India APPG
First Registered: 30/07/2015 • Last updated on: 20/11/2024
This APPG existed between 2022 and 2024 as the India (Trade and Investment) APPG, when it was renamed to the India APPG.
To promote the strengthening of the bilateral relationship between the UK and India, focusing on trade and investment, education, sustainable development, culture, health, science and innovation, defence and security, and enhancing the relationship between both countries’ parliaments on a national and regional level, and promoting people-to-people links.
View Official Register Entry
Reticulating Splines
APPG Supplied Content
APPGs can register with Parallel Parliament and submit files and articles to be placed here.
Parallel Parliament offers the facility for APPGs to submit written content and files, which are made available through this page.
Submitters can draft and edit publications, and either release them on demand, or schedule release for a future date.
Both text content and attached files submitted through this facility is indexed by our website, and made available through both the search function and relevant e-mail alerts. Any of our users registered for an alert which matches your content, will receive a link making them aware of its publication.
If you wish to register as an authorised representative of the India APPG and use this facility, click below
4 Current APPG Officers
Show/Hide
Hydrogen
Children , Democratic Republic of Congo , Digital Inclusion , Digital Markets and Digital Money , Ethnic Minority Business Owners , Tamils
Contact Details
Show/HideRegistered Contact:
Dr Jeevun Sandher MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA.
Email: jeevun.sandher.mp@parliament.uk
Public Enquiry Point:
Nikita Singh, The 1928 Institute
Email: welcome@1928institute.org
Secretariat:
The 1928 Institute acts as the group's secretariat. https://www.1928institute.org/
Group's Website:
Benefits in Kind
Show/Hide9 Oct 2024
ICICI Bank
Reception
£1,501
9 Oct 2024
Infosys
Reception
£1,501
29 Jul 2024
The 1928 Institute
Secretariat From : 29/07/2024 To : 28/07/2025
£9,001
9 Apr 2023
Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry
Visit to India From : 09/04/2023 To : 15/04/2023
£42,001
16 Oct 2018
Corporation of the City of London
Breakfast event
£3,001
17 Jul 2018
PB Consulting (with some funding from the Corporation of the City of London)
Secretariat From : 17/07/2018 To : 16/07/2019
£7,501
9 May 2018
PB Consulting
Breakfast event held on 09/05/2018
£3,001
9 May 2018
PB Consulting
Breakfast event
£3,001
17 Jul 2017
PB Consulting
Secretariat From : 17/07/2017 To : 16/07/2018
£1,501
17 Jul 2017
PB Consulting
Secretariat From : 17/07/2017 To : 16/07/2018
£6,001
12 Feb 2017
Indian High Commission/Government of India
Visit to India From : 12/02/2017 To : 18/02/2017
£31,501
No direct financial benefits are on record for the India APPG
Former APPG Officers
Show/Hide
Lord Anderson of Swansea
Vice Chair
Labour - Life peer
Joined: 28th September 2017Departed: 6th March 2024
Baroness Barker
Vice Chair
Liberal Democrat - Life peer
Joined: 17th May 2023Departed: 6th March 2024
Kirsten Oswald
Vice Chair
Scottish National Party - Former Member for East Renfrewshire
Joined: 21st July 2016Departed: 6th March 2024
Gagan Mohindra
Vice Chair
Conservative - South West Hertfordshire
Joined: 15th June 2022Departed: 6th March 2024
Mark Logan
Vice Chair
Conservative - Former Member for Bolton North East
Joined: 2nd June 2021Departed: 6th March 2024
Henry Smith
Vice Chair
Conservative - Former Member for Crawley
Joined: 2nd June 2021Departed: 6th March 2024
Valerie Vaz
Vice Chair
Labour - Walsall and Bloxwich
Joined: 21st July 2016Departed: 6th March 2024
Shailesh Vara
Vice Chair
Conservative - Former Member for North West Cambridgeshire
Joined: 21st April 2021Departed: 6th March 2024
Lord Dholakia
Vice Chair
Liberal Democrat - Life peer
Joined: 21st November 2018Departed: 6th March 2024
Alison Thewliss
Vice Chair
Scottish National Party - Former Member for Glasgow Central
Joined: 8th April 2020Departed: 6th March 2024
Sam Tarry
Vice Chair
Labour - Former Member for Ilford South
Joined: 8th April 2020Departed: 6th March 2024
Seema Malhotra
Vice Chair
Labour (Co-op) - Feltham and Heston
Joined: 30th July 2015Departed: 6th March 2024
British Hindus
British Hindus , Fire Safety and Rescue , Homelessness , Investment Fraud and Fairer Financial Services , Israel , Smoking and Health
Virendra Sharma
Chair & Registered Contact
Labour - Former Member for Ealing, Southall
Joined: 30th July 2015Departed: 6th March 2024
Baroness Flather
Vice Chair
Crossbench - Life peer
Joined: 30th July 2015Departed: 24th January 2024
Viscount Waverley
Vice Chair
Crossbench - Excepted Hereditary
Joined: 21st November 2018Departed: 17th May 2023
Shailesh Vara
Vice Chair
Conservative - Former Member for North West Cambridgeshire
Joined: 8th April 2020Departed: 10th March 2021
Valerie Vaz
Vice-Chair
Labour - Walsall and Bloxwich
Joined: 23rd October 2019Departed: 5th November 2019
Stephen Pound
Secretary
Labour - Former Member for Ealing North
Joined: 30th July 2015Departed: 5th November 2019
Yasmin Qureshi
Treasurer
Labour - Bolton South and Walkden
Joined: 30th July 2015Departed: 5th November 2019
Neil O'Brien
Vice-Chair
Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston
Joined: 28th September 2017Departed: 5th November 2019
Leasehold and Commonhold Reform