Intellectual Property APPG

First Registered: 30/07/2015 • Last updated on: 24/01/2024

To debate and highlight the value of intellectual property and the importance of its promotion and protection. The Group meets several times a year on topical issues relating to intellectual property.

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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8 Current APPG Officers
Pete Wishart Portrait
Pete Wishart
Chair & Registered Contact
Scottish National Party - Perth and North Perthshire
Joined: 30th July 2015
Lord Foster of Bath Portrait
Lord Foster of Bath
Vice Chair
Liberal Democrat - Life peer
Joined: 15th June 2022
3 APPG Memberships
Gambling Related Harm , Media , Taiwan
Earl of Devon Portrait
Earl of Devon
Vice Chair
Crossbench - Excepted Hereditary
Joined: 15th June 2022
Contact Details

Registered Contact:

Pete Wishart MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 020 7219 8303.

Email: pete.wishart.mp@parliament.uk

Public Enquiry Point:

Ben McCarthy, Luther Pendragon Ltd, 48 Gracechurch St, London EC3V 0EJ. Tel: 020 7618 9100

Email: appgforip@luther.co.uk

Secretariat:

Luther Pendragon Ltd acts as the group's secretariat. http://www.luther.co.uk/

Group's Website:

http://www.allpartyipgroup.org.uk/

Date
11 Feb 2023
Source
Luther Pendragon Ltd
Description
Luther Pendragon Ltd is paid by The Alliance for Intellectual Property to act as the group's secretariat   From : 11/02/2023 To : 10/02/2024
Value
£4,501
Date
11 Feb 2022
Source
Luther Pendragon Ltd
Description
Luther Pendragon Ltd is paid by The Alliance for Intellectual Property to act as the group's secretariat   From : 11/02/2022 To : 10/02/2023
Value
£4,501
Date
11 Feb 2021
Source
Luther Pendragon Ltd
Description
Luther Pendragon Ltd is paid by The Alliance for Intellectual Property to act as the group's secretariat   From : 11/02/2021 To : 10/02/2022
Value
£4,501
Date
11 Feb 2020
Source
Luther Pendragon Ltd
Description
Luther Pendragon Ltd is paid by The Alliance for Intellectual Property to act as the group's secretariat   From : 11/02/2020 To : 10/02/2021
Value
£4,501
Date
11 Jul 2019
Source
Luther Pendragon
Description
Secretariat   From : 11/07/2018 To : 10/07/2019
Value
£4,501
Date
11 Jul 2018
Source
Luther Pendragon
Description
Secretariat   From : 11/07/2018 To : 10/07/2019
Value
£4,501
Date
11 Jul 2017
Source
Luther Pendragon
Description
Secretariat   From : 11/07/2017 To : 10/07/2018
Value
£4,501
Date
1 Jan 2016
Source
Luther Pendragon
Description
Luther Pendragon is paid by the Alliance for Intellectual Property to act as the APPG's secretariat   From : 01/01/2016 To : 31/12/2016
Value
£4,501
Date
29 Sep 2015
Source
Alliance for Intellectual Property
Description
Visit to Brussels   From : 29/09/2015 To : 30/09/2015   Cost Met : Overnight accommodation and meals
Value
£1,501
Date
1 Jan 2015
Source
Luther Pendragon
Description
Luther Pendragon is paid by the Alliance for Intellectual Property to act as the APPG's secretariat   From : 01/01/2015 To : 31/12/2015
Value
£4,501

No direct financial benefits are on record for the Intellectual Property APPG

Former APPG Officers
John Whittingdale Portrait
John Whittingdale
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - Maldon
Joined: 19th October 2022
Departed: 17th May 2023
5 APPG Memberships
Albania , Dark Skies , Nuclear Energy , Polo , Ukraine
Baroness Neville-Rolfe Portrait
Baroness Neville-Rolfe
Vice Chair
Conservative - Life peer
Joined: 20th May 2020
Departed: 17th May 2023
3 APPG Memberships
Cyber Security , Dark Skies , Nuclear Energy
John Whittingdale Portrait
John Whittingdale
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - Maldon
Joined: 28th September 2017
Departed: 7th September 2022
5 APPG Memberships
Albania , Dark Skies , Nuclear Energy , Polo , Ukraine
Jim Dowd Portrait
Jim Dowd
Treasurer
Labour - Former Member for Lewisham West and Penge
Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 2nd May 2017
No other APPG Memberships
Andrew Bingham Portrait
Andrew Bingham
Secretary
Conservative - Former Member for High Peak
Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 2nd May 2017
No other APPG Memberships
David Warburton Portrait
David Warburton
Vice Chair
Independent - Former Member for Somerton and Frome
Joined: 21st July 2016
Departed: 2nd May 2017
No other APPG Memberships