The Debating Group was founded in 1974 by the Publicity Club of London, the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising and the Communication Advertising & Marketing Education Foundation, with Tim Rathbone MP – the then Chair of the Advertising Association’s Public Action Group – its first President. The inaugural debate took place the following year – on 16^th June 1975.

We hold around six debates a year, usually in Committee Room 10 of the House of Commons.