1. Mark Robert Timothy Garnier was born on 26 February 1963 and is a British Conservative Party politician and former banker who has been Member of Parliament for Wyre Forest since 2010 and Shadow Economic Secretary to the Treasury since November 2024.
Mark Garnier was previously Shadow Shadow Minister for Energy Security and Net Zero from July to November 2024.
Mark Garnier was a junior minister at the Department for International Trade from July 2016 to January 2018.
Mark Garnier was previously chair of the Committees on Arms Export Controls.
Mark Garnier was born on 26 February 1963 in London to Peter and Patricia Garnier.
Mark Garnier was privately educated at the private Dulwich College Preparatory School, London and Charterhouse School, Godalming.
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 made his maiden speech on 7 June 2010, where he set out his scepticism about further integration in the European Union, and focused on the economic and trading gains to be had from trading relationships.
Mark Garnier thinks can be achieved for young people through vocational courses in higher education that offer practical skills to become entrepreneurial.
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.
Mark Garnier voted against equal marriage in spite of having promised a constituent, a gay activist, that he would vote in favour.
In 2013 Mark Garnier caused offence when, in the Kidderminster Shuttle he responded to the concerns of a local Anglican priest who criticised the government record that led to food banks.
Mark Garnier further commented that they gave the Church a chance to do some good.
In November 2014, Mark Garnier voiced his support for HS2, believing that Birmingham Airport will be an increasingly significant hub for the region that will help to ease pressure on Heathrow.
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.
Since July 2015, Mark Garnier has been the vice-chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Space.
In December 2015, Mark Garnier expressed disappointment at the decision of the regulator not to investigate the incentives, pay and culture of banks and their potential association with misconduct including the Libor scandal.
Mark Garnier was the local MP of Natalie Connolly, a woman killed in 2016.
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.
In July 2020, Mark Garnier was selected as chair of the Committees on Arms Export Controls.
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.
In 2023 Mark Garnier voted in favour of water companies dumping sewage in British rivers, watercourses and seas.
Mark Garnier was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2024 New Year Honours for political and public service.
Mark Garnier is married to Caroline; the couple have three children, named Edward, Jemima and George.