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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.
A parliamentary group is typically led by a parliamentary group leader or chairperson, though some parliamentary groups have two or more co-leaders. If the parliamentary group is represented in the legislature, the leader is almost always chosen from among the sitting members; if the leader does not yet have a seat in the legislature, a sitting ...
Jardine is a vice-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Choice at the End of Life. [26] At the 2024 general election, Jardine was again re-elected with an increased vote share of 50.8% and an increased majority of 16,470. [27] [28] It was revealed that Jardine received a £4,000 donation from Nick Clegg in the 2024 General Election. [29]
Secretariat to the group is provided by the PCAA Foundation. The group commissioned the All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry into Antisemitism in 2005. The inquiry panel, chaired by former Europe Minister Denis MacShane, gathered written and oral evidence on antisemitism in Britain and published a report of their findings on 7 September 2006. The ...
[10] and is a member of the All‐Party Parliamentary Group on the United Nations (UN APPG) from the House of Lords. [11] Whitaker was a Magistrate from 1984 until 2001. [2] She was a member of the Employment Tribunal from 1995 to 2000. [6] From 1996 to 1999 she served on the Camden Racial Equality Council, first as Deputy Chair and then as ...
The Transparency Task Force or 'TTF' is the collaborative, campaigning community, dedicated to driving up the levels of transparency in the global financial services industry and to rid the financial industry of its short term profit mindset.
In 2012, Rosindell became chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Zoos and Aquariums Group. [54] Rosindell joined Philip Davies and Christopher Chope in repeatedly blocking a backbench bill banning the use of wild animals in circuses from progressing through Parliament, finally blocking it by lodging an objection in March 2015. Rosindell had ...
In 1998, he was elected as a Conservative councillor for the West End ward on Westminster City Council. He was chairman of the council's housing committee from 1999 to 2001, before stepping down in 2002. [6] Boles was considered one of a group of young Conservatives, aligned with David Cameron and George Osborne, described as the Notting Hill ...