The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Nutrition for Development held its Inaugural Meeting on Wednesday 23 October 2024 in Room T, Portcullis House, House of Commons.
David Mundell MP and Steve Race MP were elected as Co-Chairs and Baroness Goudie and Monica Harding MP were elected as Vice-Chairs, in compliance with the APPG Guide to the Rules. The Alliance to End Malnutrition and Hunger Limited (known as United Against Malnutrition and Hunger, or UAMH) was appointed as the Secretariat.
Members discussed and approved a Statement of Purpose, which focuses the APPG on efforts to raise the profile of global malnutrition in Parliament and champion solutions to end it, to strengthen cross-party Parliamentary support for UK investment in nutrition and food security, and to support and challenge the UK government to maintain their leadership on global nutrition and food security.
Members also discussed and approved overarching aims of the APPG:
- To inform Parliamentarians about the global state of nutrition and food security.
- To strengthen cross-party Parliamentary support for UK leadership and investment in nutrition.
- To support and challenge the UK Government to maintain their leadership on global nutrition.
Members also discussed and approved discussed and approved key objectives for the year ahead:
- To keep members informed of updates and milestones across global nutrition and equipped with up-to-date data to enable them to make meaningful Parliamentary contributions and take advantage of opportunities to profile nutrition, including around global Summits such as the G7, G20, and CHOGM.
- To ensure sufficient Parliamentary attention is given to the Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit in Paris in 2025.
- To maintain and build relationships with key actors working on nutrition and with Parliamentarians in other countries.
- To undertake cross-party Parliamentary delegation overseas visits to high burden countries to understand examples of progress and challenges to meeting nutrition targets.
- To undertake cross-party Parliamentary visits to UK science and research hubs to understand examples of British innovation to address malnutrition and food insecurity.
- To demonstrate and inform Parliamentary colleagues of the cross-cutting / cross-sectoral nature of nutrition as foundational to development.
- To grow membership and reach of the APPG and to increase public support for and awareness of nutrition.
You can find the meeting minutes here which includes a full and updated membership list.