Semiconductors APPG

First Registered: 13/12/2023 • Last updated on: 07/05/2025

To champion the UK’s semiconductors industry while advocating the role of national domestic capacity within the global supply chain. The group will engage with government decision-makers to push forward the policy agenda surrounding semiconductor design and manufacturing in the UK while highlighting the economic and skills benefits.

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 APPG Officers
Jack Rankin Portrait
Jack Rankin
Vice Chair
Conservative - Windsor
Joined: 28th August 2024
1 APPG Officer Position
Events
5 APPG Memberships
British Hindus , India , Israel , Listed Properties , Water Pollution
Contact Details

Registered Contact:

Ruth Jones MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 020 7219 8921.

Email: ruth.jones.mp@parliament.uk

Public Enquiry Point:

Oscar Taylor, CalComms. Tel: 07713447660

Email: oscar@calcomms.co.uk

Secretariat:

CalComms acts as the group's secretariat. https://www.calcomms.co.uk/

Date
24 Jul 2024
Source
CalComms
Description
Secretariat   From : 24/07/2024 To : 23/07/2025
Value
£12,001
Date
18 Oct 2024
Source
Queen's University, Belfast
Value
£2,000
Date
8 Oct 2024
Source
Swansea University
Value
£2,500
Date
19 Sep 2024
Source
Vishay
Value
£15,000
Date
16 Sep 2024
Source
Oxford Instruments
Value
£10,000
Date
12 Sep 2024
Source
Plessey Semiconductors
Value
£15,000
Former APPG Officers
Gurinder Singh Josan Portrait
Gurinder Singh Josan
Officer
Labour - Smethwick
Joined: 28th August 2024
Departed: 28th August 2024
2 APPG Officer Positions
British Sikhs , Yemen

No other APPG Memberships

Alun Cairns Portrait
Alun Cairns
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - Former Member for Vale of Glamorgan
Joined: 13th December 2023
Departed: 30th May 2024
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

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Lord Bethell
Vice Chair
Conservative - Excepted Hereditary
Joined: 13th December 2023
Departed: 30th May 2024
8 APPG Officer Positions
Children's Online Safety , Commercial Sexual Exploitation , Health , Healthy Places , Long Covid , Radiotherapy , Running , Swimming

No other APPG Memberships

Lord Walney Portrait
Lord Walney
Vice Chair
Crossbench - Life peer
Joined: 13th December 2023
Departed: 30th May 2024
2 APPG Officer Positions
Australia, United Kingdom and United States of America (AUKUS) , Small Modular Reactors

No other APPG Memberships

Karl McCartney Portrait
Karl McCartney
Vice Chair
Conservative - Former Member for Lincoln
Joined: 13th December 2023
Departed: 6th March 2024
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships