Dyslexia and Other Specific Learning Difficulties APPG

First Registered: 30/07/2015 • Last updated on: 08/04/2024

To understand Dyslexia and other specific learning difficulties and the need to keep government appraised of the situation in schools, education and in general in the UK. The group will also look at what statutory and non-statutory bodies are achieving in this field. The aim is to achieve a dyslexia friendly society by enabling individuals with dyslexia to achieve their potential across all ages and sectors of society.

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.

View Official Register Entry

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

Reticulating Splines

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 Dyslexia and Other Specific Learning Difficulties APPG and use this facility, click below

4 Current APPG Officers

Show/Hide

Tom Hunt

Chair & Registered Contact

Conservative - Ipswich

Joined: 14th July 2021

2 APPG Memberships
Bangladesh , Philanthropy and Social Investment

Henry Smith

Vice Chair

Conservative - Crawley

Joined: 28th September 2017

5 APPG Memberships
Blood Cancer , British Heritage , Chagos (British Indian Ocean Territory) , Future of Aviation , Switzerland and Liechtenstein

Lord Addington

Vice Chair

Liberal Democrat - Excepted Hereditary

Joined: 30th July 2015

1 APPG Membership
Rugby Union Football Club

Sharon Hodgson

Vice Chair

Labour - Washington and Sunderland West

Joined: 30th July 2015

9 APPG Memberships
Art, Craft and Design in Education , Breast Cancer , Conception to Age Two - First 1001 Days , First Do No Harm , Food and Drink , Leamside Line , Music Education , School Food , Ticket Abuse

Contact Details

Show/Hide

Registered Contact:

Tom Hunt MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 0207 219 3000.

Email: tom.hunt.mp@parliament.uk

Public Enquiry Point:

Chivonne Preston, British Dyslexia Association . Tel: 0333 405 4555

Email: policy@bdadyslexia.org.uk

Secretariat:

British Dyslexia Association acts as the group's secretariat. http://www.bdadyslexia.org.uk

Group's Website:

http://www.bdadyslexia.org.uk/about/appg-dyslexia-and-spld-all-party-parliamentarygroup