Member of Parliament
Mark Garnier
Conservative MP for Wyre Forest
Shadow Parliamentary Under Secretary (Work and Pensions)·Shadow Economic Secretary (Treasury)
At a glanceMark Garnier is a Conservative MP for Wyre Forest, and has represented the seat for 16 years, 2 months. They currently serve as Shadow Parliamentary Under Secretary (Work and Pensions). They have cast 415 votes in Commons divisions (72% attendance), tabled 333 written questions and registered 20 financial interests.
Attendance is votes cast as a share of the 575 Commons divisions since the 2024 election; Mark Garnier did not vote in 160. A rebellion is a vote against the way most of their own party voted; free votes, where no party line applies, are left out.
Party-loyalty figures are our own analysis of the official voting records (recorded votes only; they do not describe the formal whip). How we work this out.
Biography
He currently undertakes the roles of Shadow Economic Secretary (Treasury), and Shadow Parliamentary Under Secretary (Work and Pensions).
Current roles
- Shadow Parliamentary Under Secretary (Work and Pensions) Opposition post · Department for Work and Pensions since 22 Jul 2025
- Space Industry (Indemnities) Bill Committee since 18 Jun 2025
- Shadow Economic Secretary (Treasury) Opposition post · HM Treasury since 6 Nov 2024
- Wyre Forest Representation · Elected 1 time since 4 Jul 2024
- Conservative Party since 6 May 2010
Voting record
Voting alignment
Votes most like
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Mr Peter Bedford
Conservative
100.0% · 370 of 370 shared votes
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James Cartlidge
Conservative
100.0% · 356 of 356 shared votes
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Sir Ashley Fox
Conservative
100.0% · 353 of 353 shared votes
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James Wild
Conservative
100.0% · 342 of 342 shared votes
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Sir Oliver Dowden
Conservative
100.0% · 314 of 314 shared votes
Votes least like
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Ms Julie Minns
Labour
0.5% · 2 of 367 shared votes
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Valerie Vaz
Labour
0.7% · 2 of 302 shared votes
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Adam Jogee
Labour
0.7% · 2 of 278 shared votes
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Alex Baker
Labour
0.9% · 3 of 338 shared votes
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Bambos Charalambous
Labour
0.9% · 3 of 319 shared votes
Alignment figures are our own analysis of the official voting records (recorded votes only; they do not describe the formal whip). How we work this out.
Register of financial interests
From the official Register; shown as registered.
Employment and earnings3
- Non executive director - Space Solar Group Holdings (registered 22 Nov 2025)
- Business referral - GBMW Ltd (registered 28 Oct 2025)
- Chair of the Advisory Board
Employment and earnings - Ad hoc payments4
- Payment received on 03 February 2026 - £2,000.00 (registered 5 Feb 2026)
- Payment received on 02 June 2025 - £2,000.00 (registered 22 Dec 2025)
- Payment received on 24 May 2024 - £15,000.00 (registered 22 Dec 2025)
- Payment received on 23 October 2025 - £10,620.00 (registered 28 Oct 2025)
Employment and earnings - Ongoing paid employment2
- Agreement starting 18 November 2025 - £0.00 (registered 22 Nov 2025)
- Agreement starting 18 July 2024 - £500.00 (registered 24 Jul 2024)
Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources2
- Richardsons - £1,260.00 (registered 1 Jun 2026)
- Silverstone Circuits Limited - £1,400.00 (registered 7 Jul 2025)
Visits outside the UK5
- International visit to China between 24 May 2026 and 29 May 2026 (registered 9 Jun 2026)
- International visit to Qatar between 19 May 2025 and 23 May 2025 (registered 22 Dec 2025)
- International visit to China between 05 January 2025 and 10 January 2025 (registered 22 Dec 2025)
- International visit to South Korea between 25 September 2025 and 01 October 2025 (registered 14 Oct 2025)
- International visit to Thailand between 20 September 2025 and 25 September 2025 (registered 9 Oct 2025)
Miscellaneous4
- Trustee, Industry and Parliament Trust. The IPT is Parliament based, and establishes links between Parliamentarians and the wider economy. This is an unpaid role. (registered 18 Jun 2026)
- Chair of the British Shooting Sports Council, an umbrella organisation that brings together 15 organisations that represent the wider interests of the shooting community in the UK. This is an unpaid role. (registered 22 Mar 2025)
- ReWyre Board. The ReWyre Board is a group of people supporting the economic development of Wyre Forest, supported by Wyre Forest District Council. This is an unpaid role. (registered 10 Nov 2024)
- Member of the board, The Conservative Party. (registered 7 Aug 2024)
Written questions
Access to Banking Review
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to include the recommendations of the Access to Banking Review in the Financial Services and Markets Bill 2026.
Answer · 7 Jul 2026
The Access to Banking Services Review will consider access to in-person banking services and whether changes to access to in-person banking services are causing consumer detriment. The evidence collected by the Review will inform future decisions on wheth...
Digital Technology
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the trend in the number digitally excluded adults.
Answer · 7 Jul 2026
The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) Financial Lives Survey reports that 1.2 million UK adults (2%) were digitally excluded in 2024, a significant decrease from 6.9 million (14%) in 2017. Digital inclusion was considered as part of the Government’s Fin...
Individual Savings Accounts
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of delaying the anti-circumvention rules for ISAs to April 2028.
Answer · 7 Jul 2026
At Autumn Budget 2025, we announced that, from 6th April 2027, the Cash ISA allowance will be reduced to £12,000 while the limit for Stocks and Shares and Innovative Finance ISAs will remain at £20,000. To ensure the reformed ISA limits operate as intende...
Individual Savings Accounts
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of reviewing the property price cap of (a) the Lifetime ISA, (b) the Help to Buy ISA and (c) the First-Time Buyer ISA on an annual basis.
Answer · 7 Jul 2026
On 23 June the Government published a consultation on the implementation of the First-Time Buyer ISA (FTB ISA), further details of which can be found at www.gov.uk/government/consultations/first-time-buyer-isa-consultation. The consultation confirmed that...
Individual Savings Accounts
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to implement a property price cap on the First-Time Buyer ISA based on whether the property is (a) in London and (b) outside London.
Answer · 7 Jul 2026
On 23 June the Government published a consultation on the implementation of the First-Time Buyer ISA (FTB ISA), further details of which can be found at www.gov.uk/government/consultations/first-time-buyer-isa-consultation. The consultation confirmed that...
Individual Savings Accounts
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to increase the property price cap for (a) the Lifetime ISA, (b) the Help to Buy ISA and (c) the First-Time Buyer ISA.
Answer · 7 Jul 2026
On 23 June the Government published a consultation on the implementation of the First-Time Buyer ISA (FTB ISA), further details of which can be found at www.gov.uk/government/consultations/first-time-buyer-isa-consultation. The consultation confirmed that...
Individual Savings Accounts
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she will take to ensure the long-term viability of the Lifetime ISA following the implementation of the First-Time Buyer ISA product.
Answer · 7 Jul 2026
On 23 June the Government published a consultation on the implementation of the First-Time Buyer ISA (FTB ISA), further details of which can be found at www.gov.uk/government/consultations/first-time-buyer-isa-consultation. The consultation confirmed that...
Pension Funds
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, following the conclusion of the consultation entitled ‘Trust-based pension schemes: Trustees and governance, building a stronger future’, what steps he will take to ensure any guidance to pension fund t
Answer · 9 Jul 2026
Trustees of occupational pension schemes must act in accordance with their legal and fiduciary duties and in the interests of scheme members. The consultation ‘Trust-based pension schemes: Trustees and governance, building a stronger future’ seeks views o...
Speeches in the chamber
16 Jul 2026 Local Government Reorganisation
I can see the sense in what the Secretary of State is trying to achieve with this reorganisation, and the target of 500,000 people per unitary authority makes a lot of sense—it brings a lot of people together. But why, after Wyre Forest di…
15 Jul 2026 National Energy System Operator: Blackout Risk
May I associate myself with the comments of my right hon. Friend the Member for New Forest East (Sir Julian Lewis) about the management of NESO creating a hostile environment for technicians in the distribution centres? Like the Minister, …
7 Jul 2026 Early Release of Prisoners
Can the Minister not understand that people out there, such as my constituent Leanne Vaughan—her daughter was killed by a hooligan driver, and she had to wait 28 months before he was sentenced to 66 months in prison, but then was released …
30 Jun 2026 Department for Work and Pensions
I am not going to give way, because I have very limited time—my apologies. When it comes to fraud and error in the DWP specifically, the Department’s own statistics estimate that around £9.9 billion is overpaid in benefits each year. Tw…
30 Jun 2026 Department for Work and Pensions
I thank the Chair of the Work and Pensions Committee, the hon. Member for Oldham East and Saddleworth (Debbie Abrahams), for securing this debate. I offer my congratulations to my hon. Friend the Member for Aberdeen South (Douglas Lumsden)…
29 Jun 2026 Supporting British Pensioners
The Pensions Minister likes to spend a lot of time criticising the previous Government for their actions on pensioners. He also spends an awful lot of time talking up his legacy on helping pensioners, but his actions simply do not reflect …
23 Jun 2026 Venture Capital Trust Income Tax Relief
May I start by congratulating the former Economic Secretary, the right hon. and learned Member for Northampton North (Lucy Rigby), on her promotion to Chief Secretary? In the eight months that I shadowed her in her previous role, she made…
16 Jun 2026 Draft Pensions (Abolition of Lifetime Allowance Charge etc) Regulations 2026
I was going to bang on with a very long and intelligent speech, but in the interests of brevity and keeping everybody happy, I will not. I am delighted that the Minister is introducing legislation relating to the glorious regime of the str…
15 Jun 2026 State Pensioners: Personal Allowance
It is interesting that the Minister raises that point. He will no doubt remember that Chancellor Gordon Brown raised the state pension by, I think, 50p a week. Did he support that policy by one of his predecessor Chancellors?
15 Jun 2026 State Pensioners: Personal Allowance
Will the Minister give way?
15 Jun 2026 State Pensioners: Personal Allowance
I am sure that the Minister will chunter intelligently at some point. In our 2024 manifesto, the Conservative party proposed the triple lock plus to stop this problem happening. It would have exempted the state pension from income tax, …
15 Jun 2026 State Pensioners: Personal Allowance
Thank you, Dr Huq, for your stewardship of this important debate. I also thank my hon. Friend the Member for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk (John Lamont) for introducing the debate. Most importantly, I thank the 119,000 people who sign…
28 Apr 2026 Pension Schemes Bill
The hon. Gentleman makes an incredibly important point about crossing the Rubicon, given that the Government are taking mandation powers to interfere in people’s savings and assets. We are talking about pension funds here, but once that Ru…
28 Apr 2026 Global Trade: Support for Businesses
The Economic Secretary to the Treasury will know that our financial services industry is a shining example of our international economic might. However, overinterpretation of rules and regulations has led to banks being nervous of taking r…
27 Apr 2026 Pension Schemes Bill
With the greatest respect, the Minister is talking nonsense. At the end of the day, every trustee has a fiduciary duty to get the best return for their members. By putting in these mandation powers, the Government are fundamentally going a…
27 Apr 2026 State Pension Age Changes: Compensation
When his party was in opposition, the Prime Minister promised compensation for WASPI women, but when faced with the economic reality of the costs, he and the Secretary of State chose common sense over ideology. In the spirit of that pragm…
22 Apr 2026 Pension Schemes Bill
Both sides of this House are going with the grain of what is intended on this. There is a fundamental problem—we all agree on that—but let us get the issues out of the way that are blocking it. We cannot force people into a minefield if th…
22 Apr 2026 Pension Schemes Bill
The right hon. Member raises many really important points, much of which we agree with. That is why, I think on Report, the Opposition tabled an amendment to try to understand what the problem was. It specifically asked, “Why are these pen…
22 Apr 2026 Car Insurance Industry: Fraud
It is a great pleasure to serve under you this afternoon, Ms Lewell, and I thank the hon. Member for North Shropshire (Helen Morgan) for securing this important debate. We have heard quite a lot of depressing stories about how people have …
21 Apr 2026 Draft Capital Requirements Regulation (Market Risk Transitional Provision) Regulations 2026 Draft Credit Institutions and Investment Firms (Miscellaneous Definitions) (Amendment) Regulations 2026
It is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Hobhouse. As the Minister has said, the draft regulations are pretty uncontroversial, and the Opposition will certainly not oppose them. I have a couple of questions on the dr…
Source: contributions on parliament.uk.
Full parliamentary career
Government posts
- Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for International Trade) · Department for International Trade 17 Jul 2016 – 9 Jan 2018
Opposition posts
- Shadow Parliamentary Under Secretary (Energy Security and Net Zero) · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero 19 Jul 2024 – 6 Nov 2024
Committee memberships
- Finance (No. 2) Bill 15 Jan 2026 – 3 Feb 2026
- Pension Schemes Bill 15 Jul 2025 – 11 Sep 2025
- Bank Resolution (Recapitalisation) Bill [HL] 5 Feb 2025 – 11 Feb 2025
- Energy Security and Net Zero Committee 12 Jun 2023 – 30 May 2024
- Space Industry (Indemnities) Bill 1 May 2024 – 8 May 2024
- Criminal Justice Bill 6 Dec 2023 – 30 Jan 2024
- Committees on Arms Export Controls · Chair 6 Jul 2020 – 26 Apr 2023
- International Trade Committee 2 Mar 2020 – 26 Apr 2023
- Electricity and Gas Transmission (Compensation) Bill 18 Jan 2023 – 25 Jan 2023
- Cultural Objects (Protection From Seizure) Bill 9 Nov 2021 – 17 Nov 2021
- Regulatory Reform 2 Mar 2020 – 20 May 2021
- European Statutory Instruments Committee 10 Feb 2020 – 14 Sep 2020
- Finance Committee (Commons) 20 Jul 2015 – 19 Dec 2016
- Treasury Committee 8 Jul 2015 – 31 Oct 2016
- Treasury Committee 12 Jul 2010 – 30 Mar 2015
- Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards (Joint Committee) 16 Jul 2012 – 12 Jun 2013
Previous seats
- Wyre Forest · Elected 4 times 6 May 2010 – 30 May 2024
Elections contested
- Wyre Forest 5 May 2005
Expenses
Contact & offices
020 7219 7198
Parliamentary office
House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
Constituency office
28A Bewdley Road North, Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire, DY13 8PS
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about Mark Garnier, answered from official Parliament data.
Who is Mark Garnier?
Mark Garnier is a Member of Parliament representing Wyre Forest in the House of Commons. See Mark Garnier's official Parliament profile.
Which party does Mark Garnier represent?
Mark Garnier sits as Conservative. See Mark Garnier's official Parliament profile.
Which constituency does Mark Garnier represent?
Mark Garnier is the Member of Parliament for Wyre Forest. See Mark Garnier's official Parliament profile.
How long has Mark Garnier been an MP?
Mark Garnier has served in the House of Commons for 16 years, 2 months. See Mark Garnier's official Parliament profile.
What registered interests are listed for Mark Garnier?
Mark Garnier has 20 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. See Mark Garnier's official Parliament profile.
Source: this MP's official Parliament profile. Last updated 26 Jul 2026.