Dark Skies APPG

First Registered: 24/02/2020 • Last updated on: 24/01/2024

To highlight the importance of preserving our ability to see a dark sky at night; promote the adoption of dark sky friendly lighting and planning policies; protect existing UK Dark Sky reserves and support potential new reserves; and collaborate with overseas groups such as the International Dark Sky Association.

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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33 Current APPG Officers
Peter Bottomley Portrait
Peter Bottomley
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - Worthing West
Joined: 24th February 2020
82 APPG Memberships
12 Step Recovery , Adult Education , Afrikan Reparations , Ageing and Older People , Archaeology , Austria , BBC , British Muslims , British Overseas Territories , Carbon Monoxide , Children in Police Custody , Citizens' Rights , Closing the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility , Commonwealth , Community Development , Croatia , Cycling and Walking , Democracy and Human Rights in the Gulf , Dentistry and Oral Health , Disability , Domestic Violence and Abuse , Ethnic Minority Business Owners , Ethnicity Transplantation and Transfusion , Explosive Threats , Fatherhood , Film and Broader Screen , Flags and Heraldry , Frozen British Pensions , Global Security and Non-Proliferation , Gypsies, Travellers and Roma , Haemophilia and Contaminated Blood , Holocaust Memorial , Hospice and End of Life Care , Immigration Detention , Internet, Communications and Technology , Ireland and the Irish in Britain , Leasehold and Commonhold Reform , Limits to Growth , Manufacturing , Maternity , Media , Media Freedom , Music , Muslim Women , National Parks , National Trust , Night Time Economy , No Recourse to Public Funds , Opera , Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development , Park Homes , Performing Arts Education and Training , Photography , Public Accountability , Race and Community , Religion in the Media , Religious Education , Rowing , Scientific , Scotch Whisky , Sexual and Reproductive Health in the UK , Single Parent Families , Social Enterprise , Social Integration , Social Science and Policy , South East , St George's Day , Sustainable Finance , Tibet , Transport Safety , Ukraine , United Nations , United Nations Women , Vascular and Venous Disease , Water, Sanitation and Hygiene , Western Sahara , White Ribbon UK , Wine and Spirits , Wine of Great Britain , Women and Work , Women in Transport , Zimbabwe
Lord Rees of Ludlow Portrait
Lord Rees of Ludlow
Co-Chair
Crossbench - Life peer
Joined: 24th February 2020
1 APPG Membership
Future Generations
Alberto Costa Portrait
Alberto Costa
Vice Chair
Conservative - South Leicestershire
Joined: 10th March 2021
4 APPG Memberships
Air Ambulances , Greece , Italy , Microplastics
Iain Duncan Smith Portrait
Iain Duncan Smith
Vice Chair
Conservative - Chingford and Woodford Green
Joined: 10th March 2021
Marcus Fysh Portrait
Marcus Fysh
Vice Chair
Conservative - Yeovil
Joined: 10th March 2021
Lord Grantchester Portrait
Lord Grantchester
Vice Chair
Labour - Excepted Hereditary
Joined: 24th February 2020
No other APPG Memberships
Fay Jones Portrait
Fay Jones
Vice Chair
Conservative - Brecon and Radnorshire
Joined: 24th February 2020
No other APPG Memberships
Baroness Neville-Rolfe Portrait
Baroness Neville-Rolfe
Vice Chair
Conservative - Life peer
Joined: 24th February 2020
2 APPG Memberships
Cyber Security , Nuclear Energy
Bob Seely Portrait
Bob Seely
Vice Chair
Conservative - Isle of Wight
Joined: 10th March 2021
Lord Taylor of Holbeach Portrait
Lord Taylor of Holbeach
Vice Chair
Conservative - Life peer
Joined: 24th February 2020
Lord Vaux of Harrowden Portrait
Lord Vaux of Harrowden
Vice Chair
Crossbench - Excepted Hereditary
Joined: 24th February 2020
2 APPG Memberships
Financial Technology , Vietnam
John Whittingdale Portrait
John Whittingdale
Vice Chair
Conservative - Maldon
Joined: 19th October 2022
4 APPG Memberships
Albania , Nuclear Energy , Polo , Ukraine
James Wild Portrait
James Wild
Vice Chair
Conservative - North West Norfolk
Joined: 24th February 2020
Contact Details

Registered Contact:

Sir Peter Bottomley MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 020 7219 5060.

Email: bottomleyp@parliament.uk

Public Enquiry Point:

Marieta Valdivia Lefort, Royal Astronomical Society

Email: mvaldivialefort@ras.ac.uk

Secretariat:

Royal Astronomical Society acts as the group's secretariat. https://ras.ac.uk/

Date
29 Jan 2023
Source
Royal Astronomical Society
Description
Secretariat   From : 29/01/2023 To : 28/01/2024
Value
£1,501

No direct financial benefits are on record for the Dark Skies APPG

Former APPG Officers
None Portrait
Lord Steel of Aikwood
Vice Chair
Joined: 24th February 2020
Departed: 17th May 2023
John Whittingdale Portrait
John Whittingdale
Vice Chair
Conservative - Maldon
Joined: 24th February 2020
Departed: 7th September 2022
4 APPG Memberships
Albania , Nuclear Energy , Polo , Ukraine
Andrew Griffith Portrait
Andrew Griffith
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - Arundel and South Downs
Joined: 24th February 2020
Departed: 23rd March 2022
No other APPG Memberships
Lord Judd Portrait
Lord Judd
Vice Chair
Labour - Life peer
Joined: 24th February 2020
Departed: 10th March 2021
No other APPG Memberships
Anne-Marie Trevelyan Portrait
Anne-Marie Trevelyan
Vice Chair
Conservative - Berwick-upon-Tweed
Joined: 24th February 2020
Departed: 27th January 2021
No other APPG Memberships
Ranil Jayawardena Portrait
Ranil Jayawardena
Vice Chair
Conservative - North East Hampshire
Joined: 24th February 2020
Departed: 7th August 2020
1 APPG Membership
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