Coastal Communities APPG

First Registered: 11/09/2019 • Last updated on: 12/02/2025

To consider current issues affecting coastal communities and to actively seek strategies to address these to enhance health, wellbeing, education, infrastructure, environment and economies within these unique communities.

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 APPG Officers
Alison Hume Portrait
Alison Hume
Chair & Registered Contact
Labour - Scarborough and Whitby
Joined: 2nd January 2025
Polly Billington Portrait
Polly Billington
Co-Chair
Labour - East Thanet
Joined: 2nd January 2025
Lord Lucas Portrait
Lord Lucas
Officer
Conservative - Excepted Hereditary
Joined: 2nd January 2025
Patrick Hurley Portrait
Patrick Hurley
Officer
Labour - Southport
Joined: 2nd January 2025
Contact Details

Registered Contact:

Alison Hume MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA.

Email: alison.hume.mp@parliament.uk

Public Enquiry Point:

Amy Pryor, Coastal Partnerships Network

Email: a.pryor@ucl.ac.uk

Secretariat:

Coastal Partnership Network, Coastal Communities Alliance and LGA Coastal SIG jointly act as the group's secretariat. https://www.coastalpartnershipsnetwork.org.uk/ and https://www.coastalcommunities.co.uk/ and https://lgacoastalsig.com/

Group's Website:

https://www.coastalpartnershipsnetwork.org.uk/coastalcommunitiesappg

Date
24 Oct 2024
Source
Coastal Partnership Network
Description
Joint Secretariat   From : 24/10/2024 To : 23/10/2025
Value
£3,001
Date
24 Oct 2024
Source
Coastal Communities Alliance
Description
Joint Secretariat   From : 24/10/2024 To : 23/10/2025
Value
£4,501
Date
24 Oct 2024
Source
LGA Coastal SIG
Description
Joint Secretariat   From : 24/10/2024 To : 23/10/2025
Value
£1,501

No direct financial benefits are on record for the Coastal Communities APPG

Former APPG Officers
Sally-Ann Hart Portrait
Sally-Ann Hart
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - Former Member for Hastings and Rye
Joined: 2nd June 2021
Departed: 30th May 2024
No other APPG Memberships
Peter Aldous Portrait
Peter Aldous
Vice Chair
Conservative - Former Member for Waveney
Joined: 10th March 2021
Departed: 30th May 2024
No other APPG Memberships
Tim Loughton Portrait
Tim Loughton
Vice Chair
Conservative - Former Member for East Worthing and Shoreham
Joined: 24th February 2020
Departed: 30th May 2024
No other APPG Memberships
Rosie Duffield Portrait
Rosie Duffield
Vice Chair
Independent - Canterbury
Joined: 4th May 2022
Departed: 30th May 2024
1 APPG Membership
Dog Advisory Welfare
Virginia Crosbie Portrait
Virginia Crosbie
Vice Chair
Conservative - Former Member for Ynys Môn
Joined: 4th May 2022
Departed: 6th March 2024
No other APPG Memberships
Selaine Saxby Portrait
Selaine Saxby
Vice Chair
Conservative - Former Member for North Devon
Joined: 4th May 2022
Departed: 6th March 2024
No other APPG Memberships
Robin Millar Portrait
Robin Millar
Vice Chair
Conservative - Former Member for Aberconwy
Joined: 10th March 2021
Departed: 6th March 2024
No other APPG Memberships
Giles Watling Portrait
Giles Watling
Vice Chair
Conservative - Former Member for Clacton
Joined: 4th May 2022
Departed: 6th March 2024
No other APPG Memberships
David Duguid Portrait
David Duguid
Vice Chair
Conservative - Former Member for Banff and Buchan
Joined: 4th May 2022
Departed: 6th March 2024
No other APPG Memberships
Jim Shannon Portrait
Jim Shannon
Vice Chair
Democratic Unionist Party - Strangford
Joined: 24th February 2020
Departed: 6th March 2024
Anna Firth Portrait
Anna Firth
Vice Chair
Conservative - Former Member for Southend West
Joined: 28th June 2023
Departed: 6th March 2024
No other APPG Memberships
Kate Osborne Portrait
Kate Osborne
Vice Chair
Labour - Jarrow and Gateshead East
Joined: 24th February 2020
Departed: 23rd March 2022
2 APPG Memberships
North East , Women's Football
Mike Hill Portrait
Mike Hill
Chair & Registered Contact
Labour - Former Member for Hartlepool
Joined: 11th September 2019
Departed: 10th March 2021
No other APPG Memberships
Damien Moore Portrait
Damien Moore
Vice Chair
Conservative - Former Member for Southport
Joined: 11th September 2019
Departed: 5th November 2019
No other APPG Memberships
Martin Whitfield Portrait
Martin Whitfield
Secretary
Labour - Former Member for East Lothian
Joined: 11th September 2019
Departed: 5th November 2019
No other APPG Memberships
Lord McCabe Portrait
Lord McCabe
Co-Chair & Treasurer
Labour - Life peer
Joined: 11th September 2019
Departed: 5th November 2019
No other APPG Memberships