Performers' Alliance APPG

First Registered: 30/07/2015 • Last updated on: 24/01/2024

To work alongside the unions of the Performers' Alliance - Equity, the Musicians' Union and the Writers' Guild of Great Britain - to raise issues affecting performers and writers across the arts community and to provide a forum for issues relating to arts and culture policy.

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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11 Current APPG Officers
Claire Hanna Portrait
Claire Hanna
Chair & Registered Contact
Social Democratic & Labour Party - Belfast South
Joined: 2nd June 2021
No other APPG Memberships
Baroness McIntosh of Hudnall Portrait
Baroness McIntosh of Hudnall
Officer
Labour - Life peer
Joined: 28th September 2017
Ian Murray Portrait
Ian Murray
Officer
Labour - Edinburgh South
Joined: 24th February 2020
4 APPG Memberships
Football Club , ITV , Scotch Whisky , Snooker
Damian Collins Portrait
Damian Collins
Officer
Conservative - Folkestone and Hythe
Joined: 30th July 2015
2 APPG Memberships
Digital Skills , Visual Arts
Earl of Clancarty Portrait
Earl of Clancarty
Officer
Crossbench - Excepted Hereditary
Joined: 28th September 2017
Contact Details

Registered Contact:

Claire Hanna MP, 1 Rushfield Avenue, Belfast, BT7 3FP. Tel: 028 9099 6066.

Public Enquiry Point:

Tom Pollard, Performers' Alliance, c/o the Musicians' Union, 60-62 Clapham Road, London SW9 OJJ. Tel: 07746 537 918

Email: performersallianceappg@outlook.com

Secretariat:

Performers' Alliance acts as the group's secretariat.

Date
13 Jan 2023
Source
Performers' Alliance
Description
Performers' Alliance is funded by Equity, Musicians' Union, and Writers' Guild of Great Britain to act as the group's secretariat.   From : 13/01/2023 To : 12/01/2024
Value
£10,501
Date
13 Jan 2022
Source
Performers' Alliance
Description
Performers' Alliance is funded by Equity, Musicians' Union, and Writers' Guild of Great Britain to act as the group's secretariat.   From : 13/01/2022 To : 12/01/2023
Value
£13,501
Date
13 Jan 2021
Source
Performers' Alliance
Description
Performers' Alliance is funded by Equity, Musicians' Union, and Writers' Guild of Great Britain to act as the group's secretariat.   From : 13/01/2021 To : 12/01/2022
Value
£13,501
Date
13 Jan 2020
Source
Performers' Alliance
Description
Performers' Alliance is funded by Equity, Musicians' Union, and Writers' Guild of Great Britain to act as the group's secretariat.   From : 13/01/2020 To : 12/01/2021
Value
£13,501
Date
5 Jul 2018
Source
Performers' Alliance
Description
Secretariat   From : 05/07/2018 To : 04/07/2019
Value
£12,001
Date
6 Dec 2017
Source
Performers' Alliance
Description
Christmas party held on 6 December 2017
Value
£3,001
Date
5 Jul 2017
Source
Performers' Alliance
Description
Secretariat   From : 05/07/2017 To : 04/07/2018
Value
£12,001
Date
13 Dec 2016
Source
The Peformers Alliance
Description
Christmas party
Value
£6,001
Date
1 Jan 2016
Source
The Performer's Alliance
Description
Secretariat   From : 01/01/2016 To : 31/12/2016
Value
£12,001
Date
1 Jan 2015
Source
Performers' Alliance
Description
Secretariat   From : 01/01/2015 To : 31/12/2015
Value
£12,001

No direct financial benefits are on record for the Performers' Alliance APPG

Former APPG Officers
David Warburton Portrait
David Warburton
Officer
Independent - Former Member for Somerton and Frome
Joined: 21st November 2018
Departed: 17th May 2023
No other APPG Memberships
Deidre Brock Portrait
Deidre Brock
Officer
Scottish National Party - Edinburgh North and Leith
Joined: 21st November 2018
Departed: 5th April 2023
Alison McGovern Portrait
Alison McGovern
Chair & Registered Contact
Labour - Wirral South
Joined: 16th March 2016
Departed: 21st April 2021
1 APPG Membership
War Crimes
Thangam Debbonaire Portrait
Thangam Debbonaire
Officer
Labour - Bristol West
Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 21st April 2021
1 APPG Membership
Parkrun
Pete Wishart Portrait
Pete Wishart
Officer
Scottish National Party - Perth and North Perthshire
Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 21st April 2021
Tracy Brabin Portrait
Tracy Brabin
Co-Chair
Labour (Co-op) - Former Member for Batley and Spen
Joined: 28th September 2017
Departed: 5th November 2019
No other APPG Memberships
None Portrait
Earl of Clancarty
Vice Chair
Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 2nd May 2017
Mike Gapes Portrait
Mike Gapes
Vice Chair
The Independent Group for Change - Former Member for Ilford South
Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 12th October 2016
No other APPG Memberships
Cat Smith Portrait
Cat Smith
Vice Chair
Labour - Lancaster and Fleetwood
Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 12th October 2016