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Jessica Asato

Labour MP for Lowestoft

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Committees

In the UK Parliament, committees are groups of MPs or Peers who examine specific issues in more detail than can be done in debates.

Some committees focus on checking the government’s decisions and spending, while others investigate specific topics and proposed legislation.

Jessica Asato is currently a member of the following committees:

Member, Education Committee

The Education Committee scrutinises the work of the Department for Education, covering children’s social care, schools, colleges, the early years and higher education.

The Committee also holds regular hearings with DfE’s arms-length bodies, including Ofsted, Ofqual and the Children’s Commissioner. You can follow the Committee on X (formerly Twitter)@CommonsEd.

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All-Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs)

All-Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs) are informal cross-party groups made up of MPs and Peers who share an interest in a particular country or subject.

They do not have formal powers or funding, but can book rooms on the parliamentary estate and may receive funding from outside organisations and companies.

We source information on APPG memberships from lists on APPG websites or asking APPGs for unpublished lists. Please report any incorrect or outdated information.

Jessica Asato is an officer of the following groups

All-Party Parliamentary Group for Care-Experienced Children and Young People (Chair & Registered Contact)

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All-Party Parliamentary Group for Children (Co-Chair)

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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Commercial Sexual Exploitation (Vice Chair)

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  • Purpose: To develop and advocate for public policy to prevent commercial sexual exploitation - which is the exchange of money, accommodation, services or other goods in return for sex acts. The primary objectives of the APPG's work are to support victims, hold perpetrators to account, and deter demand for commercial sexual exploitation.
  • Membership Source: Source
  • APPG Website: https://www.appg-cse.uk/
  • APPG register: Parliament website

All-Party Parliamentary Group on Domestic Violence and Abuse (Officer)

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East of England All-Party Parliamentary Group (Chair & Registered Contact)

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  • Purpose: To bring together East of England's MPs and Peers with elected local council leaders, directly elected mayors and police, crime and fire commissioners – as well as senior representatives from the private and third sectors - to give a strong political voice for policies which support the East of England's economy and environment and promote its potential as a place to work, study, live, visit and invest.
  • Membership Source: Source
  • APPG Website: https://eastofenglandappg.org.uk/
  • APPG register: Parliament website

All-Party Parliamentary Group on Perpetrators of Domestic Abuse (Chair & Registered Contact)

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Jessica Asato is a member of the following groups

All-Party Parliamentary Group for Acquired Brain Injury

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  • Purpose: To raise awareness of Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) and seek improvements in support and services for people with ABI and their carers; to provide a voice for people with ABI in parliament; and to raise issues across health, social care and welfare which affect people living with ABI.
  • Membership Source: E-mail correspondence with APPG
  • APPG Website: https://ukabif.org.uk/page/CampaignAPPG
  • APPG register: Parliament website

All-Party Parliamentary Group on Adoption and Permanence

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  • Purpose: To amplify the voices and experiences of adoptees and those in other forms of permanence and their families and use that to inform parliamentarians on issues around adoption and permanence and promote the development and implementation of effective policy and practice. To provide an opportunity for the ambitious exploration of innovative solutions to enable adoptees and those in other forms of permanence and their families to thrive.
  • Membership Source: Source
  • APPG Website: https://appgap.info/
  • APPG register: Parliament website

Adult Social Care All-Party Parliamentary Group

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  • Purpose: To be part of the solution for finding a sustainable social care model; build a positive cross-party vision for the future for social care; unlock Parliament to the social care sector, and open the doors of social care to local MPs; be led by lived experience and championed by parliamentarians.
  • Membership Source: Source
  • APPG Website: https://adultsocialcareappg.com/
  • APPG register: Parliament website

All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims

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  • Purpose: Highlighting the aspirations and challenges of British Muslims, celebrating the contributions of Muslim communities in Britain, investigating prejudice, discrimination and hatred against Muslims in the UK.
  • Membership Source: Source
  • APPG Website: https://appgbritishmuslims.org/
  • APPG register: Parliament website

All-Party Parliamentary Group on Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage

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  • Purpose: To provide a forum to discuss the deployment and development of Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) technologies across the UK in order to protect and create jobs, and to support the UK’s transition to a net zero economy.
  • Membership Source: E-mail correspondence with APPG
  • APPG Website: N/A
  • APPG register: Parliament website

All-Party Parliamentary Group on Children's Online Safety

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  • Purpose: The APPG aims to drive policy change that enhances on line safety for children and young people. It seeks to raise the political profile of digital risks and promote effective harm mitigation measures, ensuring a safer digital environment for future generations.
  • Membership Source: Source
  • APPG Website: https://www.childrensonlinesafetyappg.org/
  • APPG register: Parliament website

All-Party Parliamentary Group for Climate, Nature and Security

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  • Purpose: To advance understanding of the issues surrounding climate, biodiversity, and security by communicating salient information and analysis through events and activities in Parliament - with the purpose of supporting informed cross-party discussion and action on climate security policy in order to improve the UK’s resilience.
  • Membership Source: Source
  • APPG Website: https://www.appgclimsec.uk/
  • APPG register: Parliament website

All-Party Parliamentary Group for Early Education and Childcare

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All-Party Parliamentary Group for Energy Studies

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  • Purpose: To inform the parliamentarians of the day on the energy issues of the day.
  • Membership Source: E-mail correspondence with APPG
  • APPG Website: http://pges.org.uk/
  • APPG register: Parliament website

All-Party Parliamentary Group for Fair Elections

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  • Purpose: To enhance the integrity of UK democracy by: replacing First Past the Post with a proportional electoral system; eliminating dark money and undemocratic influence from politics; countering disinformation in public discourse. The APPG's goal is to deliver clean and fair elections where all votes count.
  • Membership Source: Source
  • APPG Website: https://www.fairelections.uk/
  • APPG register: Parliament website

All-Party Parliamentary Group First Do No Harm - Mesh, Primodos, Valproate

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  • Purpose: To raise awareness of and build support for the recommendations in 'First Do No Harm', the report of the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review, and to ensure the implementation of the recommendations by the UK government and others.
  • Membership Source: E-mail correspondence with APPG
  • APPG Website: N/A
  • APPG register: Parliament website

All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Future of Financial Services

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Healthy Homes and Buildings All-Party Parliamentary Group

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  • Purpose: To effect policy change to tackle health and wellbeing problems caused by poor quality, damp, noisy, badly lit, poorly ventilated and inefficient homes and buildings and embed health and wellbeing principles in future legislation to ensure the UK’s homes and buildings positively benefit the occupants’ health and wellbeing.
  • Membership Source: Source
  • APPG Website: https://healthyhomesbuildings.org.uk/
  • APPG register: Parliament website

All-Party Parliamentary Group for Households in Temporary Accommodation

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  • Purpose: The APPG is committed to improving the health, lives and experiences of families and adults living in temporary accommodation across England. The group will highlight the damaging health and educational impact of living in temporary accommodation, especially for children.
  • Membership Source: Source
  • APPG Website: https://householdsintemporaryaccommodation.co.uk/
  • APPG register: Parliament website

All-Party Parliamentary Group for Mutuals

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Net Zero All-Party Parliamentary Group

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  • Purpose: The APPG accelerates policy change, promotes zero carbon solutions, supports clean growth technology, and embeds the UK’s commitment to a net zero carbon economy. It provides a forum for MPs and peers to collectively advocate for urgent government action for a low carbon future in the UK.
  • Membership Source: Source
  • APPG Website: https://netzeroappg.org.uk/
  • APPG register: Parliament website

All-Party Parliamentary Group on Nuclear Energy

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All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Ocean

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  • Purpose: To provide a collective space where all parliamentarians can support and promote ocean research and awareness, to develop greater understanding of the ocean and its role in tackling challenges such as climate change, and to debate wider ocean issues.
  • Membership Source: Source
  • APPG Website: https://www.oceanappg.org/
  • APPG register: Parliament website

All-Party Parliamentary Group for Parents

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All-Party Parliamentary Group for Performing Arts Education and Training

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All-Party Parliamentary Group for Renewable and Sustainable Energy

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  • Purpose: The APPG supports parliamentarians to advance and inform energy transition policy. The Group seeks to strengthen cross-party dialogue to build consensus by convening policymakers with industry, civil society, and academics.
  • Membership Source: Source
  • APPG Website: https://renewables.inparliament.uk/
  • APPG register: Parliament website

All-Party Parliamentary Group on School Food

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  • Purpose: To bring together a range of organisations and stakeholders from the sector to champion the school meal service, highlight the issues at a political level, and collaborate to identify best practice.
  • Membership Source: E-mail correspondence with APPG
  • APPG Website: http://www.schoolfood.org.uk/
  • APPG register: Parliament website

All-Party Parliamentary Group on Single-Parent Families

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All-Party Parliamentary Group on State Pension Inequality for Women

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  • Purpose: To provide a cross-party forum in which to hold the government to account on the issue of transitional arrangements to compensate 1950's-born women who are affected by changes to the state pension age and to campaign on issues around the state pension age.
  • Membership Source: Source
  • APPG Website: https://rebeccalongbailey.com/spifwlist/
  • APPG register: Parliament website

All-Party Parliamentary Group on Tennis

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  • Purpose: To promote the sport of tennis, and to enable MPs and peers to play tennis matches together and compete with outside tennis teams.
  • Membership Source: E-mail correspondence with APPG
  • APPG Website: N/A
  • APPG register: Parliament website

All-Party Parliamentary Group on Ukraine

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  • Purpose: To promote and strengthen relations between the UK and Ukrainian parliaments.
  • Membership Source: E-mail correspondence with APPG
  • APPG Website: N/A
  • APPG register: Parliament website

All-Party Parliamentary Group on Water Pollution

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  • Purpose: The APPG aims to promote understanding of the causes of, impacts of and solutions to water pollution, and to facilitate cross-party parliamentary action to tackle water pollution.
  • Membership Source: Source
  • APPG Website: http://www.waterpollutionappg.co.uk/
  • APPG register: Parliament website

All-Party Parliamentary Group on Women in Parliament

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  • Purpose: Brings together MPs and peers to celebrate progress in women's representation and advocate for more women in parliament across all parties, aiming for a diverse, gender-equal parliament by 2028 - the centenary of equal franchise. Supports women in parliament and those standing for public office.
  • Membership Source: Source
  • APPG Website: https://centenaryaction.org.uk/appg-women-in-parliament/
  • APPG register: Parliament website

All-Party Parliamentary Group on Youth Affairs

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  • Purpose: To raise the profile of issues that affect and concern young people, encourage dialogue between parliamentarians, young people and youth services, and encourage a co-ordinated and coherent approach to youth policy making.
  • Membership Source: Source
  • APPG Website: https://youthappg.org.uk/about/
  • APPG register: Parliament website

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