Key
interests and achievements
Mark’s interests
outside politics are his family and home. He is also a lapsed sailor and dog
walker.
Mark has been a
community councillor for Treuddyn, a former school governor (and chair) of
Ysgol Parc y Llan, and former voluntary board member of Venture Housing
Association.
He is a Management
Board Member of the Buddies Autism Club, Vice President of North Wales
Disability Resources Centre, a Patron of the British Association of Social
Workers, an Ambassador for Clwyd Girl Guides, Vice President of North Wales
Play, Vice Patron of RORO sailing project, a Member of Glyndŵr
University Court, a Member of North Wales Wildlife Trust, a Patron – Centre of
Sign-Sight-Sound, President of the Centre for Cultural Engagement, Vice
President of the Boys and Girls Clubs for Wales, Trustee of Families Need
Fathers Both Parents Matter Cymru, a Patron of Flintshire Disability Forum, and
a Patron of Policy Forum for Wales. Mark was also the founder of CHANT Cymru
(Community Hospitals Acting Nationally Together) in the second Assembly.
Personal history
Mark lives in
Flintshire with his wife. They have six children and a grandchild. A politics
graduate of Newcastle University, Mark qualified as an Associate of the
Chartered Institute of Bankers. He was previously employed as a building
society area manager in north Wales.
Political history
Mark was first
elected to the National Assembly for Wales in 2003, before being re-elected in
2007, 2011 and 2016. In the Second and Third Assemblies he was the Welsh
Conservative Shadow Minister in a range of areas, including Finance, Education,
Social Justice, Equality and Housing, as well as being the member of a number
of Assembly committees and chairing the Assembly’s Legislation Committee No. 5.
He also chaired Cross-Party Groups on Fuel Poverty, Neurosciences, and Funerals
and Bereavement. In the Fourth Assembly he was the Welsh Conservative Shadow
Minister for Communities, Housing, Policing and North Wales, as well as sitting
on the Assembly’s Communities, Equality and Local Government Committee and the
Assembly’s Standards Committee. He has also chaired Cross-Party Groups on Autism,
Neurological Conditions, Fuel Poverty, Hospices and Palliative Care, and
Funerals and Bereavement, and Co-chaired the Cross-Party Group on Disability.
In the Fifth Senedd
he was the Welsh Conservative Shadow Minister for Communities, Europe and North
Wales, then the Shadow Minister for Local Government and Housing and finally
the Shadow Minister for Finance and Chief Whip. He also Chaired Cross-Party
Groups on Fuel Poverty and Energy Efficiency, Autism, Disability, Neurological Conditions, and
Funerals and Bereavement.
Register of
Interests
Register of Interests – Fifth Senedd
(PDF, 3.25MB)
Register of Interests – Fourth Assembly
(PDF, 850kb)
Register of Interests – Third Assembly
(PDF, 490kb)
Register of Interests – Second Assembly
(PDF, 361kb)
