Black Maternal Health APPG

First Registered: 25/08/2021 • Last updated on: 09/09/2025

As highlighted in the 2025 MBRRACE-UK report, Black women remain up to four times more likely to die in childbirth. This APPG aims to raise awareness of this racial disparity in maternal healthcare and offer actionable solutions to ensure safer, more equitable outcomes to end this.

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

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Bell Ribeiro-Addy

Chair & Registered Contact

Labour - Clapham and Brixton Hill

Joined: 25th August 2021

4 APPG Officer Positions
Afrikan Reparations , Ethnicity Transplantation and Transfusion , Ghana , Immigration Detention
20 APPG Memberships
Access to Justice , Ahmadiyya Muslim Community , Care-Experienced Children and Young People , Creative Health , Diversity and Inclusion in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics , Ethnic Minority Business Owners , Gaps in Covid-19 Financial Support , Grief Support and the Impact of Death on Society , Gypsies, Travellers and Roma , Healthcare Workers , Homelessness , Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases , Maternity , Race and Community , Refugees , Sepsis , Women affected by the Criminal Justice System , Women in Parliament , Women's Health , Youth Affairs

Baroness Verma

Vice Chair

Conservative - Life peer

Joined: 9th September 2025

11 APPG Officer Positions
Afrikan Reparations , Children , Democratic Republic of Congo , Digital Inclusion , Digital Markets and Digital Money , Ethnic Minority Business Owners , Governance and Inclusive Leadership , India , Kurds , Obstructive Sleep Apnoea , Tamils
11 APPG Memberships
British Hindus , Commonwealth , Digital Communities , Digital Identity , Diversity and Inclusion in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics , Fair Banking , International Students , Parkrun , Switzerland and Liechtenstein , United Nations Global Goals , Women in Parliament

Diane Abbott

Vice Chair

Independent - Hackney North and Stoke Newington

Joined: 30th November 2022

2 APPG Officer Positions
Dalits and Adivasis (Tribals) , Race Equality in Education
3 APPG Memberships
Humanist , Immigration Detention , Race and Community

Apsana Begum

Officer

Independent - Poplar and Limehouse

Joined: 9th September 2025

3 APPG Officer Positions
Bangladesh , Closing the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility , Domestic Violence and Abuse
5 APPG Memberships
Gaps in Covid-19 Financial Support , Gypsies, Travellers and Roma , Hadrian's Wall , Miscarriages of Justice , Women in Parliament