To campaign to increase the number of council houses being built, as a central part of the solution to the housing crisis, and seek to represent the interests of council tenants in 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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Submitters can draft and edit publications, and either release them on demand, or schedule release for a future date.
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12 Current APPG Officers
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13 APPG Memberships
Air Ambulances , Anti-Social Behaviour , Clean Quarrying , Cycling and Walking , Down Syndrome , Electric Vehicles , Morocco , Motor , Parks and Green Spaces , Pubs , Small and Micro Business , Ukraine , Video Games and Esports
Air Ambulances , Anti-Social Behaviour , Clean Quarrying , Cycling and Walking , Down Syndrome , Electric Vehicles , Morocco , Motor , Parks and Green Spaces , Pubs , Small and Micro Business , Ukraine , Video Games and Esports
20 APPG Memberships
'Left Behind' Neighbourhoods , British Overseas Territories , Customer Service , Devolution , Education , Freedom of Speech , Housing and Planning , Housing Market and Housing Delivery , Independent Education , Industrial Heritage , International Freedom of Religion or Belief , Motor Neurone Disease , Peru , Private Rented Sector , Publishing , Self-Build, Custom and Community Housebuilding and Placemaking , SME (Small and Medium-sized Enterprises) House Builders , Theatre , Vaping , Writers
'Left Behind' Neighbourhoods , British Overseas Territories , Customer Service , Devolution , Education , Freedom of Speech , Housing and Planning , Housing Market and Housing Delivery , Independent Education , Industrial Heritage , International Freedom of Religion or Belief , Motor Neurone Disease , Peru , Private Rented Sector , Publishing , Self-Build, Custom and Community Housebuilding and Placemaking , SME (Small and Medium-sized Enterprises) House Builders , Theatre , Vaping , Writers
25 APPG Memberships
Arts, Health and Wellbeing , British Muslims , Chalk Streams , Choice at the End of Life , Cuba , Cyprus , East of England , Events , Football Supporters , Hospitality and Tourism , Humanist , Kashmir , Manufacturing , Oracy , Pubs , Race and Community , Respiratory Health , Sixth Form Education , Thalassaemia , Town Centres , University , Video Games and Esports , Water, Sanitation and Hygiene , Western Sahara , Zimbabwe
Arts, Health and Wellbeing , British Muslims , Chalk Streams , Choice at the End of Life , Cuba , Cyprus , East of England , Events , Football Supporters , Hospitality and Tourism , Humanist , Kashmir , Manufacturing , Oracy , Pubs , Race and Community , Respiratory Health , Sixth Form Education , Thalassaemia , Town Centres , University , Video Games and Esports , Water, Sanitation and Hygiene , Western Sahara , Zimbabwe
18 APPG Memberships
British Overseas Territories , Democracy and the Constitution , Drug Policy Reform , HIV and AIDS , Households in Temporary Accommodation , Housing Market and Housing Delivery , Humanist , Industrial Hemp and CBD (Cannabidiol) Product , Kosovo , Kurdistan in Turkey and Syria , Montenegro , Night Time Economy , Private Rented Sector , Renters and Rental Reform , Trade Justice , West Papua , Western Sahara , Youth Affairs
British Overseas Territories , Democracy and the Constitution , Drug Policy Reform , HIV and AIDS , Households in Temporary Accommodation , Housing Market and Housing Delivery , Humanist , Industrial Hemp and CBD (Cannabidiol) Product , Kosovo , Kurdistan in Turkey and Syria , Montenegro , Night Time Economy , Private Rented Sector , Renters and Rental Reform , Trade Justice , West Papua , Western Sahara , Youth Affairs
6 APPG Memberships
Homelessness , Housing Market and Housing Delivery , Nepal , Refugees , Regeneration and Levelling Up , Transatlantic Trade
Homelessness , Housing Market and Housing Delivery , Nepal , Refugees , Regeneration and Levelling Up , Transatlantic Trade
7 APPG Memberships
Baby Loss , Grid Networks , Markets , Maternity , Rural Business and the Rural Powerhouse , Rural Services , Spinal Cord Injury
Baby Loss , Grid Networks , Markets , Maternity , Rural Business and the Rural Powerhouse , Rural Services , Spinal Cord Injury
37 APPG Memberships
Broadband and Digital Communication , Christianity in the Holy Land , Corporate Governance , Council of Sri Lankan Muslim Organisations UK , Data Analytics , Digital Finance , Dying Well , Extraordinary Rendition , Extreme Poverty , Faith and Society , Financial Markets and Services , Financial Technology , Gambling Related Harm , Germany , Haiti , Homelessness , Households in Temporary Accommodation , Housing and Social Mobility , Human Rights , India (Trade and Investment) , Infant Feeding and Inequalities , Internet, Communications and Technology , Lithuania , Motorsport , Relationships , Religion in the Media , Romania , Safeguarding in Faith Communities , School Food , Singapore , Skills, Careers and Employment , Social Mobility , Switzerland , Tamils , Taxation , Trade Justice , Trade out of Poverty
Broadband and Digital Communication , Christianity in the Holy Land , Corporate Governance , Council of Sri Lankan Muslim Organisations UK , Data Analytics , Digital Finance , Dying Well , Extraordinary Rendition , Extreme Poverty , Faith and Society , Financial Markets and Services , Financial Technology , Gambling Related Harm , Germany , Haiti , Homelessness , Households in Temporary Accommodation , Housing and Social Mobility , Human Rights , India (Trade and Investment) , Infant Feeding and Inequalities , Internet, Communications and Technology , Lithuania , Motorsport , Relationships , Religion in the Media , Romania , Safeguarding in Faith Communities , School Food , Singapore , Skills, Careers and Employment , Social Mobility , Switzerland , Tamils , Taxation , Trade Justice , Trade out of Poverty
32 APPG Memberships
Afrikan Reparations , Ahmadiyya Muslim Community , Black Maternal Health , Child Criminal Exploitation and Knife Crime , Childhood Trauma , Christians in Parliament , Disability , Environment , Ethnicity Transplantation and Transfusion , Eye Health and Visual Impairment , Football , Football Supporters , Governance and Inclusive Leadership , Homelessness , Human Rights , Jamaica , Kinship Care , Leasehold and Commonhold Reform , Loan Charge and Taxpayer Fairness , London , Palestine , Renters and Rental Reform , Showing Racism the Red Card , Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia , Sixth Form Education , South Western Railway , Special Educational Needs and Disabilities , Tennis , Universal Credit , Wine and Spirits , Women in Transport , Women's Football
Afrikan Reparations , Ahmadiyya Muslim Community , Black Maternal Health , Child Criminal Exploitation and Knife Crime , Childhood Trauma , Christians in Parliament , Disability , Environment , Ethnicity Transplantation and Transfusion , Eye Health and Visual Impairment , Football , Football Supporters , Governance and Inclusive Leadership , Homelessness , Human Rights , Jamaica , Kinship Care , Leasehold and Commonhold Reform , Loan Charge and Taxpayer Fairness , London , Palestine , Renters and Rental Reform , Showing Racism the Red Card , Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia , Sixth Form Education , South Western Railway , Special Educational Needs and Disabilities , Tennis , Universal Credit , Wine and Spirits , Women in Transport , Women's Football
Contact Details
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Matt Western MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 0207 219 2051.
Email: matt.western.mp@parliament.uk
Public Enquiry Point:
Jamie Sweeney, Office of Matt Western MP, Room 224 Portcullis House, House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA. Tel: 020 7219 2051
Email: jamie.sweeney@parliament.uk
No benefits in kind are on record for the Council Housing APPG
No direct financial benefits are on record for the Council Housing APPG
Former APPG Officers
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James Murray
Vice Chair
Labour (Co-op) - Ealing North
Joined: 8th April 2020Departed: 9th August 2023
No other APPG Memberships
37 APPG Memberships
Broadband and Digital Communication , Christianity in the Holy Land , Corporate Governance , Council of Sri Lankan Muslim Organisations UK , Data Analytics , Digital Finance , Dying Well , Extraordinary Rendition , Extreme Poverty , Faith and Society , Financial Markets and Services , Financial Technology , Gambling Related Harm , Germany , Haiti , Homelessness , Households in Temporary Accommodation , Housing and Social Mobility , Human Rights , India (Trade and Investment) , Infant Feeding and Inequalities , Internet, Communications and Technology , Lithuania , Motorsport , Relationships , Religion in the Media , Romania , Safeguarding in Faith Communities , School Food , Singapore , Skills, Careers and Employment , Social Mobility , Switzerland , Tamils , Taxation , Trade Justice , Trade out of Poverty
Broadband and Digital Communication , Christianity in the Holy Land , Corporate Governance , Council of Sri Lankan Muslim Organisations UK , Data Analytics , Digital Finance , Dying Well , Extraordinary Rendition , Extreme Poverty , Faith and Society , Financial Markets and Services , Financial Technology , Gambling Related Harm , Germany , Haiti , Homelessness , Households in Temporary Accommodation , Housing and Social Mobility , Human Rights , India (Trade and Investment) , Infant Feeding and Inequalities , Internet, Communications and Technology , Lithuania , Motorsport , Relationships , Religion in the Media , Romania , Safeguarding in Faith Communities , School Food , Singapore , Skills, Careers and Employment , Social Mobility , Switzerland , Tamils , Taxation , Trade Justice , Trade out of Poverty
Jack Dromey
Vice Chair
Joined: 8th April 2020Departed: 29th December 2021
1 APPG Membership
Isle of Man (Manx)
Isle of Man (Manx)
8 APPG Memberships
Anti-Social Behaviour , Armed Forces Covenant , Battlefields and Commonwealth War Graves , Brazil , Healthy Homes and Buildings , Kashmir , Veterans , Zoos and Aquariums
Anti-Social Behaviour , Armed Forces Covenant , Battlefields and Commonwealth War Graves , Brazil , Healthy Homes and Buildings , Kashmir , Veterans , Zoos and Aquariums
20 APPG Memberships
'Left Behind' Neighbourhoods , Accounting for Growth , Adult Education , County , Dairy , Entrepreneurship , Financial Education for Young People , Foreign Affairs , Furniture Industry , Housing in the North , Industrial Heritage , Leamside Line , Net Zero , North East , Northern Culture , School Food , Sustainable Aviation , Sweden , Whistleblowing , Youth Employment
'Left Behind' Neighbourhoods , Accounting for Growth , Adult Education , County , Dairy , Entrepreneurship , Financial Education for Young People , Foreign Affairs , Furniture Industry , Housing in the North , Industrial Heritage , Leamside Line , Net Zero , North East , Northern Culture , School Food , Sustainable Aviation , Sweden , Whistleblowing , Youth Employment
1 APPG Membership
Lower Carbon Construction Vehicles
Lower Carbon Construction Vehicles
26 APPG Memberships
Africa , Apprenticeships , Black Maternal Health , Boxing , Care-Experienced Children and Young People , Caribbean , Child of the North , Creative Diversity , Cuba , Domestic Violence and Abuse , Housing in the North , Kurdistan in Turkey and Syria , Liverpool City Region , Palestine , Performers' Alliance , Public Accountability , Race and Community , School Exclusions and Alternative Provision , Schools, Learning and Assessment , Showing Racism the Red Card , Somaliland , South Africa , Western Sahara , Yemen , Youth Affairs , Zimbabwe
Africa , Apprenticeships , Black Maternal Health , Boxing , Care-Experienced Children and Young People , Caribbean , Child of the North , Creative Diversity , Cuba , Domestic Violence and Abuse , Housing in the North , Kurdistan in Turkey and Syria , Liverpool City Region , Palestine , Performers' Alliance , Public Accountability , Race and Community , School Exclusions and Alternative Provision , Schools, Learning and Assessment , Showing Racism the Red Card , Somaliland , South Africa , Western Sahara , Yemen , Youth Affairs , Zimbabwe