Performers' Alliance APPG

First Registered: 30/07/2015 • 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 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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Former Officers - Contact Details - Benefits in Kind - Financial Benefits
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Former APPG Officers
Claire Hanna Portrait
Claire Hanna
Chair & Registered Contact
Social Democratic & Labour Party - Belfast South and Mid Down
Joined: 2nd June 2021
Departed: 6th March 2024
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

John McDonnell Portrait
John McDonnell
Officer
Independent - Hayes and Harlington
Joined: 17th May 2023
Departed: 6th March 2024
4 APPG Officer Positions
Airport Communities , Drugs, Alcohol and Justice , Intergenerational Inquiry , Microplastics

No other APPG Memberships

Earl of Clancarty Portrait
Earl of Clancarty
Officer
Crossbench - Excepted Hereditary
Joined: 28th September 2017
Departed: 6th March 2024
3 APPG Officer Positions
Art, Craft and Design in Education , Craft , Visual Arts and Artists

No other APPG Memberships

Lord Brennan of Canton Portrait
Lord Brennan of Canton
Officer
Labour - Life peer
Joined: 2nd June 2021
Departed: 6th March 2024
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Lord Clement-Jones Portrait
Lord Clement-Jones
Officer
Liberal Democrat - Life peer
Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 6th March 2024
5 APPG Officer Positions
Artificial Intelligence , Digital Inclusion , Digital Regulation and Responsibility , Intellectual Property , Internet, Communications and Technology

No other APPG Memberships

Damian Collins Portrait
Damian Collins
Officer
Conservative - Former Member for Folkestone and Hythe
Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 6th March 2024
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Kerry McCarthy Portrait
Kerry McCarthy
Officer
Labour - Bristol East
Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 6th March 2024
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Ian Murray Portrait
Ian Murray
Officer
Labour - Edinburgh South
Joined: 24th February 2020
Departed: 6th March 2024
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Giles Watling Portrait
Giles Watling
Officer
Conservative - Former Member for Clacton
Joined: 24th February 2020
Departed: 6th March 2024
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Kim Johnson Portrait
Kim Johnson
Officer
Labour - Liverpool Riverside
Joined: 2nd June 2021
Departed: 6th March 2024
5 APPG Officer Positions
Child of the North , Cuba , Miscarriages of Justice , Race and Community , Somaliland

No other APPG Memberships

Baroness McIntosh of Hudnall Portrait
Baroness McIntosh of Hudnall
Officer
Labour - Life peer
Joined: 28th September 2017
Departed: 6th March 2024
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

David Warburton Portrait
David Warburton
Officer
Independent - Former Member for Somerton and Frome
Joined: 21st November 2018
Departed: 17th May 2023
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Deidre Brock Portrait
Deidre Brock
Officer
Scottish National Party - Former Member for Edinburgh North and Leith
Joined: 21st November 2018
Departed: 5th April 2023
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Pete Wishart Portrait
Pete Wishart
Officer
Scottish National Party - Perth and Kinross-shire
Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 21st April 2021
6 APPG Officer Positions
Air Ambulances , Beer , Haemophilia and Contaminated Blood , Intellectual Property , Music , Writers

No other APPG Memberships

Baroness Debbonaire Portrait
Baroness Debbonaire
Officer
Labour - Life peer
Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 21st April 2021
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Alison McGovern Portrait
Alison McGovern
Chair & Registered Contact
Labour - Birkenhead
Joined: 16th March 2016
Departed: 21st April 2021
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Lord Vaizey of Didcot Portrait
Lord Vaizey of Didcot
Vice-Chair
Conservative - Life peer
Joined: 24th November 2016
Departed: 5th November 2019
6 APPG Officer Positions
Afrikan Reparations , Northern Culture , Performing Arts Education and Training , Sovereign Wealth Funds , Video Games and Esports , Visual Arts and Artists

No other APPG Memberships

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 Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

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Earl of Clancarty
Vice Chair
 Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 2nd May 2017
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

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 Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Cat Smith Portrait
Cat Smith
Vice Chair
Labour - Lancaster and Wyre
Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 12th October 2016
4 APPG Officer Positions
Christianity in the Holy Land , Funerals and Bereavement , Parkrun , West Coast Main Line

No other APPG Memberships

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.

Benefits in Kind
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