Housing and Planning APPG
First Registered: 29/09/2015 • Last updated on: 13/12/2023
Note: This APPG was last registered on 13th December 2023. The APPG was not registered in the latest release of the 18th June 2025 and may be defunct.
To provide a forum for parliamentarians to discuss issues arising from housing and planning policy, primarily the delivery of housing, infrastructure and placemaking via the planning system.
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Former APPG Officers
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Andrew Lewer
Vice Chair
Conservative - Former Member for Northampton South
Joined: 7th August 2020Departed: 13th December 2023
No other APPG Memberships
Baroness Harman
Vice Chair
Labour - Life peer
Joined: 30th November 2022Departed: 13th December 2023
No other APPG Memberships
Stephen McPartland
Vice Chair
Conservative - Former Member for Stevenage
Joined: 30th November 2022Departed: 13th December 2023
No other APPG Memberships
Damien Moore
Vice Chair
Conservative - Former Member for Southport
Joined: 30th November 2022Departed: 13th December 2023
No other APPG Memberships
David Simmonds
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner
Joined: 7th August 2020Departed: 13th December 2023
Peter Bottomley
Officer
Conservative - Former Member for Worthing West
Joined: 7th September 2022Departed: 19th October 2022
No other APPG Memberships
Gagan Mohindra
Officer
Conservative - South West Hertfordshire
Joined: 7th August 2020Departed: 19th October 2022
No other APPG Memberships
Ben Everitt
Officer
Conservative - Former Member for Milton Keynes North
Joined: 7th August 2020Departed: 19th October 2022
No other APPG Memberships
Alexander Stafford
Officer
Conservative - Former Member for Rother Valley
Joined: 7th September 2022Departed: 19th October 2022
No other APPG Memberships
Rupa Huq
Officer
Labour - Ealing Central and Acton
Joined: 7th September 2022Departed: 19th October 2022
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No other APPG Memberships
Peter Gibson
Vice Chair
Conservative - Former Member for Darlington
Joined: 23rd March 2022Departed: 19th October 2022
No other APPG Memberships
Gareth Bacon
Vice Chair
Conservative - Orpington
Joined: 23rd March 2022Departed: 19th October 2022
Lord Young of Norwood Green
Vice Chair
Labour - Life peer
Joined: 23rd March 2022Departed: 19th October 2022
Paul Howell
Officer
Conservative - Former Member for Sedgefield
Joined: 7th August 2020Departed: 17th November 2021
No other APPG Memberships
Helen Hayes
Officer
Labour - Dulwich and West Norwood
Joined: 29th September 2015Departed: 17th November 2021
No other APPG Memberships
Karen Buck
Officer
Labour - Former Member for Westminster North
Joined: 7th August 2020Departed: 17th November 2021
No other APPG Memberships
Tony Lloyd
Vice Chair
Labour - Former Member for Rochdale
Joined: 7th August 2020Departed: 17th November 2021
No other APPG Memberships
Jerome Mayhew
Vice Chair
Conservative - Broadland and Fakenham
Joined: 7th August 2020Departed: 17th November 2021
Jane Hunt
Vice Chair
Conservative - Former Member for Loughborough
Joined: 7th August 2020Departed: 17th November 2021
No other APPG Memberships
No other APPG Memberships
Mark Pawsey
Vice Chair
Conservative - Former Member for Rugby
Joined: 7th August 2020Departed: 17th November 2021
No other APPG Memberships
David Drew
Honorary Secretary
Labour (Co-op) - Former Member for Stroud
Joined: 8th May 2019Departed: 5th November 2019
No other APPG Memberships
Lord Shipley
Honorary Treasurer
Liberal Democrat - Life peer
Joined: 24th November 2016Departed: 5th November 2019
No other APPG Memberships
Eddie Hughes
Vice Chair
Conservative - Former Member for Walsall North
Joined: 8th May 2019Departed: 5th November 2019
No other APPG Memberships
Mark Prisk
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - Former Member for Hertford and Stortford
Joined: 29th September 2015Departed: 5th November 2019
No other APPG Memberships
Earl of Lytton
Treasurer
Crossbench - Excepted Hereditary
Joined: 28th September 2017Departed: 2nd January 2019
Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville
Secretary
Liberal Democrat - Life peer
Joined: 28th September 2017Departed: 2nd January 2019
John Penrose
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - Former Member for Weston-super-Mare
Joined: 28th September 2017Departed: 2nd January 2019
No other APPG Memberships
James Cartlidge
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - South Suffolk
Joined: 29th September 2015Departed: 2nd May 2017
No other APPG Memberships
Stephen Pound
Vice Chair
Labour - Former Member for Ealing North
Joined: 29th September 2015Departed: 2nd May 2017
No other APPG Memberships
Contact Details
Show/HideRegistered Contact:
David Simmonds MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 0207 219 6578.
Email: david.simmonds.mp@parliament.uk
Public Enquiry Point:
Joel Cohen, Royal Town Planning Institute, 41-42 Boltoph Lane, London EC3R 8DL. Tel: 07921 498 219
Email: joel.cohen@rtpi.org.uk
Secretariat:
Royal Town Planning Institute acts as the group's secretariat. https://www.rtpi.org.uk/
Group's Website:
Benefits in Kind
Show/Hide13 Jul 2022
Royal Town Planning Institute
Secretariat From : 13/07/2022 To : 12/07/2023
£3,001
13 Jul 2021
Royal Town Planning Institute
Secretariat From : 13/07/2021 To : 12/07/2022
£3,001
13 Jul 2020
Royal Town Planning Institute
Secretariat From : 13/07/2020 To : 12/07/2021
£3,001
12 Sep 2018
Royal Town Planning Institute
Secretariat
£3,001
12 Sep 2018
Royal Town Planning Institute
Secretariat From : 12/09/2018 To : 11/09/2019
£3,001
12 Sep 2017
Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
Secretariat From : 12/09/2017 To : 11/09/2018
£3,001
16 Jul 2016
Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
Secretariat From : 16/07/2016 To : 15/07/2017
£6,001
22 Mar 2016
Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
Reception
£1,501
16 Jul 2015
Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
Secretariat From : 08/07/2015 To : 31/12/2015
£6,001
No direct financial benefits are on record for the Housing and Planning APPG