Single Parent Families APPG
First Registered: 31/01/2018 • Last updated on: 06/10/2021
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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. End the young parent penalty
10/06/2021 - Early Day Motions
Found: million single parents across the UK, with nearly half of all children in single parent families living
2. Grant single parents with an extra household tax allowance.
12/05/2021 - Petitions
Found: for single working parent families UK wide and irrespective of their tax band. Currently a single parent
3. 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
4. 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
5. Brighton and Hove City Council - written evidence
10/10/2018 - Inquiry: Benefit cap - Work and Pensions Committee
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Found: static. There is a need to engage and support new families who will continue to come into and then successfully
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. Child Maintenance Service
24/06/2021 - Grand Committee
1: estimated third of all children grow up in separated families. In December 2020, the Department for Work and - Speech Link
2: was the arrears of the CSA following the paying parent. It took a long time to get around that problem - Speech Link
3: health. Unclear or unfair systems of support for families cause such tension. We need to ensure child-friendly - 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. 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
5. 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
asked by: Fiona Bruce
08/10/2020
... what that allocation has been spent on. 2. Families
asked by: Tulip Siddiq
18/09/2020
... what progress he has made on integrating family hubs with the Troubled Families Programme. 3. Families
asked by: Fiona Bruce
03/03/2021
... what steps his Department is taking to support and promote stable and secure family life to ensure that children have the best start. 4. Families
asked by: Fiona Bruce
03/03/2021
... what steps his Department is taking to strengthen families. 5. Families
asked by: Lord Farmer
14/04/2020
... and (2) what support that minister will receive.
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8 Current APPG Officers
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Gavin Newlands
Officer
Scottish National Party - Paisley and Renfrewshire North
Joined: 31st January 2018American Football , Connected and Automated Mobility , Domestic Violence and Abuse , Electric Vehicles , Esports , Golf , Greenland , Infant Feeding and Inequalities , Light Rail , Perpetrators of Domestic Abuse , Snooker , State Pension Inequality for Women , Tennis , Terminal Illness
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
Secretariat:
Gingerbread acts as the group's secretariat. https://www.gingerbread.org.uk/
Benefits in Kind
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Gingerbread
Secretariat From : 06/02/2021 To : 05/02/2022
£1,501
3 Jul 2019
River Island
Event
£1,501
No direct financial benefits are on record for the Single Parent Families APPG
Former APPG Officers
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Caroline Nokes
Vice Chair
Conservative - Romsey and Southampton North
Joined: 24th February 2020Departed: 21st April 2021
Jamie Stone
Officer
Liberal Democrat - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
Joined: 24th February 2020Departed: 21st April 2021
Adult Social Care , Aerospace , Armed Forces , Bahrain , Cleaning and Hygiene , Gaps in Support , Media , Nuclear Energy , Queen’s Platinum Jubilee 2022 , Space
Andrew Bowie
Officer
Conservative - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
Joined: 24th February 2020Departed: 21st April 2021
Armed Forces Covenant , BBC , Brazil , Foreign Affairs , Geographically Protected Foods , Hong Kong , Marine Energy , Montserrat , One Punch Assaults , Pitcairn Islands , Reserves and Cadets , Running , Sustainable Aviation , Sweden , Technology and National Security , Timber Industries , Veterans
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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