Mark speaks in Parliament on a range of issues. Mark is a member of the Modernisation Select Committee and also the Environmental Audit Select Committee. Mark has spoken recently in the
House of Commons on issues such as the East Coast Main Line, community radio and television, and pensions.
Mark's Summer Report is here
Mark's Parliamentary Report is here
You can also find Mark's Annual Report here
Mark is also a member of the following All-Party Groups:
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Debt and Personal Finance (Chair)
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Road Safety (Vice-Chair)
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Debt, Trade & Aid (Vice-Chair)
Member of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Employee Ownership.
Member of the British Council All Party Parliamentary Group
Member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Corporate Responsibility
Member of the Britain-Palestine All-Party Parliamentary Group
Member of the All-Party-Parliamentary Rail Group
For more details of Mark's interests and Parliamentary career, see his biography here
You can see Mark's most recent Parliamentary contributions below. You can also find and search for more of Mark's Parliamentary contributions at the They Work For You
website.
 | Topical Debate - Zimbabwe | Bill Presented | Commons debates |
My right hon. Friend mentioned the work being done at European level. Can he say a bit more about our efforts to ensure that all our European partners put as much pressure as possible on Zimbabwe...
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| Business of the House | Commons debates |
I was recently contacted by a constituent who wanted to get a copy of her birth certificate online. She visited a website called govcertificates.co.uk which she assumed was a Government website....
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| National Minimum Wage | Oral Answers to Questions - Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform | Commons debates |
In a recent debate that I secured in Westminster Hall on the national minimum wage, my right hon. Friend the Member for Makerfield (Mr. McCartney), who has some knowledge of these matters,...
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| European Affairs | Orders of the Day | Commons debates |
I am sure that Members in all parts of the House will agree with the hon. Gentleman's comments about the situation in Russia and the pressure placed on the BBC World Service. As for the...
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| European Affairs | Orders of the Day | Commons debates |
I was about to say that the Prime Minister and others have made it clear that Labour MEPs are expected to have their accounts audited. The point I am developing is that there is every reason to...
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| European Affairs | Orders of the Day | Commons debates |
I fully understand the position, although I believe, as would most impartial and dispassionate observers of the Irish referendum—if there are any such—that the reasons why the Irish...
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| European Affairs | Orders of the Day | Commons debates |
Until the last few lines of the speech of the hon. Member for Aldridge-Brownhills (Mr. Shepherd), which I felt were an unnecessary personal attack on the right hon. Member for Leicester, East...
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| European Affairs | Orders of the Day | Commons debates |
Tempting though it would be to follow the diversion of the situation in Scotland, you would not allow me down that road, Mr. Deputy Speaker, so I will revert to the point on which I originally...
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| European Affairs | Orders of the Day | Commons debates |
Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
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| European Affairs | Orders of the Day | Commons debates |
For the sake of consistency, the hon. Gentleman should at least concede that members of the no campaign were guilty of stating that voting yes would mean that abortion would have to be legalised...
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