Coalfield Communities APPG
First Registered: 30/07/2015 • Last updated on: 06/10/2021
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TwitterTo encourage the further economic, social and cultural development of the UK's former coalfield communities, by bringing together MPs, external stakeholders and others to develop credible proposals for further coalfields regeneration.
1. Coalfield Communities
30/07/2015 - APPGs
Found: cultural development of the UK's former coalfield communities, by bringing together MPs, external stakeholders
2. FRACKING IN THE FORMER COALFIELD AREAS
22/05/2018 - Early Day Motions
Found: events; further urges the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government to adopt Professor Styles's
3. Coalfield Areas: Sports Facilities
24/10/2018 - Westminster Hall
4. Hansard_Speeches object (140703)
24/10/2018 - Speeches
Found:
5. Hansard_Speeches object (140704)
24/10/2018 - Speeches
Found:
1. Coalfield Areas: Sports Facilities
24/10/2018 - Westminster Hall
1: this House has considered sports facilities in coalfield areas.It is a pleasure to serve under your - Speech Link
2. Arts Council England Funding: Coalfield Communities
20/02/2018 - Commons Chamber
1: in presenting to the world a list of the coalfield communities that it funds that is so expansive as to - Speech Link
2: themselves and none of it gets into the former coalfield communities. It is a scandal. The Arts Council needs - Speech Link
3. Future of Coal in the UK
03/12/2020 - Commons Chamber
1: great traditions and solidarity of our mining communities, nor is it about the coaling stations that stretched - Speech Link
2: and to the hearts of many Members representing coalfield constituencies. I welcome the debate, congratulate - Speech Link
3: debate but on the work he does for coal and coalfield communities. I am delighted to speak in the debate as - Speech Link
4. Mineworkers’ Pension Scheme
10/06/2019 - Commons Chamber
1: retired miners who made the long journey from the coalfield areas in anticipation that the debate would take - Speech Link
2: dramatically.I am proud to represent the mining communities of east Durham. We owe a debt of gratitude to - Speech Link
3: surplus-sharing arrangements. Members representing coalfield areas will have received emails from constituents - Speech Link
5. Mineworkers’ Pension Scheme
14/02/2019 - Commons Chamber
1: and their families in my constituency and coalfield communities across the country.I understand the - Speech Link
2: owes a debt of honour to the miners and mining communities for providing the fuel that powered a nation - Speech Link
3: Durham miners’ gala, which celebrates the coalfield communities. She is absolutely right about the money - Speech Link
asked by: Andrew Bridgen
03/03/2021
... if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of the creation of a UK Garden City scheme to (a) promote horticulture and (b) promote and reinvigorate green spaces that are vital to physical and mental wellbeing during the covid-19 outbreak. 2. Garden Communities
asked by: Luciana Berger
02/07/2019
... what steps he is taking to work with Homes England to incorporate community cohesion as part of the support offered to existing and future garden communities. 3. Garden Communities
asked by: Luciana Berger
01/07/2019
... what steps he is taking as part of the loneliness strategy to ensure that community cohesion is considered in the assessment process for prospective Garden Communities. 4. Garden Communities
asked by: David Davis
13/03/2019
... how much funding his Department has allocated to local authorities for the development of new (a) garden cities and (b) villages. 5. Garden Communities
asked by: Priti Patel
16/01/2019
... whether he plans to undertake a value for money assessment of funding allocated to local authorities for garden settlement projects; and if he will make a statement.
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13 Current APPG Officers
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Beauty, Aesthetics and Wellbeing , Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK (CANZUK) , Farming , Financial Resilience , Infant Feeding and Inequalities , Media , Music Education , Ovarian Cancer , Perpetrators of Domestic Abuse , Social Enterprise , Water , Women and Work , Wrestling
Apprenticeships , Ceramics , Film and Production Industry , Kashmir , Rail , School Exclusions and Alternative Provision , T Levels , Video Games and Esports , West Midlands
Brazil , Football Club , Independent Education , Motor Neurone Disease , Publishing , Romania , Rural Health and Social Care , Sweden
Dementia , Food Banks , Leasehold and Commonhold Reform , Liverpool City Region , Looked After Children and Care Leavers , Penal Affairs , Rugby League , Veterans , West Coast Main Line
Betting and Gaming , Ceramics , Equipment for Disabled Children , Financial Technology , Humanist , Personal Banking and Fairer Financial Services , Social Media
Acquired Brain Injury , Alternative Dispute Resolution , Archives and History , Autism , Banning Trophy Hunting , Boxing , Cancer , Environment , Flood Prevention , Fusion Energy , Hairdressing, Barbering and Cosmetology , Hospitality and Tourism , Hospitality, Events and Major Food and Drink Businesses in Wales , Immigration Law and Policy , Industrial Heritage , Motor Neurone Disease , Multiple Sclerosis , Music , Mutuals , Olympic and Paralympic Games , Ovarian Cancer , Public Legal Education and Pro Bono , Rail in Wales , Restorative Justice , River Thames , Sepsis , Sport , T Levels , UK Shared Prosperity Fund , Vegetarianism and Veganism , Wales in the World , Western Rail Link to Heathrow
'Left Behind' Neighbourhoods , Accounting for Growth , Adult Education , Conservation, Places and People , County , Cycling and Walking , Durham University , Financial Education for Young People , Furniture Industry , Housing and Planning , Housing in the North , Industrial Heritage , Net Zero , Sixth Form Education , UK Shared Prosperity Fund , Veterans , Weddings
Bermuda , Caribbean , China , Consumer Protection , Debt and Personal Finance , Hormone Pregnancy Tests , Legal Aid , Mortgage Prisoners , Online and Home Electrical Safety , Pension Clawback , Respiratory Health , Rugby League , Singapore , Tunisia , United Arab Emirates
Algeria , Archives and History , CAFOD , Connected and Automated Mobility , Critical Minerals , Environment , Environmental, Social, and Governance , Fair Business Banking , Falkland Islands , Flags and Heraldry , Health and the Natural Environment , Holy See , Hydrogen , International Freedom of Religion or Belief , Kurdistan in Turkey and Syria , Kurdistan Region in Iraq , Mentoring , Nature , Pension Clawback , Philately , SME (Small and Medium-sized Enterprises) House Builders , St George's Day , Sudan and South Sudan , Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire
Greece , Internet, Communications and Technology , Japan , Pensions , Rail in Wales , Rwanda , Small Island Developing States , Social Media , Trade and Export Promotion , Wales in the World
Cerebral Palsy , Durham University , Housing in the North , Renters and Rental Reform , Smoking and Health
Armed Forces Covenant , Boys' Brigade , Civil Service and Public Sector Workers , Cyber Security , Digital Identity , Digital Skills , Electoral Reform , Events , Football Club , Hong Kong , Internet, Communications and Technology , Life Sciences , Media , Political Literacy , Space , Terminal Illness , Video Games and Esports
Contact Details
Show/HideRegistered Contact:
Alex Davies-Jones MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 0207 219 4981.
Email: alex.daviesjones.mp@parliament.uk
Public Enquiry Point:
Freddie Cook, Office of Alex Davies-Jones MP, House of Commons . Tel: 020 7219 4981
Email: freddie.cook@parliament.uk
Secretariat:
Industrial Communities Alliance acts as the group's secretariat. http://www.industrialcommunitiesalliance.org/
Benefits in Kind
Show/Hide12 Feb 2021
Industrial Communities Alliance
Secretariat From : 12/02/2021 To : 11/02/2022
£1,501
12 Feb 2020
Industrial Communities Alliance
Secretariat From : 12/02/2020 To : 11/02/2021
£1,501
12 Jul 2016
Industrial Communities Alliance
Secretariat From : 12/07/2016 To : 11/07/2017
£1,501
No direct financial benefits are on record for the Coalfield Communities APPG
Former APPG Officers
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Conor McGinn
Chair & Registered Contact
Labour - St Helens North
Joined: 21st November 2018Departed: 21st April 2021
Betting and Gaming , CAFOD , Childcare and Early Education , Commonwealth , Darts , Formula One , Greyhound , Industrial Heritage , Ireland and the Irish in Britain , Liverpool City Region , Music , Pigeon Racing , Racing and Bloodstock , Snooker , Transatlantic Trade , Union , Wrestling
Gareth Snell
Secretary
Labour (Co-op) - Former Member for Stoke-on-Trent Central
Joined: 28th September 2017Departed: 5th November 2019
Alan Brown
Vice Chair
Scottish National Party - Kilmarnock and Loudoun
Joined: 21st July 2016Departed: 5th November 2019
Beer , British Bioethanol , Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage , Chagos (British Indian Ocean Territory) , Climate Change , Energy Costs , Energy Security , Energy Studies , Infrastructure , Intelligent Energy , Marine Energy , Renewable and Sustainable Energy , Western Sahara , Wood Panel Industry
Lee Rowley
Vice Chair
Conservative - North East Derbyshire
Joined: 28th September 2017Departed: 11th September 2019
Brain Tumours , Child Contact Centres and Services , Data Analytics , Ovarian Cancer
Kevin Barron
Vice Chair
Labour - Former Member for Rother Valley
Joined: 13th November 2015Departed: 2nd May 2017
Kevin Barron
Vice Chair
Labour - Former Member for Rother Valley
Joined: 13th November 2015Departed: 12th October 2016
David Anderson
Chair & Registered Contact
Labour - Former Member for Blaydon
Joined: 30th July 2015Departed: 3rd June 2016
Cancer , Cuba , Greyhound , Housing in the North , Human-Relevant Science , Learning Disability , Mexico , Minimally Invasive Cancer Therapies , Racing and Bloodstock , Radiotherapy , Transport Across the North , Western Sahara
Modern Languages
Huw Irranca-Davies
Vice Chair
Labour - Former Member for Ogmore
Joined: 13th November 2015Departed: 16th March 2016
Ann Clwyd
Vice Chair
Labour - Former Member for Cynon Valley
Joined: 30th July 2015Departed: 29th September 2015
Heather Wheeler
Vice Chair
Conservative - South Derbyshire
Joined: 30th July 2015Departed: 29th September 2015
Dairy , Funerals and Bereavement , Japan , Park Homes , Qatar , Sri Lanka , Taiwan
Nigel Adams
Vice Chair
Conservative - Selby and Ainsty
Joined: 30th July 2015Departed: 29th September 2015