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Cat Eccles

Labour MP for Stourbridge

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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.

Committee memberships held in the past

  • Member, Animal Welfare (Import of Dogs, Cats and Ferrets) Bill Committee (13 May 2025 to 14 May 2025)
  • Member, Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and International Committee of the Red Cross (Status) Bill [HL] ( 6 Nov 2024 to 13 Nov 2024)

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We source information on APPG memberships from lists on APPG websites or asking APPGs for unpublished lists. Please report any incorrect or outdated information.

Cat Eccles is an officer of the following groups

All-Party Parliamentary Group on Allied Health Professionals (Officer)

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  • Purpose: Allied Health Professionals represent the third largest clinical workforce within the health and care system. There are currently 14 protected titles for AHPs, encompassing 15 roles. AHPs deliver care across the entire system, playing a vital role in assessing, diagnosing, treating, and discharging patients across a range of settings.
  • Membership Source: Source
  • APPG Website: N/A
  • APPG register: Parliament website

All-Party Parliamentary Group on Autism (Vice Chair)

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All-Party Parliamentary Group for Bladder and Bowel Continence Care (Officer)

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  • Purpose: To break the taboo by raising awareness of bladder and bowel continence care for adults and children and to promote cost effective funding for assessment, treatment and appropriate product provision.
  • Membership Source: Source
  • APPG Website: https://www.appgcontinence.org.uk/
  • APPG register: Parliament website

All-Party Parliamentary Group on Cats (Vice Chair)

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  • Purpose: The APPG is a group of MPs, peers and associate organisations with an interest in cat welfare, aiming to promote and further cat welfare. It seeks to support discussion and debate about what the public, politicians and the government can do to further cat welfare.
  • Membership Source: Source
  • APPG Website: https://www.apgocats.org.uk/
  • APPG register: Parliament website

All-Party Parliamentary Group for Healthcare Workers (Chair & Registered Contact)

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  • Purpose: The APPG aims to highlight key areas of concern for healthcare professionals and discuss potential solutions, including improving the welfare of staff, regulatory changes and legal reform. The group will also aim to promote dialogue and discussion between the healthcare sector and parliamentarians.
  • Membership Source: Source
  • APPG Website: N/A
  • APPG register: Parliament website

All-Party Parliamentary Group for Visual Arts and Artists (Chair & Registered Contact)

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  • Purpose: To advance the understanding of how visual artists carry out their practice and develop their careers, promote the value artists and the visual arts bring to society and the UK economy, and to foster an environment in the UK in which the visual arts sector can flourish.
  • Membership Source: Source
  • APPG Website: https://www.visualartsappg.org.uk/
  • APPG register: Parliament website

Cat Eccles is a member of the following groups

All-Party Parliamentary Group for Animal Welfare

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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Climate Change

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  • Purpose: To run events and activities in parliament with the purpose of advancing understanding of policy issues surrounding climate change and enabling cross-party discussion and action on climate policy.
  • Membership Source: Source
  • APPG Website: https://www.climateappg.co.uk/
  • APPG register: Parliament website

All-Party Parliamentary Group for Closing the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility

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  • Purpose: To urge the UK government to: call on the US government to finally close Guantanamo; work internationally on the urgent and humane resettlement of detainees approved for release; and call on the US government to ensure that the detainees receive adequate care for their longstanding physical and mental health needs.
  • Membership Source: Source
  • APPG Website: https://ukguantanamonetwork.org/appg
  • APPG register: Parliament website

All-Party Parliamentary Group on Creative Health

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Drugs, Alcohol and Justice All-Party Parliamentary Group

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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Emergency Care

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  • Purpose: To promote excellence in emergency care and act as a forum for professionals, patients and Parliamentarians to discuss the challenges and opportunities for emergency care.
  • Membership Source: E-mail correspondence with APPG
  • APPG Website: N/A
  • APPG register: Parliament website

All-Party Parliamentary Group on Endometriosis

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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Mental Health

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All-Party Parliamentary Group for SME (Small and Medium-sized Enterprises) House Builders

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  • Purpose: To examine the operations of SME housebuilders in the UK; discover and highlight best practice; review the regulatory regime affecting the market, looking at ways of improving the delivery of new homes and making recommendations on how Parliament can improve regulation to deliver more effective building of homes by SMEs.
  • Membership Source: E-mail correspondence with APPG
  • APPG Website: N/A
  • APPG register: Parliament website

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 for Women and Enterprise

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  • Purpose: The APPG provides a unique and dynamic forum for MPs and Peers of all parties to work collectively to explore the challenges and opportunities for female entrepreneurs, ensure they are considered in the political arena and make sure steps are taken to boost female entrepreneurship in the UK.
  • Membership Source: E-mail correspondence with APPG
  • APPG Website: https://womenandenterpriseappg.wordpress.com/
  • APPG register: Parliament website

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