather CB TITLE Pneumonia All-Party Parliamentary Print Group Post Offices TITLE PURPOSE All-Party Parliamentary Group for Global TITLE To provide a forum in which the issues Action against Childhood Pneumonia All-Party Parliamentary Group for Post impacting on the printing industry may Offices PURPOSE be debated; to promote understanding of To raise awareness of the global disease PURPOSE those issues and the industry; to raise the burden of pneumonia and the importance To promote the interests of post offices and profile of the printing industry amongst of adequate prevention and treatment their customers in communities. parliamentarians. interventions. OFFICERS OFFICERS OFFICERS Chair: Russell Brown Lab Chair: Lord O’Neill of Clackmannan Lab Co-Chairs: Lord Avebury LD Vice-Chairs: Jason McCartney Con Vice-Chair: Stephen Metcalfe Con Jim Dobbin Lab Sir Robert Smith LD Secretary: Gerry Sutcliffe Lab Vice-Chair: Lord Dholakia LD Treasurer: Alan Reid LD Treasurer: Stephen McPartland Con Secretary: Richard Graham Con Prison Health Secretary: Ian Liddell-Grainger Con TITLE Poverty All-Party Parliamentary Group on Prison Policing TITLE Health TITLE All-Party Parliamentary Group on Poverty PURPOSE All-Party Parliamentary Group on Policing PURPOSE To provide a forum for discussion and PURPOSE To promote awareness of the impact of a platform for campaigning towards To promote better understanding of policing poverty, its causes and consequences, and improvements in all aspects of healtchcare in issues amongst both Houses of Parliament. to encourage the spread of good practice to prisons. alleviate and eliminate it. OFFICERS OFFICERS Chair: Lord Harris of Haringey Lab OFFICERS Chair: Fabian Hamilton Lab Vice-Chairs: Tony Baldry Con Chair: Kate Green Lab Vice-Chairs: Robert Walter Con Sir Paul Beresford Con Vice-Chair: Chris White Con Baroness Masham of Ilton CB Alun Michael Lab Treasurer: Baroness Sherlock Lab Secretary: Lord Patel of Bradford Lab Secretary: Baroness Harris of Richmond LD Secretary: Paul Goggins Lab

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Private Equity and PURPOSE Prostitution and the Global Venture Capital To provide a forum for discussion of pro-life Sex Trade issues including abortion, euthanisais and TITLE TITLE P research upon the human embryo. All-Party Parliamentary Group on Private All-Party Parliamentary Group on Equity and Venture Capital OFFICERS Prostitution and the Global Sex Trade PURPOSE Chair: Jim Dobbin Lab PURPOSE To promote a better understanding of private Vice-Chairs: Fiona Bruce Con To raise awareness of the impact of the sale equity and venture capital amongst MPs and Mark Pritchard Con of sexual services on those involved and to Peers. Baroness Masham of Ilton CB develop proposals for government action to John Pugh LD tackle individuals who create demand for OFFICERS Baroness Hooper Con sexual services as well as those who control Chair: Mark Field Con Treasurers: Edward Leigh Con prostitutes; to protect prostituted women Vice-Chair: Lord Newby LD Jeffrey M. Donaldson DUP by helping them to exit prostitution and to Secretaries: Joe Benton Lab prevent girls from entering prostitution. Pro-Life Margaret Ritchie SDLP OFFICERS TITLE Chair: Fiona Mactaggart Lab All-Party Parliamentary Pro-Life Group Vice-Chair: Baroness O’Cathain Con Treasurer: Meg Munn Lab publishing Secretary: Denis MacShane Lab

Pub TITLE All-Party Parliamentary Save the Pub Group PURPOSE To bring together members of the House of Commons and House of Lords who want to add their voice to the efforts to preserve and protect the British pub. OFFICERS Chair: Greg Mulholland LD Joint Vice-Chairs: Brian Binley Con Lord Bilston Lab Karen Bradley Con

Publishing TITLE All-Party Parliamentary Group on Publishing PURPOSE To promote the publishing industry and discuss issues challenging the sector and bring them to the attention of government. To debate and highlight the value of publishing to the economy and the importance of copyright protection and enforcement. To promote and encourage parliamentary debate on issues affecting publishing in areas of British culture, diversity, IP, digital economy and competition. OFFICERS Chair: Gordon Banks Lab Vice-Chair: Lord Heseltine Con Secretary: Tristram Hunt Lab

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Queen’s Diamond Jublilee PURPOSE and to service the well-being of the industries. To increase the coverage of race equality TITLE OFFICERS Q issues in Parliament; to update members on All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Joint Chairs: Laurence Robertson Con race equality issues and up-to-date research; Queen’s Diamond Jublilee Sir Alan Meale Lab and to connect the group with race equality Vice-Chairs: Grahame M. Morris Lab PURPOSE organisations. R To support and encourage the observation Viscount Falkland LD and celebrations surrounding the occasion of OFFICERS Treasurer: Baroness Golding Lab the 60th anniversary of the accession to the Chair: David Lammy Lab Secretary: Lord Donoughue Lab throne of Her Majesty the Queen and to assist Vice-Chairs: Baroness Hussein-Ece LD in the liaison and organisation thereof. Lord Lester of Herne Hill LD Rail in the North Lord Sheikh Con TITLE OFFICERS Baroness Whitaker Lab Chair: Michael Ellis Con All-Party Parliamentary Rail in the North Group Vice-Chairs: Andrew Rosindell Con Racing and Bloodstock Tristram Hunt Lab Industries PURPOSE Treasurer: Mary MacLeod Con To provide a forum for parliamentarians Secretary: John Thurso LD TITLE to consider and discuss the strategic rail All-Party Parliamentary Racing and network in the north of and to raise Race and Community Bloodstock Industries Group awareness of these issues in Parliament and PURPOSE with stakeholders. TITLE To promote the racing and bloodstock All-Party Parliamentary Group on Race and OFFICERS industries within Parliament; to inform Community Chair: Julie Hilling Lab members of both Houses about the industries;

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Vice-Chairs: Jason McCartney Con OFFICERS PURPOSE Andrew Jones Con Chairs: Stephen Hammond Con To explore, discuss and disseminate Ian Mearns Lab Tom Harris Lab imaginative and wide ranging solutions R Secretary: Pat Glass Lab Vice-Chairs: Anne McIntosh Con addressing disadvantage, deprivation and Kelvin Hopkins Lab social cohesion problems facing towns and Rail in Wales Lord Bradshaw LD cities and to raise awareness of and encourage Lord Snape Lab dialogue regarding these issues in parliament TITLE Treasurer: Lord Faulkner of Worcester Lab and government. All-Party Parliamentary Group on Rail in Secretary: Lord Berkeley Lab Wales OFFICERS Chair: Richard Graham Con PURPOSE Refugees Vice-Chairs: David Ward LD To provide a formal opportunity for MPs Michael McCann Lab to meet with rail operators, user groups and TITLE Treasurer: Con other bodies connected to Wales. All-Party Parliamentary Group on Refugees PURPOSE OFFICERS To provide a forum for the discussion of Renewable and Chair: Siân C. James Lab issues relating to refugees, both in the UK Sustainable Energy Vice-Chair: Simon Hart Con and abroad, and to promote the welfare of Treasurer: PC TITLE refugees. Secretary: Mark Williams LD Associate Parliamentary OFFICERS Renewable and Sustainable Energy Group Rail (see Q&A BELOW) Chair: Dr Julian Huppert LD Vice-Chairs: Jeremy Corbyn Lab PURPOSE TITLE Sir Peter Bottomley Con To promote sustainable energy issues All-Party Parliamentary Secretary: Lord Dubs Lab in Parliament and the wider political Rail Group community and to discuss policy barriers PURPOSE Regeneration through to the advancement of the market for To facilitate an informed debate amongst Innovation sustainable energy technologies. parliamentarians regarding all aspects of the OFFICERS UK’s railway industries. TITLE All-Party Parliamentary Group on Chair: Dr Alan Whitehead Lab Regeneration through Innovation Vice-Chairs: Malcolm Bruce LD

Q&A: Rail APPG What is the purpose of the all-party parliamentary group? look at the operation of Dutch Railways and High The APPG Rail Group was established to allow the industry and Speed Rail in France. parliamentarians to meet and discuss issues that affect the rail industry. This allows parliamentarians a much better understanding What are your goals for the rest of the of the industry and its opportunities and challenges. Parliament? We will continue to provide a forum for discussion. How do you engage with ministers and other parliamentarians? However as an APPG we must cater for the interests We are grateful that both the secretary of state and shadow secretary of of all parliamentarians and I will endeavour to ensure that we will do state and the rail minister have addressed the group since the General so. I believe that we will wish to monitor the progress of the McNulty Election. The group issues regular minutes and has always ensured ‘Value for Money’ review, the change of direction at Network Rail and that ministers are aware that they are welcome to address the group the reform of the franchising system. I have no doubt that we will whenever. The group is open to all members of both Houses and we wish to contribute to the debate on High Speed Rail. meet monthly. We also publish a resume of the meetings. What benefits do MPs and peers get from membership of the What have you achieved since the start of this Parliament? all-party group? The programme since the General Election I think has been varied, The benefit of the APPG Rail Group for Members and Peers is clear- topical and of quality. Not only have we had the opportunity to informed debate and presentations from senior figures in the Rail listen and question the secretary and shadow secretary of state, we Industry. have meetings with the ORR, Network Rail, train companies and Stephen Hammond is the Conservative MP for Wimbledon and Co-Chair rolling stock companies. We are also looking at a visit to Europe to of the Rail APPG

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How Go-Ahead - One of the UK’s this is not a new realisation. We have by 3.5% and reduced emissions per Largest Transport Operators - is thrived to be a beacon of good practice passenger journey by 5%. Measures Reducing Carbon Emissions and to embed reducing our impact on the to tackle site energy efficiency such as environment into everything we do. intelligent lighting, replacing inefficient The recent economic conditions have equipment, smart metering, and simply posed challenges for all UK businesses. For any business to take on reducing things like getting staff to switch off For transport, these conditions make it emissions, it needs a very precise lights has reduced consumption by 9% even more important to put passengers at understanding of how it is impacting on overall. Across our business we have the heart of our business and provide even the environment. We reviewed everything reduced emissions by 9% since 2007/08. more efficient, integrated and responsibly we do. We established these key sources: We invested £8m in these three main operated bus and rail transport. 55% of our emissions came from rail initiatives and achieved full payback on electricity traction for rail; 34% from bus this investment in just 12 months. Last year, for the rst time, our companies fuel emissions; 6% comes from our sites carried more than one billion passengers. – we operate from 39 bus depots, 10 rail These measures led to Go-Ahead being We are a major employer with 22,000 depots and manage 478 rail stations; the rst public transport operator to staff who we have continued to invest and, the remainder came from our small get the Carbon Trust Standard for our in, spending £11m on training last year diesel rail eet. efforts in tackling climate change. That is alone. Tougher economic conditions something we are hugely proud of. But are not an excuse to go soft on tackling Through a range of measures we even in these austere times, we cannot carbon emissions. We believe that reduced our carbon footprint. We reduced stand still. That is why we have launched business growth and tackling emissions rail traction electricity use through a new carbon reduction programme - go hand in hand. regenerative braking and eco-driving - Driving Energy Further. We now intend to

savings of 8% were achieved. All our double the reductions in CO2 emissions Reducing emissions is not only good for buses are tted with RIBAS technology to 20%, per passenger journey, by 2015. the environment but good for business. (equipment which measures revving, You can read all about how we are It can actually improve efficiency, and if idling, braking, acceleration, and speed) reducing emissions on our website at: done right, save money. As a business, which improved eet miles per gallon www.go-ahead.com. APPG guide

Dr Therese Coffey Con OFFICERS OFFICERS Caroline Lucas Green Chair: Clive Efford Lab Chair: Ian Davidson Lab Treasurer: Lord Corbett of Castle Vale Lab Hon Treasurer: Brian H. Donohoe Lab Vice-Chairs: Aidan Burley Con R Secretary: Baroness Maddock LD Mark Pawsey Con Roofing Industry Treasurer: Paul Farrelly Lab Secretary: Lord Addington LD Reserve Forces and Cadets TITLE TITLE All-Party Parliamentary Group for the All-Party Parliamentary Roofing Industry Rugby Union Group for the Reserve Forces and Cadets PURPOSE TITLE PURPOSE To raise awareness of the roofing industry in All-Party Parliamentary Rugby Union Group To promote interest in Britain’s Reserve Parliament. PURPOSE Forces and Cadets and generate new thinking To promote the sport of rugby union. OFFICERS on their role and structure. Chair: David Hanson Lab OFFICERS OFFICERS Vice-Chairs: Baroness Maddock LD Chair: Tony Cunningham Lab Chair: Julian Brazier Con Lord Davies of Coity Lab Vice-Chairs: Don Foster LD Vice-Chairs: Mark Lancaster Con Lord Addington LD Tony Baldry Con Rowing Robert Walter Con Madeleine Moon Lab Treasurer: Dai Havard Lab TITLE Andrew Miller Lab Secretary: Paul Farrelly Lab All-Party Parliamentary Rowing Group Treasurer: David Crausby Lab Secretaries: Dr Therese Coffey Con PURPOSE Runaway and Missing Robert Flello Lab To support the sport of rowing. Children and Adults OFFICERS TITLE Retail Co-Chairs: Lord Thomas of Gresford LD All-Party Parliamentary Group for Runaway TITLE Sir Peter Bottomley Con and Missing Children and Adults Secretary: Don Foster LD All-Party Parliamentary Retail Group PURPOSE PURPOSE To highlight the issue of children and adults To raise the profile of the retail sector’s Rugby League who run away or go missing and to recognise interests and concerns with government TITLE the impact this can have on the families left ministers, opposition parties and in the wider All-Party Parliamentary Rugby League behind. parliamentary arena. Group OFFICERS OFFICERS PURPOSE Chair: Ann Coffey Lab Co-Chairs: Ann Coffey Lab To support the sport of rugby league football. Vice-Chair: Lab Jane Ellison Con OFFICERS Secretary: Annette Brooke LD Vice-Chairs: Philip Davies Con Chair: Lord Lofthouse of Pontefract Lab Robert Halfon Con Vice-Chairs: Greg Mulholland LD Rural Services Kate Green Lab James Clappison Con TITLE Gareth Johnson Con Lord Hoyle Lab All-Party Parliamentary Group on Rural Justin Tomlinson Con Treasurer: Lord Smith of Leigh Lab Services Secretary: Lord Dykes LD Secretary: Derek Twigg Lab President: Lord Graham of Edmonton Lab PURPOSE To promote debate on the provision of rural Rugby Union Football Club Road Passenger Transport services and to issue periodic reports. TITLE OFFICERS TITLE All-Party Parliamentary Commons and Chair: Graham Stuart Con Associate Parliamentary Road Passenger Lords Rugby Union Football Club Group Transport Group Vice-Chairs: Grahame M. Morris Lab PURPOSE Dan Rogerson LD PURPOSE To play and promote the sport of rugby Lord Dear CB To provide a high level forum for all union within Parliament, between national Treasurer: Rory Stewart Con stakeholders in the road passenger transport parliaments, within the community and for Secretary: Baroness Byford Con industy and members of both Houses with an charitable purposes. interest in road passenger transport.

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Sailing and Marine Leisure Treasurer: Robert Walter Con OFFICERS Secretary: Con Chair: George Freeman Con TITLE Vice-Chairs: Earl of Selbourne Con S All-Party Parliamentary Sailing and Marine Lord Haskins CB Leisure Group Science and Technology in Agriculture PURPOSE TITLE Scientific Research in To promote and maintain parliamentary Learning and Education knowledge and partnership with sailing, All-Party Parliamentary Group on Science boating, canoeing and marine leisure and Technology in Agriculture TITLE interests. PURPOSE All-Party Parliamentary Group on Scientific Research in Learning and Education OFFICERS To provide a forum for palriamentarians PURPOSE Chair: Sir Peter Bottomley Con and other interested parties to debate and Vice-Chairs: Richard Ottaway Con highlight the value of science and technology To consider how to effectively incorporate Sir Robert Smith LD in agriculture. the growing body of scientific knowledge

Q&A: Parliamentary & Scientific committee (associate parliamentary group) What is the purpose of the All-Party Associate Parliamentary What have you achieved since the start of this Group? Parliament? Founded in 1939 amid the perils of the threat of war, the Discussion meetings are held in Parliament and are Parliamentary & Scientific Committee (P&SC) came into being to attended by Parliamentarians from both Houses, guide Parliament and the government on the role of science and Members and guests, followed by a reception, which technology. It was the first all-party associate parliamentary group. is an important opportunity for informal networking. After the war, it was responsible for securing a number of This is followed by a Chair’s dinner by invitation, where innovative changes in the relations between science, government further discussion follows under the Chatham House Rule. A site visit was and Parliament. It was this committee which started the process also undertaken. A full programme of future meeting topics up to March that eventually led to the formation of POST – the Parliamentary 2012, is published on the website www.scienceinparliament.org.uk Office for Science and Technology. It also was very influential in the establishment of the science and technology select committees in What are your goals for the rest of the Parliament? both Houses of Parliament – committees which have a vital role in The P&SC continues today its tradition of forward-looking and holding ministers to account, and helping to ensure that MPs and innovative approaches to ensure proper and effective communication of peers – and ministers – are kept aware of trends and discoveries science and engineering in Parliamentary and public affairs. Long may it in science and technology. The committee has been described by continue! prime ministers as ‘a unique British institution’. The committee membership currently comprises some What benefits do MPs and Peers get from membership of the All- 250 member organisations, including scientific and technical Party Associate Parliamentary Group? organisations, industrial members and universities, in addition to We are an influential bridge between scientists, engineers and parliamentarians from both Houses and Members of the European technologists in industry, academia, the professions, and Members of Parliament, hereditary peers, honorary members, members both Houses. appointed by virtue of their office, life members, associate The committee also publishes the well-known and highly respected members, corporate members and individual members. journal Science in Parliament, four times a year while Parliament is sitting, and is freely available in hard copy and is distributed to Parliamentarians How do you engage with ministers and other from both Houses, but is normally purchased by Member organisations Parliamentarians? in conjunction with their annual membership fees. All current and back Successive officers and councils have successfully ensured that we numbers of the Journal are also freely available for download on a pro continue to have an important role. We are a focus and think-tank bono basis, from the committee’s very informative and regularly updated for science and technology. We are an influential bridge between website www.scienceinparliament.org.uk since its initiation in 2004, scientists, engineers and technologists in industry, academia, the with the exception of current issues which are available for sale to non- professions, and Members of both Houses. We are a platform for members. The site also has a wide range of other useful facilities and those able to put forward new ideas which need consideration information including a freely available Guide to Science in Parliament and in Parliament; for those who have new scientific advances to Government. report, and for those seeking to influence the research policies of government departments. Andrew Miller is Labour MP for Ellesmere Port and Neston and Chair of the Science and Technology Committee

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scientific on learning and development into evidence- PURPOSE social and spiritual potentials as individuals, informed education policy and practice. A To promote and facilitate communication as responsible citizens and as members crucial area is the role of information and and understanding between representatives of their local, national and international S communication technologies in influencing from the scotch whisky and spirits industry communities. the way that young people think, learn and and MPs. OFFICERS behave. OFFICERS Chair: Stephen Pound Lab OFFICERS Chair: Jim Sheridan Lab Vice-Chairs: David Amess Con Co-Chairs: Baroness GreenfieldCB Vice-Chairs: Anne McIntosh Con Lord Jones of Cheltenham LD Baroness Morris of Yardley Lab Alan Reid LD Nicola Blackwood Con James Arbuthnot Con Angus Robertson SNP Secretary: Bob Russell LD Treasurer: Baroness Adams of Craigelea Lab Hon President: Baroness Morgan of Huyton Scientific (see Q&A opposite) Secretary: Brian H. Donohoe Lab Lab TITLE Parliamentary and Scientific Scottish Football Sex Equality Committee (an Associate TITLE TITLE Parliamentary Group) All-Party Parliamentary Scottish Football All-Party Parliamentary Group for Sex PURPOSE Group Equality To be a primary focus for scientific and PURPOSE PURPOSE technological issues, providing a long- To promote and support Scottish football. To campaign for the advancement of sex tem liaison between parliamentarians and equality in the UK. OFFICERS scientific bodies, science-based insustry and Chair: Jim Sheridan Lab OFFICERS the academic world. Vice-Chair: Pete Wishart SNP Chair: Eleanor Laing Con OFFICERS Secretary: John Robertson Lab Vice-Chairs: Sir Peter Bottomley Con Chair: Andrew Miller Lab Jo Swinson LD Vice-Chair: Tom Blenkinsop Lab Scout Treasurer: Lilian Greenwood Lab Treasurer: Lord Willis of Knaresborough LD Secretary: Baroness Gould of Potternewton TITLE Secretary: Stephen Mosley Con Lab All-Party Parliamentary Scout Group Scotch Whisky and Spirits PURPOSE To promote the development of young people TITLE in achieving their full physical, intellectual, All-Party Parliamentary Scotch Whisky and Spirits Group

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Sexual and Reproductive PURPOSE Skills To highlight the concerns of the smaller Health in the UK TITLE retailer (as distinct from large multiples) and S TITLE Associate to draw attention to their social as well as All-Party Parliamentary Group on Sexual Parliamentary Skills Group economic role. and Reproductive Health in the UK PURPOSE PURPOSE OFFICERS To generate an exchange of knowledge and To raise awareness in parliament of the Chair: David Amess Con understanding between Parliament and skills needs of women seeking abortion and the Vice-Chair: Justin Tomlinson Con stakeholders, helping to ensure that skills importance of improving all aspects of the Fiona Bruce Con development leads to a creative, successful sexual health of women and men in the UK. Treasurer: Andrew Percy Con economy with more able, skilled and fulfilled individuals. OFFICERS Sickle Cell and Chair: Baroness Gould of Potternewton Lab Thalassaemia OFFICERS Joint Vice-Chairs: Baroness Flather CB Co-Chairs: Nic Dakin Lab Emily Thornberry Lab TITLE Charlotte Leslie Con Baroness Tonge LD All-Party Parliamentary Group on Sickle Cell Co Vice-Chairs: Lord Boswell of Aynho Con and Thalassaemia Eric Joyce Lab Shipbuilding and Ship Repair PURPOSE Baroness Sharp of Guildford LD To reduce the health inequalities that are Secretary: Stephen Williams LD TITLE faced by sickle cell and thalassaemia patients Shipbuilding and Ship Repair All-Party in the UK by improving standards of care Parliamentary Group Skin and by addressing other critical issues, as TITLE PURPOSE recommended by the key stakeholders. All-Party Parliamentary Group on Skin To promote the UK shipbuilding and ship Members will achieve this aim by engaging repair industry and discuss the factors with parliamentary colleagues, the PURPOSE affecting it. government, health professionals, and To raise awareness of skin conditions, improve treatment for skin cancer, improve OFFICERS community and patient groups to raise efficiency in service commissioning and Chair: Stephen Hepburn Lab awareness relating to the conditions and increase the number of dermatologists within Vice-Chairs: John Robertson Lab needs of patients. the NHS. Jim Sheridan Lab OFFICERS John Woodcock Lab Chair: Lab OFFICERS Penny Mordaunt Con Vice-Chairs: Tony Lloyd Lab Chair: Sir Paul Beresford Con Secretary: Ian Davidson Lab Lord Smith of Clifton LD Vice-Chairs: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff CB Andrew Rosindell Con Baroness Masham of Ilton CB Shooting and Conservation Secretary: John Hemming LD Treasurer: Rosie Cooper Lab Secretary: Sir Peter Bottomley Con TITLE All-Party Parliamentary Group on Shooting Sikhs Slimming World and Conservation TITLE PURPOSE All-Party Parliamentary Group for British TITLE To inform parliamentarians and act as a Sikhs Slimming World All-Party Parliamentary Group forum for the exchange of views on sporting PURPOSE shooting and conservation. To support and promote the interests of PURPOSE To promote good health and well being; to OFFICERS Sikhs in Britain; to work with British Sikhs provide practical advice and group support Chair: Geoffrey Clifton-Brown Con to celebrate Sikh culture in the UK; and to on weight management and loss; to promote Vice-Chair: Lord Cunningham of Felling ensure full equality for all British Sikhs. healthy eating and physical activity; and Lab OFFICERS to support members in developing healthy Treasurer: Ian Liddell-Grainger Con Chair: Fabian Hamilton Lab lifestyle habits. Secretary: John Thurso LD Vice-Chairs: Fiona Mactaggart Lab Mike Gapes Lab OFFICERS Shops Caroline Nokes Con Chair: Rosie Cooper Lab Con Vice-Chair: Mark Williams LD TITLE Lee Scott All-Party Parliamentary Small Shops Group Treasurer: Paul Uppal Con Secretary: Lab

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Small Business Social Enterprise OFFICERS Chair: Paul Maynard Con TITLE TITLE Vice-Chair: Baroness Rendell of Babergh Lab All-Party Parliamentary Small Business All-Party Parliamentary Group on Social S Group Enterprise Space PURPOSE PURPOSE To further the aims of small businesses and To showcase social enterprises and discuss TITLE provide feedback on small business issues to issues important to the social enterprise sector. Parliamentary Space Committee (an Parliament. Associate Parliamentary Group) OFFICERS PURPOSE OFFICERS Chair: Lord Newby LD Chair: Brian Binley Con Vice-Chairs: Margot James Con To raise awareness in and around Parliament Vice-Chairs: Lord Cotter LD Hazel Blears Lab of the growing importance of space-based Lord Harrison Lab Treasurer: Chris White Con applications to the UK economy, to policy Andy Love Lab Secretary: Baroness Thornton Lab making, to society and to the science Treasurer: Lorely Burt LD community; to highlight the benefits from the UK’s investment in space and its leading Secretary: Margot James Con Social Mobility role within the global space economy; and to TITLE promote political debate and awareness of Smoking and Health All-Party Parliamentary Group on Social space-based opportunities and solutions for TITLE Mobility policy makers. All-Party Parliamentary Group on Smoking PURPOSE OFFICERS and Health To discuss and evaluate key issues and Chair: Con PURPOSE indicators of social mobility and barriers to Patron: Con To monitor and discuss the health and it. To hold seminars and meetings to present Executive Vice-Chairs: Lord Hunt of social effects of smoking; to review potential and highlight the latest research on social Chesterton Lab changes in existing legislation to reduce mobility. Dr Phillip Lee Con levels of smoking; to assess the latest medical OFFICERS Simon Wright LD techniques to assist in smoking cessation; and Chair: Damian Hinds Con Vice Chairs: Mark Garnier Con to act as a resource for the group’s members Vice-Chairs: Baroness Morris of Yardley Lab Stephen McPartland Con on all issues relating to smoking and public Hazel Blears Lab David Morris Con health. Eric Ollerenshaw Con Mark Pritchard Con OFFICERS Stephen Gilbert LD Treasurer: George Hollingbery Con Chair: Stephen Williams LD Jack Lopresti Con Honorary Secretary: Sir Alan Meale Lab Vice-Chairs: Kevin Barron Lab Membership Secretary: Laura Sandys Con Baroness O’Cathain Con Social Science and Policy Lord Rennard LD Speech and Language TITLE Lord Patel CB Difficulties All-Party Parliamentary Group for Social John Robertson Lab Science and Policy TITLE Secretary: Jeremy Lefroy Con All-Party Parliamentary Group on Speech PURPOSE and Language Difficulties Social Care To bring together parliamentarians and social scientists and by doing so demonstratre the PURPOSE TITLE relevance and value of social science research. To raise awareness that communication All-Party Parliamentary Group on Social is a crucial life skill and that the ability to Care OFFICERS communicate is a basic human right; to Chair: Kelvin Hopkins Lab PURPOSE increase awareness about communication Vice-Chair: Sir Peter Bottomley Con To promote knowledge and understanding of disability and the impact this has on people’s matters related to social care. lives; to highlight the importance of early Social Tourism identification and intervention; and to OFFICERS TITLE press for increased provision of speech and Chair: Lab All-Party Parliamentary Group on Social language therapy. Secretary: Sarah Newton Con Tourism OFFICERS PURPOSE Chair: Lord Ramsbotham CB To investigate and promote the social and Vice-Chairs: Kevin Barron Lab economic benefits of social tourism. Robert Buckland Con Secretary: Geraint Davies Lab

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Spinal Cord Injury Vice-Chairs: Kevin Barron Lab Vice-Chairs: Alan Keen Lab Baroness Wilkins Lab Lord Addington LD TITLE Treasurer: Baroness Masham of Ilton CB Baroness Grey-Thompson CB S All-Party Parliamentary Group on Spinal Secretary: Dan Rogerson LD Cord Injury St George’s Day PURPOSE Sport To look at specific issues being faced by TITLE Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) people, particularly TITLE St George’s Day All-Party Parliamentary relating to medical treatment, care, support All-Party Parliamentary Group for Sport Group and developments in treatments as, well as PURPOSE PURPOSE social care and wider issues that affect the To be the central, constructive, cross-party To promote 23 April as an annual celebration lives of SCI people. voice for sport in Parliament. of England and the country’s patron saint, St George and to campaign for St George’s Day OFFICERS OFFICERS to be established as a public holiday for the Chair: Lab Chair: Lord Pendry Lab people of England.

Space OFFICERS Chair: Andrew Rosindell Con Vice-Chairs: John Mann Lab Philip Davies Con Greg Mulholland LD Chris Skidmore Con Tom Watson Lab Jack Lopresti Con Treasurer: Sir Peter Bottomley Con Secretary: Chris Kelly Con Presidents: Lord Tebbit Con David Blunkett Lab

Statistics TITLE All-Party Parliamentary Group on Statistics PURPOSE To serve as a parliamentary forum for the discussion of statistical issues, including the work of the UK Statistics Authority, the use of statistics by parliamentarians, and pre- release access to official statistics. OFFICERS Chair: Lord Lipsey Lab Vice-Chair: Michael Fallon Con Treasurer: Fiona Mactaggart Lab Secretary: Lord Newby LD

Steel and Metal Related Industry TITLE All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Steel and Metal Related Industry PURPOSE To ensure a fair deal for the UK steel and metal related industries by liaising with and lobbying the government to raise the profile of cultural, environmental and social issues in the industry and its communities;

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and to research and develop policies which rights violations against children globally and OFFICERS will promote thriving steel and cast-metal communicating concerns to parliamentarians, Chair: Annette Brooke LD industries in the UK. ambassadors and governments. Vice-Chairs: Sharon Hodgson Lab S Andrea Leadsom Con OFFICERS OFFICERS Chair: Jessica Morden Lab Co-Chairs: Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Vice-Chairs: Tom Blenkinsop Lab Domer LD Sustainable Housing Ian Swales LD Russell Brown Lab TITLE Treasurer: Angela C. Smith Lab All-Party Parliamentary Group on Secretary: Nia GriffithLa b Stroke Sustainable Housing TITLE PURPOSE Stem Cell Transplantation All-Party Parliamentary Group on Stroke To address issues surrounding meeting technological standards of sustainable TITLE PURPOSE housing, developing zero carbon homes All-Party Parliamentary Group on Stem Cell To raise awareness of stroke and to encourage skills, what consumers should demand from Transplantation actions to promote a greater priority for sustainable housing, defining zero carbon, PURPOSE stroke prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, awareness raising for consumers, construction To inform parliamentarians about the use of research and care both nationally and locally. supply challenges, and the sustainability stem cell transplantation in saving lives; to OFFICERS agenda in downturn. facilitate debate and scrutiny on the collection Chair: Helen Jones Lab and use of adult stem cells and umbilical cord OFFICERS Vice-Chairs: Lord Rodgers of Quarry Bank blood in the UK; to promote the widespread Chair: Nick Raynsford Lab LD collection and storage of cord blood samples; Vice-Chair: Caroline Lucas Green Andrew Jones Con and to promote the expansion of stem cell Secretary: Pamela Nash Lab Lord Clinton-Davis Lab donation in the UK. Treasurer: Lord Walton of Detchant CB OFFICERS Secretary: Andrew Turner Con Sustainable Relationships Chair: Lab TITLE Vice-Chairs: David Burrowes Con Suicide and Self Harm All-Party Parliamentary Group for Jim Dobbin Lab Prevention Sustainable Relationships Fiona Bruce Con TITLE PURPOSE Secretary: Baroness Masham of Ilton CB All-Party Parliamentary Group on Suicide To promote and develop marriage and Self Harm Prevention and relationship skills and support, Strategic Industries identifying best practice within the UK PURPOSE and internationally to help reduce family TITLE To raise awareness within Parliament and breakdown. All-Party Parliamentary Strategic Industries encourage discussion and debate of all issues Group involved in suicide and self harm prevention. OFFICERS PURPOSE Chair: Andrew Selous Con OFFICERS To examine and discuss ways of safeguarding Secretary: David Burrowes Con Chair: Madeleine Moon Lab UK industry and expanding opportunities Vice-Chairs: Greg Mulholland LD for growth for the UK’s strategic national Charles Walker Con Sustainable Resource industries. Baroness Finlay of Llandaff CB TITLE OFFICERS Treasurer: James Gray Con Associate Parliamentary Sustainable Resource Chair: Tom Watson Lab Secretary: Lord Carlile of Beriew LD Group LD Vice-Chairs: Mark Hunter PURPOSE Nigel Evans Con Sure Start Children’s To develop a deeper understanding between Centres govenment, parliament and the sustainable Street Children TITLE resource management sector of the TITLE All-Party Parliamentary Group on Sure Start sustainable management of waste. All-Party Parliamentary Group on Street Children’s Centres OFFICERS Children PURPOSE Joint Chairs: Dr Alan Whitehead Lab PURPOSE To champion the good work of children’s Dan Rogerson LD To work to protect the rights of children centres; to identify and share good Lord Lewis of Newnham CB worldwide and to raise the various issues practice; and to consider and inform policy Secretary: Barry Sheerman Lab they face, particularly street children. This development on key issues. work includes receiving reports of human

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Tamils outside tennis teams. Thrombosis TITLE OFFICERS TITLE T All-Party Parliamentary Group for Tamils Lab All-Party Parliamentary Thrombosis Group Chair: Baroness Billingham PURPOSE Vice-Chairs: Mark Pritchard Con PURPOSE To promote in Parliament peace with justice Andrew Miller Lab To promote awareness amongst and dignity for Tamils in the island of Sri Treasurer: Lord Naseby Con parliamentarians about the risk and Lanka and advance their development so as Secretary: Meg Munn Lab management of venous thromboembolism to recognise their legitimate socio-political (VTE); to increase knowledge of its causes, aspirations. Terrorism effects, treatments; and to monitor the implementation of government initiatives and OFFICERS TITLE other research being undertaken. Chair: Lee Scott Con Tackling Terrorism All-Party Parliamentary Vice-Chairs: Virendra Sharma Lab Group OFFICERS Siobhain McDonagh Lab PURPOSE Chair: Andrew Gwynne Lab Simon Hughes LD To examine, evaluate and develop policies on Vice-Chairs: David Amess Con Treasurer & Secretary: Con tackling terrorism. Michael McCann Lab Secretary: Russell Brown Lab OFFICERS Taxation Chair: Khalid Mahmood Lab TITLE Vice-Chairs: Andrew Rosindell Con Tourism All-Party Parliamentary Taxation Group Lord Steel of Aikwood LD TITLE PURPOSE Tourism All-Party Parliamentary Group To look at and understand tax policy and Thameslink Route PURPOSE taxation on all levels; to understand VAT TITLE To advance the benefits of toruism to the UK and PAYE in the UK; to contact and talk to Thameslink Route All-Party Parliamentary economy. accountants and Revenue officials; and to Group OFFICERS look to European tax affairs and international Chair: Lord Pendry Lab taxation. PURPOSE To provide a forum in Parliament where Vice-Chairs: John Thurso LD OFFICERS members of both the House of Commons Lord Fowler Con Chair: Ian Liddell-Grainger Con and the House of Lords can keep up to date Mark Pritchard Con Vice-Chair: Kelvin Hopkins Lab with the progress on the rail investment Treasurer: Lord Lee of Trafford LD Treasurer: Lord Rees-Mogg CB programme. Secretary: Lord Harrison Lab Secretary: Karen Bradley Con OFFICERS Chair: Matthew Offord Con Town Centres Telehealth Vice-Chairs: Gavin Shuker Lab TITLE TITLE Lab All-Party Parliamentary Group for Town All-Party Parliamentary Treasurer: Heidi Alexander Lab Centres Telehealth Group Secretary: Tom Brake LD PURPOSE PURPOSE To promote parliamentary and public To raise awareness in Parliament about the Third World Solidarity understanding of the importance of the merits of telehealth and to encourage the TITLE role of town and city centres and their further rollout of telehealth in the UK. All-Party Parliamentary Group on Third management as a key mechanism for co-ordinated action, fostering public and OFFICERS World Solidarity private sector dialogue and co-operation in Chair: Mark Garnier Con PURPOSE order to build environments that are healthy, Vice-Chair: Baroness Masham of Ilton CB To develop solidarity with people from the sustainable and socially inclusive. Treasurer: Jeffrey M. Donaldson DUP developing nations; to promote peace by Secretary: Laurence Robertson Con diplomatic means; and to promote human OFFICERS rights, peace and justice. Chair: Marcus Jones Con Vice-Chairs: Stephen Lloyd LD Tennis OFFICERS Bob Ainsworth Lab TITLE Chair: David Anderson Lab All-Party Parliamentary Tennis Group Vice-Chairs: Charlotte Leslie Con PURPOSE Lord Ahmed Lab For MPs and Peers to be able to play tennis Treasurer: Khalid Mahmood Lab matches together and compete with various Secretary: Anas Sarwar Lab

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Trade out of Poverty TITLE All-Party Parliamentary Group on Trade out T of Poverty PURPOSE To identify obstacles which prevent poor countries from entering into international trade and to encourage rich countries to open their markets to exports from the low income countries. OFFICERS Chair: Peter Lilley Con Vice-Chair: Sir Menzies Campbell LD Treasurer: Lord Hastings of Scarisbrick CB Secretary: Robin Walker Con

Tranquilliser Addiction TITLE All-Party Parliamentary Group on Involuntary Tranquilliser Addiction PURPOSE transport safety To raise awareness of involuntary tranquilliser addition and lobby for support PURPOSE Tribal Peoples To promote leadership of organ donation for addicts from health service providers, TITLE and transplantation in Parliament in order local authorities and government. All-Party Parliamentary Group for Tribal to support the implementation of the Organ Peoples OFFICERS Donation Taskforce’s recommendations; Chair: Jim Dobbin Lab ensure that the target to increase organ PURPOSE Vice-Chair: Earl of Sandwich CB donation after death by 50 per cent by 2013 is To raise parliamentary and public awareness Treasurer/Secretary: David Crausby Lab met, and significantly increase the number of of tribal peoples; to promote action inside organ transplants. and outside of Parliament in support of tribal Transatlantic and peoples; and to ensure that government does International Security OFFICERS all it can to help threatened tribal peoples. Chair: Chris Williamson Lab TITLE Vice-Chairs: Paul Uppal Con OFFICERS All-Party Parliamentary Group on Baroness Finlay of Llandaff CB Chair: Martin Horwood LD Transatlantic and International Security Vice-Chair: Andrew George LD PURPOSE Transport Safety Treasurer: Caroline Lucas Green To research into and create awareness about TITLE transatlantic and global security isues in order Tuberculosis Parliamentary Advisory Council for to contribute to an informed and effective Transport Safety (an Associate Parliamentary TITLE British foreign policy. Group) All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global Tuberculosis OFFICERS PURPOSE Chair: Gisela Stuart Lab To protect human life through the promotion PURPOSE Vice-Chairs: Henry Smith Con of transport safety for the public benefit. To raise the profile of the global tuberculosis Derek Twigg Lab (TB) epidemic and to help accelerate efforts Treasurer: David RuffleyC on OFFICERS to meet millennium development goal targets Secretary: Damian Collins Con Chairs: Sir Peter Bottomley Con on TB. Jim Fitzpatrick Lab OFFICERS Transplantation John Leech LD Vice-Chairs: Lord Bradshaw LD Chair: Andrew George LD TITLE Viscount Simon Lab Vice-Chairs: Virendra Sharma Lab All-Party Parliamentary Group for Secretary: Barry Sheerman Lab Mark Lancaster Con Transplantation Baroness Masham of Ilton CB Annette Brooke LD

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Underground Space OFFICERS OFFICERS Chairs: Roberta Blackman-Woods Lab Chair: Russell Brown Lab TITLE Charles Kennedy LD Vice-Chair: Sir Alan Beith LD U All-Party Parliamentary Group for Lord Norton of Louth Con Secretary: Tom Clarke Lab Underground Space Vice-Chairs: Huw Irranca-Davies Lab PURPOSE George Freeman Con Veterans V To promote a greater understanding within Baroness Maddock LD TITLE Parliament of the scope for economic, social Treasurer: Baroness Sharp LD All-Party Parliamentary Veterans and environmental benefits to be gained from Secretary: Paul BlomfieldLa b the more effective use of underground spaces. Group PURPOSE OFFICERS Urban Development To maintain a strong focus from government Chair: Nick Raynsford Lab TITLE Vice-Chairs: Lord Methuen LD and policy makers on the importance of All-Party Parliamentary Urban Development veterans, young and old, to our communities Stephen Pound Lab Group Treasurer: Don Foster LD and way of life and to work with the relevant PURPOSE Secretary: Lord Haworth Lab service and other organisations to build a To ensure the progression of urban renewal stong continuing profile to enhance our work and sustainable development in the UK supporting veterans and their families. United Nations and raise, within Parliament and outside OFFICERS TITLE bodies, the profile and understanding of the Chair: Gordon Marsden Lab All-Party Parliamentary United Nations regeneration process and the role that can be Vice-Chairs: Ian Davidson Lab Group played by the private sector, particularly the Robert Flello Lab property investment community. PURPOSE Jeffrey M. Donaldson DUP To support the work of the United Nations. OFFICERS OFFICERS Chair: Paul Uppal Con Voice UK Honorary Chair: Nick Raynsford Lab Chair: Sir Peter Bottomley Con TITLE Vice-Chairs: Ian Davidson Lab Vice-Chairs: Lord Hannay of Chiswick CB Voice UK All-Party Parliamentary Group Baroness Whitaker Lab Lord Best CB PURPOSE Baroness Kinnnock of Holyhead Lab Secretary: Clive Betts Lab Mark Lancaster Con To promote equality and access to the criminal justice system for disabled people. Secretary: Andrew George LD Urban Regeneration, Sport and Culture OFFICERS UN Women TITLE Chair: Ian Mearns Lab Vice-Chair: Pat Glass Lab TITLE All-Party Parliamentary Group Exploring Treasurer: Dave Watts Lab All-Party Parliamentary United Nations Urban Regeneration, Sport and Culture Secretary: John Hemming LD Women Group PURPOSE PURPOSE To discuss, debate and hear evidence on the To support and promote the work of the UN impact of regeneration and major sporting Women’s agency in the UK parliament. and cultural events on local communities and economies. OFFICERS Chair: Lab OFFICERS Vice-Chairs: Pauline Latham Con Chair: Lord Mawson CB Baroness Falkner of Margravine LD Vice-Chair: Baroness D’Souza CB Secretary: Hazel Blears Lab University Vaccine Damaged People TITLE All-Party Parliamentary University Group TITLE All-Party Parliamentary Group for Vaccine PURPOSE Damaged People To be one of the main avenues of communication between parliamentarians PURPOSE and vice-chancellors of the UK universities. To support and advise individuals, families and organised groups campaigning for assistance for vaccine damaged people.

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War Heritage place, and associated activities. The coast and to introduce parliamentarians to members of open sea are specifically excluded from the the trade from their constituencies. TITLE interests of the group. War Heritage All-Party Parliamentary OFFICERS W Group OFFICERS Chairs: Geoffrey Clifton-Brown Con PURPOSE Chair: Alun Michael Lab Ian Mearns Lab To promote and support the protection, Vice-Chairs: Tony Baldry Con Vice-Chair: Lord Brougham and Vaux Con conservation and interpretation of war graves, Roger Williams LD Treasurer: Sir Peter Bottomley Con war memorials and battlefield sites. Tristram Hunt Lab Secretary: John Thurso LD Treasurer: Fiona Bruce Con OFFICERS Secretary: Susan Elan Jones Lab Women and Enterprise Chair: Lord Faulkner of Worcester Lab Vice-Chairs: Con TITLE Lord Boswell of Aynho Wellbeing Economics Nigel Dodds DUP All-Party Parliamentary Group on Women Baroness Golding Lab TITLE and Enterprise Treasurer: Jeffrey M. Donaldson DUP All-Party Parliamentary Group on Wellbeing PURPOSE Economics To inform policy supporting and promoting Water and Sanitation in PURPOSE women in enterprise; to raise the profile of the the Third World To provide a forum for discussion of issues associated with encouraging/enabling wellbeing issues and public policy; to promote access for women in enterprise; and to draw TITLE enhancement of wellbeing as an important on global and best policy practice from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Water and government goal; to encourage the adoption EU, US and other countries aound the world. Sanitation in the Third World of wellbeing indicators as complimentary OFFICERS PURPOSE measures of progress to GDP; and to promote Chair: Lorely Burt LD To monitor issues regarding water and policies designed to enhance wellbeing. sanitation in the third world. Vice-Chair: Meg Munn Lab OFFICERS OFFICERS Chair: Jo Swinson LD Women in Parliament Chair: William Cash Con Vice-Chair: Dr Julian Huppert LD TITLE Vice-Chair: Philip Davies Con Treasurer: Helen Goodman Lab All-Party Parliamentary Group for Women Treasurer: James Clappison Con Secretary: Caroline Lucas Green Secretary: John Robertson Lab in Parliament West Coast Main Line PURPOSE Water To increase the number of women in TITLE Parliament in all parties and to encourage TITLE West Coast Main Line All-Party female candidates to get involved in politics All-Party Parliamentary Group on Water Parliamentary Group in public life and discuss and highlight the PURPOSE PURPOSE barriers to this. To provide a focus for members to monitor To work in consultation with the West Coast OFFICERS government and regulatory policy and Rail 250 Campaign for the upgrading and Chair: Mary MacLeod Con maintain a dialogue with consumers and continued renewal of the infrastructure and Vice-Chair: Helen Grant Con those with an interest or a duty in relation to rolling stock on the West Coast Main Line. the environment and the water industry. Treasurer: Con OFFICERS Secretary: Rebecca Harris Con OFFICERS Chair: Russell Brown Lab Co-Chairs: Con Anne McIntosh Vice-Chair: John Stevenson Con Women in the Penal System Andrew George LD Treasurer: Earl of Mar and Kellie LD TITLE Treasurer: Earl of Selborne Con Secretary: Lord Taylor of Blackburn Lab Secretary: Alison Seabeck Lab All-Party Parliamentary Group on Women in the Penal System Wine and Spirit Waterways PURPOSE TITLE To tackle issues on women in prison, explore TITLE All-Party Parliamentary Wine and Spirit community programmes for women, and All-Party Parliamentary Group on Group fulfil the objectives of the Corston Report. Waterways PURPOSE OFFICERS PURPOSE To promote and inform on the economic and Chair: Baroness Corston Lab To consider matters relating to the system commercial benefits of the UK wine trade; Vice-Chairs: PC of navigable rivers and canals in the UK, to inform and stimulate debate on issues of Bishop of Liverpool estuaries and lakes upon which boating takes relevance to the trade and to consumers; and

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Treasurer: Baroness Stern CB Writers Youth Hostelling Secretary: Claire Perry Con TITLE TITLE W All-Party Parliamentary All-Party Parliamentary Youth Hostelling Women, Peace and Security Writers Group Group TITLE PURPOSE PURPOSE Y Associate Parliamentary Group on Women, To represent the interests of all writers; to To support the Youth Hostels Associations Peace and Security safeguard their intellectual property rights; of Scotland, , England and PURPOSE and to ensure they receive a fair level of Wales and to assist them in pursuing issues To promote UN Security Council Resolution recognition and reward for their contribution that affect youth hostelling at a parliamentary Z 1325 on Women, Peace and Security to the economy and society as a whole. level, such as access to the countryside, opportunities for outdoor adventure for throughout government. OFFICERS schools and youth organisations and the Chair: John Whittingdale Con OFFICERS promotion of international youth tourism. Chair: Nicola Blackwood Con Vice-Chair: Denis MacShane Lab Vice-Chairs: Jo Swinson LD Treasurer: Jim Dowd Lab OFFICERS Madeleine Moon Lab Secretary: Baroness Rendell of Babergh Lab Chair: John Mann Lab Baroness D’Souza CB Vice-Chair: Bob Russell LD Young Disabled People Wood Panel Industry TITLE Zoos and Aquariums TITLE All-Party Parliamentary Group for Young TITLE All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Wood Disabled People All-Party Parliamentary Zoos and Panel Industry PURPOSE Aquariums Group PURPOSE To work within Parliament for the interests PURPOSE To raise witin Parliament issues of concern of young disabled people with mobility Conservation through education and to the wood panel industry and provide difficulties, in particular to fight against the understanding. social injustices experienced by these young parliamentarians with accurate information OFFICERS people. about matters relating to the wood panel Chair: Andrew Rosindell Con industry. OFFICERS Vice-Chairs: Charles Walker Con OFFICERS Chair: Paul Maynard Con Simon Hart Con Chair: Anne McGuire Lab Vice-Chair: Fiona Mactaggart Lab Bob Russell LD Vice-Chairs: Susan Elan Jones Lab Lord Hoyle Lab Guy Opperman Con Youth Affairs Angus MacNeil SNP Treasurer: Gregory Campbell DUP Nigel Dodds DUP TITLE Secretary: Roger Williams LD Treasurer: David Amess Con All-Party Parliamentary Secretary: Stephen Mosley Con Group on Youth Affairs World Governance PURPOSE TITLE To raise the profile of issues which affect All-Party Parliamentary Group for World and concern young people; to encourage Governance dialogue between parliamentarians, young PURPOSE people and youth services; and to encourage a Promotes discussion and awareness about co-ordinated and coherent approach to policy global governance issues and the role of making on youth affairs. parliamentarians in reforming the UN and OFFICERS other global institutions to make them more Chair: Stewart Jackson Con accountable, democratic and transparent. Dr Stella Creasy Lab OFFICERS Simon Hughes LD Chair: Mark Pritchard Con Vice-Chair: Sir Peter Bottomley Con Vice-Chair: Jim Sheridan Lab Treasurer: Lisa Nandy Lab Treasurer: Brian Binley Con Secretary: James Morris Con Secretary: Sir Peter Bottomley Con

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