West Midlands APPG

First Registered: 30/07/2015 • Last updated on: 12/02/2025

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The APPG aims to promote the West Midlands as an economic and academic powerhouse, focusing on life sciences, renewable energy, creative industries, and advanced manufacturing. It will raise awareness of the region's importance in the UK economy, ensuring equal representation for all areas, including those inside and outside the Combined Authority.

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
Shaun Davies Portrait
Shaun Davies
Chair & Registered Contact
Labour - Telford
Joined: 12th February 2025
1 APPG Membership
Events
Andrew Mitchell Portrait
Andrew Mitchell
Vice Chair
Conservative - Sutton Coldfield
Joined: 12th February 2025
No other APPG Memberships
Leigh Ingham Portrait
Leigh Ingham
Officer
Labour - Stafford
Joined: 12th February 2025
2 APPG Memberships
Global Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights , Women and Enterprise
Laurence Turner Portrait
Laurence Turner
Officer
Labour - Birmingham Northfield
Joined: 12th February 2025
2 APPG Memberships
Archives and History , City Regions Transport
Contact Details

Registered Contact:

Shaun Davies MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 01952 973 714.

Email: shaun.davies.mp@parliament.uk

Public Enquiry Point:

Jana Abdal-Rahman, CalComms. Tel: 07884 427571

Email: jana@calcomms.co.uk

Secretariat:

CalComms acts as the group's secretariat. https://www.calcomms.co.uk/

Benefits in Kind
Date
18 Dec 2024
Source
CalComms
Description
Secretariat   From : 18/12/2024 To : 17/12/2025
Value
£39,001
Date
4 Feb 2021
Source
Connect
Description
Connect is paid by the following to act as the group's secretariat: Barratt Developments, WMG (Warwick University), Midland Heart.   From : 04/02/2021 To : 03/02/2022
Value
£16,501
Date
4 Feb 2021
Source
Connect
Description
Connect is paid by the following to act as the group's secretariat: Barratt Developments, WMG (Warwick University), Midland Heart.   From : 04/02/2021 To : 03/02/2022
Value
£16,501
Date
4 Feb 2020
Source
Connect
Description
Connect is paid by the following to act as the group's secretariat: City Redi (The University of Birmingham), Barratt Developments, WMG (Warwick University), Midland Heart..   From : 04/02/2020 To : 03/02/2021
Value
£19,501
Date
18 Jul 2018
Source
Connect
Description
Connect is paid by the following to act as the group's secretariat: City Redi (The University of Birmingham), Barratt Developments, WMG (Warwick University).   From : 18/07/2018 To : 17/07/2019
Value
£19,501
Date
18 Jul 2017
Source
Connect
Description
Secretariat   From : 18/07/2017 To : 17/07/2018
Value
£13,501
Date
18 Jul 2017
Source
Connect
Description
Connect is paid by the following to act as the group's secretariat: City Redi (The University of Birmingham), Barratt Developments, WMG (Warwick University).   From : 18/07/2017 To : 17/07/2018
Value
£13,501
Date
7 Dec 2016
Source
Connect Communications
Description
Secretariat   From : 07/12/2016 To : 06/12/2017
Value
£15,001

No direct financial benefits are on record for the West Midlands APPG

Former APPG Officers
Lord Austin of Dudley Portrait
Lord Austin of Dudley
Officer
Non-affiliated - Life peer
Joined: 2nd June 2021
Departed: 17th May 2023
2 APPG Memberships
Israel , Magnitsky Sanctions and Reparation
Khalid Mahmood Portrait
Khalid Mahmood
Vice Chair
Labour - Former Member for Birmingham, Perry Barr
Joined: 2nd June 2021
Departed: 17th May 2023
No other APPG Memberships
Taiwo Owatemi Portrait
Taiwo Owatemi
Vice Chair
Labour - Coventry North West
Joined: 24th February 2020
Departed: 17th May 2023
No other APPG Memberships
Preet Kaur Gill Portrait
Preet Kaur Gill
Co-Chair
Labour (Co-op) - Birmingham Edgbaston
Joined: 28th September 2017
Departed: 17th May 2023
No other APPG Memberships
Jonathan Gullis Portrait
Jonathan Gullis
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - Former Member for Stoke-on-Trent North
Joined: 24th February 2020
Departed: 17th May 2023
No other APPG Memberships
Mike Wood Portrait
Mike Wood
Vice Chair
Conservative - Kingswinford and South Staffordshire
Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 19th October 2022
4 APPG Memberships
Bus and Coach , Cyprus , Ethnicity Transplantation and Transfusion , Global Education
None Portrait
Jack Dromey
Secretary
 Joined: 6th January 2017
Departed: 29th December 2021
No other APPG Memberships
Theo Clarke Portrait
Theo Clarke
Vice Chair
Conservative - Former Member for Stafford
Joined: 24th February 2020
Departed: 21st April 2021
No other APPG Memberships
Eddie Hughes Portrait
Eddie Hughes
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - Former Member for Walsall North
Joined: 21st November 2018
Departed: 24th February 2020
No other APPG Memberships
Mark Pawsey Portrait
Mark Pawsey
Treasurer
Conservative - Former Member for Rugby
Joined: 6th January 2017
Departed: 5th November 2019
No other APPG Memberships
Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent Portrait
Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent
Vice-Chair
Labour - Life peer
Joined: 6th January 2017
Departed: 5th November 2019
No other APPG Memberships
Lord McCabe Portrait
Lord McCabe
Vice-Chair
Labour - Life peer
Joined: 21st November 2018
Departed: 5th November 2019
No other APPG Memberships
Jeremy Lefroy Portrait
Jeremy Lefroy
Co-Chair
Conservative - Former Member for Stafford
Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 5th November 2019
No other APPG Memberships
Lord Austin of Dudley Portrait
Lord Austin of Dudley
Chair & Registered Contact
Non-affiliated - Life peer
Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 5th November 2019
2 APPG Memberships
Israel , Magnitsky Sanctions and Reparation
Mark Garnier Portrait
Mark Garnier
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - Wyre Forest
Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 12th October 2016
4 APPG Memberships
Japan , Space , Thailand , Vietnam
Julian Knight Portrait
Julian Knight
Executive Officer
Independent - Former Member for Solihull
Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 12th October 2016
No other APPG Memberships
Richard Burden Portrait
Richard Burden
Joint Secretary
Labour - Former Member for Birmingham, Northfield
Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 12th October 2016
No other APPG Memberships