To highlight the contribution to society by faith-based organisations, to identify best practice, and to promote understanding of the groups providing innovative solutions around the country.
1. Tearfund - written evidence
09/09/2019 - Inquiry: Beyond Aid: The UK’s Strategic Engagement in Africa - Foreign Affairs Committee
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Found: in Africa, particularly in contexts where civil society is disempowered by repressive governments. Therefore
2. Official Statistics: Cabinet Office statistics: standards and policies
19/06/2019 - Cabinet Office
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Found: Office
Minister for Civil Society
Director
Ð Office for Civil Society
Deputy Director
Ð Social
3. Community Life Survey 2018-19
25/07/2019 - Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
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Found: Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Sport and Civil Society
Lauren Schofield
Private Secretary
4. More faith and belief groups to join the National Service of Remembrance
17/10/2018 - Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
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Found:
More faith and belief groups to join the National Service of Remembrance
5. New government measures to update crematoria provisions
08/04/2019 - Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
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Found:
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1. Covid-19: Faith Groups
11/02/2021 - Commons Chamber
1: attention to the extraordinary scale and value of faith groups’ contributions in response to the pandemic - Speech Link
2. Religious Schools: Admission Policies
29/04/2019 - Lords Chamber
1: Lords, many schools with faith-based admissions have diverse intakes. Faith schools do not have significantly - Speech Link
2: religion, and 53% of rural primary schools are faith schools. Almost three in 10 families in England - Speech Link
3: Lords, I have used faith schools and my children do so. Is it not true that faith schools are extremely - Speech Link
3. Commonwealth Summit: Faith Leaders
15/01/2018 - Lords Chamber
1: Government how they will ensure the engagement of faith leaders in events around the Commonwealth Summit - Speech Link
2: Meeting in London in April this year, when faith leaders, civil society, business leaders and young people will - Speech Link
3: place then has transformed many of the UK’s own faith communities. What plans do Her Majesty’s Government - Speech Link
4. Places of Worship: Protective Security Funding
07/05/2019 - Lords Chamber
1: terrorists in Sri Lankan churches as they observed their faith on Easter Sunday. More victims were targeted in - Speech Link
2: fear and apprehension for those practising their faith in places of worship. But this cannot be regarded - Speech Link
3: organisations and civil society, including of course faith organisations and faith communities, will be - Speech Link
5. Overseas Aid: Charities and Faith-based Organisations
12/07/2018 - Lords Chamber
1: Majesty’s Government to engage with small charities and faith-based organisations in delivering United Kingdom - Speech Link
2: more of the smaller charities. The 2016 Civil Society Partnership Review noted that smaller charities - Speech Link
asked by: Jo Stevens
02/02/2018
... whether he has any plans to revise the inclusivity and community and engagement requirements for new faith schools. 2. Faith Schools
asked by: Lord Storey
31/01/2018
...To ask Her Majesty's Government how many Yeshiva schools there are in England. 3. Faith Schools
asked by: Bob Blackman
11/12/2017
...What steps she is taking to support the opening of more faith schools. 4. Society of Antiquaries
asked by: Zarah Sultana
04/03/2021
... what steps he has taken to help the Society of Antiquaries remain at New Burlington House. 5. Society of Homeopaths
asked by: Andrea Jenkyns
03/03/2020
... what assessment his Department has made of the implications for its policies of the decision by the Professional Standards Authority to renew the Society of Homeopaths’ accreditation.
9 Current APPG Officers
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Britain-Pakistan Trade and Tourism , Broadband and Digital Communication , Building Communities , Corporate Governance , Council Housing , Council of Sri Lankan Muslim Organisations UK , Crossrail , Data Analytics , Extraordinary Rendition , Financial Markets and Services , Financial Technology , Gambling Related Harm , Germany , Homelessness , Human Rights , Immigration Law and Policy , Infant Feeding and Inequalities , Internet, Communications and Technology , Islamic Finance , Lithuania , Motorsport , Religion in the Media , Romania , Singapore , Skills, Careers and Employment , Social Mobility , Taxation , Trade out of Poverty
Commercial Sexual Exploitation , Conception to Age Two - First 1001 Days , Dying Well , Eritrea , International Freedom of Religion or Belief , North Korea , Pakistani Minorities , Pro-Life , Recovery from Addictions , Religious Education , Twelve Steps Recovery Programme for Addiction
Adult Social Care , Celtic Sea , Christians in Parliament , Mayflower 400 , National Parks , Religion in the Media , South West
British Sikhs , International Freedom of Religion or Belief , Pakistani Minorities , Religion in the Media , Religious Education
Belgium , Fairs and Showgrounds , Food and Drink , Greenland , Luxembourg , Nutrition for Growth , One Punch Assaults , Parkrun , Premature and Sick Babies , Social Media , Tunisia
Allergy , American Football , Angling , Deliberative Democracy , Future of Work , Ireland and the Irish in Britain , London's Planning and Built Environment , Taxis , Wellbeing Economics
Beer , Celtic Sea , Christianity in the Holy Land , Critical Minerals , Dairy , Fatherhood , General Aviation , Hong Kong , Hospitality and Tourism , Hydrogen , Migration , Nature , Ocean Conservation , Space
Contact Details
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Stephen Timms MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 020 7219 4000.
Email: timmss@parliament.uk
Public Enquiry Point:
Matthew Allen, FaithAction, LifeLine House, 25 Neville Road, Dagenham RM8 3QS. Tel: 0800 804 8829
Email: matthew.allen@faithaction.net
Secretariat:
FaithAction acts as the group's secretariat. http://www.faithaction.net/
Group's Website:
Benefits in Kind
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FaithAction
Secretariat From : 21/01/2020 To : 20/01/2021
£6,001
18 Jul 2018
FaithAction
Secretariat From : 18/07/2018 To : 17/07/2019
£3,001
18 Jul 2017
FaithAction
Secretariat From : 18/07/2017 To : 17/07/2018
£3,001
7 Jun 2016
FaithAction
Secretariat From : 07/06/2016 To : 06/06/2017
£3,001
No direct financial benefits are on record for the Faith and Society APPG
Former APPG Officers
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Gary Streeter
Vice Chair
Conservative - South West Devon
Joined: 30th July 2015Departed: 21st November 2018
Adult Social Care , Celtic Sea , Christians in Parliament , Mayflower 400 , National Parks , Religion in the Media , South West
Austria , Deliberative Democracy , Devolution , Extraordinary Rendition , Geographically Protected Foods