Levelling up Birmingham APPG

First Registered: 15/06/2022 • Last updated on: 06/03/2024

Note: This APPG was last registered on 6th March 2024. The APPG was not registered in the latest release of the 18th June 2025 and may be defunct.

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To advocate for Birmingham’s levelling up strategy by engaging with key stakeholders in both the public and private sector to secure the powers, resources, and system change required to create prosperity across the city, at the start of a golden decade of opportunity.

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
Gary Sambrook Portrait
Gary Sambrook
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - Former Member for Birmingham, Northfield
Joined: 15th June 2022
Departed: 6th March 2024
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Preet Kaur Gill Portrait
Preet Kaur Gill
Co-Chair
Labour (Co-op) - Birmingham Edgbaston
Joined: 15th June 2022
Departed: 6th March 2024
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Paulette Hamilton Portrait
Paulette Hamilton
Officer
Labour - Birmingham Erdington
Joined: 1st November 2023
Departed: 6th March 2024
6 APPG Officer Positions
Black Health , Caribbean , Cyprus , Hospice and End of Life Care , Less Survivable Cancers , Local Government

No other APPG Memberships

Lord Snape Portrait
Lord Snape
Officer
Labour - Life peer
Joined: 15th June 2022
Departed: 6th March 2024
3 APPG Officer Positions
Bus and Coach , Heritage Rail , SME (Small and Medium-sized Enterprises) House Builders

No other APPG Memberships

Lord Whitby Portrait
Lord Whitby
Officer
Conservative - Life peer
Joined: 1st November 2023
Departed: 6th March 2024
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Andrew Mitchell Portrait
Andrew Mitchell
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - Sutton Coldfield
Joined: 15th June 2022
Departed: 20th September 2023
4 APPG Officer Positions
Abraham Accords , Aid Match , Trafficked Britons in Syria , West Midlands

No other APPG Memberships

Lord McCabe Portrait
Lord McCabe
Vice Chair
Labour - Life peer
Joined: 15th June 2022
Departed: 20th September 2023
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Lord Bishop of Birmingham Portrait
Lord Bishop of Birmingham
Officer
Bishops - Bishops
Joined: 15th June 2022
Departed: 7th September 2022
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Contact Details

Registered Contact:

Gary Sambrook MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 0207 219 3000.

Email: gary.sambrook.mp@parliament.uk

Public Enquiry Point:

Charlotte Platten , Cratus Communications, Fora, 180 Borough High Street, London SE1 1LB . Tel: 07947 980 157

Email: LUBirminghamAPPG@cratus.co.uk

Secretariat:

Cratus Communications acts as the group's secretariat. https://cratus.co.uk/

Group's Website:

https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/levelling-up-strategy

Benefits in Kind
Date
17 May 2023
Source
Cratus Communications
Description
Secretariat   From : 17/05/2023 To : 16/05/2024
Value
£9,001
Date
17 May 2022
Source
Cratus Communications
Description
Secretariat   From : 17/05/2022 To : 16/05/2023
Value
£63,001

No direct financial benefits are on record for the Levelling up Birmingham APPG