Mindfulness APPG

First Registered: 30/07/2015 • Last updated on: 06/03/2024

Note: This APPG was last registered on 6th March 2024. The APPG was not registered in the latest release of the 8th April 2024 and may be defunct.

To review research evidence, current best practice, extent and success of implementation, and potential developments in the application of mindfulness within a range of policy areas, and to develop policy recommendations for government based on these findings.

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

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Caroline Lucas

Vice Chair

Green Party - Brighton, Pavilion

Joined: 24th February 2020
Departed: 6th March 2024

3 APPG Memberships
Climate Change , Land Value Capture , Limits to Growth

Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

Vice Chair

Labour - Life peer

Joined: 17th May 2023
Departed: 6th March 2024

2 APPG Memberships
Bladder and Bowel Continence Care , Complex Needs and Dual Diagnosis

Baroness Lister of Burtersett

Vice Chair

Labour - Life peer

Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 6th March 2024

4 APPG Memberships
Domestic Violence and Abuse , Migration , Poverty , Rule of Law

Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon

Vice Chair

Labour - Life peer

Joined: 24th February 2020
Departed: 6th March 2024

1 APPG Membership
Race Equality in Education

Lord Howarth of Newport

Vice Chair

Labour - Life peer

Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 6th March 2024

1 APPG Membership
Norfolk Island

Baroness Healy of Primrose Hill

Vice Chair

Labour - Life peer

Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 6th March 2024

1 APPG Membership
Children, Teenagers, and Young Adults with Cancer

Baroness Harris of Richmond

Vice Chair

Liberal Democrat - Life peer

Joined: 28th September 2017
Departed: 6th March 2024

No other APPG Memberships

Baroness Burt of Solihull

Vice Chair

Liberal Democrat - Life peer

Joined: 24th February 2020
Departed: 6th March 2024

1 APPG Membership
Humanist

Anne McLaughlin

Vice Chair

Scottish National Party - Glasgow North East

Joined: 4th May 2022
Departed: 6th March 2024

3 APPG Memberships
Fairtrade , Immigration Detention , Refugees

Desmond Swayne

Vice Chair

Conservative - New Forest West

Joined: 24th February 2020
Departed: 6th March 2024

No other APPG Memberships

Tracey Crouch

Vice Chair

Conservative - Chatham and Aylesford

Joined: 24th February 2020
Departed: 6th March 2024

3 APPG Memberships
Breast Cancer , Football Supporters , National Trust

Tim Loughton

Co-Chair

Conservative - East Worthing and Shoreham

Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 6th March 2024

15 APPG Memberships
Adoption and Permanence , Archaeology , Armenia , Austria , British Museum , Care-Experienced Children and Young People , Children , Coastal Communities , Conception to Age Two - First 1001 Days , Kinship Care , Photography , Tennis , Tibet , Wilton Park , Yemen

Jessica Morden

Chair & Registered Contact

Labour - Newport East

Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 6th March 2024

4 APPG Memberships
Armenia , Georgia , Hospitality, Events and Major Food and Drink Businesses in Wales , Western Gateway

Margaret Ferrier

Vice Chair

Independent - Former Member for Rutherglen and Hamilton West

Joined: 21st July 2016
Departed: 23rd March 2022

No other APPG Memberships

Lord Layard

Vice-Chair

Labour - Life peer

Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 5th November 2019

No other APPG Memberships

Diana Johnson

VIce-Chair

Labour - Kingston upon Hull North

Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 5th November 2019

5 APPG Memberships
Caribbean , Commercial Sexual Exploitation , Haemophilia and Contaminated Blood , Sexual and Reproductive Health in the UK , Wilton Park