13 Facts About Phil Boswell

Philip John Boswell was born on 23 July 1963 and is a Scottish National Party politician who served as Member of Parliament for Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill from 2015 to 2017.

Phil Boswell was born in Bellshill, raised in Coatbridge and worked there in the construction Industry and then for a brief time as a policeman in Kilmarnock.

Phil Boswell spent over 15 years in the oil and gas industry, with work taking him to Hong Kong, Malaysia, Egypt, USA, Qatar and the Falklands before returning to Scotland with BP in Aberdeen.

Phil Boswell was elected as MP for Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill at the 2015 United Kingdom general election.

Phil Boswell was appointed to the Public Accounts Committee where he served under the Chairmanship of Dame Meg Hillier until dissolution of Parliament in April 2017.

Phil Boswell served on all Energy Bill Committees whilst at Westminster and was Patron of Chris's House, the Suicide Charity based in Wishaw, North Lanarkshire.

Phil Boswell never voted to reduce local Government funding and spoke extensively on Energy as well as being a co-author of the definitive paper on Carbon Capture and Storage in 2016, titled LOWEST COST DECARBONISATION FOR THE UK: THE CRITICAL ROLE OF CCS, researched, prepared and published for the parliamentary advisory group along with other industry experts such as Professor Stuart Haszledine and under the Chairmanship of Lord Oxburgh.

In May 2016 Phil Boswell was part of the SNP delegation that visited NATO Headquarters in Brussels and SHAPE Headquarters in Mons all paid for by the donor US Mission to NATO.

An SNP spokesperson stated that Phil Boswell had always declared his interests, and was committed to ending tax avoidance schemes.

In January 2016 it was announced that Phil Boswell would be investigated by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards over the claim that he did not properly record his directorship of a company in the Commons Register of Members' Interests, thus breaching parliamentary procedure.

Phil Boswell was registered with Companies House as the sole director of Boswell and Johnston Ltd.

On 30 March 2016 it was reported that this complaint had been upheld, however the Standards Commissioner stated that Mr Phil Boswell had made a "genuine mistake" and that she did not think this was done in an attempt to conceal his financial interests as zero funds were involved.

The SNP and Phil Boswell lost Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill to Labour candidate Hugh Gaffney at the 2017 United Kingdom general election by 1,586 votes.