CIEH Noise Survey 2024/25
We're inviting all local authority professionals involved in noise control and management across England and Wales to take part in our survey.
Wednesday, 2 October 2024, Honor Riley, CIEH Policy Officer
On World Environmental Health Day, 26 September 2024, the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) called on members to join us in our pursuit to set up an All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Environmental Health. Following on from a successful general election campaign, we need just eight more parliamentarians (MPs or Lords) to set up an APPG.
An APPG (All-Party Parliamentary Group) is a group within UK Parliament where members from across political parties come together to focus on a specific topic or issue. These groups have no formal legislative powers, but they bring attention to areas of interest such as environmental health. APPGs often work with experts and organisations to discuss policies and raise awareness, but they don’t have the power to make laws.
CIEH will act as the secretariat for the APPG on Environmental Health. This means that they will provide a crucial administrative and organisational role. It is common for an external organisation such as CIEH to act as the secretariat for APPGs, providing additional policy and research expertise, ensuring the group’s message is clear and targeted effectively at policymakers or government departments.
Most importantly, in our role as secretariat, CIEH will be able to ensure that its work is informed by frontline environmental health experience. Our member-led policy Advisory Panels will directly feed into this group.
Despite hundreds of APPGs currently existing on nearly any topic you can imagine, there is no APPG on environmental health. Our aim is to fill this gap and ensure that environmental health is a top priority for policymakers.
Our recent membership survey let us know that 70% of our members want to see our influence increased in Parliament. An APPG would enable to us elevate our advocacy work, build cross-party support and better influence government on environmental health issues. The powers of an APPG can be understood through four unique factors:
Pulling on these four unique characteristics, APPGs have a track record of influencing UK government legislation since their establishment in the 1930s. Successful examples include:
CIEH plans to utilise an APPG on Environmental Health to deliver on many of our Manifesto asks for environmental health commitments and raise the profile of environmental health amongst policymakers, including:
We need your help to make this APPG a reality:
CIEH Noise Survey 2024/25
We're inviting all local authority professionals involved in noise control and management across England and Wales to take part in our survey.