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In January 2015, Mullin was selected as a candidate for the Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath constituency and subsequently won on 7 May 2015 with 27,628 votes and 52.2% of the vote, giving a majority of 9,974 votes over Kenny Selbie, the Labour Party candidate whose sitting MP, [[Gordon Brown]], the former Prime Minister; had retired in what had been Labour's safest seat in Scotland. Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath saw a turnout of 69.73% the highest recorded for this constituency.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/politics/ge2015/general-election-2015-praise-for-giant-gordon-brown-as-snp-claim-kirkcaldy-and-cowdenbeath-1.873074 |title=General Election 2015: Praise for 'giant' Gordon Brown as SNP claim Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath |first=Michael |last=Alexander |work=[[The Courier (Dundee)|The Courier]] |publisher=[[D. C. Thomson & Co.]] |date=8 May 2015 |accessdate=10 May 2015}}</ref> As a Member of Parliament, Mullin was a Treasury Spokesperson for the SNP, and a member of the Regulatory Reform Select Committee <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/25286/roger_mullin/kirkcaldy_and_cowdenbeath|title=They Work for You|accessdate=13 April 2018}}</ref> He led a campaign in parliament to reform Scottish Limited Partnerships which had been exposed by the Herald newspaper in Scotland <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/14695858.Roger_Mullin_MP__Why_I_fear_Westminster_will_not_close_Scotland__39_s_tax_haven_loophole/|title=Why I fear Westminster will not close Scotland’s tax loophole|accessdate=13 April 2018}}</ref> as being vehicles for tax evasion and laundering of criminal assets. Since leaving parliament he has continued to comment <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16071803.Why_it_will_take_a_change_in_ethics__not_just_rules__to_end_abuse_of_secret_shell_firms//|title=Why it will take a change in ethics not just rules to end abuse of secret shell firms|accessdate=13 April 2018}}</ref> and campaign on Scottish Limited Partnerships, including being critical of the Law Society of Scotland’s lack of effective action <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16147471.Scots_lawyers_should_face_ethics_action_over_shell_firm_abuse//|title=Scots lawyers should face ethics action over shell firms abuse|accessdate=13 April 2018}}</ref>. Mullin presented a ten minute rule bill to parliament on 20 April 2016 entitled Forensic Linguistic (standards) Bill <ref>{{cite web|url=https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2016-04-20/debates/16042035000001/ForensicLinguistics(Standards)//|title=Hansard|accessdate=13 April 2018}}</ref> . He also presented a Private Members Bill on Double Taxation Treaties for developing countries) <ref>{{cite web|url=https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2016-12-16/debates/1AA01945-F54A-4608-8CED-032482930484/DoubleTaxationTreaties(DevelopingCountries)Bill)//|title=Hansard|accessdate=13 April 2018}}</ref> on 16 December 2018.
In January 2015, Mullin was selected as a candidate for the Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath constituency and subsequently won on 7 May 2015 with 27,628 votes and 52.2% of the vote, giving a majority of 9,974 votes over Kenny Selbie, the Labour Party candidate whose sitting MP, [[Gordon Brown]], the former Prime Minister; had retired in what had been Labour's safest seat in Scotland. Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath saw a turnout of 69.73% the highest recorded for this constituency.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/politics/ge2015/general-election-2015-praise-for-giant-gordon-brown-as-snp-claim-kirkcaldy-and-cowdenbeath-1.873074 |title=General Election 2015: Praise for 'giant' Gordon Brown as SNP claim Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath |first=Michael |last=Alexander |work=[[The Courier (Dundee)|The Courier]] |publisher=[[D. C. Thomson & Co.]] |date=8 May 2015 |accessdate=10 May 2015}}</ref> As a Member of Parliament, Mullin was a Treasury Spokesperson for the SNP, and a member of the Regulatory Reform Select Committee <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/25286/roger_mullin/kirkcaldy_and_cowdenbeath|title=They Work for You|accessdate=13 April 2018}}</ref> He led a campaign in parliament to reform Scottish Limited Partnerships which had been exposed by the Herald newspaper in Scotland <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/14695858.Roger_Mullin_MP__Why_I_fear_Westminster_will_not_close_Scotland__39_s_tax_haven_loophole/|title=Why I fear Westminster will not close Scotland’s tax loophole|accessdate=13 April 2018}}</ref> as being vehicles for tax evasion and laundering of criminal assets. Since leaving parliament he has continued to comment <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16071803.Why_it_will_take_a_change_in_ethics__not_just_rules__to_end_abuse_of_secret_shell_firms//|title=Why it will take a change in ethics not just rules to end abuse of secret shell firms|accessdate=13 April 2018}}</ref> and campaign on Scottish Limited Partnerships, including being critical of the Law Society of Scotland’s lack of effective action <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16147471.Scots_lawyers_should_face_ethics_action_over_shell_firm_abuse//|title=Scots lawyers should face ethics action over shell firms abuse|accessdate=13 April 2018}}</ref>. Mullin presented a ten minute rule bill to parliament on 20 April 2016 entitled Forensic Linguistic (standards) Bill <ref>{{cite web|url=https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2016-04-20/debates/16042035000001/ForensicLinguistics(Standards)//|title=Hansard|accessdate=13 April 2018}}</ref> . He also presented a Private Members Bill on Double Taxation Treaties for developing countries) <ref>{{cite web|url=https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2016-12-16/debates/1AA01945-F54A-4608-8CED-032482930484/DoubleTaxationTreaties(DevelopingCountries)Bill)//|title=Hansard|accessdate=13 April 2018}}</ref> on 16 December 2018.

Mullin was Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Explosive Weapons, in which capacity he addressed the 19th International Meeting of Mine Action National Programme Directors and United Nations Advisers at the United Nations in Geneva 2016 <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/international-mine-awareness-day-roger-mullin//|title=LinkedIn|accessdate=13 April 2018}}</ref>
. He led a Westminster Foundation for Democracy project in Iraqi Kurdistan, and while in Kurdistan became the first British Parliamentarian to enter the City of Mosul during hostilities <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15198665.Scot_braves_bombs_as_he_becomes_first_MP_to_visit_war_torn_Mosul//|title=Scot braves bombs as he becomes first MP to visit war torn Mosul|accessdate=13 April 2018}}</ref> to see at first hand work being undertaken to begin to clear the city of improvised explosive devices.

In 2016 he was appointed by the leader of the SNP and Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to the party’s Scottish Growth Commission <ref>{{cite web|url=https://dailybusinessgroup.co.uk/2016/09/growth-commission-panel-named-to-inform-snp-thinking//|title=Growth Commission Panel named to inform SNP thinking|accessdate=13 April 2018}}</ref>.

Since leaving parliament, Mullin has been appointed Special Envoy for the All Party Parliamentary Group on Explosive Threats <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/roger-mullin-0941454//|title=LinkedIn|accessdate=13 April 2018}}</ref> .He has also undertaken research into Brexit and Scottish Business <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.momentouschangeltd.co.uk/projects//|title=Momentous Change Ltd|accessdate=13 April 2018}}</ref> along with former MP colleague Michelle Thomson.


==Publications==
==Publications==

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Roger Mullin
Member of Parliament
for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
In office
7 May 2015 – 8 June 2017
Preceded byGordon Brown
Succeeded byLesley Laird
Personal details
Born (1948-03-12) 12 March 1948 (age 76)
Political partyScottish National Party
SpouseBarbara Mullin
Alma materUniversity of Edinburgh

William Arthur Roger Mullin (born 12 March 1948) was a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath from May 2015, until being defeated at the 2017 snap general election.[1][2]

Education and career

Roger Mullin graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a M.A. Honours degree in Sociology in 1977. He was a Member of the Institute of Personnel and Development and also holds a Higher National Certificate in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. [3]

He is an Honorary Professor at the University of Stirling,[4] and lectured postgraduates on Applied Decision Theory, The Political Environment, and Organisation Change. He wrote a monthly column in The Times Educational Supplement Scotland but is now a Founding Director of Momentous Change Ltd.[5]

Political career

Mullin joined the SNP in 1966.[6] He is a former Vice-convener of the Scottish National Party. He unsuccessfully fought three earlier Westminster campaigns at the General Elections of February 1974 [7] in South Ayrshire, again in South Ayrshire in the October General Election of 1974 [8] and at Kirkcaldy in 1987 [9].

His wife, Barbara Mullin, was also a candidate for the SNP at the 1992 general election in the Ayr constituency.[10]

In January 2015, Mullin was selected as a candidate for the Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath constituency and subsequently won on 7 May 2015 with 27,628 votes and 52.2% of the vote, giving a majority of 9,974 votes over Kenny Selbie, the Labour Party candidate whose sitting MP, Gordon Brown, the former Prime Minister; had retired in what had been Labour's safest seat in Scotland. Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath saw a turnout of 69.73% the highest recorded for this constituency.[11] As a Member of Parliament, Mullin was a Treasury Spokesperson for the SNP, and a member of the Regulatory Reform Select Committee [12] He led a campaign in parliament to reform Scottish Limited Partnerships which had been exposed by the Herald newspaper in Scotland [13] as being vehicles for tax evasion and laundering of criminal assets. Since leaving parliament he has continued to comment [14] and campaign on Scottish Limited Partnerships, including being critical of the Law Society of Scotland’s lack of effective action [15]. Mullin presented a ten minute rule bill to parliament on 20 April 2016 entitled Forensic Linguistic (standards) Bill [16] . He also presented a Private Members Bill on Double Taxation Treaties for developing countries) [17] on 16 December 2018.

Mullin was Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Explosive Weapons, in which capacity he addressed the 19th International Meeting of Mine Action National Programme Directors and United Nations Advisers at the United Nations in Geneva 2016 [18] . He led a Westminster Foundation for Democracy project in Iraqi Kurdistan, and while in Kurdistan became the first British Parliamentarian to enter the City of Mosul during hostilities [19] to see at first hand work being undertaken to begin to clear the city of improvised explosive devices.

In 2016 he was appointed by the leader of the SNP and Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to the party’s Scottish Growth Commission [20].

Since leaving parliament, Mullin has been appointed Special Envoy for the All Party Parliamentary Group on Explosive Threats [21] .He has also undertaken research into Brexit and Scottish Business [22] along with former MP colleague Michelle Thomson.

Publications

  • Public and Third Sector Leadership (Emerald Publishing), London, 2014.
  • The Unemployment Stat in The Bulletin of Scottish Politics, Edinburgh, 1981.
  • Edinburgh's Silence in J. Bochel, D. Denver & A. Macartney (Eds), The Referendum Experience, Scotland, 1979, Aberdeen University Press, 1981.
  • The Sound of Devolution in J. Bochel, D. Denver & A. Macartney (Eds), The Referendum Experience, Scotland, 1979, Aberdeen University Press, 1981.
  • The Scottish National Party in H. Drucker (Ed) Multi-Party Britain, London & New York:Macmillan, 1979.

References

  1. ^ "Kirkcaldy & Cowdenbeath parliamentary constituency – Election 2015 – BBC News". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
  2. ^ "List of Members returned to Parliament at the General Election 2015 Scotland". The Edinburgh Gazette. 15 May 2015. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
  3. ^ "LinkedIn". Retrieved 12 April 2018.
  4. ^ "SNP name candidate to contest Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath seat". Central Fife Times. 23 January 2015. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
  5. ^ "Roger Mullin MP | Scottish National Party". Snp.org. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
  6. ^ Silvera, Ian (17 July 2015). "Meet Roger Mullin: The SNP 'giant killer' who took Gordon Brown's seat". International Business Times. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
  7. ^ "UK General Election results February 1974". Retrieved 13 April 2018.
  8. ^ "UK General Election results October 1974". Retrieved 13 April 2018.
  9. ^ "Electoral Calculus Original Data". Retrieved 13 April 2018.
  10. ^ "General Election, Alex Salmond, Mhairi Black | Holyrood Magazine". Holyrood.com. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
  11. ^ Alexander, Michael (8 May 2015). "General Election 2015: Praise for 'giant' Gordon Brown as SNP claim Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath". The Courier. D. C. Thomson & Co. Retrieved 10 May 2015.
  12. ^ "They Work for You". Retrieved 13 April 2018.
  13. ^ "Why I fear Westminster will not close Scotland's tax loophole". Retrieved 13 April 2018.
  14. ^ "Why it will take a change in ethics not just rules to end abuse of secret shell firms". Retrieved 13 April 2018.
  15. ^ "Scots lawyers should face ethics action over shell firms abuse". Retrieved 13 April 2018.
  16. ^ "Hansard". Retrieved 13 April 2018.
  17. ^ "Hansard". Retrieved 13 April 2018.
  18. ^ "LinkedIn". Retrieved 13 April 2018.
  19. ^ "Scot braves bombs as he becomes first MP to visit war torn Mosul". Retrieved 13 April 2018.
  20. ^ "Growth Commission Panel named to inform SNP thinking". Retrieved 13 April 2018.
  21. ^ "LinkedIn". Retrieved 13 April 2018.
  22. ^ "Momentous Change Ltd". Retrieved 13 April 2018.
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