Yoga in Society APPG

First Registered: 26/04/2018 • Last updated on: 06/03/2024

Note: This APPG was last registered on 6th March 2024. The APPG was not registered in the latest release of the 8th April 2024 and may be defunct.

To support wellbeing across the UK by disseminating the benefits of yoga through a biomedical lens. The APPG is focused on designing constructive ways to integrate yoga into schools, healthcare, occupational health, and criminal justice, and within Parliament by endeavouring to offer free classes to all who work there.

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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Former Members - Contact Details - Benefits in Kind - Financial Benefits

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Former APPG Members

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Jonathan Lord

Chair & Registered Contact

Conservative - Woking

Joined: 26th April 2018
Departed: 6th March 2024

1 APPG Membership
South East

Ben Bradshaw

Co-Chair

Labour - Exeter

Joined: 30th November 2022
Departed: 6th March 2024

No other APPG Memberships

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe

Vice Chair

Labour - Life peer

Joined: 26th April 2018
Departed: 6th March 2024

1 APPG Membership
12 Step Recovery

Baroness Healy of Primrose Hill

Secretary

Labour - Life peer

Joined: 26th April 2018
Departed: 6th March 2024

1 APPG Membership
Children, Teenagers, and Young Adults with Cancer

Lord Stone of Blackheath

Treasurer

Non-affiliated - Life peer

Joined: 26th April 2018
Departed: 6th March 2024

No other APPG Memberships

Clive Lewis

Vice Chair

Labour - Norwich South

Joined: 30th November 2022
Departed: 9th August 2023

3 APPG Memberships
Future of Work , Limits to Growth , Race and Community

Adam Holloway

Treasurer

Conservative - Gravesham

Joined: 6th October 2021
Departed: 9th August 2023

3 APPG Memberships
Drug Policy Reform , Kazakhstan , Kyrgyzstan

Kate Osamor

Vice Chair

Independent - Edmonton

Joined: 6th October 2021
Departed: 19th October 2022

3 APPG Memberships
Africa , Dominica , Libya

Alex Sobel

Vice Chair

Labour (Co-op) - Leeds North West

Joined: 8th May 2019
Departed: 5th November 2019

23 APPG Memberships
22q11 Syndrome , Aid Match , Albania , British Jews , Cayman Islands , Global Deforestation , Heritage and Regeneration , Hospitality and Tourism , Human-Relevant Science , Internet, Communications and Technology , Investment Fraud and Fairer Financial Services , Kosovo , Modern Conflict , Montenegro , Music , Net Zero , North Macedonia , Renewable and Sustainable Energy , Sweden , United Nations , Video Games and Esports , West Papua , Zoos and Aquariums

Catherine West

Co-Chair

Labour - Hornsey and Wood Green

Joined: 26th April 2018
Departed: 27th March 2019

8 APPG Memberships
Global Tuberculosis , Hazaras , London , Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases , Norfolk Island , North Korea , Swimming , Woods and Trees

Baroness Grey-Thompson

Vice Chair

Crossbench - Life peer

Joined: 26th April 2018
Departed: 27th March 2019

2 APPG Memberships
Rail , Sport

Peter Bottomley

Vice Chair

Conservative - Worthing West

Joined: 26th April 2018
Departed: 27th March 2019

25 APPG Memberships
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