All Party Group on Management

Please view an ePolitix.com write up of the APPGM's February 2011 session.

About the APPGM

The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Management (APPGM) exists to help develop closer understanding between politicians, business leaders and senior public sector managers.

Supported by CMI, the APPGM's well-attended quarterly meetings provide a lively forum for high-level debate on topical management and leadership themes, introduced by high profile guest speakers, including Ministers and Shadow Ministers, business leaders and academic experts.

Members of the Group receive regular news updates on management-related issues, and are invited to contribute to the Chartered Management Institute's bimonthly journal, Professional Manager, which has a readership of over 100,000.

The Group has been running for over twenty-five years and was formally registered at the House of Commons in July 2001. It was re-registered following the 2010 General Election and currently has over 80 members.

Priorities for the new Government: what should be cut first? June 2010

Business’s perspectives on the prospective spending cuts were debated at the first post-election meeting of the APPGM, with Steve Easterbrook CCMI, UK Chief Executive of McDonalds, Keith Clarke CCMI, Chief Executive of Atkins, Andrew White, Chief Executive of Defence, Science and Nuclear at Serco Group, and Janice Munday, a Director at BIS.

A number of themes were discussed including the importance of skills for business success, the likely impact of moves to cut red tape, the scope for improvements in government procurement and the need for continued investment in UK infrastructure.

Meeting notes can be found here.

Economic Debate - March 2010

The APPGM hosted a debate on the economy on the evening of 9 March 2010, on the proposition "This group believes that debt reduction must be accelerated". The motion was proposed by Lord Burns, Chairman of Santander UK and Chair of Channel 4, and opposed by Lord Eatwell, President of Queens' College Cambridge and CMI's Chief Economic Adviser. The debate was chaired by Ruth Spellman OBE, CMI's Chief Executive.

Please view an ePolitix.com exclusive article on the APPG Management's March meeting or read the summary on CMI's website.

A Better Managed Britain: APPGM meeting, 10 November 2009

The APPGM hosted a cross-party debate on closing the UK's management and leadership skills gap in Portcullis House on the evening of 10 November 2009, as CMI launched its Manifesto for a Better Managed Britain.

CMI's Manifesto calls on Government to make developing effective managers and leaders a national priority – but it also calls for action from employers and individual managers. It argues that we need a transformation of our management and leadership performance to meet the economic, social and political challenges facing Britain.

Speakers included Ian Lucas MP, a junior minister in the Department for Business, Innovation, and Skills; John Thurso MP, Liberal Democrat shadow secretary of state for Business; John Hayes MP, shadow minister for universities and skills; and Ruth Spellman OBE CCMI, CMI's Chief Executive.

The APPGM Officers

Chair:
Barry Sheerman MP

Vice chairs:
Dr Vincent Cable MP
Ian Taylor MP
Lord Haskel
Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts
Baroness Kingsmill