All-Party Parliamentary Group for Assistive and Accessible Technology

All-Party Parliamentary Group for Assistive and Accessible Technology information

The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Assistive Technology aims to disseminate knowledge, generate debate and facilitate engagement on assistive technology amongst Members of both Houses of Parliament. Policy Connect provides the secretariat for the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Assistive Technology, supporting the group’s activities. We are committed to ensuring our actions and funding are entirely transparent.

People

Role	Title	Political party
Chair	Josh Fenton-Glynn MP	Labour
Officer	Lord Shinkwin	Conservative
Officer	Sadik Al-Hassan MP	Labour
Officer	The Lord Low of Dalston	Crossbench
Member	Liam Conlon MP	Labour
Member	Steffan Aquarone MP	Liberal Democrat
Member	Dame Dinenage	Conservative
Member	Baroness Curran	Labour
Member	Lauren Edwards MP	Labour
Member	Steve Darling MP	Liberal Democrat
Member	Darren Paffey MP	Labour
Member	Richard Baker MP	Labour
Member	Daniel Francis MP	Labour
Member	Tristan Osborne MP	Labour
Member	Baroness Grey-Thompson	Crossbench
Member	Marsha de Cordova MP	Labour
Member	Lord Blunkett	Labour
Member	Baroness Brinton	Liberal Democrat
Member	Sharon Hodgson, MP	Labour
Member	Paul Davies MP	Labour

Contacts

Registered contact

Josh Fenton-Glynn MP

josh.fenton-glynn.mp@parliament.uk

Public Enquiry Point

Clive Gilbert

Clive.Gilbert@PolicyConnect.org.uk

About APPGAT

The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Assistive and Accessible Technology aims to disseminate knowledge, generate debate and facilitate engagement on assistive technology amongst Members of both Houses of Parliament.

The APPG will do this through holding events in Parliament, bringing experts together for roundtable discussions and briefings, contributing to government consultations, and promoting the group and its activities amongst parliamentarians.

This is not an official feed of the House of Commons of 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.

Transparency statement

Policy Connect provides the secretariat for the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Assistive and Accessible Technology, supporting the group’s activities. We are committed to ensuring our actions and funding are entirely transparent. Policy Connect’s work in supporting the APPGAT 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 APPGAT aims to disseminate knowledge, generate debate and facilitate engagement on assistive technology amongst Members of both Houses of Parliament. The agenda and activities of the APPGAT 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.