Performing Arts Education and Training APPG

First Registered: 27/01/2021 • Last updated on: 24/01/2024

To support parliamentarians in discussions relating to: appropriate training, education, assessment and professional practices across the performing arts, particularly drama, dance and musical theatre; practitioners continuing professional development within the creative and cultural industries; wider benefits of engagement with the performing arts for students, practitioners and audiences.

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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17 Current APPG Officers
Simon Baynes Portrait
Simon Baynes
Vice Chair
Conservative - Clwyd South
Joined: 27th January 2021
Peter Bottomley Portrait
Peter Bottomley
Vice Chair
Conservative - Worthing West
Joined: 23rd March 2022
82 APPG Memberships
12 Step Recovery , Adult Education , Afrikan Reparations , Ageing and Older People , Archaeology , Austria , BBC , British Muslims , British Overseas Territories , Carbon Monoxide , Children in Police Custody , Citizens' Rights , Closing the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility , Commonwealth , Community Development , Croatia , Cycling and Walking , Dark Skies , Democracy and Human Rights in the Gulf , Dentistry and Oral Health , Disability , Domestic Violence and Abuse , Ethnic Minority Business Owners , Ethnicity Transplantation and Transfusion , Explosive Threats , Fatherhood , Film and Broader Screen , Flags and Heraldry , Frozen British Pensions , Global Security and Non-Proliferation , Gypsies, Travellers and Roma , Haemophilia and Contaminated Blood , Holocaust Memorial , Hospice and End of Life Care , Immigration Detention , Internet, Communications and Technology , Ireland and the Irish in Britain , Leasehold and Commonhold Reform , Limits to Growth , Manufacturing , Maternity , Media , Media Freedom , Music , Muslim Women , National Parks , National Trust , Night Time Economy , No Recourse to Public Funds , Opera , Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development , Park Homes , Photography , Public Accountability , Race and Community , Religion in the Media , Religious Education , Rowing , Scientific , Scotch Whisky , Sexual and Reproductive Health in the UK , Single Parent Families , Social Enterprise , Social Integration , Social Science and Policy , South East , St George's Day , Sustainable Finance , Tibet , Transport Safety , Ukraine , United Nations , United Nations Women , Vascular and Venous Disease , Water, Sanitation and Hygiene , Western Sahara , White Ribbon UK , Wine and Spirits , Wine of Great Britain , Women and Work , Women in Transport , Zimbabwe
Lord German Portrait
Lord German
Vice Chair
Liberal Democrat - Life peer
Joined: 14th July 2021
Earl of Clancarty Portrait
Earl of Clancarty
Vice Chair
Crossbench - Excepted Hereditary
Joined: 14th July 2021
Lord Wood of Anfield Portrait
Lord Wood of Anfield
Vice Chair
Labour - Life peer
Joined: 25th August 2021
Baroness Featherstone Portrait
Baroness Featherstone
Vice Chair
Liberal Democrat - Life peer
Joined: 23rd March 2022
No other APPG Memberships
Baroness Merron Portrait
Baroness Merron
Vice Chair
Labour - Life peer
Joined: 23rd March 2022
No other APPG Memberships
Contact Details

Registered Contact:

Anna McMorrin MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 0207 219 4307.

Email: anna.mcmorrin.mp@parliament.uk

Public Enquiry Point:

Glyndwr Jones, CDMT, Old Brewer’s Yard, 17-19 Neal Street, London WC2H 9UY . Tel: 020 7240 5703

Email: appg@cdmt.org.uk

Secretariat:

CDMT (Council for Dance, Drama and Musical Theatre) acts as the group's secretariat. https://cdmt.org.uk/

Group's Website:

https://cdmt.org.uk/all-party-parliamentary-group

Date
13 Jan 2023
Source
CDMT
Description
Secretariat   From : 13/01/2023 To : 12/01/2024
Value
£4,501
Date
13 Jan 2022
Source
CDMT
Description
Secretariat   From : 13/01/2022 To : 12/01/2023
Value
£3,001
Date
13 Jan 2021
Source
CDMT
Description
Secretariat   From : 13/01/2021 To : 12/01/2022
Value
£3,001

No direct financial benefits are on record for the Performing Arts Education and Training APPG

Former APPG Officers
David Warburton Portrait
David Warburton
Vice Chair
Independent - Former Member for Somerton and Frome
Joined: 14th July 2021
Departed: 5th April 2023
No other APPG Memberships
David Amess Portrait
David Amess
Vice Chair
Conservative - Former Member for Southend West
Joined: 25th August 2021
Departed: 6th October 2021
No other APPG Memberships