Sophie Lane, Office of Alex Ballinger MP

APPGs operated

1

lobby groups inside Westminster

MP officers

4

across all groups run

Registered funders

9

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 for the Armed ForcesSubject Group
To promote better understanding of His Majesty's Armed Forces in Parliament.
Officered by: Alex Ballinger (Chair & Registered Contact), Mr Paul Foster (Co-Chair), Ben Obese-Jecty (Vice Chair), Amanda Martin (Vice Chair)
Paid by: James Gray, as Chair of the Armed Forces APPG in the previous Parliament, MBDA UK Ltd, BAE Systems PLC, Leonardo, Saab UK, Saab UK +3 more