British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

APPGs operated

1

lobby groups inside Westminster

MP officers

2

across all groups run

Registered funders

1

paying entries on the APPG register

A secretariat is the entity that does the operational work of an All-Party Parliamentary Group: drafts agendas, briefs MPs, sends out invitations, books rooms, writes reports. When the secretariat is a lobby firm or PR firm, the APPG is a paid channel for the firm’s clients to access MPs. The MPs officer the group, the firm supplies the staff and the policy line, the firm’s clients (listed under Funders below) pay for the privilege.

APPGs operated · 1

All-Party Parliamentary Group on Antimicrobial ResistanceSubject Group
The APPG exist to raise the profile of antimicrobial resistance, the need to preserve antimicrobials (including antibiotics, antivirals, antifungals, and antiparasitics) through education on their appropriate uses (including non-human uses), the lack of new treatments for infections and to help accelerate efforts to discover, research and develop new treatments.
Officered by: Dr Beccy Cooper (Chair & Registered Contact), Lord Mackinlay of Richborough (Co-Chair), Dr Danny Chambers (Secretary), Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Treasurer)
Paid by: British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (£10,501-12,000)
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