All-Party Parliamentary China Group
The purpose of the All-Party Parliamentary China Group is:
- To ensure parliamentarians are kept well informed on China, and to act as a platform for discussions on all issues of importance to the UK-China relationship.
Contents
People
Officers (updated from June 2016 annnual general meeting of the APPCG)
Chair
Treasurer
Secretary
Hong Kong sub committee chair
Deputy Chairs
- Lord Timothy Clement-Jones - Liberal Democrats
- Geoffrey Clifton-Brown - Conservative Party
- David Hanson - Labour
- Alex Salmond - Scottish National Party
- Lord David Steel - Liberal Democrats
Vice chairs
- Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh - Scottish National Party
- David Simpson - Democratic Unionist Party
- Craig Williams - Conservative Party
- Nigel Evans - Conservative Party
- Roger Godsiff - Labour
- Stephen Hammond - Conservative Party
- Mark Hendrick - Labour Co-op
- Robert Jenrick - Conservative Party
- Jeremy Lefroy - Conservative Party
- Chris Leslie - Labour Co-op
- Angus MacNeil - Scottish National Party
- Alan Mak - Conservative Party
- Jason McCartney - Conservative Party
- Madeleine Moon - Labour
- Will Quince - Conservative Party
- Geoffrey Robinson - Labour
- Julian Sturdy - Conservative Party
- Michelle Thomson - Independent
- Yvonne Fovargue - Labour
- Catherine West - Labour
Former Officers
- Mark Hendrick - Chair
- Nigel Dodds - Vice-Chair
- Madeleine Moon - Vice-Chair
- David T. C. Davies - Vice-Chair
- Lord Clement-Jones - Vice-Chair
- Emma Reynolds - Treasurer
- Lord Cotter - Secretary
- Lord Nat Wei - Vice-Chair
- Lord Brian Cotter - Vice-Chair
- Iain Stewart - Vice-Chair
- Robin Walker - Vice-Chair
- Heather Wheeler - Vice-Chair
- Mark Garnier - Vice-Chair
Members
The APPCG is one of the largest All Party Parliamentary Groups by membership. Full list of members can be found here: File:APPCG members list.docx (accessed from APPCG website in November 2016). [3]
Funding
Benefits received
- From 19-26 February 2011 some members of the group visited Hong Kong. All costs were met by the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (registered March 2011).
- £10,000 from GKN plc, and £5000 from City of London (registered April 2011). £5000 from London Export Corporation Ltd and £10,000 from John Swire & Sons (registered May 2011). £10,000 from GlaxoSmithKline (registered July 2011). £10,000 from Astra Zeneca (registered July 2011).
- The group’s chairman visited China from 29 July to 26 August 2011, assisted by the following: London South Bank University covered the cost of return flights from London to Beijing; Huawei covered the cost of two football tickets and hospitality for the Italian Super Cup final at the Beijing Birds Nest Stadium on 6 August 2011; Confucius Institutes Headquarters (Hanban) covered costs for accommodation, Chinese language training including a Chinese language course, and general expenses from 29 July to 26 August 2011. £5000 from Arup. £5000 from University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate (Registered September 2011). £10,000 from HSBC (registered October 2011). £5000 from University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate (Registered November 2011). Free upgrades on flights were provided (at a cost of approximately £13,040) by Virgin Atlantic when members of the group visited China from 16-23 December 2011 (registered January 2012). [4] [2]
Financial benefits
These organisations paid the APPG:
- City of London - £5,000 (27/03/2015), £5,000 (08/04/2016)
- Visit Britain - £4,500 (20/03/2015)
- Arup - £5,000 (11/06/2015)
- John Swire and Sons - £10,000 (02/06/2015)
- China Britain Business Council - £4,500 (08/07/2015), £4,500 (25/02/2016) [5]
Benefits in kind
- The Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office registered in June 2015 that it had paid (in bands of £1,500) £10,501-£12,000 for a visit to Hong Kong for the group on March 22 2015.
- The Institute of Director's City Branch paid (in bands of £1,500) £4,501-£6,000 for the group's annual dinner. (July 2015)
- HSBC paid (in bands of £1,500) £1,501-£3,000 for a UK-China Business Lunch. (August 2015)
- The Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office paid (in bands of £1,500) £103,501-£105,000 for a visit to Hong Kong from 25-29 January 2016. [5]
Events
2016
- June 29: Annual general meeting & briefing from UK ambassador to China.
- May 4: APPCG meeting on 'the UK-China strategic partnership: mapping out Britain’s relationship with China'. Speakers include Prof. Kerry Brown (director, Lau China Institute at King’s College, London), Jeanne-Marie Gescher OBE (former Legal Advisor to successive British Ambassadors in Bejiing), Prof. Danny Quah (director, Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre at LSE).
Contact
APPG China Group Coordinator, Office of Richard Graham MP
Address: London SW1P 0AA
Tel: 02072197077
Email:appcg.enquiries@gmail.com
Website: http://appcg.org.uk
Resources
Notes
- ↑ APPCG | Officers, APPCG.org.uk, accessed 11 November 2016.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 China APPG, Register 28 April 2016, parliament.uk, accessed 11 November 2016
- ↑ APPCG | Members, APPCG.org.uk, accessed 11 November 2016.
- ↑ Register of all-Party parliamentary groups (as at 28 April 2016), Parliament.uk, accessed 11 November 2016.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 China APPG, parliament.uk, accessed 22 April 2016