We would like to recognise the support of 59 thoughtful parliamentarians who have joined the APPG for Aid Match, and who care about delivering more direct aid to those who are battling desperate poverty, while achieving better aid value for taxpayers’ money.
First registered in January 2023, the APPG for Aid Match is one of the fastest growing APPGs. Irrespective of one’s foreign aid ideology or the total size of ODA, this APPG unites its supporters around one fundamental ideal; aid could be targeted better by scaling up matched funding for effective frontline NGOs.
Chair
Emily Darlington MP
Labour
International Development Champion & Science, Innovation and Technology Committee Member
Co-chair
Lord Bruce of Bennachie
Liberal Democrats
International Relations and Defence Committee Member & Former International Development Committee Chair
Co-chair
Chris Law MP
Scottish National Party
Former International Development Committee, Sub-Committee on the Work of the Independent Commission for Aid Impact Member
Vice-chair
Andrew Mitchell MP
Conservative
Former Minister of State Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office & Minister for Development and Africa & Former Secretary of State for International Development
Super-members
Lord Alton of Liverpool
Crossbench
Human Rights Joint Committee Chair & Former International Relations and Defence Committee Member
Lord Browne of Ladyton
Labour
National Security Strategy Joint Committee Member & Former Secretary of State for Defence, AI in Weapon Systems Committee Member
Lord Desai
Non-affiliated
Professor Emeritus of the London School of Economics
Baroness Gohir OBE
Crossbench
Women’s Rights Champion, Procedure and Privileges Committee Member
Lord Londesborough
Crossbench
Entrepreneur with Trade and Investment Expertise on Developing Countries
Lord Northbrook
Conservative
Fortune Forum Charity Trustee
First Chair
Alex Sobel MP
Labour
Human Rights Joint Committee Member & Former Shadow Minister for Nature Recovery and the Domestic Environment
Lord Randall of Uxbridge
Conservative
Human Trafficking Foundation Trustee and Vice-Chair
Lord Shinkwin
Conservative
Disability Campaigner, Former Equality and Human Rights Commissioner
Members
Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top
Labour
Former Integration of Primary and Community Care Committee Member
Lord Bailey of Paddington
Conservative
Built Environment Committee Member, Youth & Community Campaigner
Richard Baker MP
Labour
Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee member
Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle
Green Party
Social Justice Campaigner with Environmental Expertise
Baroness Browning
Conservative
Former Minister of State for Home Office
Dawn Butler MP
Labour
Former Parliamentary Secretary for Young Citizens and Youth Engagement
Lord Collins of Highbury
Labour
Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs & International Development,
Deputy Leader of the House of Lords & Lords Spokesperson for Equalities
Baroness Cox
Crossbench
Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust (HART) – Founder and CEO
Baroness D’Souza
Crossbench
Former Lord Speaker
Lord Faulks
Non-Affiliated
Former Minister of State for Justice
Richard Foord MP
Liberal Democrats
Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for Defence & Foreign Affairs Committee Member
Anna Gelderd MP
Labour
Environmental Audit Committee Member
Preet Kaur Gill MP
Labour
Former Shadow Secretary of State for International Development
Lord Gold
Conservative
Former International Agreements Committee Member
Fabian Hamilton MP
Labour
Former Shadow Minister for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
Lord Hannay of Chiswick
Crossbench
Former Ambassador to United Nations, Global Security and Non-Proliferation Expert
Lord Hastings of Scarisbrick CBE
Crossbench
Former Commissioner for Racial Equality
Lord Herbert CBE
Conservative
Global Tuberculosis & LGBTQ+ Campaigner
Patrick Hurley MP
Labour
Social, Cooperative, and Community Economy Champion
Lord Hussain
Liberal Democrats
Asia Regional & Islamic Affairs Expertise
Lord Kamall of Edmonton
Conservative
Former Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and Department of Health and Social
Satvir Kaur MP
Labour
Parliamentary Private Secretary to Minister for the Cabinet Office & Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Lord Khan of Burnley
Labour
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
Baroness Kidron OBE
Crossbench
Draft Online Safety Bill Joint Committee Member
Laura Kyrke-Smith MP
Labour
International Development Committee Member
Lord Maude of Horsham
Conservative
Former Minister of State for Business, Innovation and Skills for Trade and Investment
Lord McNally
Liberal Democrat
Former Minister of State for Ministry of Justice
David Mundell MP
Conservative
International Development Committee Member
Lord Newby OBE
Liberal Democrat
Liberal Democrat Leader in the House of Lords
Lord Oates
Liberal Democrat
Democrat Former Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson for Energy and Climate Change
Brendan O’Hara MP
Scottish National Party
Former Shadow SNP Spokesperson for International Development, Foreign Affairs Committee Member
Lord Parekh
Labour
Former Commissioner for Racial Equality
Lord Polak CBE
Conservative
Former Adult Social Care Committee Member
Joe Powell MP
Labour
Anti-Corruption and Responsible Tax Champion
Baroness Prashar CBE
Crossbench
Justice and Home Affairs Committee Member
Lord Rennard MBE
Liberal Democrats
Former Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee Member
Lord Sahota
Labour
Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments Member
Baroness Sugg
Conservative
Former Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office and the Department for International Development
David Taylor MP
Labour
International Development Committee Member
Lord Taylor of Goss Moor
Liberal Democrats
Former Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for Environment
Lord Trees
Crossbench
Animal Welfare and Global Health (for humans and animals) Expertise
Lord Tyrie
Non-affiliated
Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards Member & Extraordinary Rendition Campaigner
Lord Watts
Labour
Modern Slavery Act 2015 Committee Social Mobility Policy Committee Member & International Agreements Committee Member
Baroness Wheatcroft
Crossbench
Communications and Digital Committee Member & Former Finance Bill Sub-Committee Member
Sir Gavin Williamson MP
Conservative
Former Secretary of State
Baroness Young of Hornsey
Crossbench
Former Sexual Violence in Conflict Committee Member
The wider the base of parliamentarians, the more we can convincingly argue for more concrete and cost-effective aid, helping to widen the ‘good aid’ camp.
CHOOSE YOUR LEVEL OF SUPPORT varying from ‘low maintenance’ solidarity to engaged leadership. In order to keep APPG meetings to a useful minimum, our strategy is to interact with powerful parliamentary activities outside of somewhat inconvenient meetings. You are the eyes and ears of the Group!
Member No obligatory APPG meeting attendance, this is voluntary. As member you are endorsing the Group’s aim of calling on Government to ‘Scale up aid matching programmes, notably UK Aid Match’. You would be gently notified of upcoming relevant parliamentary activities – joining as per your inclination/convenience.
Super-member Active member and/or member who enlists one more Parliamentarian at any level, this is a high impact action to create a critical mass of support.
Vice-Chair As Vice-Chair you seek to participate in ad hoc meetings to help form the quorate, diary permitting, and thereby guide the Group’s strategy. You would be gently requested to join relevant parliamentary activities and/or initiate various parliamentary actions.
Co-Chair As a development expert, same expectations as Vice-Chair but sharing the chair role to help achieve cross party leadership, as well as providing compliance support by way of liaising with the various parliamentary offices. The Secretariat shall undertake all administration, plan and coordinate parliamentary actions.
Previous Officers and Members
We pay tribute to 9 former parliamentarian backers who are unable to continue their support of the APPG for Aid Match due to them cutting down on their APPG commitments OR because they are no longer being serving parliamentarians, as listed below:-
House of Commons
Dr Lisa Cameron MP, Damian Collins MP, James Daly MP, Martyn Day MP, Tobias Ellwood MP, Jo Gideon MP, Anne McLaughlin MP, Virendra Sharma MP
House of Lords
Lord Crisp