Arts and Heritage APPG

First Registered: 30/07/2015 • Last updated on: 07/05/2025

To promote interest in the arts and heritage at Westminster.

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 Officers - Contact Details - Benefits in Kind - Financial Benefits

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4 Current APPG Officers
Lord Crathorne Portrait
Lord Crathorne
Co-Chair
Conservative - Excepted Hereditary
Joined: 30th July 2015
Lord Stirrup Portrait
Lord Stirrup
Treasurer
Crossbench - Life peer
Joined: 14th July 2021
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Contact Details

Registered Contact:

Dan Carden MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 0207 219 6236.

Email: dan.carden.mp@parliament.uk

Public Enquiry Point:

Lord Crathorne, House of Lords. Tel: 07767 444065

Email: james.crathorne@btconnect.com

No benefits in kind are on record for the Arts and Heritage APPG

No direct financial benefits are on record for the Arts and Heritage APPG

Former APPG Officers
Daniel Zeichner Portrait
Daniel Zeichner
Vice Chair
Labour - Cambridge
Joined: 10th October 2018
Departed: 30th May 2024
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Jonathan Djanogly Portrait
Jonathan Djanogly
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - Former Member for Huntingdon
Joined: 30th November 2022
Departed: 30th May 2024
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Ian Liddell-Grainger Portrait
Ian Liddell-Grainger
Vice Chairman
Conservative - Former Member for Bridgwater and West Somerset
Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 6th March 2024
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Baroness Whitaker Portrait
Baroness Whitaker
Vice President
Labour - Life peer
Joined: 15th June 2022
Departed: 6th March 2024
2 APPG Officer Positions
Gypsies, Travellers and Roma , Speech and Language Difficulties

No other APPG Memberships

Lord Howarth of Newport Portrait
Lord Howarth of Newport
Vice President
Labour - Life peer
Joined: 8th November 2017
Departed: 6th March 2024
1 APPG Officer Position
Creative Health

No other APPG Memberships

Baroness Fookes Portrait
Baroness Fookes
Vice President
Conservative - Life peer
Joined: 5th April 2023
Departed: 6th March 2024
1 APPG Officer Position
Gardening and Horticulture

No other APPG Memberships

Lord Cormack Portrait
Lord Cormack
President
Conservative - Life peer
Joined: 8th November 2017
Departed: 24th January 2024
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Baroness Boothroyd Portrait
Baroness Boothroyd
Vice President
Crossbench - Life peer
Joined: 8th November 2017
Departed: 22nd February 2023
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Viscount Falkland Portrait
Viscount Falkland
Vice President
Crossbench - Excepted Hereditary
Joined: 8th November 2017
Departed: 22nd February 2023
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Robert Jenrick Portrait
Robert Jenrick
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - Newark
Joined: 15th June 2022
Departed: 19th October 2022
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Peter Bottomley Portrait
Peter Bottomley
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - Former Member for Worthing West
Joined: 24th February 2020
Departed: 4th May 2022
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Lord Lea of Crondall Portrait
Lord Lea of Crondall
Vice President
Non-affiliated - Life peer
Joined: 8th November 2017
Departed: 23rd March 2022
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Baroness Hilton of Eggardon Portrait
Baroness Hilton of Eggardon
Vice Chairman
Labour - Life peer
Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 6th October 2021
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Lord Freeman Portrait
Lord Freeman
Honorary Treasurer
Conservative - Life peer
Joined: 28th April 2016
Departed: 24th September 2020
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Chris Leslie Portrait
Chris Leslie
Vice President
The Independent Group for Change - Former Member for Nottingham East
Joined: 8th November 2017
Departed: 5th November 2019
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Gordon Marsden Portrait
Gordon Marsden
Chair & Registered Contact
Labour - Former Member for Blackpool South
Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 5th November 2019
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Lord Cryer Portrait
Lord Cryer
Vice Chair
Labour - Life peer
Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 21st July 2016
1 APPG Officer Position
Swimming

No other APPG Memberships

George Freeman Portrait
George Freeman
Treasurer
Conservative - Mid Norfolk
Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 16th March 2016