Air Passenger Duty Reform APPG

First Registered: 27/03/2019 • Last updated on: 27/01/2021

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To encourage the UK government to cut the UK's Air Passenger Duty rate, thereby allowing the UK to compete on a level playing field with our European counterparts, boosting tourism, trade, jobs and growth.

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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Former Officers - Contact Details - Benefits in Kind - Financial Benefits
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Former APPG Officers
Henry Smith Portrait
Henry Smith
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - Former Member for Crawley
Joined: 27th March 2019
Departed: 27th January 2021
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

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Jim Shannon
Officer
Democratic Unionist Party - Strangford
Joined: 27th March 2019
Departed: 27th January 2021
5 APPG Officer Positions
Healthy Homes and Buildings , International Freedom of Religion or Belief , Respiratory Health , UK Food Security , Vascular and Venous Disease

No other APPG Memberships

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Sammy Wilson
Officer
Democratic Unionist Party - East Antrim
Joined: 24th February 2020
Departed: 27th January 2021
2 APPG Officer Positions
Loan Charge and Taxpayer Fairness , Pandemic Response and Recovery

No other APPG Memberships

Steve Double Portrait
Steve Double
Vice Chair
Conservative - Former Member for St Austell and Newquay
Joined: 27th March 2019
Departed: 27th January 2021
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

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Tonia Antoniazzi
Officer
Labour - Gower
Joined: 24th February 2020
Departed: 27th January 2021
6 APPG Officer Positions
Beer , Commercial Sexual Exploitation , ITV , Medical Cannabis under Prescription , Modern Languages , Rugby Union Football Club

No other APPG Memberships

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Rosie Cooper
Vice Chair
Labour - Former Member for West Lancashire
Joined: 27th March 2019
Departed: 5th November 2019
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Gavin Robinson Portrait
Gavin Robinson
Vice Chair
Democratic Unionist Party - Belfast East
Joined: 27th March 2019
Departed: 5th November 2019
4 APPG Officer Positions
Aviation, Travel and Aerospace , Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories , Isle of Man (Manx) , Restorative Justice

No other APPG Memberships

Gavin Shuker Portrait
Gavin Shuker
Vice Chair
Independent - Former Member for Luton South
Joined: 27th March 2019
Departed: 5th November 2019
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Contact Details

Registered Contact:

Henry Smith MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 020 7219 7043.

Email: henry.smith.mp@parliament.uk

Public Enquiry Point:

Millie Hinton, Tendo Consulting, Suite 5, The Hop Exchange, 24 Southwark Street, London SE1 1TY. Tel: 020 7175 8363

Email: millie@tendoconsulting.co.uk

Secretariat:

Tendo Consulting acts as the group's secretariat. https://www.tendoconsulting.co.uk/

Benefits in Kind
Date
29 Jan 2020
Source
Tendo Consulting
Description
Tendo Consulting is paid by A Fair Tax on Flying Campaign to act as the group's secretariat   From : 29/01/2020 To : 28/01/2021
Value
£10,501
Date
26 Feb 2019
Source
Tendo Consulting
Description
Tendo Consulting is paid by A Fair Tax on Flying Campaign to act as the group's secretariat   From : 26/02/2019 To : 25/02/2020
Value
£10,501

No direct financial benefits are on record for the Air Passenger Duty Reform APPG