Mark Isherwood (politician)

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Mark Isherwood
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Isherwood in 2021
Member of the Senedd
for North Wales
Assumed office
1 May 2003

Mark Allan Isherwood (born 21 January 1959) is a Welsh Conservative Party politician, who has served as a Member of the Senedd (MS) for the North Wales region since 2003. He is the son of Liberal Democrat politician Rodney Isherwood.

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Education

Isherwood attended Stockport Grammar School. He graduated with a Politics degree from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. [2]

Personal Life

Isherwood is deaf. [3]

Professional career

Isherwood is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers. He was North Wales Area Manager for Cheshire Building Society. He was governor of Ysgol Parc y Llan, and was a Board Member of Flintshire Housing Association. [4]

Political career

Isherwood was a Community Councillor in the village of Treuddyn. [5]

In the 2003 Senedd Members Isherwood ran in the Delyn constituency, where he came second to Welsh Labour's Sandy Mewies. [6] [7] He was however elected on the Conservatives' party list in the North Wales electoral region. [8] He was subsequently re-elected on the party's list at elections in 2007, [9] 2011, [10] 2016 [11] and 2021 [12] . In 2021 he again ran unsuccessfully for the Delyn constituency, and again came second to Welsh Labour's candidate Hannah Blythyn. [13]

In the second and third Welsh Assemblies he held a number of shadow cabinet portfolios, including Finance, Education, Social Justice, Equality and Housing. [5] In the fifth Senedd, he held further shadow portfolios of Communities, Europe and North Wales, Local Government and Housing and Shadow Minister for Finance, and Chief Whip. [5]

He currently chairs the Senedd Public Accounts and Public Administration committee. He is a member of the committee chair's forum, and the Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister. Isherwood further chairs 7 cross party groups - on Autism, Deaf Issues, Disability, Fuel Poverty and Energy Efficiency, Funerals and Bereavement, Hospice and Palliative Care and North Wales. He is also a member of 26 other cross party groupings. [5]

Disability Advocacy

Isherwood openly describes himself as disabled, [3] and is a noted advocate on disability matters in the Senedd. He chairs the Senedd cross-party groupings on Disability, Autism and Deaf Issues, and former chair of the group on Neurological Conditions. He is also a member of cross-party groupings on Diabetes, Learning Disability, Muscular Dystrophy and Neuromuscular conditions and Rare, Genetic and Undiagnosed conditions. [5] He is an advocate for the social model of disability. [14] [15]

In 2004 Isherwood criticised the criminalisation of cannabis, saying that "No-one is wishing to encourage people to break the law, but the concern is that people in pain are being criminalised when they seek what, for them, is an effective form of pain control." [16] Since then, he has repeatedly advocated for it's decriminalisation for medicinal use. [17]

British Sign Language (BSL) (Wales) Bill

In 2022, Isherwood won the ballot for a member bill. He proposed the British Sign Language (BSL) (Wales) bill, which would establish a BSL commissioner. [18]

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References

  1. ↑ "About Mark". Archived from the original on 4 July 2013. Retrieved 31 December 2012.
  2. ↑ "Mark Isherwood | HuffPost". www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. Retrieved 23 February 2021.
  3. 1 2 "'You have to be quite strong': Disabled politicians speak out". BBC News. 27 January 2018. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
  4. ↑ "Mark Isherwood MS". North West Wales. Retrieved 23 February 2021.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 "Mark Isherwood MS". senedd.wales. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
  6. ↑ "Election results for Delyn, 1 May 2003". business.senedd.wales. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
  7. ↑ "BBC NEWS | VOTE 2003 | Delyn". news.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
  8. ↑ "Election results for North Wales, 1 May 2003". business.senedd.wales. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
  9. ↑ "Election results for North Wales, 3 May 2007". business.senedd.wales. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
  10. ↑ "Election results for North Wales, 5 May 2011". business.senedd.wales. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
  11. ↑ "Election results for North Wales, 6 May 2016". business.senedd.wales. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
  12. ↑ "Election results for North Wales, 6 May 2021". business.senedd.wales. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
  13. ↑ "Election results for Delyn, 6 May 2021". business.senedd.wales. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
  14. ↑ "MS shares his experiences as a disabled person as part of the Conservative Disability Group's 'Accessible Politics' Project". Mark Isherwood. 3 September 2020. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
  15. ↑ "' I highlighted "the fragility of some rural economies'". The Leader. 8 February 2023. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
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  18. ↑ "British Sign Language (BSL) (Wales) Bill" (PDF). Senedd Cymru. Retrieved 13 June 2024.

Offices held

Senedd
Preceded by Member of the Senedd for North Wales
2003–present		Incumbent
Political offices
Preceded by
(new post)
 Shadow Minister for Social Justice, Equality and Housing
2007–2016		Succeeded by
post-reorganised


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