Food and Drink APPG

First Registered: 08/04/2020 • Last updated on: 18/06/2025

To debate the policy priorities and issues related to the UK’s largest manufacturing sector, the food and drink sector. The group will aim to promote dialogue and discussion between industry and politicians through a series of policy roundtables, events and site visits.

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 Officers - Contact Details - Benefits in Kind - Financial Benefits

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4 Current APPG Officers

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Mike Reader

Chair & Registered Contact

Labour - Northampton South

Joined: 2nd January 2025

4 APPG Officer Positions
Better Roads , Built Environment , Infrastructure , International Trade and Investment
12 APPG Memberships
Climate Change , Environment , Fair Banking , Healthy Homes and Buildings , Hydrogen , India , Listed Properties , Manufacturing , Net Zero , Transport Safety , United Nations Global Goals , University

Amanda Hack

Vice Chair

Labour - North West Leicestershire

Joined: 2nd January 2025

2 APPG Officer Positions
Leasehold and Commonhold Reform , Modernising Employment
8 APPG Memberships
Defibrillators , Furniture Industry , Gaps in Covid-19 Financial Support , Healthy Homes and Buildings , Infrastructure , Maternity , Pharmacy , Transport Safety

Baroness Blower

Vice Chair

Labour - Life peer

Joined: 2nd January 2025

4 APPG Officer Positions
Airport Communities , Global Education , Kurds , School Food
7 APPG Memberships
Autism , Commonwealth , Internet, Communications and Technology , Miscarriages of Justice , Occupational Safety and Health , Schools, Learning and Assessment , Theatre

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

Secretary

Conservative - Life peer

Joined: 2nd June 2021

5 APPG Officer Positions
Flooding and Flooded Communities , Motor , Nordic Countries , Racing and Bloodstock , Water
5 APPG Memberships
Beer , Bus and Coach , Diversity and Inclusion in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics , Tidy Britain , Transport Safety

Contact Details

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Registered Contact:

Mike Reader MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 0207 219 3000.

Email: mike.reader.mp@parliament.uk

Public Enquiry Point:

Sachin Gulrajani, Food and Drink Federation. Tel: 07531 905 471

Email: sachin.gulrajani@fdf.org.uk

Secretariat:

Food and Drink Federation acts as the group's secretariat. http://www.fdf.org.uk/

Benefits in Kind

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Date
17 Mar 2023

Source
Food and Drink Federation

Description
Secretariat From : 17/03/2023 To : 16/03/2024

Value
£3,001

Date
17 Mar 2021

Source
Food and Drink Federation

Description
Secretariat From : 17/03/2021 To : 16/03/2022

Value
£3,001

Date
17 Mar 2020

Source
Food and Drink Federation

Description
Secretariat From : 17/03/2020 To : 16/03/2021

Value
£3,001

No direct financial benefits are on record for the Food and Drink APPG

Former APPG Officers

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John Stevenson

Chair & Registered Contact

Conservative - Former Member for Carlisle

Joined: 8th April 2020
Departed: 30th May 2024

No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Sharon Hodgson

Vice Chair

Labour - Washington and Gateshead South

Joined: 8th April 2020
Departed: 30th May 2024

6 APPG Officer Positions
Art, Craft and Design in Education , First Do No Harm - Mesh, Primodos, Valproate , Leamside Line , Parents , School Food , Ticket Abuse

No other APPG Memberships