Bitesize Parliamentary – Working with MPs – An Essential Guide to Engagement

£625.00

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Course Overview

Do you need to engage effectively with MPs, build stronger parliamentary relationships, or improve your organisation’s approach to influencing Westminster?

Bitesize Parliamentary – Working with MPs: An Essential Guide to Engagement is a practical training course for anyone who needs to communicate with, brief, influence or work alongside Members of Parliament. It is particularly useful for public affairs professionals, policy teams, charities, campaigners, trade associations, corporate affairs teams and organisations seeking to raise issues with MPs.

This focused parliamentary engagement course explains how MPs work, what they need from external organisations, and how to approach them in a professional, credible and politically aware way.

The course places particular emphasis on working with Backbench MPs, who can play an important role in raising issues in Parliament, supporting campaigns, asking questions, securing debates, influencing Ministers and giving visibility to local, national and sector-specific concerns.

Whether you are new to public affairs or want to sharpen your Westminster engagement strategy, this session will give you the practical tools to communicate with MPs more effectively and secure greater political impact.

What You Will Learn

By the end of this course, you will understand how to:

  • Identify the MPs most relevant to your issue, campaign, policy area or organisational objective
  • Build meaningful and ongoing relationships with MPs and their parliamentary offices
  • Understand the role of Backbench MPs and how they can influence parliamentary debate, government thinking and public policy
  • Approach MPs in a professional, timely and politically sensitive way
  • Present research, evidence, data and case studies in a format that is useful for parliamentary purposes
  • Write and communicate clear, persuasive messages for MPs and their staff
  • Understand what makes an issue relevant to an MP’s constituency, committee work, political interests or parliamentary activity
  • Support MPs with credible information that can be used in debates, parliamentary questions, meetings and campaigns
  • Develop a more strategic approach to parliamentary engagement and public affairs activity

Who Should Attend?

This course is ideal for anyone who needs to work with MPs or engage with Parliament, including:

  • Public affairs professionals
  • Policy officers and policy managers
  • Charity and voluntary sector campaigners
  • Corporate affairs and communications teams
  • Trade associations and membership bodies
  • Advocacy and campaigns professionals
  • Organisations seeking to raise awareness of a policy issue
  • Professionals new to Westminster, Parliament or MP engagement

Why This Course Matters

MPs are approached every day by charities, businesses, campaign groups, trade associations and public affairs professionals. To secure their attention, your message must be relevant, well-evidenced, timely and clearly linked to their parliamentary or constituency interests.

This course will help you understand how to make your approach stand out for the right reasons. You will learn how to engage MPs constructively, provide information they can use, and build relationships that support long-term parliamentary and policy objectives.

In a short, practical and focused format, Bitesize Parliamentary – Working with MPs will help you navigate Westminster with greater confidence and improve the impact of your parliamentary engagement.

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