All-Party Parliamentary Carbon Monoxide Group

All-Party Parliamentary Carbon Monoxide Group information

The All-Party Parliamentary Carbon Monoxide Group (APPCOG) is the leading forum for parliamentarians to discover, discuss and promote ways of tackling carbon monoxide poisoning in the UK.
Through a busy programme of events and research, the Group seeks to push the vital issue of carbon monoxide safety up the political agenda, to improve government policy, to support research and to raise public awareness of the threat posed by carbon monoxide.
The APPCOG draws on a wide range of stakeholders; working closely with leading figures in academia, the scientific and medical community, the civil service, Ofgem, industrial public bodies, gas distribution networks and those with direct experience, such as carbon monoxide survivors, campaigners and charities. Policy Connect provides the secretariat for the APPCOG, which was formed in 2012. We are committed to ensuring our actions and funding are entirely transparent.

People

All People

Role	Title	Political party
Chair	Paul Davies MP	Labour
Officer	Baroness Finlay of Llandaff	Crossbench
Officer	Lord Shinkwin	Conservative
Officer	Naushabah Khan MP	Labour
Member	Sadik Al-Hassan MP	Labour
Member	Kevin McKenna MP	Labour
Member	Dr. Simon Opher MP	Labour
Member	Harpreet Uppal MP	Labour
Member	Aphra Brandreth MP	Conservative
Member	Wera Hobhouse, MP	Liberal Democrat
Member	Jim Shannon MP	Democratic Unionist Party
Member	Ian Byrne, MP	Labour
Member	Lord Best	Crossbench
Member	Liz Twist MP	Labour
Member	Baroness Margaret Ritchie	Non-affiliated
Member	Baroness Pinnock	Liberal Democrat
Member	Lord Goddard	Liberal Democrat
Member	The Rt. Hon Lord Whitty	Labour
Member	Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle	Green
Member	Baron Marlesford	Conservative
Member	Lord Truscott	Non-affiliated
Member	Andrew Rosindell MP	Conservative
Member	Julia Buckley MP	Labour
Member	Desmond Swayne MP	Conservative

Contacts

Registered contact

Paul Davies MP

paul.davies.mp@parliament.uk

Public Enquiry Point

Lavanya Rangarajan

lavanya.rangarajan@policyconnect.org.uk

About APPCOG

The All-Party Parliamentary Carbon Monoxide Group (APPCOG) is the leading forum for Parliamentarians to discover, discuss and promote ways of tackling carbon monoxide poisoning in the UK.

This is not an official feed of the House of Commons or the House of Lords. It has not been approved by either House or its committees. All-Party Parliamentary Groups, forums and commissions are informal groups of Members of both Houses with a common interest in particular issues. The views expressed in the webpages are those of the groups.

Prevention	Detection	Treatment & Response	Intelligence & Data
Awareness – public, community and medical			Prevalence
Servicing Appliances	Alarms	Response Protocols
Healthy Homes	Low Level symptoms	Treatment outcomes
Ventilation	Patient Pathways and integrated services
Appliance register	Training & education	Improved NHS Facilities
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Transparency statement

Policy Connect provides the secretariat for the All-Party Parliamentary Carbon Monoxide Group, supporting the group’s activities. We are committed to ensuring our actions and funding are entirely transparent. Policy Connect’s work in supporting the APPCOG is funded through a combination of annual fees for membership of Policy Connect and ad hoc sponsorship of particular events and research, all of which is declared on the official Parliamentary Register of All-Party Groups. We also publish a full list of all of Policy Connect’s funders in bands on our website.

The APPCOG aims to push the vital issue of carbon monoxide safety up the political agenda, to improve government policy, to support research and to raise public awareness of the threat posed by carbon monoxide. The agenda and activities of the APPCOG is set by its Parliamentary Officers, and Policy Connect has full editorial control over the outputs from work produced as a result of this agenda, such as reports. The APPG operates according to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards’ rules on All-Party Parliamentary Groups and its own Code of Governance.

Policy Connect does not represent the business interests of any of our over 100 funders or wider stakeholders. We do contact Ministers on behalf of APPGs, forums and commissions in the form of invitations to speak at events, attend meetings or to submit a research inquiry to assist with government policy development. For this reason, we are on the Register of Consultant Lobbyists, and welcome the transparency this register provides.