Further Education and Lifelong Learning APPG

First Registered: 30/07/2015 • Last updated on: 28/03/2025

To promote and advance the interests of further education, adult learning, and skills and apprenticeships, while providing informed advice to parliamentarians and government ministers on key issues, opportunities and concerns affecting these areas.

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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Submitters can draft and edit publications, and either release them on demand, or schedule release for a future date.

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4 Current APPG Officers
Jonathan Brash Portrait
Jonathan Brash
Chair & Registered Contact
Labour - Hartlepool
Joined: 28th March 2025
Baroness Garden of Frognal Portrait
Baroness Garden of Frognal
Officer
Liberal Democrat - Life peer
Joined: 28th September 2017
Lord Johnson of Marylebone Portrait
Lord Johnson of Marylebone
Officer
Conservative - Life peer
Joined: 28th March 2025
2 APPG Memberships
Future of Work , International Students
Frank McNally Portrait
Frank McNally
Officer
Labour - Coatbridge and Bellshill
Joined: 28th March 2025
2 APPG Memberships
Funerals and Bereavement , San Marino
Contact Details

Registered Contact:

Mr Jonathan Brash MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA.

Email: jonathan.brash.mp@parliament.uk

Public Enquiry Point:

David MacKenzie, Association of Colleges. Tel: 07553 891837

Email: david.mackenzie@aoc.co.uK

Secretariat:

Association of Colleges acts as the group's secretariat. https://www.aoc.co.uk/

Group's Website:

https://www.aoc.co.uk/news-campaigns-parliament/work-in-parliament/appg

Date
21 Jan 2025
Source
Association of Colleges
Description
Secretariat   From : 21/01/2025 To : 20/01/2026
Value
£9,001
Date
26 Feb 2024
Source
The Association of Colleges
Description
Secretariat   From : 26/02/2024 To : 25/02/2025
Value
£7,501
Date
26 Feb 2023
Source
The Association of Colleges
Description
Secretariat   From : 26/02/2023 To : 25/02/2024
Value
£7,501
Date
26 Feb 2022
Source
The Association of Colleges
Description
Secretariat   From : 26/02/2022 To : 25/02/2023
Value
£7,501
Date
26 Feb 2021
Source
The Association of Colleges
Description
Secretariat   From : 26/02/2021 To : 26/02/2022
Value
£7,501

No direct financial benefits are on record for the Further Education and Lifelong Learning APPG

Former APPG Officers
Peter Aldous Portrait
Peter Aldous
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - Former Member for Waveney
Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 30th May 2024
No other APPG Memberships
Stephen Farry Portrait
Stephen Farry
Vice Chair
Alliance - Former Member for North Down
Joined: 8th April 2020
Departed: 30th May 2024
No other APPG Memberships
Lord Blunkett Portrait
Lord Blunkett
Officer
Labour - Life peer
Joined: 14th July 2021
Departed: 30th May 2024
Emma Hardy Portrait
Emma Hardy
Officer
Labour - Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice
Joined: 8th April 2020
Departed: 24th January 2024
No other APPG Memberships
Lord Addington Portrait
Lord Addington
Officer
Liberal Democrat - Excepted Hereditary
Joined: 15th June 2022
Departed: 24th January 2024
2 APPG Memberships
Dyslexia , Rugby Union Football Club
Peter Kyle Portrait
Peter Kyle
Chair & Registered Contact
Labour - Hove and Portslade
Joined: 23rd December 2015
Departed: 4th November 2020
No other APPG Memberships
Ian Mearns Portrait
Ian Mearns
Vice-Chair
Labour - Former Member for Gateshead
Joined: 23rd December 2015
Departed: 5th November 2019
No other APPG Memberships
Michelle Donelan Portrait
Michelle Donelan
Vice Chair
Conservative - Former Member for Chippenham
Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 2nd May 2017
No other APPG Memberships
Pat Glass Portrait
Pat Glass
Chair & Registered Contact
Labour - Former Member for North West Durham
Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 13th November 2015
No other APPG Memberships
Judith Cummins Portrait
Judith Cummins
Vice Chair
Labour - Bradford South
Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 13th November 2015
No other APPG Memberships