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4 Current APPG Officers
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Complex Needs and Dual Diagnosis , Drug Policy Reform , Media , Night Time Economy
Deidre Brock
Co-Chair
Scottish National Party - Edinburgh North and Leith
Joined: 28th September 2017Norfolk Island
Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury
Co-Chair
Liberal Democrat - Life peer
Joined: 28th September 2017Contact Details
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Damian Green MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 020 7219 3911.
Email: damian.green.mp@parliament.uk
Public Enquiry Point:
Helen Deller, BBC, 6th Floor, 4 Millbank, London SW1P 3JQ. Tel: 07809 597 710
Email: helen.deller@bbc.co.uk
No benefits in kind are on record for the BBC APPG
No direct financial benefits are on record for the BBC APPG
Former APPG Officers
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Maria Eagle
Co-Chair
Labour - Garston and Halewood
Joined: 12th October 2016Departed: 6th March 2024
Colum Eastwood
Vice Chair
Social Democratic & Labour Party - Foyle
Joined: 22nd February 2023Departed: 6th March 2024
Lord Young of Norwood Green
Vice Chair
Labour - Life peer
Joined: 21st April 2021Departed: 6th March 2024
Lord Taylor of Warwick
Vice Chair
Non-affiliated - Life peer
Joined: 21st April 2021Departed: 6th March 2024
Boxing
Martin Vickers
Vice Chair
Conservative - Cleethorpes
Joined: 15th June 2022Departed: 6th March 2024
Albania , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Heritage Rail , Kosovo , Montenegro , North Macedonia , Rail
Cuba , Deep Geothermal , Diagnostics , Drugs, Alcohol and Justice , Greyhound , Hadrian's Wall , Radiotherapy
Jason McCartney
Vice Chair
Conservative - Colne Valley
Joined: 30th July 2015Departed: 6th March 2024
Jo Gideon
Vice Chair
Conservative - Stoke-on-Trent Central
Joined: 15th June 2022Departed: 6th March 2024
Charities and Volunteering , Germany , Small and Micro Business , Whistleblowing , Youth Affairs
Viscount Colville of Culross
Vice Chair
Crossbench - Excepted Hereditary
Joined: 21st April 2021Departed: 6th March 2024
ITV
Africa , International Conservation , United Nations Global Goals for Sustainable Development , Visual Arts , Wilton Park
Peter Bottomley
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - Worthing West
Joined: 10th October 2018Departed: 6th March 2024
12 Step Recovery , Ageing and Older People , Austria , Carbon Monoxide , Citizens' Rights , Closing the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility , Dark Skies , Democracy and Human Rights in the Gulf , Dentistry and Oral Health , Ethnic Minority Business Owners , Extraordinary Rendition , Frozen British Pensions , Haemophilia and Contaminated Blood , Haiti , Immigration Detention , Limits to Growth , Race and Community , Sexual and Reproductive Health in the UK , Small and Micro Business , Social Integration , South Africa , Transport Safety , United Nations , Women in Transport , Zimbabwe
Lord Gilbert of Panteg
Vice Chair
Conservative - Life peer
Joined: 15th June 2022Departed: 11th January 2023
Andrew Bowie
Vice Chair
Conservative - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
Joined: 24th February 2020Departed: 11th January 2023
Huw Merriman
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - Bexhill and Battle
Joined: 12th October 2016Departed: 11th January 2023
Christian Matheson
Vice Chair
Independent - Former Member for City of Chester
Joined: 10th October 2018Departed: 19th October 2022
Alison McGovern
Vice Chair
Labour - Wirral South
Joined: 24th February 2020Departed: 10th March 2021
Ranil Jayawardena
Vice Chair
Conservative - North East Hampshire
Joined: 28th September 2017Departed: 7th August 2020
Lord Gordon of Strathblane
Vice Chair
Labour - Life peer
Joined: 30th July 2015Departed: 24th February 2020
John Grogan
Vice Chair
Labour - Former Member for Keighley
Joined: 28th September 2017Departed: 5th November 2019
Jeremy Lefroy
Vice Chair
Conservative - Former Member for Stafford
Joined: 30th July 2015Departed: 5th November 2019
Lord Watson of Wyre Forest
Vice Chair
Labour - Life peer
Joined: 30th July 2015Departed: 12th October 2016
Angela Rayner
Secretary
Labour - Ashton-under-Lyne
Joined: 30th July 2015Departed: 31st August 2016