Pharmacy All-Party Parliamentary Group
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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]
As of July 2015 Luther Pendragon was still named as the group's secretariat.
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2015
The Officers of the All-Party Pharmacy Group stand for election each year at the Group's Annual General Meeting. Our current officers are as follows: These officers were elected at the Group's AGM in July 2015.
Chair: The Rt Hon Sir Kevin Barron MP (Labour, Rother Valley)
Vice Chairs:
- Baroness Julia Cumberlege (Conservative)
- Oliver Colvile MP (Conservative, Plymouth Sutton and Devonport)
Treasurer:
- Paula Sherriff (Lab, Dewsbury)
Members as at March 2015
Rebecca Harris - Conservative Party | Penny Mordaunt - Conservative Party | Marcus Jones - Conservative Party | Sir David Amess - Conservative Party | David Tredinnick | Conservative Party | Lord Norman Fowler - Conservative Party | Adrian Sanders - Liberal Democrats | Stephen Lloyd - Liberal Democrats | Lord Timothy Clement-Jones - Liberal Democrats | Annette Brooke - Liberal Democrats | Gisela Stuart - Labour | Fiona Mactaggart - Labour | Frank Dobson - Labour | Grahame Morris - Labour | Lindsa Roy - Labour | Russell Brown - Labour | Mary Glindon - Labour | Ian Austin - Labour | Jim Dowd - Labour | Ian Lucas - Labour [4]
2008
- Dr Howard Stoate MP (Labour, Dartford)
- Baroness Julia Cumberlege (Conservative)
- Sandra Gidley MP (Lib Dem, Romsey)
- Mark Todd MP (Labour, Derbyshire South)[5]
The chair for the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Pharmacy is Howard Stoate.[6] 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.[7]
Benefits received by group outside of parliament
Registered in July 2015 (in bands of £1,500) the group received £25,501-27,000 in benefits from secretariat Luther Pendragon. Luther Pendragon is funded by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, the Company Chemists Association, the National Pharmacy Association and the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee to provide secretariat services and website management to the PAPPG. [8]
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.
- ↑ Register as at 30 March 2015Parliament Website, accessed 7 October 2015
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Register as of 29 September 2015Parliament website, accessed 7 October 2015
