Human Microbiome APPG

First Registered: 24/02/2020 • Last updated on: 17/05/2023

Note: This APPG was last registered on 17th May 2023. The APPG was not registered in the latest release of the 1st November 2023 and may be defunct.

To highlight the role of the human microbiome, especially of the gut, in physical and mental health and its potential to prevent many disorders and improve or slow others; inform debate about how this will save money for the Treasury and NHS; and enable communications between interested parties and relevant parliamentarians.

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 Members

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Julie Elliott

Chair & Registered Contact

Labour - Sunderland Central

Joined: 24th February 2020
Departed: 17th May 2023

22 APPG Memberships
Broadband and Digital Communication , Channel 4 , Children's Media and the Arts , Data Poverty , Eggs, Pigs and Poultry , Energy Costs , Energy Studies , Fit and Healthy Childhood , Food and Health , Infant Feeding and Inequalities , Jordan , Kidney , Leamside Line , Motherhood , North East , Northern Culture , Palestine , Sport , United Nations Women , Women in Parliament , Women's Football , Writers

Robert Goodwill

Secretary

Conservative - Scarborough and Whitby

Joined: 9th February 2022
Departed: 17th May 2023

10 APPG Memberships
Bus and Coach Industry , Funerals and Bereavement , Game and Wildlife Conservation , Gardening and Horticulture , Heritage Rail , Hormone Pregnancy Tests , Lithuania , Science and Technology in Agriculture , Sustainable Resource , Thrombosis

Jessica Morden

Vice Chair

Labour - Newport East

Joined: 24th February 2020
Departed: 17th May 2023

24 APPG Memberships
Afghanistan , Alevis , Animal Welfare , Armenia , Beer , Energy Security , Explosive Threats , Financial Markets and Services , Georgia , Haemophilia and Contaminated Blood , Hospice and End of Life Care , Hospitality, Events and Major Food and Drink Businesses in Wales , Hydrogen , Industrial Heritage , Kurdistan in Turkey and Syria , Mindfulness , Motor Neurone Disease , Outdoor Learning , Parkrun , Rail in Wales , Sport and Physical Activity in the Criminal Justice System , Steel and Metal Related Industries , Western Gateway , Wetlands

Baroness Walmsley

Vice Chair

Liberal Democrat - Life peer

Joined: 4th May 2022
Departed: 17th May 2023

7 APPG Memberships
Cancer , Children , Dentistry and Oral Health , Food and Health , Health , Medical Cannabis under Prescription , Obesity

Siobhain McDonagh

Treasurer

Labour - Mitcham and Morden

Joined: 24th February 2020
Departed: 17th May 2023

11 APPG Memberships
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community , Almshouses , Children who need Palliative Care , Council of Sri Lankan Muslim Organisations UK , Data Poverty , Digital Skills , Hong Kong , Households in Temporary Accommodation , Media Literacy , Social Mobility , Tamils

Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle

Vice Chair

Green Party - Life peer

Joined: 24th February 2020
Departed: 23rd March 2022

22 APPG Memberships
Aid Match , Antibiotics , Apprenticeships , Communities of Inquiry across the Generations , Customer Service , Democracy and Human Rights in the Gulf , Electoral Reform , Environment , Fair Value in the Food Supply Chain , Fruit, Vegetables and Horticulture , Gardening and Horticulture , Gypsies, Travellers and Roma , Hong Kong , Households in Temporary Accommodation , Immigration Detention , Legal Aid , Modern Conflict , National Trust , Social Science and Policy , Wetlands , Woods and Trees , Working at Height