To explore the issues faced by people with a learning disability and by their families. The group explores the key issues of the day, across areas including health, social care, education, employment and benefits.
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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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 Learning Disability APPG and use this facility, click below
4 Current APPG Officers
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1 APPG Membership
Down Syndrome
Down Syndrome
1 APPG Membership
Climate, Nature and Security
Climate, Nature and Security
No other APPG Memberships
Contact Details
Show/HideRegistered Contact:
Jen Craft MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 0207 219 7830.
Email: jen.craft.mp@parliament.uk
Public Enquiry Point:
Matthew Harrison, Royal Mencap Society. Tel: 020 7696 6009
Email: matthew.harrison@mencap.org.uk
Secretariat:
Royal Mencap Society acts as the group's secretariat. https://www.mencap.org.uk/
Group's Website:
https://www.mencap.org.uk/all-party-parliamentary-group-learning-disability
Benefits in Kind
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Date
2 Apr 2025
2 Apr 2025
Source
Royal Mencap Society
Royal Mencap Society
Description
Secretariat From : 02/04/2025 To : 01/04/2026
Secretariat From : 02/04/2025 To : 01/04/2026
Value
£9,001
£9,001
Date
28 Jan 2023
28 Jan 2023
Source
Royal Mencap Society
Royal Mencap Society
Description
Secretariat From : 28/01/2023 To : 27/01/2024
Secretariat From : 28/01/2023 To : 27/01/2024
Value
£9,001
£9,001
Date
28 Jan 2022
28 Jan 2022
Source
Royal Mencap Society
Royal Mencap Society
Description
Secretariat From : 28/01/2022 To : 27/01/2023
Secretariat From : 28/01/2022 To : 27/01/2023
Value
£9,001
£9,001
Date
28 Jan 2021
28 Jan 2021
Source
Royal Mencap Society
Royal Mencap Society
Description
Secretariat From : 28/01/2021 To : 27/01/2022
Secretariat From : 28/01/2021 To : 27/01/2022
Value
£9,001
£9,001
Date
28 Jan 2020
28 Jan 2020
Source
Royal Mencap Society
Royal Mencap Society
Description
Secretariat From : 28/01/2020 To : 27/01/2021
Secretariat From : 28/01/2020 To : 27/01/2021
Value
£9,001
£9,001
Date
11 Jul 2018
11 Jul 2018
Source
Royal Mencap Society
Royal Mencap Society
Description
Secretariat From : 11/07/2018 To : 10/07/2019
Secretariat From : 11/07/2018 To : 10/07/2019
Value
£9,001
£9,001
Date
11 Jul 2017
11 Jul 2017
Source
Royal Mencap Society
Royal Mencap Society
Description
Secretariat From : 11/07/2017 To : 10/07/2018
Secretariat From : 11/07/2017 To : 10/07/2018
Value
£9,001
£9,001
Date
15 Jul 2016
15 Jul 2016
Source
Royal Mencap Society
Royal Mencap Society
Description
Secretariat From : 15/07/2016 To : 14/07/2017
Secretariat From : 15/07/2016 To : 14/07/2017
Value
£9,001
£9,001
Date
15 Jul 2015
15 Jul 2015
Source
Royal Mencap Society
Royal Mencap Society
Description
Secretariat From : 15/07/2015 To : 31/07/2016
Secretariat From : 15/07/2015 To : 31/07/2016
Value
£9,001
£9,001
No direct financial benefits are on record for the Learning Disability APPG
Former APPG Officers
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Baroness Thomas of Winchester
Officer
Liberal Democrat - Life peer
Joined: 24th November 2016Departed: 6th March 2024
No other APPG Memberships
Robert Buckland
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - Former Member for South Swindon
Joined: 22nd February 2023Departed: 6th March 2024
No other APPG Memberships
7 APPG Memberships
Classical Music , Film and Broader Screen , Music Education , Tennis , Theatre , Ticket Abuse , Young Carers and Young Adult Carers
Classical Music , Film and Broader Screen , Music Education , Tennis , Theatre , Ticket Abuse , Young Carers and Young Adult Carers
Neil Coyle
Officer
Labour - Bermondsey and Old Southwark
Joined: 24th November 2016Departed: 6th March 2024
1 APPG Membership
Chess
Chess
Barry Sheerman
Officer
Labour (Co-op) - Former Member for Huddersfield
Joined: 29th September 2015Departed: 6th March 2024
No other APPG Memberships
Sally-Ann Hart
Officer
Conservative - Former Member for Hastings and Rye
Joined: 23rd March 2022Departed: 6th March 2024
No other APPG Memberships
Andy McDonald
Officer
Labour - Middlesbrough and Thornaby East
Joined: 29th September 2015Departed: 6th March 2024
5 APPG Memberships
Acquired Brain Injury , Chagos (British Indian Ocean Territory) , Medical Cannabis under Prescription , Palestine , Spinal Cord Injury
Acquired Brain Injury , Chagos (British Indian Ocean Territory) , Medical Cannabis under Prescription , Palestine , Spinal Cord Injury
Henry Smith
Officer
Conservative - Former Member for Crawley
Joined: 29th September 2015Departed: 6th March 2024
No other APPG Memberships
6 APPG Memberships
Beer , Commercial Sexual Exploitation , ITV , Medical Cannabis under Prescription , Modern Languages , Rugby Union Football Club
Beer , Commercial Sexual Exploitation , ITV , Medical Cannabis under Prescription , Modern Languages , Rugby Union Football Club
Rachael Maskell
Officer
Labour (Co-op) - York Central
Joined: 10th October 2018Departed: 6th March 2024
6 APPG Memberships
Adoption and Permanence , Ageing and Older People , Archaeology , Drugs, Alcohol and Justice , Dying Well , Sudan and South Sudan
Adoption and Permanence , Ageing and Older People , Archaeology , Drugs, Alcohol and Justice , Dying Well , Sudan and South Sudan
Stephen McPartland
Officer
Conservative - Former Member for Stevenage
Joined: 24th November 2016Departed: 6th March 2024
No other APPG Memberships
William Wragg
Officer
Independent - Former Member for Hazel Grove
Joined: 28th September 2017Departed: 6th March 2024
No other APPG Memberships
Lord Bishop of Lincoln
Officer
Bishops - Bishops
Joined: 13th December 2023Departed: 6th March 2024
No other APPG Memberships
No other APPG Memberships
Maria Miller
Officer
Conservative - Former Member for Basingstoke
Joined: 15th June 2022Departed: 1st November 2023
No other APPG Memberships
Lord Bishop of Lincoln
Officer
Bishops - Bishops
Joined: 28th September 2017Departed: 1st November 2023
No other APPG Memberships
Kate Green
Officer
Joined: 28th September 2017Departed: 11th January 2023
No other APPG Memberships
James Daly
Officer
Conservative - Former Member for Bury North
Joined: 23rd March 2022Departed: 11th January 2023
No other APPG Memberships
No other APPG Memberships
Mike Wood
Officer
Conservative - Kingswinford and South Staffordshire
Joined: 29th September 2015Departed: 11th January 2023
6 APPG Memberships
Bus and Coach , Cyprus , Ethnicity Transplantation and Transfusion , Global Education , Sepsis , Speech and Language Difficulties
Bus and Coach , Cyprus , Ethnicity Transplantation and Transfusion , Global Education , Sepsis , Speech and Language Difficulties
Lisa Cameron
Vice Chair
Conservative - Former Member for East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
Joined: 29th September 2015Departed: 11th January 2023
No other APPG Memberships
Lord Harper
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - Life peer
Joined: 24th November 2016Departed: 19th October 2022
No other APPG Memberships
Maria Miller
Officer
Conservative - Former Member for Basingstoke
Joined: 29th September 2015Departed: 4th May 2022
No other APPG Memberships
David Amess
Officer
Conservative - Former Member for Southend West
Joined: 29th September 2015Departed: 6th October 2021
No other APPG Memberships
Heidi Allen
Officer
Liberal Democrat - Former Member for South Cambridgeshire
Joined: 24th November 2016Departed: 5th November 2019
No other APPG Memberships
Tom Brake
Officer
Liberal Democrat - Former Member for Carshalton and Wallington
Joined: 29th September 2015Departed: 5th November 2019
No other APPG Memberships
Paul Williams
Officer
Labour - Former Member for Stockton South
Joined: 28th September 2017Departed: 5th November 2019
No other APPG Memberships
Justin Tomlinson
Officer
Conservative - Former Member for North Swindon
Joined: 24th November 2016Departed: 29th August 2018
No other APPG Memberships
Bishop of Ely
Officer
Joined: 24th November 2016Departed: 2nd May 2017
No other APPG Memberships
William Wragg
Officer
Independent - Former Member for Hazel Grove
Joined: 24th November 2016Departed: 2nd May 2017
No other APPG Memberships
Mark Durkan
Officer
Social Democratic & Labour Party - Former Member for Foyle
Joined: 29th September 2015Departed: 2nd May 2017
No other APPG Memberships
Chris Heaton-Harris
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - Former Member for Daventry
Joined: 29th September 2015Departed: 12th October 2016
No other APPG Memberships
No other APPG Memberships