To provide a focal point for MPs and Peers with an interest in opera; to further the appreciation of opera; and to provide a link between this art form and Parliament.
View Official Register Entry
Reticulating Splines
APPG Supplied Content
APPGs can register with Parallel Parliament and submit files and articles to be placed here.
Parallel Parliament offers the facility for APPGs to submit written content and files, which are made available through this page.
Submitters can draft and edit publications, and either release them on demand, or schedule release for a future date.
Both text content and attached files submitted through this facility is indexed by our website, and made available through both the search function and relevant e-mail alerts. Any of our users registered for an alert which matches your content, will receive a link making them aware of its publication.
If you wish to register as an authorised representative of the Opera APPG and use this facility, click below
4 Current APPG Officers
Show/Hide
Robert Neill
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - Bromley and Chislehurst
Joined: 24th February 2020Curry Industry , Financial Markets and Services , France , Gibraltar , Hungary , London , Rule of Law , Stroke
Chagos (British Indian Ocean Territory) , Gypsies, Travellers and Roma , Marine Energy
Contact Details
Show/HideRegistered Contact:
Sir Robert Neill MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 020 7219 8169.
Email: bob.neill.mp@parliament.uk
Public Enquiry Point:
Janet Gibson
Email: gibsonj@parliament.uk
No benefits in kind are on record for the Opera APPG
No direct financial benefits are on record for the Opera APPG
Former APPG Officers
Show/Hide
Lord Aberdare
Vice Chair
Crossbench - Excepted Hereditary
Joined: 30th July 2015Departed: 6th March 2024
Peter Bottomley
Vice Chair
Conservative - Worthing West
Joined: 2nd June 2021Departed: 6th March 2024
12 Step Recovery , Ageing and Older People , Austria , Carbon Monoxide , Citizens' Rights , Closing the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility , Dark Skies , Democracy and Human Rights in the Gulf , Dentistry and Oral Health , Ethnic Minority Business Owners , Extraordinary Rendition , Frozen British Pensions , Haemophilia and Contaminated Blood , Haiti , Immigration Detention , Limits to Growth , Race and Community , Sexual and Reproductive Health in the UK , Small and Micro Business , Social Integration , South Africa , Transport Safety , United Nations , Women in Transport , Zimbabwe
Bernard Jenkin
Vice Chair
Conservative - Harwich and North Essex
Joined: 2nd June 2021Departed: 6th March 2024
John Nicolson
Vice Chair
Scottish National Party - Ochil and South Perthshire
Joined: 28th June 2023Departed: 6th March 2024
Lord Young of Norwood Green
Vice Chair
Labour - Life peer
Joined: 2nd June 2021Departed: 6th March 2024
12 Step Recovery , Brazil , Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories , Explosive Threats , Latin America , Mexico , Youth Affairs
Mark Pritchard
Secretary
Conservative - The Wrekin
Joined: 28th September 2017Departed: 6th March 2024
Nicholas Brown
Joint Secretary
Independent - Newcastle upon Tyne East
Joined: 30th July 2015Departed: 23rd March 2022
Robert Neill
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - Bromley and Chislehurst
Joined: 30th July 2015Departed: 5th November 2019
Curry Industry , Financial Markets and Services , France , Gibraltar , Hungary , London , Rule of Law , Stroke
Kelvin Hopkins
Treasurer
Independent - Former Member for Luton North
Joined: 30th July 2015Departed: 18th July 2018
Gerald Kaufman
Chair & Registered Contact
Labour - Former Member for Manchester, Gorton
Joined: 30th July 2015Departed: 15th February 2017