Stephen McPartland is a British Conservative Party politician.
Education
Born in Liverpool on 9 August 1976, McPartland studied for his first degree in History at the University of Liverpool, graduating in 1997. He studied for an Master of Science in Technology Management at Liverpool John Moores University in 1998.
Career
McPartland was the Director of Membership for British American Business (the United States Chamber of Commerce), based in London. His political career started in 1999 in Warrington, where he managed a range of local council, parliamentary and European election campaigns, before he moved to Hertfordshire in 2001 to work as a Campaign Manager. He served on the Science and Technology Select Committee between 2011 and 2012.
He also sat on the 2011 Education Bill Committee and participated in all stages of the Bill’s passage through Parliament
Chair, Allergy APPG
Chair, Child and Youth Crime APPG
Chair, Child Health and Vaccine Preventable Diseases APPG
Chair, Furniture Industry APPG
Chair, Literacy APPG
Chair, Respiratory Health APPG
Vice Chair, Ticket Abuse APPG
Officer, Disability APPG
Officer, Internet, Communications & Technology APPG
McPartland campaigned against corporate tax avoidance, including writing to all of the FTSE100 Chief executive officers to ask whether they would be willing to support greater tax transparency.
McPartland was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of State for Trade and Investment, Lord Livingston. McPartland initiated a parliamentary inquiry into electronic invoicing in the public sector.
lieutenant delivered its findings in June 2014. He is also pushing for greater interoperability, with the launch of an Interoperability Charter in April 2013, to encourage and recognise best practice in delivering the Digital Economy.
As Chair of the Respiratory Health APPG, McPartland led an inquiry into respiratory deaths and noted that the United Kingdom has the worst death rate of Organization of European Cooperation and Development countries and that most deaths of children from asthma are preventable.
He also successfully campaigned to change the law from 1 October 2014 to allow emergency inhalers for asthma attacks to be kept in schools. McPartland served as chairman of The Furniture Ombudsman, a not-for-profit, industry-wide customer disputes resolution body. McPartland was a Trustee of The Living Room Charity, which offers a wide range of free addiction treatment services and is a Patron of the Turn the Tide project
Both are locally-based charitable organisations founded in Stevenage.
McPartland is also a non-executive director of Furniture Village. and a Patron of Trailblazers, a national charity that reduces re-offending among young people through providing volunteer mentors.
Politics
McPartland’s political interests include health care, with a particular focus on cancer treatment and respiratory diseases. Education, science and technology, including satellite technology. International trade; policing.
Addiction treatment; urban regeneration and government procurement of Information Technology projects. McPartland is on the Board of the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology and is involved with the running of several All Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs), including the following:.
Membership
55th United Kingdom Parliament. 56th United Kingdom Parliament]
He was elected as the Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Stevenage at the 2010 general election.