{{Short description|British former Conservative politician}} {{About|the politician|the medical scientist|David R. Mowat}} {{Use British English|date=July 2016}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2016}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = DavidMowatDHportrait.jpg | honorific_prefix = | name = David Mowat | honorific_suffix = | office = Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Care and Support | prime_minister = Theresa May | term_start = 14 July 2016 | term_end = 9 June 2017 | predecessor = Alistair Burt | successor = Caroline Dinenage | office1 = Member of Parliament <br> for Warrington South | parliament1 = Parliament of the United Kingdom | majority1 = | predecessor1 = Helen Southworth | successor1 = Faisal Rashid | term_start1 = 6 May 2010 | term_end1 = 3 May 2017 | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1957|02|20}} | birth_place = Rugby, Warwickshire, England | death_date = | death_place = | spouse = Nicky Mowat | party = Conservative | relations = | children = | alma_mater = Imperial College London | occupation = | profession = Chartered accountant | signature = | website = {{URL|www.davidmowat.org.uk}} | footnotes = | caption = Mowat in 2016 }}
'''David John Mowat'''<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=59418 |date=13 May 2010 |page=8745}}</ref> (born 20 February 1957)<ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/parliaments |title=David Mowat MP |publisher=BBC |work=BBC Democracy Live |access-date=25 July 2010}}</ref> 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.<ref name="bbc election">[https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/election2010/results/constituency/e93.stm Warrington South], BBC Election 2010. Retrieved 2 January 2013.</ref><ref name=ww>'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 2012 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U251130, accessed 1 Jan 2013]</ref> He was appointed as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Care and Support at the Department of Health in July 2016.<ref name="Government Appointments">[https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-ministerial-and-government-appointments-announced-on-july-17-2016 Government Appointments], Gov.uk. Retrieved 2016-18-07.</ref> He lost the seat to Labour at the 2017 election.
== Early life == Mowat attended Lawrence Sheriff School<ref name=ww /> and at one point was in the same class as Rugby MP Mark Pawsey.<ref name = "hansard 1">{{cite web|author=Department of the Official Report (Hansard), House of Commons, Westminster |url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmhansrd/cm110120/debtext/110120-0003.htm#11012055001422 |title=House of Commons Hansard Debates for 20 Jan 2011 (pt 0003) |publisher=Publications.parliament.uk |date=20 January 2011 |access-date=18 August 2012}}</ref> He then went on to study engineering at Imperial College London.<ref name=ww />
==Career before Parliament== After graduating, Mowat qualified as a Chartered Accountant and subsequently joined the consultancy firm Accenture<ref name=ww /> where he eventually became a Global Managing Partner responsible for a business with a turnover of over £500m.<ref name="conservative biography">{{cite web |url=http://www.conservatives.com/People/Members_of_Parliament/Mowat_David.aspx |title=The Conservative Party | People | Members of Parliament | David Mowat MP |publisher=Conservatives.com |date=19 July 2012 |access-date=18 August 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120916083156/http://www.conservatives.com/People/Members_of_Parliament/Mowat_David.aspx |archive-date=16 September 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Prior to his election to Parliament, Mowat served as the Chairman of Fairbridge, a charitable organisation in Salford which helps to improve the life chances of disadvantaged young people.<ref name="politics">{{cite web|url=http://www.politics.co.uk/reference/david-mowat |title=Mowat, David |publisher=Politics.co.uk |access-date=31 July 2012}}</ref> Mowat also served as a Councillor on Macclesfield Borough Council from 2007 to 2008.<ref name=ww />
==Parliamentary career== Mowat served as a member of the Scottish Affairs Select Committee from 2010 to 2012 and also served on the Joint Committee scrutinising the draft Financial Services Bill.<ref name=parl>[http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/commons/david-mowat/62743 David Mowat] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130204122022/http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/commons/david-mowat/62743 |date=4 February 2013 }}, www.parliament.org. Retrieved 2 January 2013.</ref><ref name="select">{{cite web|url=http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/joint-select/draft-financial-services-bill/ |title=Draft Financial Services Bill – UK Parliament |publisher=Parliament.uk |access-date=31 July 2012}}</ref> 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.<ref name="post">{{cite web|url=http://www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-and-offices/offices/bicameral/post/about-post/post-board/ |title=POST Board – UK Parliament |publisher=Parliament.uk |date=21 November 2011 |access-date=31 July 2012}}</ref>
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<ref name="rugby league">{{cite web|url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmallparty/register/rugby-league.htm |title=House of Commons – Register of All-Party Groups as at 27 July 2012: Rugby League |publisher=Publications.parliament.uk |access-date=31 July 2012}}</ref> and Nuclear Power Groups.<ref name="nuclear power">{{cite web|url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmallparty/register/nuclear-energy.htm |title=House of Commons – Register of All-Party Groups as at 27 July 2012: Nuclear Energy |publisher=Publications.parliament.uk |access-date=31 July 2012}}</ref> 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 Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Greg Clark and followed Clark to the Cabinet Office following a reshuffle in 2014.<ref name=parl /> Mowat stepped down from the role in 2015.
Mowat was opposed to Brexit prior to the 2016 referendum.<ref name="thespectatorwhichtorympsbackbrexit">{{cite news|last1=Goodenough|first1=Tom|title=Which Tory MPs back Brexit, who doesn't and who is still on the fence?|url=http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/02/which-tory-mps-back-brexit-who-doesnt-and-who-is-still-on-the-fence/|access-date=11 October 2016|work=The Spectator|date=16 February 2016|archive-date=22 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161022111657/http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/02/which-tory-mps-back-brexit-who-doesnt-and-who-is-still-on-the-fence/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Following the appointment of Theresa May as Prime Minister 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.<ref name="bbc election" /> 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.<ref name="bbc election 2015">[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/constituencies/E14001018 Warrington South], BBC Election 2015. Retrieved 18 July 2016.</ref> He failed to get elected for a third time in the 2017 United Kingdom general election, losing out to Labour's Faisal Rashid.
{{Election box begin | |title=General election 2015: Warrington South<ref name=electoralcalculus>{{cite web|title=Election Data 2015|url=http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/electdata_2015.txt|publisher=Electoral Calculus|access-date=17 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017112223/http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/electdata_2015.txt|archive-date=17 October 2015}}</ref><ref name="2015 result">{{cite news | title = Warrington South | url = https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/constituencies/E14001018 | publisher = BBC News | access-date = 10 May 2015}}</ref> }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Conservative Party (UK) |candidate = David Mowat |votes = 25,928 |percentage = 43.7 |change = +7.9 }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Labour Party (UK) |candidate = Nick Bent |votes = 23,178 |percentage = 39.1 |change = +6.1 }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = UK Independence Party |candidate = Mal Lingley |votes = 4,909 |percentage = 8.3 |change = +5.3 }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Liberal Democrats (UK) |candidate = Bob Barr |votes = 3,335 |percentage = 5.6 |change = -21.9 }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Green Party of England and Wales |candidate = Stephanie Davies |votes = 1,765 |percentage = 3.0 |change = +2.2 }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition |candidate = Kevin Bennett |votes = 238 |percentage = 0.4 |change = +0.4 }} {{Election box majority |votes = 2,750 |percentage = 4.6 |change = +1.8 }} {{Election box turnout |votes = 59,353 |percentage = 69.4 |change = +1.2 }} {{Election box hold with party link| |winner = Conservative Party (UK) |swing = }} {{Election box end}} {{Election box begin | |title=General election 2010: Warrington South}} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Conservative Party (UK) |candidate = David Mowat |votes = 19,641 |percentage = 35.8 |change = +3.7 }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Labour Party (UK) |candidate = Nick Bent |votes = 18,088 |percentage = 33.0 |change = −8.3 }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Liberal Democrats (UK) |candidate = Jo Crotty |votes = 15,094 |percentage = 27.5 |change = +3.5 }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = UK Independence Party |candidate = Derek Ashington |votes = 1,624 |percentage = 3.0 |change = +1.2 }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Green Party of England and Wales |candidate = Stephanie Davies |votes = 427 |percentage = 0.8 |change = +0.8 }} {{Election box majority| |votes = 1,553 |percentage = 2.8 |change = }} {{Election box turnout| |votes = 54,874 |percentage = 68.2 |change = +6.7 }} {{Election box gain with party link| |winner = Conservative Party (UK) |loser = Labour Party (UK) |swing = +6.0 }} {{Election box end}}
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== External links == * [https://web.archive.org/web/20170612070411/http://www.davidmowat.org.uk/ David Mowat MP] ''official constituency website'' * [https://web.archive.org/web/20100518120034/http://www.conservatives.com/People/Members_of_Parliament/Mowat_David.aspx David Mowat MP] Conservative Party profile * [http://www.warringtonsouthconservatives.com/ Warrington South Conservatives] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100223184832/http://www.warringtonsouthconservatives.com/ |date=23 February 2010 }} * {{UK MP links | parliament = david-mowat/4080 | guardian = 12140/david-mowat | publicwhip = David_Mowat | theywork = david_mowat | record = David-Mowat/Warrington-South/907 | bbc = 62743.stm | journalisted = }}
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