The Local Growth APPG, operated by the Local Government Association, has launched a website to promote its activity in Parliament: https://localgrowth.inparliament.uk

This week, Parliament has released its third register of APPGs since the beginning of the year. There are 70 country/region/territory groups and 380 subject groups, ranging from Adult Social Care to Engineering.

The APPG on Food Security has hosted food producers from around the country in Parliament, to meet Parliamentarians and discuss the opportunities and pressures facing farmers in 2025.

The Shadow Business and Trade Secretary Andrew Griffith MP has launched a new website on the APPG DS platform, which he will be using to showcase his work backing UK businesses. The site has a unique theme and custom logo.

This week, Parliament has released the first register of APPGs of 2025. There are 63 country/region/territory groups and 305 subject groups, ranging from Adult Social Care to Engineering. You can read about the register and download it here:

As usual, we'll have a limited staff over Christmas, but you will be able to reach us for support enquiries every weekday as normal, except:-

Today we have completed a mini code release and migrated all sites all sites on our APPG DS platform to the latest version, which includes some updates to core underlying software.

The APPG for Digital Communities, led by the LGA has just joined the APPG DS platform. Their aim is to promote the delivery of digitally equipped places that support and foster a connected, healthy and productive community.

When editing some fields of content in your admin interface, you are interacting with a small piece of software called: CKEditor. We are moving from version 4 to version 5.

After months of planning and rebuilding, we have migrated all APPG DS websites onto Drupal 10, the latest version of the underlying software.