Honour Based Abuse APPG

First Registered: 28/09/2017 • 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. Perhaps you are looking for the Domestic Violence and Abuse APPG?

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To debate and scrutinise issues relating to honour based abuse. To raise awareness of honour based abuse with a view to attempting to expose and eradicate such practices in the UK.

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
Virendra Sharma Portrait
Virendra Sharma
Chair & Registered Contact
Labour - Former Member for Ealing, Southall
Joined: 28th September 2017
Departed: 17th May 2023
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Baroness Cox Portrait
Baroness Cox
Secretary
Crossbench - Life peer
Joined: 28th September 2017
Departed: 17th May 2023
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Lord Dholakia Portrait
Lord Dholakia
Treasurer
Liberal Democrat - Life peer
Joined: 28th September 2017
Departed: 17th May 2023
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Philip Davies Portrait
Philip Davies
Vice Chair
Conservative - Former Member for Shipley
Joined: 28th September 2017
Departed: 17th May 2023
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Richard Holden Portrait
Richard Holden
Vice Chair
Conservative - Basildon and Billericay
Joined: 4th May 2022
Departed: 17th May 2023
6 APPG Officer Positions
Freedom of Speech , Freight and Logistics , Insurance and Financial Services , Media , Pubs , Self-Driving Vehicles

No other APPG Memberships

Jim Fitzpatrick Portrait
Jim Fitzpatrick
Co-Vice Chair
Labour - Former Member for Poplar and Limehouse
Joined: 28th September 2017
Departed: 10th October 2018
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Contact Details

Registered Contact:

Mr Virendra Sharma MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 020 7219 6080.

Email: sharmav@parliament.uk

Public Enquiry Point:

Alexandra Nejad, Karma Nirvana, PO Box 515, Leeds LS6 9DW. Tel: 0113 887 0281

Email: a.nejad@karmanirvana.org.uk

No benefits in kind are on record for the Honour Based Abuse APPG

No direct financial benefits are on record for the Honour Based Abuse APPG