Dataset

All Party Parliamentary Groups

553 records in this dataset. Showing rows 1 to 100 (page 1 of 6).

All Party Parliamentary Groups are informal cross-party groups of MPs and peers formed around a shared interest, whether a country, an industry, a medical condition or a cause. They have no formal powers and are not select committees, but they hold meetings, publish reports and give their subject a standing platform inside Parliament. The day-to-day running of a group is often handled by a secretariat, an outside body that supplies the staff, money and administration. When that secretariat is a charity or a university the arrangement is usually unremarkable. When it is a lobbying firm or a company, the group becomes a paid channel for outside interests to reach lawmakers, with MPs serving as its officers. Groups must register their officers, their funding and any benefits above a set threshold, which is what the register below records.