New Towns APPG

First Registered: 28/09/2017 • Last updated on: 07/05/2025

To celebrate the UK’s New Towns, identify common challenges and make the case for investment and sustainable growth. This APPG will examine how to best support the needs of the 2.8 million people already living in new towns and consider the needs of the residents of the future. Learning the lessons from past new towns in championing and supporting the creation of more new towns.

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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4 Current Officers - Contact Details - Benefits in Kind - Financial Benefits

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4 Current APPG Officers

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Andrew Lewin

Chair & Registered Contact

Labour - Welwyn Hatfield

Joined: 2nd January 2025

1 APPG Officer Position
Cricket
2 APPG Memberships
Environment , Humanist

Lord Best

Co-Chair

Crossbench - Life peer

Joined: 28th September 2017

1 APPG Officer Position
Housing and Care for Older People
7 APPG Memberships
Adult Social Care , Beyond Pills , Carbon Monoxide , Environment , Healthy Homes and Buildings , Homelessness , Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire

Lord Naseby

Officer

Conservative - Life peer

Joined: 2nd January 2025

2 APPG Officer Positions
Hydrogen , Responsible Vaping
12 APPG Memberships
Commonwealth , Fair Banking , Falkland Islands , Freight and Logistics , Grid Networks , Healthcare Workers , Infrastructure , Manufacturing , Media , Mutuals , Nuclear Energy , Writers

Katrina Murray

Officer

Labour - Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch

Joined: 2nd January 2025

3 APPG Officer Positions
Debt and Financial Inclusion , Night Time Economy , Usher Syndrome
7 APPG Memberships
Australia and New Zealand (ANZAC) and the Pacific Islands , Beauty and Wellbeing , Healthcare Workers , Ireland and the Irish in Britain , Less Survivable Cancers , Parkrun , Theatre

Contact Details

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Registered Contact:

Andrew Lewin MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA.

Email: andrew.lewin.mp@parliament.uk

Public Enquiry Point:

Charlotte Llewellyn, Town and Country Planning Association. Tel: 020 8132 5479

Email: charlotte.llewellyn@tcpa.org.uk

Secretariat:

Town and Country Planning Association acts as the group's secretariat. https://www.tcpa.org.uk/

Group's Website:

https://www.tcpa.org.uk/resources/all-party-parliamentary-group-on-new-towns/

Benefits in Kind

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Date
12 Nov 2024

Source
Town and Country Planning Association

Description
Town and Country Planning Association is paid by The Lady Margaret Paterson Osborn Trust to act as the group's secretariat From : 12/11/2024 To : 11/11/2025

Value
£6,001

Date
26 Jan 2023

Source
The Town and Country Planning Association

Description
The Town and Country Planning Association is paid by The Lady Margaret Paterson Osborn Trust to act as the group's secretariat From : 26/01/2023 To : 25/01/2024

Value
£1,501

Date
26 Jan 2022

Source
The Town and Country Planning Association

Description
The Town and Country Planning Association is paid by The Lady Margaret Paterson Osborn Trust to act as the group's secretariat From : 26/01/2022 To : 25/01/2023

Value
£7,501

No direct financial benefits are on record for the New Towns APPG