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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.
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.
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 ...
The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Agriculture and Food for Development is a cross-party group in the UK Parliament, co-chaired by Heidi Alexander, a Labour Member of Parliament and Lord Cameron of Dillington, a cross-bench Peer. The APPG is composed of over 70 MPs and Peers from across the political spectrum and is based in London.
At the 2019 general election, Sobel was re-elected as MP for Leeds North West with an increased vote share of 48.6% and an increased majority of 10,749. [22] [23] [24] In December 2019, he formed an All-Party Parliamentary Group aiming to reduce carbon emissions to net zero as early as possible. [25]
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 ...
In November 2020, he founded the All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Peak District and was elected chair, noting a focus on bringing green jobs to the region. [16] After backing frontrunner Rishi Sunak in the second Conservative leadership election, [17] Largan was appointed Assistant Government Whip on 25 October 2022. [18]