Folk Arts 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.

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To bring together parliamentarians who have an interest in and wish to further the appreciation of folk music and dance

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 APPG Officers
Richard Thomson Portrait
Richard Thomson
Chair & Registered Contact
Scottish National Party - Former Member for Gordon
Joined: 13th December 2023
Departed: 30th May 2024
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Baroness Chapman of Darlington Portrait
Baroness Chapman of Darlington
Vice Chair
Labour - Life peer
Joined: 13th December 2023
Departed: 30th May 2024
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Greg Knight Portrait
Greg Knight
Treasurer
Conservative - Former Member for East Yorkshire
Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 30th May 2024
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Peter Grant Portrait
Peter Grant
Secretary
Scottish National Party - Former Member for Glenrothes
Joined: 13th December 2023
Departed: 30th May 2024
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Lord Brennan of Canton Portrait
Lord Brennan of Canton
Chair & Registered Contact
Labour - Life peer
Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 5th November 2019
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Baroness Chapman of Darlington Portrait
Baroness Chapman of Darlington
Vice Chair
Labour - Life peer
Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 5th November 2019
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Chris Ruane Portrait
Chris Ruane
Vice Chair
Labour - Former Member for Vale of Clwyd
Joined: 28th September 2017
Departed: 5th November 2019
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Pete Wishart Portrait
Pete Wishart
Vice Chair
Scottish National Party - Perth and Kinross-shire
Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 5th November 2019
6 APPG Officer Positions
Air Ambulances , Beer , Haemophilia and Contaminated Blood , Intellectual Property , Music , Writers

No other APPG Memberships

Liz McInnes Portrait
Liz McInnes
Secretary
Labour - Former Member for Heywood and Middleton
Joined: 28th September 2017
Departed: 5th November 2019
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Greg Mulholland Portrait
Greg Mulholland
Vice Chair
Liberal Democrat - Former Member for Leeds North West
Joined: 24th November 2016
Departed: 2nd May 2017
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Mark Durkan Portrait
Mark Durkan
Vice Chair
Social Democratic & Labour Party - Former Member for Foyle
Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 12th October 2016
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Contact Details

Registered Contact:

Richard Thomson MP,

Email: No email supplied

Public Enquiry Point:

Katy Spicer, English Folk Dance & Song Society, Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent’s Park Road, London NW1 7AY . Tel: 020 7485 2206

Email: katy@efdss.org

Group's Website:

https://www.efdss.org/

No benefits in kind are on record for the Folk Arts APPG

No direct financial benefits are on record for the Folk Arts APPG