David John Mowat (born 20 February 1957)
is a former
Conservative Party
The Conservative Party is a name used by many political parties around the world. These political parties are generally right-wing though their exact ideologies can range from center-right to far-right.
Political parties called The Conservative P ...
politician in the United Kingdom. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for
Warrington South
Warrington South is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Andy Carter, a Conservative Party politician.
Constituency profile
Warrington South is one of two seats covering the Borough of Warri ...
, and was first elected at the
2010 general election.
[Warrington South](_blank)
BBC Election 2010. Retrieved 2 January 2013.['MOWAT, David John', Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 201]
accessed 1 Jan 2013
/ref> He was appointed as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Care and Support at the Department of Health
A health department or health ministry is a part of government which focuses on issues related to the general health of the citizenry. Subnational entities, such as states, counties and cities, often also operate a health department of their ow ...
in July 2016.[Government Appointments](_blank)
Gov.uk. Retrieved 2016-18-07. He lost the seat to Labour at the 2017 election.
Early life
Mowat attended Lawrence Sheriff School
Lawrence Sheriff School is a boys' grammar school in Rugby, Warwickshire, England. The school is named after Lawrence Sheriff, the Elizabethan founder of Rugby School. Lawrence Sheriff School was founded in 1878, in order to continue Sheriff's o ...
and at one point was in the same class as Rugby
Rugby may refer to:
Sport
* Rugby football in many forms:
** Rugby league: 13 players per side
*** Masters Rugby League
*** Mod league
*** Rugby league nines
*** Rugby league sevens
*** Touch (sport)
*** Wheelchair rugby league
** Rugby union: 1 ...
MP Mark Pawsey
Mark Julian Francis Pawsey (born 16 January 1957) is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Rugby since the 2010 general election. He is a member of the Conservative Party.
His father, Jim Pawsey, was the MP f ...
. He then went on to study engineering at Imperial College London
Imperial College London (legally Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom. Its history began with Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria, who developed his vision for a cu ...
.
Career before Parliament
After graduating, Mowat qualified as a Chartered Accountant and subsequently joined the consultancy firm Accenture
Accenture plc is an Irish-American professional services company based in Dublin, specializing in information technology (IT) services and consulting. A ''Fortune'' Global 500 company, it reported revenues of $61.6 billion in 2022. Accentur ...
where he eventually became a Global Managing Partner responsible for a business with a turnover of over £500m.
Prior to his election to Parliament, Mowat served as the Chairman of Fairbridge, a charitable organisation in Salford
Salford () is a city and the largest settlement in the City of Salford metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. In 2011, Salford had a population of 103,886. It is also the second and only other city in the metropolitan county afte ...
which helps to improve the life chances of disadvantaged young people. Mowat also served as a Councillor on Macclesfield Borough Council
Macclesfield is a market town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East in Cheshire, England. It is located on the River Bollin in the east of the county, on the edge of the Cheshire Plain, with Macclesfield Forest to its east; ...
from 2007 to 2008.
Parliamentary career
Mowat served as a member of the Scottish Affairs Select Committee
The Scottish Affairs Select Committee is a Select committee (United Kingdom), select committee of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The remit of the committee is to examine the e ...
from 2010 to 2012 and also served on the Joint Committee scrutinising the draft Financial Services Bill.[David Mowat]
, www.parliament.org. Retrieved 2 January 2013. He was a trustee of the House of Commons Pension Fund and served on the Board of the Parliamentary Office for Science & Technology, the non-partisan advisory body on Science & Technology policy within Parliament.
He was also a member of several All Party Parliamentary Groups including Autism, Financial Education for Young People, Chess, Nuclear and Rail in the North. He was vice-chairman President of the Rugby League and Nuclear Power Groups. He was also co-chair of the All-Party Group on Rebalancing the British Economy and became Chair of the UK Aluminium Industry APPG in 2013.
On 10 September 2012 Mowat was appointed as Parliamentary Private Secretary
A Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) is a Member of Parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom who acts as an unpaid assistant to a minister or shadow minister. They are selected from backbench MPs as the 'eyes and ears' of the minister in the H ...
to the then Financial Secretary to the Treasury
The financial secretary to the Treasury is a mid-level ministerial post in HM Treasury, His Majesty's Treasury. It is nominally the fifth most significant ministerial role within the Treasury after the First Lord of the Treasury, first lord of th ...
, Greg Clark
Gregory David Clark (born 28 August 1967) is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities from 7 July 2022 to 6 September 2022. A member of the Conservative Party, he has served as Member of Pa ...
and followed Clark to the Cabinet Office
The Cabinet Office is a department of His Majesty's Government responsible for supporting the prime minister and Cabinet. It is composed of various units that support Cabinet committees and which co-ordinate the delivery of government objecti ...
following a reshuffle in 2014. Mowat stepped down from the role in 2015.
Mowat was opposed to Brexit prior to the 2016 referendum.
Following the appointment of Theresa May
Theresa Mary May, Lady May (; née Brasier; born 1 October 1956) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2016 to 2019. She previously served in David Cameron's cab ...
as Prime Minister
A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is not ...
in July 2016, Mowat was appointed to the Department of Health as the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Care and Support.
Election to Parliament
Mowat was elected to Parliament for the Warrington South Constituency on 6 May 2010 during the 2010 General Election with a majority of 1,553 over the Labour candidate after incumbent Labour MP Helen Southworth
Helen Mary Southworth (born 13 November 1956) is a former Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom who is the Chief Executive of Age Concern Isle of Man. She is the former Member of Parliament (MP) for Warrington South, and was first elec ...
decided to step down. He was re-elected in 2015 with an increased majority after adding 6,287 votes compared to 2010 – the highest such increase in any seat apart from Thirsk & Malton.[Warrington South](_blank)
BBC Election 2015. Retrieved 18 July 2016. He failed to get elected for a third time in the 2017 United Kingdom general election
The 2017 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 8 June 2017, two years after the previous general election in 2015; it was the first since 1992 to be held on a day that did not coincide with any local elections. The governing ...
, losing out to Labour's Faisal Rashid
Faisal Rashid (born 1972) is a British Labour politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Warrington South from 2017 to 2019.
Early life and career
Rashid was educated at the National College of Business Administration and Econom ...
.
References
External links
David Mowat MP
''official constituency website''
David Mowat MP
Conservative Party profile
Warrington South Conservatives
*
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mowat, David
1957 births
Living people
Accenture people
Alumni of Imperial College London
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 2010–2015
UK MPs 2015–2017
Conservative Party (UK) councillors
Councillors in Cheshire