Finland APPG

First Registered: 30/07/2015 • Last updated on: 30/05/2024

Note: This APPG was last registered on 30th May 2024. The APPG was not registered in the latest release of the 7th May 2025 and may be defunct.

To promote relations between Britain and Finland, their parliaments and people.

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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Former Officers - Contact Details - Benefits in Kind - Financial Benefits

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Former APPG Officers
Brendan Clarke-Smith Portrait
Brendan Clarke-Smith
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - Former Member for Bassetlaw
Joined: 28th June 2023
Departed: 30th May 2024
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Baroness Ramsay of Cartvale Portrait
Baroness Ramsay of Cartvale
Co-Chair
Labour - Life peer
Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 30th May 2024
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Ben Spencer Portrait
Ben Spencer
Vice Chair
Conservative - Runnymede and Weybridge
Joined: 8th April 2020
Departed: 30th May 2024
3 APPG Officer Positions
Nordic Countries , Park Homes , Republic of Korea

No other APPG Memberships

Viscount Craigavon Portrait
Viscount Craigavon
Secretary
Crossbench - Excepted Hereditary
Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 30th May 2024
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Lord Beith Portrait
Lord Beith
Vice Chair
Liberal Democrat - Life peer
Joined: 8th April 2020
Departed: 6th March 2024
4 APPG Officer Positions
Channel Islands , Georgia , Nordic Countries , North East

No other APPG Memberships

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Lord Balfe
Vice Chair
Conservative - Life peer
Joined: 5th November 2019
Departed: 6th March 2024
Angus Brendan MacNeil Portrait
Angus Brendan MacNeil
Vice Chair
Independent - Former Member for Na h-Eileanan an Iar
Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 6th March 2024
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Lord Reay Portrait
Lord Reay
Vice Chair
Conservative - Excepted Hereditary
Joined: 5th November 2019
Departed: 6th March 2024
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Lord Mountevans Portrait
Lord Mountevans
Vice Chair
Crossbench - Excepted Hereditary
Joined: 5th November 2019
Departed: 6th March 2024
1 APPG Officer Position
Latin America

No other APPG Memberships

Lord Spellar Portrait
Lord Spellar
Vice Chair
Labour - Life peer
Joined: 8th April 2020
Departed: 6th March 2024
Lord Robathan Portrait
Lord Robathan
Vice Chair
Conservative - Life peer
Joined: 15th June 2022
Departed: 6th March 2024
1 APPG Officer Position
Hemp Carbon Capture and Rural Development

No other APPG Memberships

Kerry McCarthy Portrait
Kerry McCarthy
Vice Chair
Labour - Bristol East
Joined: 8th April 2020
Departed: 21st April 2021
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Ranil Jayawardena Portrait
Ranil Jayawardena
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - Former Member for North East Hampshire
Joined: 29th March 2017
Departed: 8th April 2020
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Angela Smith Portrait
Angela Smith
Vice Chair
Liberal Democrat - Former Member for Penistone and Stocksbridge
Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 5th November 2019
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Robert Syms Portrait
Robert Syms
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - Former Member for Poole
Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 15th February 2017
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Contact Details

Registered Contact:

Brendan Clarke-Smith MP,

Email: No email supplied

No benefits in kind are on record for the Finland APPG

No direct financial benefits are on record for the Finland APPG