Independent Education APPG

First Registered: 19/06/2019 • Last updated on: 08/04/2024

To provide a forum to discuss developments in the independent education sector, discuss issues facing the sector, highlight best practice, explore the wider contribution of the sector, share knowledge, and raise matters affecting the sector with government and sector leaders.

Note: All-Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs) are informal, cross-party groups formed by MPs and Members of the House of Lords who share a common interest in a particular policy area, region or country. APPGs have no official status within Parliament.
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4 Current APPG Officers
Sally-Ann Hart Portrait
Sally-Ann Hart
Vice Chair
Conservative - Hastings and Rye
Joined: 2nd June 2021
Lord Knight of Weymouth Portrait
Lord Knight of Weymouth
Vice Chair
Labour - Life peer
Joined: 19th June 2019
Baroness Garden of Frognal Portrait
Baroness Garden of Frognal
Vice Chair
Liberal Democrat - Life peer
Joined: 19th June 2019
Contact Details

Registered Contact:

Andrew Lewer MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 0207 219 3870.

Email: andrew.lewer.mp@parliament.uk

Public Enquiry Point:

Matthew Dent, APPG Independent Education, c/o Independent Schools Council, First Floor, 27 Queen Anne's Gate, London SW1H 9BU. Tel: 020 7766 7059

Email: appg@isc.co.uk

Group's Website:

https://independent-education-appg.org/

Date
15 Jan 2024
Source
Independent Schools Council
Description
Secretariat   From : 15/01/2024 To : 14/01/2025
Value
£1,501
Date
11 Jul 2023
Source
Independent Schools Council
Description
Report launch and printing
Value
£6,001
Date
29 Nov 2021
Source
Independent Schools Council
Description
Reception and report launch
Value
£7,501
Date
11 Feb 2020
Source
Independent Schools Council
Description
Reception
Value
£3,001

No direct financial benefits are on record for the Independent Education APPG

Former APPG Officers
Lord Lucas Portrait
Lord Lucas
Vice Chair
Conservative - Excepted Hereditary
Joined: 2nd June 2021
Departed: 24th January 2024
1 APPG Membership
Modernising Employment
Lord Naseby Portrait
Lord Naseby
Vice Chair
Conservative - Life peer
Joined: 2nd June 2021
Departed: 24th January 2024
1 APPG Membership
Mutuals
William Wragg Portrait
William Wragg
Vice Chair
Independent - Hazel Grove
Joined: 19th June 2019
Departed: 24th January 2024
Brendan Clarke-Smith Portrait
Brendan Clarke-Smith
Vice Chair
Conservative - Bassetlaw
Joined: 24th February 2020
Departed: 24th January 2024
Giles Watling Portrait
Giles Watling
Vice Chair
Conservative - Clacton
Joined: 2nd June 2021
Departed: 24th January 2024
Chris Green Portrait
Chris Green
Vice Chair
Conservative - Bolton West
Joined: 2nd June 2021
Departed: 24th January 2024
John Hayes Portrait
John Hayes
Vice Chair
Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings
Joined: 2nd June 2021
Departed: 24th January 2024
John Howell Portrait
John Howell
Vice Chair
Conservative - Henley
Joined: 2nd June 2021
Departed: 24th January 2024
Graham Brady Portrait
Graham Brady
Vice Chair
Conservative - Altrincham and Sale West
Joined: 2nd June 2021
Departed: 24th January 2024
Greg Smith Portrait
Greg Smith
Vice Chair
Conservative - Buckingham
Joined: 2nd June 2021
Departed: 24th January 2024
Philip Davies Portrait
Philip Davies
Vice Chair
Conservative - Shipley
Joined: 2nd June 2021
Departed: 24th January 2024
4 APPG Memberships
Bingo , Boxing , Customer Service , Family Separation
Lia Nici Portrait
Lia Nici
Vice Chair
Conservative - Great Grimsby
Joined: 2nd June 2021
Departed: 24th January 2024
Jane Hunt Portrait
Jane Hunt
Vice Chair
Conservative - Loughborough
Joined: 2nd June 2021
Departed: 9th February 2022
1 APPG Membership
Swimming
Ranil Jayawardena Portrait
Ranil Jayawardena
Vice Chair
Conservative - North East Hampshire
Joined: 19th June 2019
Departed: 20th May 2020
No other APPG Memberships
Michael Tomlinson Portrait
Michael Tomlinson
Vice Chair
Conservative - Mid Dorset and North Poole
Joined: 19th June 2019
Departed: 24th February 2020
No other APPG Memberships