To promote parliamentary and public understanding of the importance of high streets, town centres and city centres in order to build environments that are healthy, sustainable and socially inclusive.
1. Future High Streets Fund
03/09/2019 - Parliamentary Research
Found: Fund is worth £1 billion and will support 100 town centres in England. What can the Fund be used for?
2. The High Street Report
20/12/2018 - Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities
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Found: Streets Task Force
9Creating a single voice for town centres
9Sharing data 9Facilitating networks and building
3. Timpson says a locally-driven approach needed to rejuvenate high streets
20/12/2018 - Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities
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Found: and industry
UK economy
High streets and town centres
Press release
Timpson
4. Rural transport, travel and accessibility statistics
24/10/2019 - Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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Found: employment centres, primary and secondary schools, further education colleges, GPs, hospitals, town
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5. Rural transport, travel and accessibility statistics
24/10/2019 - Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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Found: for
centres of employment
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1. High Streets and Town Centres in 2030
13/06/2019 - Westminster Hall
1: Local Government Committee, High Streets and town centres in 2030, HC 1010, and the Government response - Speech Link
2: Local Government Committee, High Streets and town centres in 2030, HC 1010, and the Government response - Speech Link
2. Non-Domestic Rating (Designated Area) Regulations 2021
24/02/2021 - Lords Chamber
1: want to press him about the wider plight of our town centres, as I did last month. Their decline has been - Speech Link
3. The Future of the High Street
10/12/2020 - Commons Chamber
1: our commitment to support our high streets and town centres in the weeks and months ahead. I am personally - Speech Link
2: Each of the 101 towns selected to work towards a town deal has received accelerated funding dependent - Speech Link
4. Retail Strategy
10/07/2019 - Westminster Hall
1: online banking, online retail and edge-of-town and out-of-town shopping, the high street has seen a radical - Speech Link
2: Some 74,000 retail jobs were lost in 2018, and the town centre vacancy rate in April 2019 was 10.2%—the - Speech Link
3: Committee, which is called “High streets and town centres in 2030”. As we have heard today, many such - Speech Link
5. Covid-19: High Street Retailers
02/07/2020 - Lords Chamber
1: well as £96 million to accelerate investment in town centres and high streets through the Towns Fund this - Speech Link
2: My Lords, small avenues of shops close to town centres and in estates have always had a difficult trading - Speech Link
3: announced £96 million to accelerate investment in town centres through the Towns Fund. This will provide all - Speech Link
asked by: Lord Jones of Cheltenham
28/02/2018
...To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they plan to assess the impact of the UK leaving the EU on existing and possible future twinning arrangements between towns and villages. 2. Shrewsbury Town Council: Shropshire Council
asked by: Daniel Kawczynski
13/07/2020
... if he will make a financial assessment of the effect on value for money for the public purse of merging Shrewsbury Town Council with Shropshire Unitary Authority. 3. Shrewsbury Town Football Club
asked by: Kevin Brennan
11/06/2018
... when (a) he and (b) Ministers of his Department last met representatives of Shrewsbury Town FC to discuss safe standing; and what issues were discussed at that meeting. 4. Children's Centres
asked by: Jon Trickett
01/12/2020
... how many Sure Start centres are (a) open and (b) operational as at 25 November 2020. 5. Detention Centres
asked by: Owen Thompson
13/01/2021
... what assessment she has made of the compatibility with Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights of steps taken by her Department’s to remove parents from their children in immigration removal centres.
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5 Current APPG Officers
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Ahmadiyya Muslim Community , Business in a Pandemic (Covid) World , Business Travel , China , Corporate Responsibility , Events , Greyhound , Hockey , Infrastructure , Light Rail , Maritime and Ports , Portugal , Republic of Korea , South Western Railway , Sri Lanka , Tamils , Wine and Spirits
Douglas Chapman
Vice Chair
Scottish National Party - Dunfermline and West Fife
Joined: 4th November 2020Arctic and Nordic Councils , Catalonia , Denmark , Energy Studies , France , Hydrogen , Photonics and Quantum , Russia , Singapore
Adoption and Permanence , Armed Forces Covenant , Brazil , Durham University , Fair Business Banking , Global Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT+) Rights , Hospice and End of Life Care , Housing Market and Housing Delivery , Markets , Northern Powerhouse , Perpetrators of Domestic Abuse , Personal Banking and Fairer Financial Services , Small and Micro Business , Social Integration
Chalk Streams , Climate Change , Council Housing , Cycling and Walking , Down Syndrome , Electric Vehicles , Football Supporters , Motor , Parks and Green Spaces , Polar Regions , Pubs , Small and Micro Business , Video Games and Esports
Bingo , Britiish Offshore Oil and Gas Industry , Coastal Communities , County , Downstream Energy and Fuels , East of England , Eggs, Pigs and Poultry , Energy Costs , Fair Fuel for UK Motorists and UK Hauliers , Fire Safety and Rescue , Fisheries , Food Banks , Further Education and Lifelong Learning , Holiday Parks and Campsites , Housing and Care for Older People , Housing and Social Mobility , Hydrogen , Intelligent Energy , Nuclear Energy , Packaging Manufacturing Industry , Park Homes , Renewable and Sustainable Energy , Speech and Language Difficulties , State Pension Inequality for Women , Universal Credit
Contact Details
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Stephen Hammond MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 020 7219 3401.
Email: stephen.hammond.mp@parliament.uk
Public Enquiry Point:
Ojay McDonald, Association of Town and City Management, PO Box 242, Westerham TN16 9EU. Tel: 07976 636 038
Email: ojay.mcdonald@atcm.org
Group's Website:
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Former APPG Officers
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Jim McMahon
Chair & Registered Contact
Labour (Co-op) - Oldham West and Royton
Joined: 24th November 2016Departed: 5th November 2019
Apprenticeships , Challenger Banks and Building Societies , Industrial Heritage , Kashmir
Lord Goddard of Stockport
Vice Chair
Liberal Democrat - Life peer
Joined: 24th November 2016Departed: 5th November 2019
Cats , China , Côte d’Ivoire , Darts , Germany , Golf , Housing in the North , Internet, Communications and Technology , Local Authority Pension Funds , Markets , Mutuals , Night Time Economy , Northern Powerhouse , Wine and Spirits
Alex Chalk
Vice Chair
Conservative - Cheltenham
Joined: 29th August 2018Departed: 5th November 2019
Youth Action against Climate Change
Stephen Lloyd
Officer
Liberal Democrat - Former Member for Eastbourne
Joined: 29th August 2018Departed: 5th November 2019
Acquired Brain Injury , District Councils , Funerals and Bereavement , Housing and Planning , Manufacturing , Microplastics , Mining and Quarrying , Motorcycle Speedway , Packaging Manufacturing Industry , Professional Sales , Rugby League , Rugby Union Football Club , Rwanda , Tidy Britain , Vaping
Richard Burden
Officer
Labour - Former Member for Birmingham, Northfield
Joined: 29th August 2018Departed: 11th September 2019
Action on Conflict and Global Britain , Argentina , Bangladesh , Bees and Pollinators , Belarus , Bus and Coach Industry , Central America , Chile , France , Friends of Syria , Healthy Homes and Buildings , Housing and Planning , Housing in the North , Human Rights , Latin America , Mexico , Northern Culture , Pakistan , Poverty , Restorative Justice , Rohingya , Rule of Law , Technology and National Security , Transport Safety , Ukraine
Rebecca Pow
Officer
Conservative - Taunton Deane
Joined: 29th August 2018Departed: 11th September 2019
Rowing
Andrea Jenkyns
Vice Chair
Conservative - Morley and Outwood
Joined: 24th November 2016Departed: 2nd May 2017
Italy
Michelle Donelan
Vice Chair
Conservative - Chippenham
Joined: 24th November 2016Departed: 2nd May 2017