Deliberative Democracy APPG
First Registered: 02/01/2019 • Last updated on: 21/04/2021
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To promote the understanding and spread of deliberative democracy, including the greater use of citizens assemblies, citizens conventions and citizens juries.
1. Mr Titus Alexander - written evidence
09/01/2019 - Inquiry: The progress of the UK’s negotiations on EU withdrawal - None
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Found: the EU Withdrawal Agreement by setting up a “deliberative assembly” to ask a representative cross-section
2. Deliberative Democracy
02/01/2019 - APPGs
Found: promote the understanding and spread of deliberative democracy, including the greater use of citizens
3. 13 March 2020
13/03/2020 - Inquiry: Democracy and Digital Technologies - Democracy and Digital Technologies Committee
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Found: Select Committee on Democracy and Digital Technologies
Uncorrected oral evidence: Democracy and Digital Technologies
4. Open University/ AHRC Research Project - written evidence
14/05/2019 - Inquiry: Coastal flooding and adaptation to climate change - Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee
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Found: evidence and seldom heard voices as part of the deliberative processes; 5.2. enabling public understanding
5. Democracy and Digital Technologies
02/02/2020 - Inquiry: Democracy and Digital Technologies - Democracy and Digital Technologies Committee
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Found: 1.2 ACT’s vision is for a strong and vibrant democracy enhanced by young people who are educated with
1. Constitution, Democracy and Human Rights Commission
14/01/2021 - Lords Chamber
1: our first year we will set up a Constitution, Democracy & Rights Commission.” This was confirmed - Speech Link
2: referendums should be used in our parliamentary democracy, perhaps by following some of the recommendations - Speech Link
3: of administrative law and the constitution, democracy and human rights commission being discussed today - Speech Link
2. Climate Change Assembly UK: The Path to Net Zero
26/11/2020 - Commons Chamber
1: ensuring that our response to the climate crisis is deliberative, democratic and fair, and moving forward with - Speech Link
2: Tough action needs to be taken, but we are a democracy and we need to take the people with us. Too often - Speech Link
3: were made to ensure that their work informed deliberative discussion in each group.There were disadvantages - Speech Link
3. Brexit: Withdrawal Agreement and Political Declaration
14/01/2019 - Lords Chamber
1: my book, if a democracy cannot be allowed to change its mind, it ceases to be a democracy.When the - Speech Link
2: British or English. There is also a naive view of democracy as plebiscite: “the people have spoken”. You do - Speech Link
3: anything in the past few months, I hope it is that democracy is changing. Those of us involved in democratic - Speech Link
4. Proportional Representation: House of Commons
23/04/2019 - Westminster Hall
1: voters are losing confidence in our representative democracy. The report by the Institute for Public Policy - Speech Link
2: establishing a proportional system by holding deliberative discussions—citizens’ assemblies—across the - Speech Link
3: would be very wary of doing that to our democracy.Democracy, as Winston Churchill said, is the worst - Speech Link
5. Opinion Polling
18/06/2015 - Grand Committee
1: polling can contribute to public policy-making in a democracy. But it has to be good polling and this ComRes - Speech Link
2: benchmarks that would be appropriate only if a deliberative public consultation was being discussed, in - Speech Link
3: be unwanted regulation of business and bad for democracy. Is this necessary? I think not—but no doubt someone - Speech Link
asked by: Owen Thompson
01/09/2020
... what progress he has made on the Defending Democracy programme announced on 22 July 2019; and what plans he has to publish a report on that programme. 2. Americas: Democracy
asked by: Imran Ahmad Khan
13/04/2021
... what steps his Department is taking to increase the level of democracy in countries in the Americas categorised as Partly Free by the Freedom House index for 2020. 3. Americas: Democracy
asked by: Imran Ahmad Khan
13/04/2021
... what steps his Department is taking to increase the level of democracy in countries in the Americas categorised as Not Free by the Freedom House index for 2020. 4. Africa: Democracy
asked by: Imran Ahmad Khan
14/04/2021
... what steps his Department are taking to increase the level of democracy in countries in Africa categorised as Partly Free by the Freedom House index for 2020. 5. Asia: Democracy
asked by: Imran Ahmad Khan
13/04/2021
... what steps his Department is taking to increase the level of democracy in countries in Asia categorised as Partly Free by the Freedom House index for 2020.
11 Current APPG Officers
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Agroecology for Sustainable Food and Farming , Choice at the End of Life , Citizens Rights , Climate Change , Compassionate Politics , Coronavirus , Dark Skies , Democracy and Human Rights in the Gulf , Domestic Violence and Abuse , Drones , Drug Policy Reform , Electoral Campaigning Transparency , Fairtrade , Fuel Poverty and Energy Efficiency , Future Generations , Gaps in Support , Green New Deal , Land Value Capture , Limits to Growth , Mindfulness , Nature , Ocean Conservation , Refugees , Renewable and Sustainable Energy , Reuniting Britain Post-Brexit , Sixth Form Education , Southern Rail , Students , Trade Justice , Votes at 16 , West Papua , Women in Parliament
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Contact Details
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Alex Norris MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 0207 219 3899.
Email: alex.norris.mp@parliament.uk
Public Enquiry Point:
Graham Allen, Researcher to Alex Norris MP, 5 Tufton Court, Tufton Street, London SW1P 3QH. Tel: 07802 210 179
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Former APPG Officers
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Liz Saville Roberts
Vice Chair
Plaid Cymru - Dwyfor Meirionnydd
Joined: 2nd January 2019Departed: 5th November 2019
Animal Welfare , Antisemitism , Broadband and Digital Communication , Celtic Nations , Coronavirus , Fisheries , Future Generations , Green New Deal , Heritage Rail , Holiday Parks and Campsites , Marine Energy , Nuclear Energy , Ocean Conservation , Outdoor Learning , Perpetrators of Domestic Abuse , Space , State Pension Inequality for Women , Terminal Illness , United Nations Women , Votes at 16 , Women and Work
Dominic Grieve
Vice Chair
Independent - Former Member for Beaconsfield
Joined: 2nd January 2019Departed: 5th November 2019
Lord Bellingham
Vice Chair
Conservative - Life peer
Joined: 2nd January 2019Departed: 5th November 2019
Phillip Lee
Vice Chair
Liberal Democrat - Former Member for Bracknell
Joined: 2nd January 2019Departed: 5th November 2019
Arts and Heritage , Bullying , Chalk Streams , Climate Change , Cycling and Walking , Data Analytics , Design and Innovation , East of England , Electoral Reform , Future Generations , Homelessness , Innovation Corridor , Internet, Communications and Technology , Life Sciences , Medical Research , Short Lets Sector , Social Science and Policy , Taxis , University , Video Games and Esports