Jazz Appreciation APPG

First Registered: 30/07/2015 • Last updated on: 23/03/2022

Note: This APPG was last registered on 23rd March 2022. The APPG was not registered in the latest release of the 9th October 2024 and may be defunct.

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To encourage wider and deeper enjoyment of jazz, to increase parliamentarians' understanding of the jazz industry and issues surrounding it, to promote jazz as a musical form and to raise its profile inside and outside Parliament.

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 Members - Contact Details - Benefits in Kind - Financial Benefits
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Former APPG Members
Lord Spellar Portrait
Lord Spellar
Chair & Registered Contact
Labour - Life peer
Joined: 27th January 2021
Departed: 23rd March 2022
2 APPG Memberships
Australia and New Zealand (ANZAC) and the Pacific Islands , Japan
Lord Mann Portrait
Lord Mann
Co-Chair
Labour - Life peer
Joined: 5th November 2019
Departed: 23rd March 2022
1 APPG Membership
Jazz
Alison Thewliss Portrait
Alison Thewliss
Vice Chair
Scottish National Party - Former Member for Glasgow Central
Joined: 24th November 2016
Departed: 23rd March 2022
No other APPG Memberships
Chi Onwurah Portrait
Chi Onwurah
Vice Chair
Labour - Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West
Joined: 27th January 2021
Departed: 23rd March 2022
4 APPG Memberships
Africa , Engineering , Jazz , Space
Greg Knight Portrait
Greg Knight
Secretary
Conservative - Former Member for East Yorkshire
Joined: 28th September 2017
Departed: 23rd March 2022
No other APPG Memberships
Ian Paisley Portrait
Ian Paisley
Treasurer
Democratic Unionist Party - Former Member for North Antrim
Joined: 28th September 2017
Departed: 23rd March 2022
No other APPG Memberships
Sarah Champion Portrait
Sarah Champion
Officer
Labour - Rotherham
Joined: 28th September 2017
Departed: 23rd March 2022
4 APPG Memberships
Channel Islands , Global Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights , Ocean , Taiwan
Lord Colwyn Portrait
Lord Colwyn
Officer
Conservative - Excepted Hereditary
Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 21st April 2021
No other APPG Memberships
Baroness Healy of Primrose Hill Portrait
Baroness Healy of Primrose Hill
Officer
Labour - Life peer
Joined: 27th January 2021
Departed: 21st April 2021
No other APPG Memberships
Kelvin Hopkins Portrait
Kelvin Hopkins
Chair & Registered Contact
Independent - Former Member for Luton North
Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 5th November 2019
No other APPG Memberships
Baroness Coussins Portrait
Baroness Coussins
Secretary
Crossbench - Life peer
Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 5th November 2019
1 APPG Membership
Modern Languages
Lord Crathorne Portrait
Lord Crathorne
Officer
Conservative - Excepted Hereditary
Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 5th November 2019
3 APPG Memberships
Art, Craft and Design in Education , Arts and Heritage , Jazz
Imran Ahmad Khan Portrait
Imran Ahmad Khan
Officer
Independent - Former Member for Wakefield
Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 23rd October 2019
No other APPG Memberships
Mark Pritchard Portrait
Mark Pritchard
Vice Chair
Conservative - The Wrekin
Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 2nd May 2017
2 APPG Memberships
India , Libya
David Morris Portrait
David Morris
Treasurer
Conservative - Former Member for Morecambe and Lunesdale
Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 2nd May 2017
No other APPG Memberships
Jason McCartney Portrait
Jason McCartney
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - Former Member for Colne Valley
Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 24th November 2016
No other APPG Memberships
Contact Details

Registered Contact:

John Spellar MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 020 7219 0674.

Email: john.spellar.mp@parliament.uk

Public Enquiry Point:

Chris Hodgkins, 41 Bedford Road, London W13 0SP. Tel: 020 8840 4643

Email: chrishodgkins3@gmail.com

Group's Website:

https://appjag.wordpress.com/

Benefits in Kind
Date
10 Nov 2015
Source
Serious
Description
Event held on 10 November 2015
Value
£6,001
Date
10 Mar 2015
Source
PPL
Description
Two events held on 21 January 2015 and 10 March 2015 respectively
Value
£31,501
Financial Benefits Received
Date
10 Oct 2017
Source
Pizza Express Live
Value
£3,800
Date
10 Oct 2017
Source
Peroni
Value
£2,000