Pharmacy All-Party Parliamentary Group
The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Pharmacy aims to 'raise awareness of the profession of pharmacy and to promote pharmacists’ current and potential contribution to the health of the nation.'[1]
In 2006 it was criticised by the Times for not adequately disclosing support from lobbying or PR firms, which 'list only the name of a lobbyist or public affairs consultant, and do not specify an ultimate client. This would appear to be a clear breach of parliamentary 1985 rules that state: “Where a public relations agency provides the assistance, the ultimate client should be named”.[2]
The September 2010 UK House of Commons register of All-Party Groups discloses that Luther Pendragon act as the group’s secretariat on behalf of the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee, the National Pharmacy Association, the Company Chemists’ Association and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. [3]
People
- Dr Howard Stoate MP (Labour, Dartford)
- Baroness Julia Cumberlege (Conservative)
- Sandra Gidley MP (Lib Dem, Romsey)
- Mark Todd MP (Labour, Derbyshire South)[4]
The chair for the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Pharmacy is Howard Stoate.[5] He was a speaker (in his role with the APPG on Pharmacy) at UniChem's annual Conference in Brazil, with transport and accomodation provided by UniChem.[6]
Notes
- ↑ House of Commons, Register of All-Party Groups, 30 September 2010.
- ↑ House of Commons Committee on Standards and Privileges, Written evidence received by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards 1. Letter to the Commissioner from Mr Robert Thomson, 20 January 2006 Lobbying and All Party Groups Ninth Report of Session 2005–06
- ↑ House of Commons, Register of All-Party Groups, 30 September 2010.
- ↑ All-Party Parliamentary Group on Pharmacy Officers, Accessed November 25 2008
- ↑ UK Parliament Accessed 30th November 2007
- ↑ House of Commons Register of Interests Accessed 30th November 2007
