About Us

The goal of our work is:

‘To increase understanding of poverty and inequality among parliamentarians and to seek all party solutions, while drawing on a range of outside people and knowledge’.

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Officers of the APPG on Poverty and Inequality as of November 2024

  • Siân Berry MP – Chair and Registered Contact
  • Baroness Lister – Co-Chair
  • Baroness Stroud – Officer
  • Mark Ferguson MP – Officer

Members of the APPG on Poverty and Inequality as of November 2024

  • Afzal Khan MP
  • Andrew Lewin MP
  • Baroness Bennett
  • Baroness Healy
  • Baroness Primarolo
  • Beccy Cooper MP
  • Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP
  • Bobby Dean MP
  • Brian Leishman MP
  • Caroline Voaden MP
  • Chris Vince MP
  • Clive Lewis MP
  • David Taylor MP
  • Debbie Abrahams MP
  • Emma Foody MP
  • Gordon McKee MP
  • Graeme Downie MP
  • Gurinder Singh Josan MP
  • Helen Maguire MP
  • Ian Byrne MP
  • Imogen Walker MP
  • Imran Hussain MP
  • Jake Richards MP
  • Jim Dickson MP
  • Jo Platt MP
  • John McDonnell MP
  • Josh Fenton-Glynn MP
  • Kirsty Blackman MP
  • Laurence Turner MP
  • Lee Barron MP
  • Lewis Atkinson MP
  • Lord Davies of Brixton
  • Marsha De Cordova MP
  • Matthew Patrick MP
  • Melanie Ward MP
  • Nadia Whittome MP
  • Neil Duncan-Jordan MP
  • Patrick Hurley MP
  • Polly Billington MP
  • Rachael Maskell MP
  • Rebecca Long Bailey MP
  • Richard Baker MP
  • Sean Woodcock MP
  • Shockat Adam MP
  • Vikki Slade MP
  • Yasmin Qureshi MP
  • Zöe Franklin MP

2024 APPG on Poverty meetings

2023 APPG on Poverty meetings

2022 APPG on Poverty meetings

2021 APPG on Poverty meetings

2020 APPG on Poverty meetings

2019 APPG on Poverty meetings

2018 APPG on Poverty meetings

2017 APPG on Poverty meetings

2016 APPG on Poverty meetings

Previous Reports and Publications

In previous years the APPG focused on:

  1. Children’s voices – a Children’s Manifesto addressing what to do about poverty
  2. Civil society – the role civil society can play in the reduction of poverty
  3. Business & Poverty – the responsibility of business to reduce poverty and what it can do in practice