Register Of All-Party Groups [as at 30 March 2015] Speech and Language Difficulties

TITLE

All-Party Parliamentary Group on Speech and Language Difficulties

 

PURPOSE

To raise awareness that communication is a crucial life skill and that the ability to communicate is a basic human right; to increase awareness about communication disability and the impact this has on people’s lives; to highlight the importance of early identification and intervention; and to press for increased provision of speech and language therapy.

 

OFFICERS

 

Title

Name

Party

Chair

Join Vice-Chair

Secretary

Lord Ramsbotham

Kevin Barron

Geraint Davies

CB
Lab

Lab

 

TWENTY QUALIFYING MEMBERS

 

Government Party

Main Opposition Party

Other

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

Bob Blackman – Con

Steve Brine – Con

Annette Brooke – LD

Lord Hunt of Wirral - Con

John Leech – LD

Lord Dholakia – LD

Paul Maynard – Con

Sir Bob Russell – LD

Lord Rodgers of Quarry Bank - LD

Dame Angela Watkinson - Con

Kevin Barron

Madeleine Moon

Nick Smith

Geraint Davies

Derek Twigg

Ed Balls

Rosie Cooper

John McDonnell

 

Lord Ramsbotham

Elfyn Llwyd

CB

PC

 

CONTACT DETAILS FOR CORRESPONDENCE AND GENERAL ENQUIRIES ABOUT THE GROUP

Mr Geraint Davies MP, House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA. Tel: 020 7219 7166

BENEFITS RECEIVED BY GROUP FROM SOURCES OUTSIDE PARLIAMENT

Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (a charity) acts as the group’s secretariat and occasionally funds receptions.

DATE OF GROUP’S LAST REGISTERED ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

15 October 2014

CATEGORY OF GROUP

All-Party Parliamentary Subject Group.

 

 

Prepared 1st April 2015