21 Facts About Stephen McPartland

Stephen Anthony McPartland was born on 9 August 1976 and is a former British Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Stevenage from 2010 to 2024.

Stephen McPartland is the author of the McPartland Review into Cyber Security as an enabler of Economic Growth, is a strategic consultant and non-executive specialist in risk, governance, cyber security and digital sustainability.

Stephen McPartland studied for an MSc in Technology Management at Liverpool John Moores University in 1998.

Stephen McPartland was re-elected at the 2015 general election, 2017 general election and 2019 general election.

Stephen McPartland announced his decision to retire from front line politics on 13 February 2023.

Stephen McPartland had a Parliamentary Select Committee career serving on the Science and Technology Select Committee, the Finance Select Committee, was elected Chair of the Regulatory Reform Select Committee, and became a member of the Liaison Select Committee.

Stephen McPartland sat on a number of Bill Committees and was on the Board of the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology from 2015.

Stephen McPartland was Chair of the Allergy APPG, Child and Youth Crime APPG, Child Health and Vaccine Preventable Diseases APPG, Furniture Industry APPG and Respiratory Health APPG, and Vice Chair of the Disability APPG.

Stephen McPartland successfully campaigned to change the law from 1 October 2014 to allow emergency inhalers for asthma attacks to be kept in schools.

Stephen McPartland initiated a parliamentary inquiry into electronic invoicing in the public sector; it delivered its findings in June 2014.

Stephen McPartland has called for greater interoperability, with the launch of an Interoperability Charter in April 2013, to encourage and recognise best practice in delivering the Digital Economy.

Stephen McPartland campaigned against corporate tax avoidance, including, in 2015, writing to all of the FTSE100 CEOs to ask whether they would be willing to support greater tax transparency.

Stephen McPartland has worked closely with Sir Oliver Heald to campaign for Finn's Law, to provide emergency service animals with greater protection after Police Dog Finn was stabbed in Stevenage in 2016.

Stephen McPartland has been outspoken on welfare issues and has garnered respect for his knowledge of the technical changes involved, leading the successful campaigns against changes to Tax Credits, improvements to Universal Credit and protecting the self-employed against changes to Employers National Insurance Contributions.

Stephen McPartland has been an outspoken critic of his own party in Government at times and successfully campaigned to improve Building Safety nationally, the McPartland-Smith amendments were supported by leaseholders and cladding groups.

Stephen McPartland was made a privy councillor upon his appointment.

Stephen McPartland was not reappointed by the incoming Prime Minister Liz Truss and returned to the backbenches.

From 2014 until 2015, Stephen McPartland served as chairman of The Furniture Ombudsman, a not-for-profit, industry-wide customer disputes resolution body.

Stephen McPartland was a Trustee of The Living Room Charity, which offers a wide range of free addiction treatment services, and a Patron of the Turn the Tide Archived 3 July 2014 at the Wayback Machine project.

Stephen McPartland was a Patron of Trailblazers, a national charity that reduces re-offending among young people through providing volunteer mentors.

Stephen McPartland lives in Stevenage with his wife, Emma, who was a Special Educational Needs Co-Ordinator at a local primary school and provides expert advice at tribunals.