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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.
At the 2019 general election, Hollinrake was again re-elected, with an increased vote share of 63.0% and an increased majority of 25,154. [24] [25] In 2020, Hollinrake became one of four Vice-Chairs of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Whistleblowing. [26] This group has been subject to criticism by some campaigners on whistleblowing law ...
United Kingdom general elections (elections for the House of Commons) have occurred in the United Kingdom since the first in 1802.The members of the 1801–1802 Parliament had been elected to the former Parliament of Great Britain and Parliament of Ireland, before being co-opted to serve in the first Parliament of the United Kingdom, so that Parliament is not included in the table below.
Its co-chairs are the Labour Party MP, Rosena Allin-Khan and the Conservative Party life peer, Lord Kirkhope. [1] [2] [3] Its vice-chairs are Wera Hobhouse of the Liberal Democrats and Ellie Chowns of the Green Party. [1] The secretariat for the APPG is provided by the pro-European pressure group European Movement UK.
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.
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 ...
A political group is usually especially beneficial to the parties concerned during and immediately after elections – due to characteristics of the electoral systems concerned (e.g. allowing each party to clear electoral thresholds) and/or allowing parties to participate in the formation of a government after elections.
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 ...