Polar Regions APPG

First Registered: 28/09/2017 • 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 8th April 2024 and may be defunct.

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Informing MPs and Peers about topical issues affecting the Arctic and Antarctic.

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 Members - Contact Details - Benefits in Kind - Financial Benefits
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Former APPG Members
Tim Loughton Portrait
Tim Loughton
Treasurer
Conservative - East Worthing and Shoreham
Joined: 5th April 2023
Departed: 6th March 2024
15 APPG Memberships
Adoption and Permanence , Archaeology , Armenia , Austria , British Museum , Care-Experienced Children and Young People , Children , Coastal Communities , Conception to Age Two - First 1001 Days , Kinship Care , Photography , Tennis , Tibet , Wilton Park , Yemen
Mark Garnier Portrait
Mark Garnier
Vice Chair
Conservative - Wyre Forest
Joined: 24th February 2020
Departed: 6th March 2024
3 APPG Memberships
Corporate Responsibility , Japan , Space
Lord Balfe Portrait
Lord Balfe
Vice Chair
Conservative - Life peer
Joined: 2nd June 2021
Departed: 6th March 2024
5 APPG Memberships
Children of Alcoholics , Children who need Palliative Care , Cuba , Parental Participation in Education , Vietnam
Lord Lisvane Portrait
Lord Lisvane
Vice Chair
Crossbench - Life peer
Joined: 2nd June 2021
Departed: 6th March 2024
No other APPG Memberships
Douglas Chapman Portrait
Douglas Chapman
Vice Chair
Scottish National Party - Dunfermline and West Fife
Joined: 5th April 2023
Departed: 6th March 2024
1 APPG Membership
Denmark
Theresa Villiers Portrait
Theresa Villiers
Vice Chair
Conservative - Chipping Barnet
Joined: 15th June 2022
Departed: 6th March 2024
2 APPG Memberships
Cyprus , Parks and Green Spaces
Lord Cromwell Portrait
Lord Cromwell
Vice Chair
Crossbench - Excepted Hereditary
Joined: 28th September 2017
Departed: 6th March 2024
2 APPG Memberships
Fair Business Banking , Oman
Baroness Smith of Newnham Portrait
Baroness Smith of Newnham
Vice Chair
Liberal Democrat - Life peer
Joined: 28th September 2017
Departed: 6th March 2024
2 APPG Memberships
Citizens' Rights , Down Syndrome
Baroness Neville-Jones Portrait
Baroness Neville-Jones
Vice Chair
Conservative - Life peer
Joined: 28th September 2017
Departed: 6th March 2024
1 APPG Membership
Sovereign Defence Manufacturing Capability
Baroness Jay of Paddington Portrait
Baroness Jay of Paddington
Vice Chair
Labour - Life peer
Joined: 28th September 2017
Departed: 6th March 2024
No other APPG Memberships
Anna McMorrin Portrait
Anna McMorrin
Vice Chair
Labour - Cardiff North
Joined: 15th June 2022
Departed: 6th March 2024
2 APPG Memberships
Net Zero , Performing Arts Education and Training
James Gray Portrait
James Gray
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - North Wiltshire
Joined: 28th September 2017
Departed: 6th March 2024
1 APPG Membership
Armed Forces
Lord Haworth Portrait
Lord Haworth
Vice Chair
Labour - Life peer
Joined: 28th September 2017
Departed: 9th August 2023
No other APPG Memberships
Baroness Northover Portrait
Baroness Northover
Vice Chair
Liberal Democrat - Life peer
Joined: 15th June 2022
Departed: 22nd February 2023
3 APPG Memberships
Australia, New Zealand (ANZAC) and the Pacific Islands , Environmental, Social, and Governance , United Nations Global Goals for Sustainable Development
Brendan O'Hara Portrait
Brendan O'Hara
Vice Chair
Scottish National Party - Argyll and Bute
Joined: 18th July 2018
Departed: 22nd February 2023
3 APPG Memberships
Democracy and Human Rights in the Gulf , Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity , Yazidis
Matt Western Portrait
Matt Western
Vice Chair
Labour - Warwick and Leamington
Joined: 24th February 2020
Departed: 22nd February 2023
5 APPG Memberships
Council Housing , Electric Vehicles , Pubs , Small and Micro Business , SME (Small and Medium-sized Enterprises) House Builders
Christian Matheson Portrait
Christian Matheson
Vice Chair
Independent - Former Member for City of Chester
Joined: 23rd October 2019
Departed: 19th October 2022
No other APPG Memberships
Lord Hunt of Chesterton Portrait
Lord Hunt of Chesterton
Deputy Chairman
Labour - Life peer
Joined: 28th September 2017
Departed: 6th October 2021
No other APPG Memberships
David Amess Portrait
David Amess
Vice Chair
Conservative - Former Member for Southend West
Joined: 28th September 2017
Departed: 5th November 2019
No other APPG Memberships
Imran Ahmad Khan Portrait
Imran Ahmad Khan
Co-Secretary
Independent - Former Member for Wakefield
Joined: 18th July 2018
Departed: 11th September 2019
No other APPG Memberships
Lord Truscott Portrait
Lord Truscott
Co-Secretary
Non-affiliated - Life peer
Joined: 18th July 2018
Departed: 11th September 2019
No other APPG Memberships
Baroness Hooper Portrait
Baroness Hooper
Co-Treasurer
Conservative - Life peer
Joined: 18th July 2018
Departed: 11th September 2019
4 APPG Memberships
Brazil , Catalonia , Haiti , Latin America
Lord Greenway Portrait
Lord Greenway
Co-Treasurer
Crossbench - Excepted Hereditary
Joined: 18th July 2018
Departed: 11th September 2019
No other APPG Memberships
Lord Hannay of Chiswick Portrait
Lord Hannay of Chiswick
Vice Chair
Crossbench - Life peer
Joined: 18th July 2018
Departed: 11th September 2019
1 APPG Membership
United Nations
Stephen Hepburn Portrait
Stephen Hepburn
Vice Chair
Independent - Former Member for Jarrow
Joined: 18th July 2018
Departed: 11th September 2019
No other APPG Memberships
Gavin Shuker Portrait
Gavin Shuker
Vice Chairman
Independent - Former Member for Luton South
Joined: 28th September 2017
Departed: 6th June 2018
No other APPG Memberships
Anne-Marie Trevelyan Portrait
Anne-Marie Trevelyan
Vice Chairman
Conservative - Berwick-upon-Tweed
Joined: 28th September 2017
Departed: 6th June 2018
No other APPG Memberships
Contact Details

Registered Contact:

James Gray MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 020 7219 6237.

Email: jamesgraymp@parliament.uk

Public Enquiry Point:

Jamie Anderson, APPG Polar Regions, Office of James Gray MP, Houses of Parliament, London SW1A 0AA. Tel: 0207 219 6237

Email: info@appgpolarregions.uk

Group's Website:

https://www.polarregions.co.uk/

No benefits in kind are on record for the Polar Regions APPG

Financial Benefits Received
Date
27 Oct 2023
Source
Cryosphere foundation
Value
£7,350
Date
27 Feb 2023
Source
Cryosphere Foundation
Value
£50,000
Date
27 Jan 2022
Source
Mamont Foundation
Value
£50,000
Date
19 Mar 2020
Source
Mamont Foundation
Value
£7,000
Date
8 Feb 2019
Source
Mamont Foundation
Value
£50,000
Date
12 Dec 2018
Source
Royal Norwegian Embassy in London
Value
£2,000
Date
31 Oct 2018
Source
Royal Norwegian Embassy in London
Value
£1,781
Date
2 Jul 2018
Source
WWF UK
Value
£2,000
Date
29 May 2018
Source
Mamont Foundation
Value
£10,000
Date
6 Feb 2018
Source
Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation
Value
£10,000
Date
2 Feb 2018
Source
Mamont Foundation
Value
£50,000