Swimming APPG

First Registered: 28/09/2017 • Last updated on: 02/01/2025

To promote swimming and other aquatic disciplines and to highlight the importance of swimming and water safety in schools.

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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4 Current APPG Officers
Jonathan Brash Portrait
Jonathan Brash
Chair & Registered Contact
Labour - Hartlepool
Joined: 2nd January 2025
Lord Bethell Portrait
Lord Bethell
Vice Chair
Conservative - Excepted Hereditary
Joined: 15th June 2022
Lord Cryer Portrait
Lord Cryer
Vice Chair
Labour - Life peer
Joined: 2nd January 2025
No other APPG Memberships
Vikki Slade Portrait
Vikki Slade
Vice Chair
Liberal Democrat - Mid Dorset and North Poole
Joined: 2nd January 2025
Contact Details

Registered Contact:

Mr Jonathan Brash MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA.

Email: jonathan.brash.mp@parliament.uk

Public Enquiry Point:

Philip Brownlie, Swim England

Email: philip.brownlie@swimming.org

Secretariat:

Swim England acts as the group's secretariat. http://www.swimming.org/

Date
28 Jan 2024
Source
Swim England
Description
Secretariat   From : 28/01/2024 To : 27/01/2025
Value
£3,001
Date
28 Jan 2023
Source
Swim England
Description
Secretariat   From : 28/01/2023 To : 27/01/2024
Value
£3,001
Date
28 Jan 2022
Source
Swim England
Description
Secretariat   From : 28/01/2022 To : 27/01/2023
Value
£3,001
Date
28 Jan 2021
Source
Swim England
Description
Secretariat   From : 28/01/2021 To : 27/01/2022
Value
£3,001
Date
28 Jan 2020
Source
Swim England
Description
Secretariat   From : 28/01/2020 To : 27/01/2021
Value
£3,001
Date
6 Sep 2018
Source
Swim England
Description
Secretariat   From : 06/09/2018 To : 05/09/2019
Value
£3,001
Date
6 Sep 2017
Source
Swim England
Description
Secretariat   From : 06/09/2017 To : 05/09/2018
Value
£3,001

No direct financial benefits are on record for the Swimming APPG

Former APPG Officers
Catherine West Portrait
Catherine West
Chair & Registered Contact
Labour - Hornsey and Friern Barnet
Joined: 28th September 2017
Departed: 30th May 2024
No other APPG Memberships
Lord Cryer Portrait
Lord Cryer
Vice Chair
Labour - Life peer
Joined: 28th September 2017
Departed: 30th May 2024
No other APPG Memberships
Jane Hunt Portrait
Jane Hunt
Vice Chair
Conservative - Former Member for Loughborough
Joined: 24th February 2020
Departed: 30th May 2024
No other APPG Memberships
Lord Storey Portrait
Lord Storey
Vice Chair
Liberal Democrat - Life peer
Joined: 17th May 2023
Departed: 6th March 2024
1 APPG Membership
Education
Wera Hobhouse Portrait
Wera Hobhouse
Vice Chair
Liberal Democrat - Bath
Joined: 2nd June 2021
Departed: 6th March 2024
Sheryll Murray Portrait
Sheryll Murray
Vice Chair
Conservative - Former Member for South East Cornwall
Joined: 24th February 2020
Departed: 5th April 2023
No other APPG Memberships
Alison Thewliss Portrait
Alison Thewliss
Vice Chair
Scottish National Party - Former Member for Glasgow Central
Joined: 24th February 2020
Departed: 21st April 2021
No other APPG Memberships
Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi Portrait
Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
Vice Chair
Labour - Slough
Joined: 24th February 2020
Departed: 21st April 2021
None Portrait
Nicky Morgan
Co-Chair
Joined: 28th September 2017
Departed: 5th November 2019
2 APPG Memberships
British Buses , Self-Driving Vehicles
Owen Smith Portrait
Owen Smith
Vice-Chair
Labour - Former Member for Pontypridd
Joined: 28th September 2017
Departed: 5th November 2019
No other APPG Memberships
Lord Collins of Highbury Portrait
Lord Collins of Highbury
Vice-Chair
Labour - Life peer
Joined: 28th September 2017
Departed: 5th November 2019
No other APPG Memberships
Neil Parish Portrait
Neil Parish
Vice Chair
Conservative - Former Member for Tiverton and Honiton
Joined: 13th February 2019
Departed: 5th November 2019
No other APPG Memberships
Hannah Bardell Portrait
Hannah Bardell
Secretary
Scottish National Party - Former Member for Livingston
Joined: 13th February 2019
Departed: 5th November 2019
No other APPG Memberships
Lord Holmes of Richmond Portrait
Lord Holmes of Richmond
Vice-Chair
Conservative - Life peer
Joined: 8th November 2017
Departed: 2nd January 2019
No other APPG Memberships
Maria Caulfield Portrait
Maria Caulfield
Secretary
Conservative - Former Member for Lewes
Joined: 28th September 2017
Departed: 2nd January 2019
No other APPG Memberships