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About us

The APPG group's broad remit is to consider the issues of concern to the food and drink manufacturing industry and to raise awareness of these matters in Parliament.

In doing this we hope to achieve the following:

• Provide a forum for debate and dialogue about issues related to food and drink manufacturing

• Ensure Parliamentarians remain informed about the issues impacting the industry

• Broadly promote the UK food and drink manufacturing sector's interests in Parliament

More specifically we will:

• Counter incorrect and misleading information and statements in Parliament about the food and drink manufacturing industry

• Act as a critical friend to the UK food and drink manufacturing industry by facilitating an important dialogue between Parliamentarians and industry representatives and raising issues that APPG members believe that industry should look to address;

• Provide a point of reference for any Parliamentarian looking to understand aspects food and drink manufacturing

• Develop productive working relationships with other relevant All-Party Parliamentary Groups where there is a common interest in issue impacting the UK food chain

• Broadly encourage the government to take a proportionate, evidence and consistent approach to policy and regulation impacting the industry

Members list

The group is on the Approved list of All-Party Parliamentary Groups and a copy of the register entry can be found on the Parliament website.

Our current members are listed on this page. We encourage all Parliamentarians with an interest in food policy issues to join the group – and look forward to seeing our membership steadily grow in the coming months.

• Mr Graham Brady MP
• Mr Andrew Bridgen MP
• Mr Gordon Birtwistle MP
• Mr Nicholas Brown MP
• Mr Russell Brown (Vice Chair)
• Mr Conor Burns MP
• Mr Oliver Colvile MP
• Dr Therese Coffey MP
• Mr Philip Davies MP
• Caroline Dinenage MP
• Mr Jack Dromey MP
• The Lord Dykes (Treasurer)
• Mr Tim Farron MP
• Mr Mark Field MP
• Baroness Gardner of Parkes
• Baroness Gibson of Market Rasen
• Ms Mary Glindon MP
• Mr Tom Greatrex MP
• Andrew Griffiths MP
• The Lord Haskins
• Mr Chris Heaton-Harris MP
• Ms Sharon Hodgson MP
• Mr Kelvin Hopkins MP
• Baroness Jenkin of Kennington
• Ms Fiona Mactaggart MP
• Mr Gregg McClymont MP
• Mr John Mann MP
• Baroness Masham of Ilton
• Mr Nigel Mills MP
• His Grace the Duke of Montrose
• Jonathan Reynolds MP
• Mrs Linda Riordan MP
• Mr Neil Parish MP
• Mr Dan Rogerson MP
• Sir Robert Smith Bt MP
• Mr Mark Spencer MP (Secretary)
• Mr John Stevenson MP (Chair)
• Mr Robert Syms MP
• Mr John Thurso MP
• Lord Wasserman
• Ms Heather Wheeler MP
• Mr John Whittingdale OBE MP
• Mr Roger Williams MP