Coastal Communities APPG
Coastal Communities APPG
*Currently disbanded while awaiting EGM to elect new officers*
The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Coastal Communities provides a cross-party forum for raising awareness of the opportunities and challenges facing coastal areas. By bringing together parliamentarians, experts and stakeholders, the APPG helps ensure coastal issues remain high on the political agenda.
*Currently disbanded while awaiting EGM to elect new officers*
"The All-Party Parliamentary Group will act as a voice for our coastal communities, places with a special place in many people’s memories from holidays, but that have been too often forgotten in national policies and priorities.
They face multiple challenges such as weak transport links, economies based on declining industries, a lack of opportunities for young people, poor health and housing, which can be all the more acute because of their geography.
Yet their location at the interface of the land and the sea also means they have enormous potential. The APPG will be looking for innovative solutions that will create places that people can feel proud of and where young people will want to stay to build a future."
Chair, Alison Hume MP, Scarborough & Whitby
Co-Chair, Polly Billington MP, East Thanet"Coastal areas have so much going for them, yet also suffer from a unique set of challenges that have all too often been underappreciated and overlooked by government. I’m delighted to be co-chairing the APPG for Coastal Communities, to be working cross-party to ensure that boosting the prosperity of coastal towns is central to our new government’s mission for a decade of national renewal.”
Patrick Hurley MP
Southport
The Lord Lucas
Tom Hayes MP
Bournemouth East
Lord Bassam
Baron Bassam of Brighton
Martin Vickers MP
Brigg and Immingham
Martin Wrigley MP
Newton Abbot
Melanie Onn MP
Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes
Melanie Ward MP,
Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy
Paul Holmes MP
Hamble Valley
Rupert Lowe MP
Great Yarmouth
Sadik Al-Hassan MP
North Somerset
Stephen Gethins MP
Arbroath and Broughty Ferry
Steve Darling MP
Torbay
Tim Farron MP
Westmorland and Lonsdale
Perran Moon MP
Redruth, Camborne and Hayle
David Burton-Sampson MP
Southend West and Leigh
Darren Paffey MP
Southampton Itchen
Daniel Aldridge MP
Weston-super-Mare
Dame Dinenage MP
Gosport
Charlie Dewhirst MP
Bridlington and The Wolds
Ben Lake MP
Ceredigion Preseli
Dr Beccy Cooper MP
Worthing West
Baya Alaba MP
Southend East and Rochford
Anna Gelderd MP
South East Cornwall
Andrew Snowdon MP
Great Yarmouth
Elaine Stewart MP
Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
Edward Morello MP
West Dorset
Gill German MP
Clwyd North
Helena Dollimore MP
Hastings and Rye
James Wild MP
North West Norfolk
Jenny Riddell-Carpenter MP
Suffolk Coastal
Jess Asato MP
Lowestoft
Josh MacAlister MP
Whitehaven and Workington
Kevin McKenna MP
Sittingbourne and Sheppey
Lloyd Hatton MP
South Dorset
The Secretariat
Three major coastal fora - the Coastal Partnerships Network, the Coastal Communities Alliance and the Local Government Association Coastal Special Interest Group (LGA Coastal SIG) - have been co-secretariat for the Coastal Communities APPG since February 2020.
UK Coastal Communities APPG Inquiry
The Coastal Inquiry aims to delve into issues currently affecting coastal communities around the UK, raising awareness of these challenges and potential solutions for MPs to consider. Through each Coastal Inquiry session, MPs discuss the information provided and determine a series of actions to be undertaken to deliver change for our coastal communities. Actions and the session programmes are reviewed and agreed upon at our Annual General Meetings.
Coastal Inquiry Report
Since 2022, the APPG for Coastal Communities has been delivering an innovative format for an Inquiry, tailored to ensure that Parliamentarians are kept informed of the latest challenges and developments for these unique places. A wide range of topics have been explored, and we thank all those experts and Parliamentarians who have engaged with the APPG. These topics are summarised in the infographic opposite.
A Coastal Inquiry Report (2024) collated all the evidence and discussion undertaken through the Coastal Inquiry to inform and support meaningful change for these unique communities, who are at the heart of our culture as an island nation.