Single Parent Families APPG
First Registered: 31/01/2018 • Last updated on: 10/03/2021
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To collaborate across the political spectrum to campaign against legislative loopholes that disadvantage single parents, and for positive representation of a category which is increasingly common yet still all too often stigmatised.
1. Reduce tax for single parent with no financial support
03/05/2020 - Petitions
Found: Single parent families should be taxed on a household income of under £80,000 at basic rate tax and not
2. Gingerbread - written evidence
03/07/2019 - Inquiry: School holiday poverty - Work and Pensions Committee
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Found: charity working with single parent families. Gingerbread hears directly from single parents about their
3. SHORTCOMINGS OF THE CHILD MAINTENANCE SERVICE
25/07/2019 - Early Day Motions
Found: in single parent families are almost twice as likely to live in poverty as children in two-parent families;
4. Gingerbread - written evidence
10/10/2018 - Inquiry: Benefit cap - Work and Pensions Committee
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Found: ad is the leading charity working with single parent families. We campaign against poverty, disadvantage
5. Gingerbread - written evidence
25/10/2017 - Inquiry: Universal Credit - Work and Pensions Committee
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Found: ad is the leading charity working with single parent families. We campaign against poverty, disadvantage
1. Covid-19: Child Maintenance Service
21/01/2021 - Commons Chamber
1: of calls from across the Chamber, from One Parent Families Scotland and from Gingerbread, it is still - Speech Link
2. Family Law
11/06/2019 - Commons Chamber
1: maintenance from universal credit, if the paying parent has no income from employment. The new regulations - Speech Link
2: and charges—20% for the paying parent and 4% for the receiving parent—are set by the Child Maintenance - Speech Link
3: children. Child maintenance payments can be vital to families—especially those on low incomes—and to protecting - Speech Link
3. Low-income Families: Benefits Freeze
13/01/2020 - Lords Chamber
1: assessment they have made of the impact on low-income families of the four-year freeze in working age and children’s - Speech Link
2: which are, on average, nearly £400 this year for families with children. Those losses have contributed to - Speech Link
3: poverty and family breakdown, obviously there are families who have great difficulty fiscally, and we have - Speech Link
4. Child Maintenance Service
23/07/2019 - Westminster Hall
1: for an abusive paying parent to perpetuate their control over the receiving parent, thereby continuing - Speech Link
2: Pensions’ financial investigations unit that the paying parent did have additional unreported income, yet my constituent’s - Speech Link
5. Child Maintenance
06/11/2018 - Commons Chamber
1: want to. I do not think anyone here thinks that a parent should not pay for their child, but believe me - Speech Link
asked by: David Drew
28/09/2018
... what steps she has taken to ensure that single people are not discriminated against in relation to those who are married or in civil partnerships. 2. Single Sex Education
asked by: Jim Cunningham
17/09/2018
... (b) the West Midlands and (c) England attend single-sex secondary schools. 3. Travel: Single People
asked by: Sharon Hodgson
11/09/2018
... whether his Department has made an equality assessment of the single person’s travel supplement. 4. Families
asked by: Fiona Bruce
08/10/2020
... what that allocation has been spent on. 5. Families
asked by: Tulip Siddiq
18/09/2020
... what progress he has made on integrating family hubs with the Troubled Families Programme.
7 Current APPG Officers
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Anti-Corruption and Responsible Tax , Axial Spondyloarthritis , Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Business Owners , Cancer , Creative Diversity , Crossrail , Diabetes , General Aviation , Genetic Haemochromatosis , Intellectual Property , London's Planning and Built Environment , Music , Poland , Rohingya , Social Integration
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Cyprus , Hormone Pregnancy Tests , Horse , Muslim Women , Polo , Sixth Form Education
Antisemitism , Holocaust Memorial , Homelessness , International Conservation , Listed Properties , Motor Neurone Disease , Net Zero , Parks and Green Spaces , Rural Services , Women in Parliament , Young People's Health
Gavin Newlands
Officer
Scottish National Party - Paisley and Renfrewshire North
Joined: 31st January 2018American Football , Bridge , Connected and Automated Mobility , Domestic Violence and Abuse , Esports , Golf , Green Deal Misselling , Greenland , Infant Feeding and Inequalities , Light Rail , Perpetrators of Domestic Abuse , Scottish Sport , Snooker , Tennis
Jamie Stone
Officer
Liberal Democrat - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
Joined: 24th February 2020Adult Social Care , Aerospace , Armed Forces , Bahrain , Cleaning and Hygiene , Gaps in Support , Media , Nuclear Energy , Queen’s Platinum Jubilee 2022 , Scottish Sport , Space
Armed Forces Covenant , BBC , Brazil , Foreign Affairs , Green Deal Misselling , Hong Kong , Marine Energy , Montserrat , Pitcairn Islands , Sweden , Technology and National Security
Contact Details
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Dr Rupa Huq MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 020 7219 6865.
Email: rupa.huq.mp@parliament.uk
Benefits in Kind
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River Island
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£1,501
No direct financial benefits are on record for the Single Parent Families APPG
Former APPG Officers
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Paul Masterton
Treasurer
Conservative - Former Member for East Renfrewshire
Joined: 31st January 2018Departed: 5th November 2019
Stephen Lloyd
Vice Chair
Liberal Democrat - Former Member for Eastbourne
Joined: 31st January 2018Departed: 5th November 2019
Lord Balfe
Vice Chair
Conservative - Life peer
Joined: 13th February 2019Departed: 5th November 2019
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