To promote media freedom in countries around the world and to strengthen the protection of journalists.
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4 Current APPG Officers
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Contact Details
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Sir John Whittingdale MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 020 7219 3557.
Email: john.whittingdale.mp@parliament.uk
Public Enquiry Point:
Fiona O'Brien, Reporters Without Borders (RSF)
Email: fobrien@rsf.org
Secretariat:
Reporters Without Borders acts as the group's secretariat. https://rsf.org/
No benefits in kind are on record for the Media Freedom APPG
No direct financial benefits are on record for the Media Freedom APPG
Former APPG Officers
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Rob Butler
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - Aylesbury
Joined: 28th June 2023Departed: 6th March 2024
Africa , Birth Trauma , International Conservation , United Nations Global Goals for Sustainable Development , Visual Arts , Wilton Park
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock
Vice Chair
Labour - Life peer
Joined: 31st July 2019Departed: 6th March 2024
Peter Bottomley
Vice Chair
Conservative - Worthing West
Joined: 11th January 2023Departed: 6th March 2024
12 Step Recovery , Afrikan Reparations , 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 , Leasehold and Commonhold Reform , Limits to Growth , Public Accountability , Race and Community , Sexual and Reproductive Health in the UK , Single Parent Families , Small and Micro Business , Social Integration , Social Science and Policy , South Africa , Transport Safety , United Nations , Western Sahara , Wine and Spirits , Women in Transport , Zimbabwe
James Gray
Vice Chair
Conservative - North Wiltshire
Joined: 28th June 2023Departed: 6th March 2024
Jim Shannon
Vice Chair
Democratic Unionist Party - Strangford
Joined: 11th January 2023Departed: 13th December 2023
Bahá'í Faith , International Freedom of Religion or Belief , Pakistani Minorities , Respiratory Health , Sleep , Vascular and Venous Disease
Damian Collins
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - Folkestone and Hythe
Joined: 24th September 2020Departed: 7th September 2022
John Whittingdale
Vice Chair
Conservative - Maldon
Joined: 31st July 2019Departed: 7th September 2022
Christian Matheson
Vice Chair
Independent - Former Member for City of Chester
Joined: 31st July 2019Departed: 4th May 2022
Viscount Colville of Culross
Vice Chair
Crossbench - Excepted Hereditary
Joined: 14th July 2021Departed: 4th May 2022
Jeremy Hunt
Vice Chair
Conservative - South West Surrey
Joined: 24th February 2020Departed: 7th August 2020
John Grogan
Vice Chair
Labour - Former Member for Keighley
Joined: 31st July 2019Departed: 5th November 2019