Mark Spencer (politician)

Mark Spencer (politician)
Mark Spencer MP
Member of Parliament
for Sherwood
Incumbent
Assumed office
6 May 2010
Preceded by Paddy Tipping
Majority 214 (0.4%)
Personal details
Born 20 January 1970 (1970-01-20) (age 41)
Nationality British
Political party Conservative

Mark Steven Spencer (born 20 January 1970)[1] is an English Conservative Party politician. He was elected at the 2010 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sherwood.[2]

Born in 1970 Mark attended Lambley Primary School and Col Frank Seely School in Calverton. He then qualified at Shuttleworth Agricultural College in Bedfordshire, before joining the family farm business. A former dairy farm, the business has developed a retail arm and now employes around 50 local people.

Mark Spencer was elected in 2003 to Gedling District Council for the Ravenshead ward, and in 2005 he won the Calverton ward on Nottinghamshire County Council.

Mark's specialist subjects are most notably, energy and food security, agriculture, the environment, road safety and boosting the East Midlands economy. He was elected to the Environmental Audit Select Committee in 2010.

Mark sits of a number of All Party Parliamentary Groups including, the Coalfield Communities APPG, the APPG on Agriculture and Food and the Associate Parliamentary Sustainable Resource Group.


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