The APPG for Fatherhood will seek opportunities for policy and legislative review to identify and improve the statutory and social frameworks affecting families. This will be in order to help reduce the barriers fathers face to playing a full and positive role in their children’s lives.
View Official Register Entry
Reticulating Splines
4 Current APPG Officers
Show/Hide
Freddie van Mierlo
Chair & Registered Contact
Liberal Democrat - Henley and Thame
Joined: 18th June 2025Access to Medicines and Medical Devices , Babies (Pregnancy to Age 2) , Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS)
8 APPG Memberships
Children's Online Safety , Dementia , Humanist , Less Survivable Cancers , Life Sciences , Multiple Sclerosis , Pharmacy , Water Pollution
Climate, Nature and Security
3 APPG Memberships
Beer , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Youth Affairs
Global Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights , Obesity
5 APPG Memberships
Choice at the End of Life , Financial Education for Young People , United Nations Global Goals , Women in Parliament , Women's Health
Children's Online Safety , Industrial Strategy , Qatar
9 APPG Memberships
Australia and New Zealand (ANZAC) and the Pacific Islands , Aviation , British Hindus , Financial Technology , Hydrogen , India , Manufacturing , Nuclear Energy , Political and Media Literacy
Contact Details
Show/HideRegistered Contact:
Freddie van Mierlo MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA.
Email: freddie.vanmierlo.mp@parliament.uk
Public Enquiry Point:
Charlotte Grievson, Future Men. Tel: 0207 237 5353
Email: fatherhoodappg@futuremen.org
Secretariat:
Future Men acts as the group's secretariat. https://futuremen.org/
Group's Website:
Benefits in Kind
Show/Hide13 May 2025
Future Men
Secretariat From : 13/05/2025 To : 12/05/2026
£3,001
1 Jan 2016
Working with Men
Secretariat From : 01/01/2016 To : 31/12/2016
£1,501
1 Jan 2015
Working with Men
Secretariat From : 01/01/2015 To : 31/12/2015
£1,501
No direct financial benefits are on record for the Fatherhood APPG
Former APPG Officers
Show/Hide
Peter Bottomley
Officer
Conservative - Former Member for Worthing West
Joined: 8th April 2020Departed: 6th March 2024
No other APPG Memberships
No other APPG Memberships
No other APPG Memberships
Andrew Gwynne
Chair & Registered Contact
Independent - Gorton and Denton
Joined: 2nd June 2021Departed: 1st November 2023
No other APPG Memberships
Tim Loughton
Other
Conservative - Former Member for East Worthing and Shoreham
Joined: 8th April 2020Departed: 1st November 2023
No other APPG Memberships
David Lammy
Chair & Registered Contact
Labour - Tottenham
Joined: 30th July 2015Departed: 21st April 2021
No other APPG Memberships
Steve Double
Co-Chair
Conservative - Former Member for St Austell and Newquay
Joined: 21st July 2016Departed: 21st April 2021
No other APPG Memberships
Matt Western
Vice Chair
Labour - Warwick and Leamington
Joined: 8th April 2020Departed: 21st April 2021
Canada , Electric Vehicle , International Students , Motor , Semiconductors , Video Games and Esports
No other APPG Memberships
David Linden
Vice Chair
Scottish National Party - Former Member for Glasgow East
Joined: 6th June 2018Departed: 19th June 2019
No other APPG Memberships
Fiona Bruce
Vice Chair
Conservative - Former Member for Congleton
Joined: 21st July 2016Departed: 19th June 2019
No other APPG Memberships
Jim Shannon
Secretary
Democratic Unionist Party - Strangford
Joined: 6th June 2018Departed: 19th June 2019
Healthy Homes and Buildings , International Freedom of Religion or Belief , Respiratory Health , UK Food Security , Vascular and Venous Disease
No other APPG Memberships
Michael Tomlinson
Treasurer
Conservative - Former Member for Mid Dorset and North Poole
Joined: 6th June 2018Departed: 19th June 2019
No other APPG Memberships
David Burrowes
Vice Chair
Conservative - Former Member for Enfield, Southgate
Joined: 30th July 2015Departed: 2nd May 2017
No other APPG Memberships
Lord Field of Birkenhead
Vice Chair
Crossbench - Life peer
Joined: 30th July 2015Departed: 2nd May 2017
No other APPG Memberships
Baroness Chapman of Darlington
Vice Chair
Labour - Life peer
Joined: 21st July 2016Departed: 2nd May 2017
No other APPG Memberships
Chris Leslie
Secretary
The Independent Group for Change - Former Member for Nottingham East
Joined: 30th July 2015Departed: 2nd May 2017
No other APPG Memberships