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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.
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.
The launch took place following a talk by Edward Mortimer, Director of Communications and Chief Speechwriter in the UN Secretary-General's Office, at the inaugural meeting of the United Nations All-Party Parliamentary Group. The audience included parliamentarians, UNA-UK members, staff from the UN family in London, civil servants and NGO ...
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 ...
People's Vote was a United Kingdom campaign group that unsuccessfully campaigned for a second referendum following the UK's Brexit vote to leave the European Union (EU) in 2016. The group was launched in April 2018 at which four Members of Parliament spoke, along with the actor Patrick Stewart and other public figures. [3]
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.
After the 2024 general election, the group's chair is Joani Reid MP (Labour) and the vice-chairs are the MPs Christine Jardine (Liberal Democrat), David Pinto-Duschinsky (Labour) and Saqib Bhatti (Conservative). [2] Secretariat to the group is provided by the PCAA Foundation. The group commissioned the All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry into ...
[1] [2] He has served on a number of parliamentary committees, and lists his political interests as transport, sport, human rights, smoking and health, and sex equality. [1] He is Vice Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Industrial Heritage. [3] He is the UK trade envoy to Taiwan.