Vulnerable Groups to Pandemics APPG

First Registered: 24/09/2020 • Last updated on: 20/11/2024

To provide a forum for parliamentarians and stakeholders to consider the needs of vulnerable groups to pandemics and to provide an effective voice in parliament; to raise awareness of specific vulnerable patients; to encourage actions to promote a greater priority for prevention, treatment and support for those groups; to inform better policy decisions and public debate related to the needs of vulnerable groups.

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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Current Members - Contact Details - Benefits in Kind - Financial Benefits - Former Members

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APPG Supplied Content

APPGs can register with Parallel Parliament and submit files and articles to be placed here.

Parallel Parliament offers the facility for APPGs to submit written content and files, which are made available through this page.

Submitters can draft and edit publications, and either release them on demand, or schedule release for a future date.

Both text content and attached files submitted through this facility is indexed by our website, and made available through both the search function and relevant e-mail alerts. Any of our users registered for an alert which matches your content, will receive a link making them aware of its publication.

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4 Current APPG Officers

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Johanna Baxter

Chair & Registered Contact

Labour - Paisley and Renfrewshire South

Joined: 9th October 2024

No other APPG Memberships

Lord Mendelsohn

Co-Chair

Labour - Life peer

Joined: 24th September 2020

1 APPG Membership
War Crimes

Lord Lansley

Officer

Conservative - Life peer

Joined: 24th September 2020

1 APPG Membership
Vascular and Venous Disease

Andrew Murrison

Officer

Conservative - South West Wiltshire

Joined: 9th October 2024

1 APPG Membership
Morocco

Contact Details

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Registered Contact:

Johanna Baxter MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 020 7219 8493.

Email: johanna.baxter.mp@parliament.uk

Public Enquiry Point:

Tracey Allen, Office of Lord Mendelsohn

Email: allentj@parliament.uk

Benefits in Kind

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Date
4 Sep 2020

Source
RPP Group UK ltd

Description
Secretariat From : 04/09/2020 To : 03/09/2021

Value
£57,001

No direct financial benefits are on record for the Vulnerable Groups to Pandemics APPG

Former APPG Officers

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Bob Blackman

Chair & Registered Contact

Conservative - Harrow East

Joined: 24th September 2020
Departed: 30th May 2024

6 APPG Memberships
British Hindus , Fire Safety and Rescue , Homelessness , Investment Fraud and Fairer Financial Services , Israel , Smoking and Health

Daisy Cooper

Officer

Liberal Democrat - St Albans

Joined: 30th November 2022
Departed: 30th May 2024

No other APPG Memberships

Jim Shannon

Vice Chair

Democratic Unionist Party - Strangford

Joined: 24th September 2020
Departed: 1st November 2023

5 APPG Memberships
Healthy Homes and Buildings , International Freedom of Religion or Belief , Respiratory Health , UK Food Security , Vascular and Venous Disease