David John Mowat (born 20 February 1957) is a former Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Warrington South, and was first elected at the 2010 general election.Warrington South
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
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/ref> He was appointed as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Care and Support at the

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in July 2016.Government Appointments
Gov.uk. Retrieved 2016-18-07. He lost the seat to Labour at the 2017 election.

Early life

Mowat attended

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and at one point was in the same class as

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. He then went on to study engineering at

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Career before Parliament

After graduating, Mowat qualified as a Chartered Accountant and subsequently joined the consultancy firm

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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

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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, Cheshire, England. It is sited on the River Bollin and the edge of the Cheshire Plain, with Macclesfield Forest to its east; the town lies south of M ...

from 2007 to 2008.

Parliamentary career

Mowat served as a member of the

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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 to the then

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and followed Clark to the

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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

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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 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
BBC Election 2015. Retrieved 18 July 2016. He failed to get elected for a third time in the

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, losing out to Labour's Faisal Rashid.

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