Colin Clark
Biography
Colin Clark was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Scotland Office and Government Whip from 27 July 2019 to 16 December 2019.
Colin Clark is a self-made businessman who has spent 30 years in the agri-food sector.
He attended Turriff Academy, a local comprehensive, and studied at Heriot-Watt University. He owned his first company in 1994, supplying major supermarkets with pre-packed vegetables.
After selling the business in 2005, he returned to his family farm in Aberdeenshire.
He was elected Conservative MP for Gordon in 2017.
He has been a Parliamentary Private Secretary at the Department for Work and Pensions and served on the Environmental Audit Committee and the Treasury Committee.
Since entering parliament he has been a passionate advocate for agriculture, the oil & gas sector and the role they can play in protecting the climate.
He has several business interests where he has non-executive involvement.