Rural Business and the Rural Powerhouse APPG

First Registered: 21/04/2021 • Last updated on: 09/09/2025

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To champion the interests of rural businesses and communities, promote sustainable economic growth, and ensure rural voices are heard at the heart of policymaking through cross-party collaboration and evidence-based advocacy.

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
John Milne Portrait
John Milne
Chair & Registered Contact
Liberal Democrat - Horsham
Joined: 31st July 2025
1 APPG Officer Position
Pensions and Growth
3 APPG Memberships
South East , Tennis , Water Pollution
Jayne Kirkham Portrait
Jayne Kirkham
Vice Chair
Labour (Co-op) - Truro and Falmouth
Joined: 31st July 2025
5 APPG Officer Positions
Celtic Sea , Deep Geothermal , Floating Offshore Wind , Shellfish Aquaculture , UK Spirits
12 APPG Memberships
Access to Justice , Apprenticeships , Climate Change , Dentistry and Oral Health , Listed Properties , Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) , Ocean , Prostate Cancer , Renewable and Sustainable Energy , Special Educational Needs and Disabilities , University , Water Pollution
Rachel Gilmour Portrait
Rachel Gilmour
Vice Chair
Liberal Democrat - Tiverton and Minehead
Joined: 31st July 2025
1 APPG Officer Position
Farming
3 APPG Memberships
Bosnia and Herzegovina , Nuclear Energy , Pharmacy
Aphra Brandreth Portrait
Aphra Brandreth
Vice Chair
Conservative - Chester South and Eddisbury
Joined: 31st July 2025
3 APPG Officer Positions
Motor Neurone Disease , Transport Safety , Women and Enterprise
7 APPG Memberships
Australia and New Zealand (ANZAC) and the Pacific Islands , Aviation , Carbon Monoxide , Creative Health , Digital Communities , Obesity , Women in Parliament
Contact Details

Registered Contact:

John Milne MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 020 7219 4498.

Email: john.milne.mp@parliament.uk

Public Enquiry Point:

Henry Welch, Country Land and Business Association (CLA). Tel: 07792 097145

Email: Henry.welch@cla.org.uk

Secretariat:

Country Land and Business Association (CLA) acts as the group's secretariat. https://www.cla.org.uk/

Benefits in Kind
Date
24 Apr 2023
Source
Country Land and Business Association
Description
Report publication
Value
£3,001

No direct financial benefits are on record for the Rural Business and the Rural Powerhouse APPG

Former APPG Officers
Julian Sturdy Portrait
Julian Sturdy
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - Former Member for York Outer
Joined: 21st April 2021
Departed: 6th March 2024
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Lord Cameron of Dillington Portrait
Lord Cameron of Dillington
Vice Chair
Crossbench - Life peer
Joined: 21st April 2021
Departed: 6th March 2024
2 APPG Officer Positions
Dairy , Deep Geothermal

No other APPG Memberships

Lord Carrington Portrait
Lord Carrington
Vice Chair
Crossbench - Excepted Hereditary
Joined: 21st April 2021
Departed: 6th March 2024
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Lord Curry of Kirkharle Portrait
Lord Curry of Kirkharle
Vice Chair
Crossbench - Life peer
Joined: 21st April 2021
Departed: 6th March 2024
1 APPG Officer Position
Christians in Parliament

No other APPG Memberships

Greg Smith Portrait
Greg Smith
Vice Chair
Conservative - Mid Buckinghamshire
Joined: 21st April 2021
Departed: 6th March 2024
5 APPG Officer Positions
Beer , Formula 1 and Motorsport , Furniture Industry , Gaps in Covid-19 Financial Support , Loan Charge and Taxpayer Fairness

No other APPG Memberships

Selaine Saxby Portrait
Selaine Saxby
Vice Chair
Conservative - Former Member for North Devon
Joined: 4th May 2022
Departed: 6th March 2024
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Earl of Devon Portrait
Earl of Devon
Vice Chair
Crossbench - Excepted Hereditary
Joined: 4th May 2022
Departed: 6th March 2024
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Helen Morgan Portrait
Helen Morgan
Vice Chair
Liberal Democrat - North Shropshire
Joined: 4th May 2022
Departed: 6th March 2024
4 APPG Officer Positions
Digital Communities , Flooding and Flooded Communities , Spinal Cord Injury , UK Food Security

No other APPG Memberships

Alex Sobel Portrait
Alex Sobel
Vice Chair
Labour (Co-op) - Leeds Central and Headingley
Joined: 17th May 2023
Departed: 6th March 2024
6 APPG Officer Positions
Fair Elections , Music , Net Zero , Students , Ukraine , West Papua

No other APPG Memberships

Jerome Mayhew Portrait
Jerome Mayhew
Vice Chair
Conservative - Broadland and Fakenham
Joined: 21st April 2021
Departed: 5th April 2023
1 APPG Officer Position
Financial Education for Young People

No other APPG Memberships

Lord Harlech Portrait
Lord Harlech
Vice Chair
Conservative - Excepted Hereditary
Joined: 4th May 2022
Departed: 5th April 2023
2 APPG Officer Positions
Climate, Nature and Security , Fatherhood

No other APPG Memberships

None Portrait
Rosie Cooper
Vice Chair
 Joined: 21st April 2021
Departed: 22nd February 2023
6 APPG Officer Positions
Creative Health , Defibrillators , Opera , Responsible Business , Safeguarding in Faith Communities , Slovenia

No other APPG Memberships

Simon Hoare Portrait
Simon Hoare
Vice Chair
Conservative - North Dorset
Joined: 21st April 2021
Departed: 23rd March 2022
6 APPG Officer Positions
Council Tax Reform , Dairy , Local Government , Menopause , Multiple Sclerosis , Theatre

No other APPG Memberships

Richard Holden Portrait
Richard Holden
Vice Chair
Conservative - Basildon and Billericay
Joined: 21st April 2021
Departed: 23rd March 2022
6 APPG Officer Positions
Freedom of Speech , Freight and Logistics , Insurance and Financial Services , Media , Pubs , Self-Driving Vehicles

No other APPG Memberships

Earl of Shrewsbury Portrait
Earl of Shrewsbury
Vice Chair
Conservative - Excepted Hereditary
Joined: 21st April 2021
Departed: 23rd March 2022
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships