Blood Cancer APPG

First Registered: 21/07/2016 • Last updated on: 30/05/2024

Note: This APPG was last registered on 30th May 2024. The APPG was not registered in the latest release of the 18th June 2025 and may be defunct. Perhaps you are looking for the Prostate Cancer APPG?

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To raise awareness and promote the needs of blood cancer patients with parliamentarians, government, NHS and charity stakeholders, and to create a forum for broader issues affecting blood cancer patients.

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
Jess Phillips Portrait
Jess Phillips
Chair & Registered Contact
Labour - Birmingham Yardley
Joined: 21st July 2016
Departed: 30th May 2024
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Henry Smith Portrait
Henry Smith
Officer
Conservative - Former Member for Crawley
Joined: 21st July 2016
Departed: 30th May 2024
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Lord Mendelsohn Portrait
Lord Mendelsohn
Officer
Labour - Life peer
Joined: 15th June 2022
Departed: 30th May 2024
3 APPG Officer Positions
Abraham Accords , Vulnerable Groups to Pandemics , War Crimes

No other APPG Memberships

Baroness Brinton Portrait
Baroness Brinton
Officer
Liberal Democrat - Life peer
Joined: 15th June 2022
Departed: 30th May 2024
2 APPG Officer Positions
Children of Alcoholics , Fire Safety and Rescue

No other APPG Memberships

Colleen Fletcher Portrait
Colleen Fletcher
Vice Chair
Labour - Former Member for Coventry North East
Joined: 21st July 2016
Departed: 6th March 2024
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Clive Betts Portrait
Clive Betts
Officer
Labour - Sheffield South East
Joined: 28th June 2023
Departed: 6th March 2024
5 APPG Officer Positions
City Regions Transport , Football , Local Government , Netherlands , Stem Cell Transplantation and Advanced Cellular Therapies

No other APPG Memberships

Lord Walney Portrait
Lord Walney
Officer
Crossbench - Life peer
Joined: 10th March 2021
Departed: 6th March 2024
2 APPG Officer Positions
Australia, United Kingdom and United States of America (AUKUS) , Small Modular Reactors

No other APPG Memberships

Jim Shannon Portrait
Jim Shannon
Officer
Democratic Unionist Party - Strangford
Joined: 21st July 2016
Departed: 4th May 2022
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

Lord Botham Portrait
Lord Botham
Officer
Crossbench - Life peer
Joined: 10th March 2021
Departed: 4th May 2022
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Nick Thomas-Symonds Portrait
Nick Thomas-Symonds
Officer
Labour - Torfaen
Joined: 21st July 2016
Departed: 27th January 2021
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Maggie Throup Portrait
Maggie Throup
Vice Chair
Conservative - Former Member for Erewash
Joined: 28th September 2017
Departed: 29th August 2018
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Jason McCartney Portrait
Jason McCartney
Vice Chair
Conservative - Former Member for Colne Valley
Joined: 21st July 2016
Departed: 2nd May 2017
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Contact Details

Registered Contact:

Jess Phillips MP,

Email: No email supplied

Public Enquiry Point:

Laura Challinor, Blood Cancer UK, Suite 31 Bonnington Bond, 2 Anderson Place, Edinburgh EH6 5NP

Email: appg@bloodwise.org.uk

Benefits in Kind
Date
3 Jul 2019
Source
Bloodwise
Description
Secretariat   From : 03/07/2019 To : 02/07/2020
Value
£1,501
Date
3 Jul 2018
Source
Bloodwise
Description
Secretariat   From : 03/07/2018 To : 02/07/2019
Value
£1,501
Date
3 Jul 2017
Source
Bloodwise
Description
Secretariat   From : 03/07/2017 To : 02/07/2018
Value
£1,501
Date
14 Jun 2016
Source
Bloodwise
Description
Secretariat   From : 14/06/2016 To : 13/06/2017
Value
£3,001

No direct financial benefits are on record for the Blood Cancer APPG