Mark Hendrick
Sir Mark Hendrick | |
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Member of Parliament for Preston | |
Assumed office 23 November 2000 | |
Preceded by | Audrey Wise |
Majority | 12,146 (35.9%) |
Member of the European Parliament for Lancashire Central | |
In office 9 June 1994 – 10 June 1999 | |
Member of Salford City Council for Weaste and Seedley | |
In office 7 May 1987 – 9 June 1994 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Labour Co-op | 2 November 1958
Alma mater | Liverpool John Moores University, Victoria University of Manchester |
Website | www |
Sir Mark Phillip Hendrick (born 2 November 1958) is a British
Early life
Hendrick was born in 1958 in
Training and early career
Hendrick trained as a student engineer with the Ministry of Defence in 1979 at the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment, Malvern, Worcestershire.[citation needed] He later studied German at a Volkshochschule Hanau in Germany in 1981, where he trained as a student engineer with AEG Telefunken.[citation needed] In 1982, he was appointed as a Higher Professional and Technology engineer with the Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC), Daresbury Laboratory, and stayed with the SERC for six years.[citation needed]
In 1990, Hendrick joined Stockport College of Further and Higher Education, where he worked for four years as a lecturer in Digital Electronics and Software Design.[4]
Political career
Local government and European Parliament
From 1984 to 1994, Hendrick was the Secretary of the Salford Co-operative Party. He was elected a councillor to the City of Salford Council in 1987 and served in this capacity for eight years.[3] He was also the Chairman of the Eccles Constituency Labour Party from 1990 to 1994. During the 1994 European Parliament Election, Hendrick was elected for the Central Lancashire seat. He served for five years until losing an election bid at the 1999 European Parliament Election, which was run on a regional PR list system.
House of Commons
Hendrick was elected to the House of Commons at the 2000 Preston by-election after the sitting Labour MP Audrey Wise had died.[1] He retained the seat with a majority of 4,426, and made his maiden speech on 11 December 2000.[5] Hendrick has retained his seat at each subsequent general election.
In
In 2002, Hendrick successfully campaigned for and achieved free access for the public to the National Football Museum then based in Preston. He campaigned for City Status for Preston, which was successful and awarded to Preston in the Queen's Golden Jubilee Awards in 2002.[6]
From November 2010 to the summer of 2012, Hendrick was appointed to the front bench by Labour Leader Ed Miliband as an Opposition Assistant Whip.[4][7] Returning to the backbenches, he was later appointed to the Foreign Affairs Select Committee from June 2012 to June 2017.[8]
In July 2015, Hendrick was appointed to the High Speed Rail (HS2) Committee in July 2015 and re-appointed to the Foreign Affairs Select Committee which he served on until May 2017. Hendrick was appointed to the International Trade Select Committee in July 2018 and served until 2023 when the Committee was dissolved following the disbanding of the Department for International Trade.[9] He was formally appointed to the Energy Security and Net Zero Select Committee on 12 June 2023.[10]
Hendrick is a member of various All Party Parliamentary Groups and is currently Chair of the Norway APPG. Hendrick was Chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) China from 2010 to 2012 and is currently a vice-chair.[11] He is the Treasurer for the All-Party Parliamentary British-German Group.[12] He was also a member of the UK delegation to the Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly (OSCEPA) from 2008 to 2020.[13]
Hendrick's political interests include foreign affairs, international development, defence, European, economic, monetary and industrial affairs.[3]
Hendrick was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 2018 New Year Honours for parliamentary and political service.[14]
In 2022, Hendrick introduced the Co-operatives, Mutuals and Friendly Societies Bill to Parliament, an element of which, protecting mutual ownership of co-operative assets, was taken up as Government legislation[15]
Publications
- Changing States 1995
- The Euro and Co-operative Enterprise 1998
- "Question Time Conundrum", Tribune 13 February 2014[16]
- The Ukrainian Crisis: Russia’s relationship with former Soviet States Post EU/NATO Enlargement
- "A View to Brazil", The House Magazine 7 May 2014[17]
- "The Impact of Foreign Players on the Premier League and on England's National Team" Huffington Post 12 June 2014[18]
- "The Government Reforms and Future Election of Aung San Suu Kyi to the Presidency Are Only the Beginning on Burma's Long Road to Being an Inclusive, Democratic Society", Huffington Post 1 July 2014[19]
References
- ^ ISBN 978-1135206833. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
- ^ "Preston". UK Polling Report. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
- ^ a b c "Mark Hendrick". Politics.co.uk. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
- ^ a b "About Mark Hendrick". Preston MP. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
- ^ Hendrick, Mark. "Orders of the Day – Foreign Affairs and Defence". UK Parliament. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
- ^ "Football museum funding refused". BBC News. 11 December 2002. Retrieved 26 June 2010.
- ^ "Her Majesty's Official Opposition". House of Commons Information Office. 22 November 2010. Archived from the original on 2 December 2010.
- ^ "Foreign Affairs Committee – membership". UK Parliament. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
- ^ "International Trade Committee dissolved and Business and Trade Committee formed".
- ^ "Business without Debate Volume 734: debated on Monday 12 June 2023".
- ^ "All Party Parliamentary Group Registers published in 2018". UK Parliament. Retrieved 16 October 2018.
- ^ "All-Party Parliamentary British-German Group". UK Parliament. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
- ^ "Mark Hendrick MP". BBC. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
- ^ "No. 62150". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 2017. p. N2.
- ^ "Landmark reform on cards for co-operatives | Co-operatives UK".
- ^ "Mark Hendrick MP".
- ^ "A View to Brazil" (PDF). 3 March 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 March 2016.
- ^ "The Impact of Foreign Players on the Premier League and on England's National Team". 12 June 2014.
- ^ "The Government Reforms and Future Election of Aung San Suu Kyi to the Presidency Are Only the Beginning on Burma's Long Road to Being an Inclusive, Democratic Society". July 2014.
External links
- Official site
- Profile at Parliament of the United Kingdom
- Contributions in Parliament at Hansard
- Voting record at Public Whip
- Record in Parliament at TheyWorkForYou
- Appearances on C-SPAN