All-Party Parliamentary Group on Alcohol Harm

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The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Alcohol Harm was established 'to promote discussion of alcohol related issues and to raise issues of concern and make recommendations to government and other policy makers'. [1]

The APPGAH is made up of cross-party MPs and peers sitting in the House of Lords with an interest in seeing alcohol-related harm reduced in the UK.

The group has recently launched their 2015 manifesto, which called upon political parties to commit to a range of pledges designed to tackle alcohol related harm leading up to the May UK general election. [2]

Activities

  • To actively reduce alcohol related harm in the UK
  • To promote the discussion of alcohol-related issues, raise matters of concern and to make recommendations to government and inform policy

Areas and issues

  • Advertising and young people
  • Drink driving
  • Alcohol and the armed forces
  • Licensing and treatment services [3]

Secretariat

Alcohol Concern (a charity) acts as the group secretariat with the assistance of a grant paid by Lundbeck Ltd for this work. [4]

They are a small independent charity concerned with reducing harm from alcohol-related issues, working throughout England and Wales to inform the public of the dangers of alcohol abuse and to bring about varied and effective treatment services. [5]

Benefits in kind

As shown in the register of All-Party Groups at September 2015:

(In bands of £1,500) Lundbeck Ltd paid Alcohol Concern a grant of between £15,001 - £16,500 in January 2015. [6]

Members

Officers as at September 2015

Officers as at March 2015

Members as at March 2015

Sir David Amess - Conservative Party | Dr Sarah Wollaston MP - Conservative Party | Graham EvansMP - Conservative Party | David BurrowesMP - Conservative Party | Andrew Griffiths MP - Conservative Party | Lord Nigel Jones of Cheltenham - Conservative Party | Baroness Helen Newlove - Conservative Party | Tracey Crouch MP - Conservative Party | Lord Parry Mitchell - Labour - Diane Abbott MP - Labour | Diana Johnson MP - Labour | Valerie Vaz MP - Labour | Kelvin Hopkins MP - Labour | Baroness Susan Cunliffe-Lister Masham of Ilton - Crossbencher | Hywel Williams MP - Plaid Cymru [9]

Notes

  1. All-Party Group on Alcohol HarmParliament website, accessed 6 October 2015
  2. Alcohol Concern BioAlcohol Concern, accessed 6 October 2015
  3. Alcohol Concern BioAlcohol Concern, accessed 6 October 2015
  4. Register as of 30 March 2015Parliament Website, accessed 6 October 2015
  5. Alcohol Concern What we do, alcoholconcern.org, accessed 6 October 2015
  6. Register as of 29 September 2015Parliament website, 6 October 2015
  7. All-Party Group on Alcohol HarmParliament website, accessed 6 October 2015
  8. Register as of 30 March 2015Parliament Website, accessed 6 October 2015
  9. [Register as of 30 March 2015Parliament Website, accessed 6 October 2015