Mark Griffin

Who is Mark Griffin?

Mark Griffin is a Scottish Labour Party Member of the Scottish Parliament, representing the Central Scotland region. He is the youngest person ever to be elected to the Scottish Parliament.

In May 2012, he was appointed the Scottish Labour Spokesman for Sport. He held the role until July 2013, when he become Shadow Minister for Transport and Veterans.

Griffin was also a North Lanarkshire Councillor from 2008 until 2012.

Upon his election at the age of 25, he became not only the youngest MSP of the 2011-2016 Scottish Parliament, but the youngest in its history.

He sits on the Scottish Parliament's Infrastructure and Capital Investment Committee and is a member of a number of Cross-Party Parliamentary Groups, including the Cross Party Groups on Deafness, Sport and Industrial Communities.

Through his work with the CPG on Deafness, he is in the process of putting a British Sign Language Bill through Parliament. He became one of the first MSPs elected in 2011 to put forward plans for a Members Bill.

Mark is a trained Mechanical Engineer and prior to his election to North Lanarkshire Council in 2008, he was a serving soldier in the British Territorial Army.