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All-party parliamentary groups [2] are informal cross-party groups of members of the House of Commons and the House of Lords and have no official status within Parliament. [3] [4] Larger APPGs generally have officers drawn from the major political parties from both houses.
The exact relationship between the parliamentary party and the party varies between countries, and also from party to party. For example, in some parties, the parliamentary and organisational leadership will be held by the same person or people, whether ex officio or not; other parties maintain a sharp distinction between the two offices.
All-party parliamentary groups of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Pages in category "All-Party Parliamentary Groups" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
At the end of 2018, Afolami joined the Steering Committee of the Constitution Reform Group, [19] a cross-party pressure group chaired by Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury, which supports the Act of Union Bill 2018, [20] a private member's bill introduced by Lord Lisvane in the House of Lords on 9 October 2018.
The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Votes at 16 is a group of cross-party Members of Parliament allowing parliamentarians to meet to discuss a lower voting age, first established in March 2018. The purpose of the APPG is to bring together key voices from across Parliament to listen to evidence on the case for votes at 16, and to present ...
Policy Connect runs more than 17 political groups for commissions, each working within a different policy field, as well as providing the secretariat to several formal All-Party Parliamentary Groups. As such, the organization has at times been described as a ‘network’ of policy groups.
Smith is also the Chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group for West Papua. The main goal of IPWP is to develop international parliamentary support and awareness for the West Papuan independence movement. [3] The IPWP takes as its model a similar group that helped lead the independence movement of East Timor. [2]
Robertson created the All-party parliamentary group on the Union in September 2019 which seeks "To promote the economic, social, cultural and constitutional benefits of the union of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; To foster good relations between the four countries of the UK and their devolved administrations; and for ...