[Dataset] UK Parliamentary Interest Groups (“APPGs”)

All-Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs) are informal cross-party groups within the UK Parliament. APPGs exist to examine particular topics or causes, for example, small modular reactors, blood cancer, and Saudi Arabia.

While APPGs can provide useful forums for bringing together stakeholders and advancing policy discussions, there have been instances of impropriety, and the groups have faced criticism for potential conflicts of interest and undue influence from external bodies.

I have pulled data from Parliament’s register of APPGs (individual webpages / single PDF) into a JSON object for easy interrogation. Each APPG entry lists a chair, a secretariat, sources of funding, and so on.

How many APPGs are there on cancer; which political party chairs the most APPGs; how many donations do they receive?

Click HERE to view the dataset on Kaggle.