to arrange meetings and keeping track of its members. Examples of this include: Survival International acting as secretariat for the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Tribal Peoples. Humanists UK acting as secretariat for the All Party Parliamentary Humanist Group. The APPG on Christianity being administered by a staff member from the Bible Society. Housing Justice administering the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Homelessness and Housing Need. InterClimate Network acting as secretariat for the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Youth Action against Climate Change. Polar Research and Policy Initiative acting as secretariat for the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Greenland. Local Trust acting as secretariat for the All-Party Parliamentary Group for 'left behind' neighbourhoods. Other ways of administering APPGs include borrowing capacity from an MP or peer's office, or by employing staff independently. The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Freedom of Religion or Belief, for example, employs two members of staff paid for through subscriptions from its stakeholders. The APPG on Agriculture and Food for Development uses a similar model. Other APPGs may have less stringent administrative needs, such as the UK parliament's All Party Parliamentary Jazz Appreciation Group. Associate parliamentary groups In the Parliament of the United Kingdom, an associate parliamentary group is similar to an all-party parliamentary group except that it is made up of not only members of the House of Commons or Lords but can also include members from outside Parliament. Criticism In early 2016, the Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists launched an inquiry into concerns that APPGs were being used to bypass lobbying registration rules, following reports that lobbyists were acting as APPG secretariats and so gaining access to legislators. As sponsorship for trip to Pakistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir" between 18 and 22 February 2020, the APPG on Kashmir (APPGK), chaired by Labour MP Debbie Abrahams, received a "benefit in kind" of amounting £31,501 (Rs 29.7 lakh) and £33,000 (Rs 31.2 lakh) on 18 February 2020 from the Government of Pakistan. In April 2022, the Commons Select Committee on Standards published its periodic inquiry into APPGs, focusing on the risk of improper access and influence by paid lobbyists, commercial entities or hostile state actors. The committee is still considering its recommendations for rule changes. In December 2022, POLITICO reported that over a dozen MPs, peers, diplomatic and parliamentary officials had told them that MPs had used parliamentary trips abroad as an opportunity to use sex workers and for excessive drinking,