BAPG
Room 6/38,
7 Millbank,
London SW1P 3JA
bapg@parliament.uk
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Organisation

The British-American Parliamentary Group is an all party, bilaterial, Parliamentary organisation. 

The Group acts as an autonomous body within Parliament.   It appoints its own administrative staff to carry out its objectives and the Rules of the Group define the limitations on its powers.

The management of the Group is vested in the Executive Committee.  The Honorary Secretary and the Joint Honorary Treasurers are nominated by the Executive Committee and ratified each year at the Annual General Meeting as additional members of the Executive Committee with full voting rights. They are primarily responsible for the Group’s activities and the Administrator, who is an official of the Committee and not a member, is responsible for the executive work of the Group.  The Chairman of the Group is the Prime Minister. The two Vice-Chairmen of the Executive Committee are normally of Cabinet and Shadow Cabinet rank.

Officers and Members of the Executive Committee, 2010-2011

Joint Presidents

The Speaker of the House of Commons
The Lord Speaker
   
Vice-Presidents

The Rt. Hon. Margaret Beckett, MP
The Rt. Hon. the Baroness Boothroyd, PC, OM
The Rt. Hon. the Lord Carrington, KG, GCMG, CH, MC, DL
The Rt. Hon. Nick Clegg, MP
The Rt. Hon. Iain Duncan Smith, MP
The Rt. Hon. the Lord Falconer of Thoroton, QC
The Rt. Hon. William Hague, MP
The Rt. Hon. the Lord Howard, QC
The Rt. Hon. the Lord Howe of Aberavon, Kt, CH, QC
The Rt. Hon. the Lord Hurd of Westwell, CH, CBE
The Rt. Hon. the Lord Jopling, DL
The Rt. Hon. Charles Kennedy, MP
The Rt. Hon. the Lord Mackay of Clashfern, KT
The Rt. Hon. David Miliband, MP
The Rt. Hon. the Lord Molyneaux of Killead, KBE
The Rt. Hon. the Lord Owen, CH
The Rt. Hon. Jack Straw, MP
The Rt. Hon. the Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM,
   
Chairman The Prime Minister
   
Vice-Chairmen

The Rt. Hon. Dr. Liam Fox, MP
The Rt. Hon. Shaun Woodward, MP
   
Honorary Secretary Brian Donohoe, MP
   
Honorary Treasurers

The Rt. Hon. Greg Knight, MP
The Rt. Hon. John Spellar, MP

 

As a result of the elections held at the Group's Annual General Meeting on Wednesday, 7th July 2010, the following Members were elected to the Executive Committee to serve until the Annual General Meeting in July 2011:

                                   Members of the Executive Committee 2010-2011

House of Commons

Government Parties

Opposition Parties

Christopher Chope, OBE, MP

The Rt. Hon. Hazel Blears, MP

Mark Field, MP

The Rt. Hon. Ann Clwyd, MP

Lorraine Fullbrook, MP

Vernon Coaker, MP

Jack Lopresti, MP

Elfyn Llwyd, MP

Mark Pritchard, MP

Andy Love, MP

The Rt. Hon. Sir John Stanley, MP

Austin Mitchell, MP


House of Lords

Conservative Party

Labour Party

The Rt. Hon. the Lord Trimble

The Rt. Hon. the Lord Anderson of Swansea, DL

The Baroness O'Cathain, OBE

The Rt. Hon. the Lord Morris of Aberavon, KG, QC

Liberal Democrat

Cross Bench

The  Baroness Scott of Needham Market

The Lord Hannay of Chiswick

 

Administrator : Hannah Mitchell

In Washington, the BAPG is actually authorized by law, with the Speaker of the House and the Senate Majority Leader appointing and authorizing Members of the House and Senate to meet with MPs for annual conferences and other activities.  Funding is obtained each year through appropriations to pay for its expenses. 

In the United States Senate, Senator Patrick J Leahy (D-Vermont), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and fourth most senior U.S. Senator, is Chairman of the Senate BAPG and it is he who convenes the Senate delegations to the Group meetings. 

In the United States House of Representatives, Congressman Ben Chandler (D-Kentucky), is Chairman of the House BAPG and Congressman Albio Sires (R- New Jersey) is Vice Chairman.  Mr. Chandler serves on the House Committee on Appropriations and the House Committee on Science & Technology.  Mr. Sires is a member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.

It is the commitment of these and other Congressional leaders and their staff which ensures the continuity of these links between the two legislatures.