Light Rail APPG

First Registered: 12/10/2016 • Last updated on: 04/05/2022

Note: This APPG was last registered on 4th May 2022. The APPG was not registered in the latest release of the 8th April 2024 and may be defunct. Perhaps you are looking for the Heritage Rail APPG?

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To encourage, promote and develop light rail, trams and ultra-light rail and environs, its benefits as a mode of transport and a central tool by modal switch etc in the climate change emergency.

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 Members - Contact Details - Benefits in Kind - Financial Benefits
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Former APPG Members
Andy Carter Portrait
Andy Carter
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - Warrington South
Joined: 24th February 2020
Departed: 4th May 2022
3 APPG Memberships
Commercial Radio , Media , School Exclusions and Alternative Provision
Drew Hendry Portrait
Drew Hendry
Officer
Scottish National Party - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
Joined: 13th February 2019
Departed: 4th May 2022
No other APPG Memberships
Gavin Newlands Portrait
Gavin Newlands
Officer
Scottish National Party - Paisley and Renfrewshire North
Joined: 24th February 2020
Departed: 4th May 2022
3 APPG Memberships
Electric Vehicles , Kidney , State Pension Inequality for Women
Mike Amesbury Portrait
Mike Amesbury
Officer
Labour - Weaver Vale
Joined: 13th February 2019
Departed: 4th May 2022
2 APPG Memberships
Lower Carbon Construction Vehicles , Small and Micro Business
Lord Faulkner of Worcester Portrait
Lord Faulkner of Worcester
Officer
Labour - Life peer
Joined: 12th October 2016
Departed: 4th May 2022
3 APPG Memberships
Death Penalty , Heritage Rail , Metal, Stone and Heritage Crime
Clive Betts Portrait
Clive Betts
Treasurer
Labour - Sheffield South East
Joined: 28th September 2017
Departed: 4th May 2022
6 APPG Memberships
City Regions Transport , Football , Serbia , SME (Small and Medium-sized Enterprises) House Builders , Somaliland , Stem Cell Transplantation and Advanced Cellular Therapies
Stephen Hammond Portrait
Stephen Hammond
Co-Secretary
Conservative - Wimbledon
Joined: 13th February 2019
Departed: 4th May 2022
2 APPG Memberships
Infrastructure , Thalassaemia
Baroness Randerson Portrait
Baroness Randerson
Co-Secretary
Liberal Democrat - Life peer
Joined: 28th September 2017
Departed: 4th May 2022
3 APPG Memberships
Electric Vehicles , Transport Safety , Women in Transport
Stephen Metcalfe Portrait
Stephen Metcalfe
Vice Chair
Conservative - South Basildon and East Thurrock
Joined: 13th February 2019
Departed: 4th May 2022
5 APPG Memberships
Artificial Intelligence , Chess , Equitable Life Policyholders , Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) , Scientific
Wera Hobhouse Portrait
Wera Hobhouse
Officer
Liberal Democrat - Bath
Joined: 13th February 2019
Departed: 2nd June 2021
8 APPG Memberships
Childhood Trauma , Community Energy , Eating Disorders , Environment , Key Cities , Music Education , Net Zero , Tidy Britain
Rebecca Long Bailey Portrait
Rebecca Long Bailey
Officer
Labour - Salford and Eccles
Joined: 13th February 2019
Departed: 5th November 2019
4 APPG Memberships
Bowel Cancer , Households in Temporary Accommodation , Key Cities , State Pension Inequality for Women
Daniel Zeichner Portrait
Daniel Zeichner
Deputy Vice Chair
Labour - Cambridge
Joined: 28th September 2017
Departed: 5th November 2019
7 APPG Memberships
Arts and Heritage , Dark Skies , Data Analytics , Diagnostics , East of England , Life Sciences , University
Tom Brake Portrait
Tom Brake
Deputy Vice Chair
Liberal Democrat - Former Member for Carshalton and Wallington
Joined: 28th September 2017
Departed: 5th November 2019
No other APPG Memberships
Alan Brown Portrait
Alan Brown
Deputy Vice Chair
Scottish National Party - Kilmarnock and Loudoun
Joined: 13th February 2019
Departed: 5th November 2019
4 APPG Memberships
Infrastructure , Marine Energy , Renewable and Sustainable Energy , Wood Panel Industry
Iain Stewart Portrait
Iain Stewart
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - Milton Keynes South
Joined: 28th September 2017
Departed: 18th July 2018
No other APPG Memberships
Greg Mulholland Portrait
Greg Mulholland
Chair & Registered Contact
Liberal Democrat - Former Member for Leeds North West
Joined: 12th October 2016
Departed: 2nd May 2017
No other APPG Memberships
Lilian Greenwood Portrait
Lilian Greenwood
Vice Chair
Labour - Nottingham South
Joined: 12th October 2016
Departed: 2nd May 2017
4 APPG Memberships
Assistive Technology , Cycling and Walking , Deafness , Women in Transport
Graham Brady Portrait
Graham Brady
Vice Chair
Conservative - Altrincham and Sale West
Joined: 12th October 2016
Departed: 2nd May 2017
7 APPG Memberships
Antigua and Barbuda , Cayman Islands , Singapore , St Kitts and Nevis , Sustainable Aviation , Thailand , Wine and Spirits
Contact Details

Registered Contact:

Andy Carter MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 0207 219 3000.

Email: andy.carter.mp@parliament.uk

Secretariat:

Downtown in Business acts as the group's secretariat. http://www.downtowninbusiness.com

Group's Website:

http://www.applrguk.co.uk/

Benefits in Kind
Date
30 Jan 2021
Source
Downtown in Business
Description
Secretariat   From : 30/01/2021 To : 29/01/2022
Value
£27,001
Date
30 Jan 2020
Source
Light Rail (UK)
Description
Secretariat   From : 30/01/2020 To : 29/01/2021
Value
£16,501
Date
6 Sep 2018
Source
Light Rail (UK) acts as the group's secretariat
Description
Secretariat   From : 06/09/2018 To : 05/09/2019
Value
£7,501
Date
6 Sep 2017
Source
Light Rail (UK) is funded by Driver Check and Train Ltd to act as the group's secretariat
Description
Secretariat   From : 06/09/2017 To : 05/09/2018
Value
£16,501
Date
14 Sep 2016
Source
Transport Training Services UK Group
Description
Secretariat   From : 14/09/2016 To : 13/09/2017
Value
£15,001

No direct financial benefits are on record for the Light Rail APPG