The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global Security and Non-Proliferation
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The APPG is a cross-party group of UK Parliamentarians encouraging discussion and debate on matters relating to global security and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction – whether nuclear, chemical or biological.
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Foundation Year
For over 20 years the APPG has been a platform for cross-party discussion and dialogue.
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Officers
Our eight officers bring parliamentary expertise and a range of diverse perspectives to issues of global security and nonproliferation.
History
How the APPG came about
Set up in 1999 by Malcolm Savidge with the support of Mike Gapes, Ming Campbell and Sir Richard Body, the APPG was envisaged as an open platform for Parliamentarians to have a cross-party, cross-ideology discussion on international security. At the time there was no other APPG working on international security in Parliament. The APPG organised a parliamentary delegation to US Congress, and facilitated former US Defence Secretary Robert McNamara’s visit to the UK.
When Malcolm Savidge left the Commons at the 2005 election, Lord Garden took over as Chair. Until his death from cancer in 2007, Lord Garden continued the APPG’s proud tradition of facilitating parliamentary discussion with experts on security matters. In 2008, Lord Hannay of Chiswick and Tony Lloyd took over as Vice-Convenors. During this time the APPG organised a parliamentary delegation to US Congress at the beginning of Obama’s Presidency in 2009.
Mike Gapes agreed to stand as Vice-Convenor, after Tony Lloyd left Parliament in 2012. Lord Hannay and Sir Bottomley convene the APPG to this day. BASIC continues to serve as the Secretariat to the APPG, with Anahita Parsa serving as its Clerk.
Latest Meetings
Summary of APPG Meeting: Does Britain’s Deterrent Policy Need Updating?
On 22nd November 2023, the APPG on Global Security and Non-Proliferation hosted an APPG meeting, ‘Does Britain’s Deterrent Policy Need Updating?’, chaired by Lord David Hannay of Chiswick.
Summary of APPG Meeting: The 2023 Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy
On 28th March 2023, the APPG on Global Security and Non-proliferation hosted an APPG meeting on the ‘2023 Integrated Review’, chaired by Lord David Hannay of Chiswick.
Summary of APPG Meeting: Safeguarding Civil Nuclear Facilities During Conflict
On Thursday 13th October 2022, the APPG on Global Security and Non-proliferation and the APPG on the United Nations jointly hosted an APPG meeting on ‘Safeguarding Civil Nuclear Facilities During Conflict’, chaired by Lord Hannay of Chiswick.
All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) Meeting on New START Extension Prospects
If not extended by the US and Russia by February 2021, the New START Treaty…
Drones, Swarming and the Future of Warfare
The meeting heard from two speakers about how the emergence of new drone technologies were changing the dynamics of war.
Perspectives on the 2019 PrepCom
The APPG met on 22 May 2019 with Ambassador Aidan Liddle and BASIC Executive Director Paul Ingram to discuss the 2019 Non-Proliferation Treaty Preparatory Committee (NPT PrepCom) which took place from 30 April to 10 May at the UN.
APPG meeting: Making Progress towards nuclear disarmament
On 13 February, the APPG on Global Security and Non-Proliferation held a meeting to discuss the current climate for disarmament and the upcoming NPT review conference in 2020.
The United Kingdom’s Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Diplomacy
On 21 January, the APPG on Global Security and Non-Proliferation held a meeting to discuss the UK’s approach to global non-proliferation and disarmament diplomacy.
Officers
The APPG is co-chaired by Lord Hannay of Chiswick and Sir Peter Bottomley MP. Its officers provide parliamentary expertise and a range of diverse perspectives on issues relating to global security.
Lord Hannay of Chiswick
Co-Chair
Former Ambassador of the UK to the EEC, Former Ambassador of the UK to the UN, Member of the International Affairs Select Committee
Sir Peter Bottomley MP
Co-Chair
Member of the EU Select Committee
Lord Browne of Ladyton
Vice-Chair
Member of the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee and former Secretary of State for Defence
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer
Vice-Chair
Chairman of the EU Financial Affairs Sub-Committee, Member of the EU Select Committee
Baroness Falkner of Margravine
Vice-Chair
Member of the EU Select Committee
Martin Docherty-Hughes MP
Vice-Chair
Member of the UK Defence Select Committee
Baron Wood of Anfield
Vice-Chair
Member of the House of Lords European Union and EU External Affairs Sub-Committee
Hilary Benn MP
Vice-Chair
Former Chair of the Committee on the Future Relationship with the European Union
We are grateful for the generous support of Polden Puckham Charitable Foundation and Marmot Charitable Trust.
22 November 2023:
Meeting on 'Does Britain's Deterrent Policy Need Updating?' with Lord James Arbuthnot, Chairman of Electricity Resilience of the Advisory Board of Thales (UK) and of the Nuffield Trust for the Forces of the Crown, the Information Assurance Advisory Council and the Airey Neave Trust; Dr Marion Messmer, Senior Research Fellow, International Security Programme, Chatham House; and Sir Graham Stacey KBE CB, Senior Consulting Fellow at the European Leadership Network.
28 March 2023:
Meeting on the 2023 Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy with Bronwen Maddox, Director and Chief Executive Officer of Chatham House, Sir Mark Lyall Grant, former National Security Advisor and Former Permanent Representative of the UK to the United Nations, and Richard Reeve, Co-ordinator of Rethinking Security, and also the Former Chief Executive of the Oxford Research Group.
13 October 2022:
Meeting on Safeguarding Civil Nuclear Facilities During Conflict with Sarah Price, Head, Counter Proliferation and Arms Control Centre, Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office and (virtually) Alberto Muti, Co-Director, Verification and Monitoring Programme, VERTIC, organised jointly with the APPG on the United Nations.
20 July 2022:
Meeting on Nuclear Non-Proliferation: The first meeting of the TPNW and prospects for the NPT Review Conference in August with Amb. Alexander Kmentt, President-designate of the 1st Meeting of States Parties of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, and Amb. Aidan Liddle, UK Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, organised jointly with the APPG on the United Nations.
26 April 2022:
Meeting on What Does Putin Want & How Should the West Respond? with Fiona Hill, former Deputy Assistant to the President of the United States and Senior Director for European and Russian Affairs on the National Security Council, organised jointly with the APPG on the United Nations.
29 March 2022:
Meeting on British Policy Responses to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine with Sir Malcolm Rifkind, Former Secretary of State for Defence and Former Foreign Secretary, Dr Precious Chatterje-Doody, Lecturer in Politics and International Studies at the Open University, and Professor Malcolm Chalmers, Deputy-Director General at the Royal United Services Institute.
29 March 2022:
APPG on Global Security and Non-Proliferation Annual General Meeting to elect group Co-Chairs and Vice Chairs.
24 June 2021:
Virtual meeting on Biological and Chemical Weapons Challenges with Dr Catherine Rhodes, Executive Director of the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER), Dr Brett Edwards, Senior Lecturer in Languages and International Studies at the Institute for Policy Research, University of Bath, and Dr Richard Guthrie, CBW Event Co-ordinating Editor.
23 March 2021:
Meeting on the prospects for reviving the Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA) with Dr Mahsa Rouhi, Research Fellow at the National Defense University, and Sahil Shah, Policy Fellow at the European Leadership Network.
25 February 2021:
APPG on Global Security and Non-Proliferation Annual General Meeting to elect group Chair and Vice Chairs.
15 September 2020:
Joint meeting with the UN APPG on Prospects for extension of the New Start Treaty and implications with Angela Kane, Former UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs and Pranay Vaddi, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Nuclear Policy Program fellow.
20 May 2020:
Joint meeting with the APPG on Future Generations on how policy making today considers the long-term with Sir Stewart Eldon, former UK Ambassador to NATO, Dr Karin von Hippel, Director General of RUSI and Dr John Carney, Head of Futures at DSTL.
2 March 2020:
Joint meeting with the UN APPG on The Changing Deterrence Landscape: Implications for the 2020 NPT RevCon with Professor Daryl G. Press, Associate Professor of Government, Dartmouth College.
11 February 2020:
Joint meeting with UN APPG on Prospects for the Iran Nuclear Deal with the Rt Hon Alistair Burt, former Minister for the Middle East and North Africa 2010-13, and 2017-19 and Dr Aniseh Bassiri Tabrizzi, Research Fellow at RUSI and a Visiting Fellow at War Studies, King's College London.
30 January 2020:
APPG on Global Security and Non-Proliferation Annual General Meeting to elect group Chair and Vice-Chairs.
22 October 2019:
Joint meeting with the UN APPG on the UN in 2019 seen from the office of the President of the General Assembly and Prospects for the 75th Anniversary in 2020, with Natalie Samarasinghe, chief speechwriter in English for the President of the 73rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly.
11 June 2019:
Joint meeting with Drones APPG and APPG on Future Generations on Drones, Swarming and the Future of Warfare with David Hambling, author of Swarm Troopers and Sebastian Brixey-Williams, Programme Director, BASIC.
22 May 2019:
Discussion after the 2019 NPT Preparatory Committee negotiations looking at the future of the non-proliferation regime with UK Ambassador to the Conference on Disarmament, Aiden Liddle and Paul Ingram, Executive Director, BASIC.
25 March 2019:
Meeting with Cristina Varriale, Research Fellow RUSI and Justine Walker, Director of Sanctions Policy, UK Finance on the Hanoi Summit and the future of sanctions against North Korea.
13 February 2019:
APPG briefing with Beatrice Fihn, Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and Tom Plant, Director of Proliferation and Nuclear Policy, RUSI on the Ban Treaty and the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
29 January 2019:
Discussion with Dmitri Trenin, Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center on Russian perspectives on arms control and strategic stability.
24 January 2019:
Briefing with UK Ambassador to the Conference on Disarmament, Aiden Liddle and Head of the Counter-Proliferation and Arms Control Centre at the FCO, Sarah Price on the UK’s Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Diplomacy.
20 November 2018:
Meeting with Mark Fitzpatrick, Executive Director Americas Office, IISS and Sir Richard Dalton, former British Ambassador to Iran on preventing proliferation in Iran.
31 October 2018:
Meeting on the future of the INF Treaty with Desmond Bowen, Associate Fellow IISS, Dr Katarzyna Kubiak, Research Fellow ELN and Dr Kori Schake, Deputy Director-General IISS.
16 July 2018:
AGM and Government briefing on the Chemical Weapons Convention's Special Session of the Conference of States Parties with Earl Howe, Minister of State for Defence, Sarah Price, Head of the Counter-Proliferation and Arms Control Centre FCO and Dr Richard Guthrie, Independent CBW analyst. Jointly hosted by the UN APPG
7 June 2018:
Roundtable with Dr Brad Roberts, Director of Research at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on emerging threats to strategic stability and arms control.
17 May 2018:
Government briefing on the 2018 NPT Preparatory Committee with Sarah Price, Head of the Counter-Proliferation and Arms Control Centre FCO and James Franklin, Head of Policy in DG Nuclear MoD. Jointly hosted by the UN APPG.
26 April 2018:
APPG meeting with Prof Alistair Hayes, Professor of Environmental Toxicology and Dr Richard Guthrie, independent CBW analyst on 'Salisbury, Syria and the Chemical Weapons Convention'.
19 April 2018:
Roundtable discussion with Mark Fitzpatrick, Executive Director to IISS-Americas on the North Korean and Iranian nuclear crisis.
20 March 2018:
Roundtable discussion with Zamir Akram, Advisor to Pakistan's Strategic Plan Division on Pakistan's nuclear posture.
6 March 2018:
APPG meeting on the 'US Nuclear Posture Review: Implications for International Security' with Łukasz Kulesa and Dr Matthew Harries.
1 March 2018:
APPG meeting with Dr Chris Ford, US Assistant Secretary for International Security and Nonproliferation on US nuclear weapons and nonproliferation policy.
22 January 2018:
Roundtable discussion with Izumi Nakamitsu, UN Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs on 'The nuclear non-proliferation regime:the evolving context'.
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