Children who need Palliative Care APPG

First Registered: 29/03/2017 • Last updated on: 08/04/2024

To inform policy which secures the best quality of life and death for the growing number of babies, children and young people with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions. To improve awareness of their needs and to make sure they are understood by those who can help, including government and parliament.

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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APPG Supplied Content

APPGs can register with Parallel Parliament and submit files and articles to be placed here.

Parallel Parliament offers the facility for APPGs to submit written content and files, which are made available through this page.

Submitters can draft and edit publications, and either release them on demand, or schedule release for a future date.

Both text content and attached files submitted through this facility is indexed by our website, and made available through both the search function and relevant e-mail alerts. Any of our users registered for an alert which matches your content, will receive a link making them aware of its publication.

If you wish to register as an authorised representative of the Children who need Palliative Care APPG and use this facility, click below

4 Current APPG Officers
Siobhain McDonagh Portrait
Siobhain McDonagh
Chair & Registered Contact
Labour - Mitcham and Morden
Joined: 24th January 2024
Lord Balfe Portrait
Lord Balfe
Co-Chair
Conservative - Life peer
Joined: 5th April 2023
Peter Dowd Portrait
Peter Dowd
Officer
Labour - Bootle
Joined: 29th December 2021
Baroness Finlay of Llandaff Portrait
Baroness Finlay of Llandaff
Officer
Crossbench - Life peer
Joined: 5th April 2023
Contact Details

Registered Contact:

Dame Siobhain McDonagh MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 020 7219 4678.

Email: mcdonaghs@parliament.uk

Public Enquiry Point:

Ben Delllow, Together for Short Lives, Suite 1b, Whitefriars, Lewins Mead, Bristol BS1 2NT. Tel: 0117 989 7820

Email: ben.dellow@togetherforshortlives.org.uk

Secretariat:

Together for Short Lives acts as the group's secretariat. http://www.togetherforshortlives.org.uk/

Group's Website:

https://www.togetherforshortlives.org.uk/changing-lives/speaking-up-for-children/policy-advocacy/all-party-parliamentary-group-for-children-who-need-palliative-care/

Date
9 Dec 2023
Source
Together for Short Lives
Description
Secretariat   From : 09/12/2023 To : 08/12/2024
Value
£31,501
Date
9 Dec 2022
Source
Together for Short Lives
Description
Secretariat   From : 09/12/2022 To : 08/12/2023
Value
£28,501
Date
9 Dec 2021
Source
Together for Short Lives
Description
Secretariat   From : 09/12/2021 To : 08/12/2022
Value
£43,501
Date
9 Dec 2020
Source
Together for Short Lives
Description
Secretariat   From : 09/12/2020 To : 08/12/2021
Value
£28,501
Date
18 Jul 2019
Source
Together for Short Lives
Description
Secretariat   From : 18/07/2019 To : 17/07/2020
Value
£25,501
Date
18 Jul 2018
Source
Together for Short Lives
Description
Secretariat   From : 18/07/2018 To : 17/07/2019
Value
£21,001
Date
18 Jul 2017
Source
Together for Short Lives
Description
Secretariat   From : 18/07/2017 To : 17/07/2018
Value
£21,001
Date
7 Feb 2017
Source
Together for Short Lives
Description
Secretariat   From : 07/02/2017 To : 06/02/2018
Value
£21,001

No direct financial benefits are on record for the Children who need Palliative Care APPG

Former APPG Officers
Chris Green Portrait
Chris Green
Vice Chair
Conservative - Bolton West
Joined: 29th December 2021
Departed: 6th March 2024
Jonathan Lord Portrait
Jonathan Lord
Vice Chair
Conservative - Woking
Joined: 27th January 2021
Departed: 6th March 2024
1 APPG Membership
South East
Steve McCabe Portrait
Steve McCabe
Vice Chair
Labour - Birmingham, Selly Oak
Joined: 27th January 2021
Departed: 6th March 2024
Siobhain McDonagh Portrait
Siobhain McDonagh
Chair & Registered Contact
Labour - Mitcham and Morden
Joined: 27th January 2021
Departed: 13th December 2023
Caroline Johnson Portrait
Caroline Johnson
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - Sleaford and North Hykeham
Joined: 28th September 2017
Departed: 7th September 2022
No other APPG Memberships
None Portrait
Neil Gray
Officer
Joined: 29th March 2017
Departed: 17th November 2021
No other APPG Memberships
Bell Ribeiro-Addy Portrait
Bell Ribeiro-Addy
Officer
Labour - Streatham
Joined: 27th January 2021
Departed: 17th November 2021
Catherine McKinnell Portrait
Catherine McKinnell
Co-Chair
Labour - Newcastle upon Tyne North
Joined: 29th March 2017
Departed: 5th November 2019
Jim Shannon Portrait
Jim Shannon
Vice Chair
Democratic Unionist Party - Strangford
Joined: 29th March 2017
Departed: 5th November 2019
David Simpson Portrait
David Simpson
Vice Chair
Democratic Unionist Party - Former Member for Upper Bann
Joined: 5th November 2019
Departed: 5th November 2019
No other APPG Memberships
Liz McInnes Portrait
Liz McInnes
Vice Chair
Labour - Former Member for Heywood and Middleton
Joined: 5th November 2019
Departed: 5th November 2019
No other APPG Memberships
Tim Farron Portrait
Tim Farron
Vice Chair
Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale
Joined: 5th November 2019
Departed: 5th November 2019
Stuart Andrew Portrait
Stuart Andrew
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - Pudsey
Joined: 29th March 2017
Departed: 2nd May 2017
No other APPG Memberships
Lord Carlile of Berriew Portrait
Lord Carlile of Berriew
Vice Chair
Crossbench - Life peer
Joined: 29th March 2017
Departed: 2nd May 2017
Jason McCartney Portrait
Jason McCartney
Vice Chair
Conservative - Colne Valley
Joined: 29th March 2017
Departed: 2nd May 2017