All-Party Parliamentary Group on "Honour" Based Abuse
The All-Party Parliamentary Group on 'Honour' Based Abuse (APPGHBA) was established in order:
- 'to debate and scrutinise issues relating to "honour" based abuse. To raise awareness of "honour" based abuse with a view to attempting to expose and eradicate such practices in the UK.'[1]
Members
Officers
- Chair: Virendra Sharma - Labour
- Vice-chair: Gerald Howarth - Conservative Party
- Secretary: Baroness Caroline Cox - Crossbench
- Treasurer: Lord Navnit Dholakia - Liberal Democrats [1]
Members, March 2015
- Conservative Party - Craig Whittaker | Kris Hopkins | Baroness Patience Wheatcroft | Lord Roger Swinfen | Lord Norman Tebbit | Margot James | Heather Wheeler
- Liberal Democrats - Lord Alex Carlile | Lord Navnit Dholakia | [Baroness [Kishwer Falkner]]
- Labour - Jim Fitzpatrick | Virendra Sharma | Lord Meghnad Desai | Lord Alan West | Fiona MacTaggart | Baroness Doreen Massey
- Non-Affiliated - Baroness Haleh Afshar | Baroness Caroline Cox | Baroness Shreela Flather | Baroness Valerie Howarth[2]
Contact
The contact person for the group is Sam Mason, from the office of Baroness Caroline Cox.
Mailing Address:House of Lords, London SW1A 0PW
Tel: 020 7219 8638
Email: masons@parliament.uk
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Honour Based Abuse APPG,www.parliament.uk, accessed 18 November 2015
- ↑ "Honour" Based Abuse APPG,www.parliament.uk, accessed 18 November 2015
