Electoral Campaigning Transparency APPG

First Registered: 19/06/2019 • Last updated on: 17/05/2023

Note: This APPG was last registered on 17th May 2023. The APPG was not registered in the latest release of the 18th June 2025 and may be defunct.

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To evaluate current UK electoral campaigning laws, interviewing experts and practitioners in the field, producing the evidence base for recommendations that ensure electoral campaigning laws are fit for purpose in the modern era. In reconstitution the APPG's aim is to secure those recommendations in parliament.

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
Stephen Kinnock Portrait
Stephen Kinnock
Chair & Registered Contact
Labour - Aberafan Maesteg
Joined: 19th June 2019
Departed: 17th May 2023
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Deidre Brock Portrait
Deidre Brock
Vice Chair
Scottish National Party - Former Member for Edinburgh North and Leith
Joined: 19th June 2019
Departed: 17th May 2023
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Caroline Lucas Portrait
Caroline Lucas
Vice Chair
Green Party - Former Member for Brighton, Pavilion
Joined: 19th June 2019
Departed: 17th May 2023
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

John Penrose Portrait
John Penrose
Vice Chair
Conservative - Former Member for Weston-super-Mare
Joined: 8th April 2020
Departed: 17th May 2023
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Lord Rennard Portrait
Lord Rennard
Vice Chair
Liberal Democrat - Life peer
Joined: 19th June 2019
Departed: 17th May 2023
5 APPG Officer Positions
Diabetes , Global Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT+) Rights , Political and Media Literacy , Smoking and Health , Vietnam

No other APPG Memberships

Cat Smith Portrait
Cat Smith
Vice Chair
Labour - Lancaster and Wyre
Joined: 7th September 2022
Departed: 17th May 2023
4 APPG Officer Positions
Christianity in the Holy Land , Funerals and Bereavement , Parkrun , West Coast Main Line

No other APPG Memberships

Lord Clarke of Nottingham Portrait
Lord Clarke of Nottingham
Vice Chair
Conservative - Life peer
Joined: 19th June 2019
Departed: 5th November 2019
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Owen Smith Portrait
Owen Smith
Vice Chair
Labour - Former Member for Pontypridd
Joined: 19th June 2019
Departed: 5th November 2019
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Contact Details

Registered Contact:

Stephen Kinnock MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 020 7219 8801.

Email: stephen.kinnock.mp@parliament.uk

Public Enquiry Point:

Kyle Taylor, Fair Vote UK, Let's Take Back Control Limited, 51 Clarkegrove Road, Sheffield S10 2NH. Tel: 07745 934 433

Email: info@fairvote.uk

Secretariat:

Fair Vote UK acts as the group's secretariat. https://www.fairvote.uk

Group's Website:

https://www.fairvote.uk/appg

Benefits in Kind
Date
26 Feb 2022
Source
Fair Vote UK
Description
Fair Vote UK is paid by Let's Take Back Control Ltd to act as the group' s secretariat   From : 26/02/2022 To : 25/02/2023
Value
£9,001
Date
26 Feb 2021
Source
Fair Vote UK
Description
Fair Vote UK is paid by Let's Take Back Control Ltd to act as the group' s secretariat   From : 26/02/2021 To : 25/02/2022
Value
£9,001
Date
26 Feb 2020
Source
Fair Vote UK
Description
Fair Vote UK is paid by Let's Take Back Control Ltd to act as the group' s secretariat   From : 26/02/2020 To : 25/02/2021
Value
£9,001

No direct financial benefits are on record for the Electoral Campaigning Transparency APPG