25 Facts About Mark Garnier

Mark Garnier was first elected as Member of Parliament for Wyre Forest at the 2010 general election.

Mark Garnier was a junior minister at the Department for International Trade from July 2016 to January 2018.

Mark Garnier was born in London to Peter and Patricia Garnier on 26 February 1963.

Mark Garnier was privately educated at the private Dulwich College Preparatory School, London, and Charterhouse.

Mark Garnier subsequently worked as an associate director at Edmond de Rothschild Group and US investment bank Bear Stearns.

Mark Garnier was a district councillor of the Forest of Dean District Council from 2003 to 2007.

Mark Garnier first contested the Wyre Forest seat for the Conservative Party at the 2005 general election but finished in second place behind the sitting independent MP Richard Taylor.

At the next general election in 2010, Mark Garnier was elected as MP for the constituency with 18,793 votes and a majority of 2,643.

Mark Garnier retained the seat at the 2015 general election with 22,394 votes and an increased majority of 12,871.

Mark Garnier retained the seat at the 2017 snap general election with 29,859 votes and an increased majority of 13,334.

Mark Garnier believes that Birmingham Airport will be an increasingly significant hub for the region that will help to ease pressure on Heathrow.

Mark Garnier has taken a centralist business approach to EU membership, choosing to eschew scepticism, but focus on the economic and trading gains to be had from trading relationships.

Mark Garnier previously served on the Treasury Select Committee and raised a debate in the House on Commons on 29 November 2010 on the regulation of independent financial advisers.

Mark Garnier serves on several All-Party Parliamentary Groups and was previously Deputy Chairman of the APPG concerning Space.

Mark Garnier was named by the ConservativeHome website as one of a minority of loyal Conservative backbench MPs not to have voted against the government in any significant rebellions in September 2012.

In December 2014, Mark Garnier was criticised by Labour's Jonathan Ashworth for comments he made during a speech at the Institute of Economic Affairs.

Mark Garnier expressed disappointment at the decision of the regulator not to investigate incentives, pay and culture of the banks and their potential association with misconduct including the Libor scandal.

The investigation, which reported on 21 December 2017, concluded that Mark Garnier did not break the ministerial code and had not acted inappropriately since becoming a minister.

Mark Garnier was the local MP of Natalie Connolly, a woman killed in 2016.

In July 2020, Mark Garnier was selected as chair of the Committees on Arms Export Controls.

Currently, Mark Garnier has three incomes in addition to his parliamentary salary and expenses.

Mark Garnier said he consulted the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments, ACoBA, about this last appointment.

In November 2021, Sky News political reporter Sophie Morris reported how Mark Garnier had spoken in the Commons on 22 separate occasions since November 2019, and in three of those appearances had urged fellow MPs to give more support to the space sector.

Since July 2015, Mark Garnier has been the Vice-Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Space.

Mark Garnier is married to Caroline; the couple have three children, named Edward, Jemima and George.