Register Of All-Party Parliamentary Groups [as at 6 January 2017] Modern Languages

Title

All-Party Parliamentary Group on Modern Languages

Purpose

To explore the educational, skills-related, employment, competitive and cultural benefits of learning and using languages throughout the UK; to provide a parliamentary forum for information exchange and consultation; to encourage and support policies and action improving the take-up of languages in schools, further and higher education, in the workplace and in the community.

Category

Subject Group

 

Officers

Role

Name

Party

Chair & Registered Contact

Nia Griffith

Labour

Co-Chair

Baroness Coussins

Crossbench

Vice Chair

Sir David Amess

Conservative

Vice Chair

Baroness Garden of Frognal

Liberal Democrat

 

Contact Details

Registered Contact:

Nia Griffith MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 020 7219 4903. Email: nia.griffith.mp@parliament.uk.

 

Public Enquiry Point:

Philip Harding- Esch, c/o Vicky Gough, British Council, 10, Spring Gardens, London SW1A 2BN. Tel: 07834 174 733. Email: appgmfl@gmail.com

 

Secretariat:

British Council acts as the group's secretariat. http://www.britishcouncil.org/

 

Group's Website:

http://www.britishcouncil.org/education/schools/support-for-languages/thought-leadership/appg

 

 

Annual General Meeting

Date of most recent AGM in this Parliament

24/10/2016

Did the group publish an income and expenditure statement relating to the AGM above?

Yes

Reporting year

01 Jul to 30 Jun

Next reporting deadline

01/11/2017

 

Registrable benefits received by the group

 

Benefits In Kind

Source

Description

Value £s

In bands of £1,500

Received

Registered

British Council

Secretariat

 

From : 01/07/2016

To : 30/06/2017

 

10,501-12,000

01/07/2016

24/10/2016