APDG Agenda

2007/8 Agenda

DATE

TOPIC
PRESENTER
17 March
Disability poverty: the missing link in efforts to tackle relative poverty in the UK
John Knight, Head of Policy, and Guy Parckar, Public Policy Manager, Leonard Cheshire
26 Feb
Affordable energy in the 21st century: whose responsibility - government or supplier?  
Joint meeting with APPGs on Warm Homes, Ageing and Older People and Poverty.  Ofgem, EnergyWatch and Energy Retail Assocation
17 Jan 2008
Disability and Education and Skills Policy
Philippa Stobbs, Council for Disabled Children; Zara Todd; Simone Aspis, Alliance for Inclusive Education
10 December
Housing and Disability
Baroness Andrews, Department for Communities and Local Government
19 November
How Employers Perform on Disability
Employers Forum on Disability
15 October
Single Equality Proposals
Liz Sayce, Chief Executive, RADAR
Marije Davidson, Legal Policy Officer, RNID
16 July
Single Equality Green Paper
Bert Massie, Chair of the DRC,
Angela Mason, Director, Women and Equality Unit, DCLG. 
2 July
Independent Living
(Joint meeting with other APPGs)
Caroline Ellis, Head of Parliamentary Affairs, DRC and Gerry Zarb, Head of Independent Living, DRC
21 May
Preserving & Improving the national SCI service
Spinal Injuries Association
23 April
Child Poverty and Disability
Child Poverty Action Group: Paul Dornan and Gabrielle Preston
26 March
VAT and Disabled People: the case for removing the barriers
Low Incomes Tax Reform Group
12 March
Equalities Review Final Report
Rosie Seymour, Equalities Review Team Leader
26 Feb
Welfare Reform Bill
Jim Murphy MP, Minister of State (Minister for Work), DWP
30 Jan
Mental Health Bill
Joint meeting with the APPG on Mental Health. Minister Rosie Winterton will be speaking.
29 Jan
Commission for Equality and Human Rights
Trevor Phillips, Chair of the CEHR
16 Jan
Every Child Matters
Joint meeting with APPG on Children
15 Jan
Opposition Party Disability Agendas
Jeremy Hunt, Conservative Shadow Minister for Disabled People and Danny Alexander, Liberal Democrat Shadow Minister for Disabled People

 

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