Closing the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility APPG

First Registered: 28/06/2023 • Last updated on: 31/07/2025

To urge the UK government to: call on the US government to finally close Guantanamo; work internationally on the urgent and humane resettlement of detainees approved for release; and call on the US government to ensure that the detainees receive adequate care for their longstanding physical and mental health needs.

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 Officers - Contact Details - Benefits in Kind - Financial Benefits

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4 Current APPG Officers

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Chris Law

Chair & Registered Contact

Scottish National Party - Dundee Central

Joined: 28th June 2023

4 APPG Officer Positions
Aid Match , Armenia , Czechia , Tibet
12 APPG Memberships
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community , Beer , Blockchain Technologies , Climate Change , Explosive Weapons and their Impact , Fair Banking , Gaps in Covid-19 Financial Support , India , Multiple Sclerosis , Respiratory Health , United Nations Global Goals , Uyghurs

Apsana Begum

Co-Chair

Independent - Poplar and Limehouse

Joined: 28th June 2023

2 APPG Officer Positions
Bangladesh , Domestic Violence and Abuse
5 APPG Memberships
Gaps in Covid-19 Financial Support , Gypsies, Travellers and Roma , Hadrian's Wall , Miscarriages of Justice , Women in Parliament

Lord Garnier

Officer

Conservative - Life peer

Joined: 31st July 2025

4 APPG Officer Positions
Human Rights , Immigration Detention , Miscarriages of Justice , Penal Affairs
1 APPG Membership
Anti-Corruption and Responsible Tax

Lord Dubs

Officer

Labour - Life peer

Joined: 31st July 2025

5 APPG Officer Positions
Czechia , Lebanon , Moldova , Multiple Sclerosis , Refugees
11 APPG Memberships
Carers , Explosive Weapons and their Impact , Fair Elections , Greece , Gypsies, Travellers and Roma , Humanist , Immigration Detention , Ireland and the Irish in Britain , Modern Conflict , Obesity , Writers

Contact Details

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Registered Contact:

Chris Law MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA.

Email: chris.law.mp@parliament.uk

Public Enquiry Point:

Sarah Birch, UK Guantanamo Campaign

Email: Sarabirch50@hotmail.com

Secretariat:

UK Guantanamo Network acts as the group's secretariat. https://ukguantanamonetwork.org/

Group's Website:

https://ukguantanamonetwork.org/appg

No benefits in kind are on record for the Closing the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility APPG

No direct financial benefits are on record for the Closing the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility APPG

Former APPG Officers

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Peter Bottomley

Co-Chair

Conservative - Former Member for Worthing West

Joined: 28th June 2023
Departed: 30th May 2024

No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Rachael Maskell

Vice Chair

Independent - York Central

Joined: 28th June 2023
Departed: 30th May 2024

6 APPG Officer Positions
Adoption and Permanence , Ageing and Older People , Archaeology , Drugs, Alcohol and Justice , Dying Well , Sudan and South Sudan

No other APPG Memberships