Minutes of the AGM of the APPG held on 19 March 2024.

Attendance. Jack Lopresti MP, Wayne David MP, Mary Glindon MP, Andy Slaughter MP, Lord Austin. Observers Gary Kent, Nick Watts, Andrew Methven.

Jack Lopresti was elected as Chair. Wayne David MP, Mary Glindon MP, and Lord Austin were elected as Vice-Chairs.

It was agreed that the Income and Expenditure Statement recorded nil returns except for a benefit in kind in May 2023 already registered on the APPG parliamentary page. https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmallparty/240124/kurdistan-region-in-iraq.htm

It was agreed that the unpaid Secretariat is Gary Kent, who was thanked for his contribution over the previous year.

There was a discussion about a possible delegation to Kurdistan.

The 20 listed members of the APPG are the four officers above plus MPs Chris Stephens, Henry Smith, Stephen Metcalfe, Bob Blackman, John Spellar, Nadhim Zahawi, Feryal Clark, Steve McCabe, Nicola Richards, Andrew Percy, and Jason McCartney and Lords Jon Mendelsohn, Jim Knight, Tom Watson, John Woodcock, and Meta Ramsay.