Missing Children and Adults APPG

First Registered: 27/01/2021 • Last updated on: 23/02/2026

The APPG works to strengthen policy and practice, address causes of missing incidents, promote person-centered working, preventative multi-agency support, whilst providing a platform to share frontline insights to improve the national response for missing people and their families.

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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4 Current APPG Officers
Michelle Welsh Portrait
Michelle Welsh
Chair & Registered Contact
Labour - Sherwood Forest
Joined: 23rd February 2026
Lord Hart of Tenby Portrait
Lord Hart of Tenby
Vice Chair
Conservative - Life peer
Joined: 23rd February 2026
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Adam Dance Portrait
Adam Dance
Officer
Liberal Democrat - Yeovil
Joined: 23rd February 2026
Contact Details

Registered Contact:

Michelle Welsh MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 020 7219 7704.

Email: michelle.welsh.mp@parliament.uk

Public Enquiry Point:

Rebecca Saleem, Missing People

Email: becky.saleem@missingpeople.org.uk

Secretariat:

Missing People and The Children’s Society jointly act as the group's secretariat. https://www.missingpeople.org.uk/ and https://www.childrenssociety.org.uk/

Date
9 Dec 2022
Source
Missing People
Description
Joint Secretariat   From : 09/12/2022 To : 08/12/2023
Value
£3,001
Date
9 Dec 2022
Source
The Children's Society
Description
Joint Secretariat   From : 09/12/2022 To : 08/12/2023
Value
£1,501
Date
9 Dec 2021
Source
Missing People
Description
Joint Secretariat   From : 09/12/2021 To : 08/12/2022
Value
£1,501
Date
9 Dec 2021
Source
The Children's Society
Description
Joint Secretariat   From : 09/12/2021 To : 08/12/2022
Value
£1,501
Date
9 Dec 2020
Source
Missing People
Description
Joint Secretariat   From : 09/12/2020 To : 08/12/2021
Value
£1,501
Date
9 Dec 2020
Source
The Children's Society
Description
Joint Secretariat   From : 09/12/2020 To : 08/12/2021
Value
£1,501

No direct financial benefits are on record for the Missing Children and Adults APPG

Former APPG Officers
Rehman Chishti Portrait
Rehman Chishti
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - Former Member for Gillingham and Rainham
Joined: 27th January 2021
Departed: 9th August 2023
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Karen Bradley Portrait
Karen Bradley
Vice Chair
Conservative - Staffordshire Moorlands
Joined: 14th July 2021
Departed: 9th August 2023
4 APPG Officer Positions
Advertising , Crypto and Digital Assets , Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery , North Macedonia

No other APPG Memberships

Bambos Charalambous Portrait
Bambos Charalambous
Vice Chair
Labour - Southgate and Wood Green
Joined: 27th January 2021
Departed: 9th August 2023
6 APPG Officer Positions
Alevis , Cyprus , Future Generations , Global Education , Music Education , Opera

No other APPG Memberships

David Morris Portrait
David Morris
Vice Chair
Conservative - Former Member for Morecambe and Lunesdale
Joined: 17th May 2023
Departed: 9th August 2023
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Matthew Offord Portrait
Matthew Offord
Vice Chair
Conservative - Former Member for Hendon
Joined: 4th May 2022
Departed: 5th April 2023
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Anne McLaughlin Portrait
Anne McLaughlin
Vice Chair
Scottish National Party - Former Member for Glasgow North East
Joined: 27th January 2021
Departed: 5th April 2023
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Baroness Hamwee Portrait
Baroness Hamwee
Co-Chair
Liberal Democrat - Life peer
Joined: 27th January 2021
Departed: 21st April 2021
1 APPG Officer Position
Immigration Detention

No other APPG Memberships