Mark is Vice-Chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Football. A keen follower of lower league professional football, he has visited several Football League clubs during the last few months to investigate problems in the game. The following is the full version of an article he has written about the state of our national game. An abridged version featured this morning on the Guardian's blog: ...

As we Londoners know all too well, a delayed train journey, traffic jams on the roads or disrupted flights have the power to ruin our day and grind away at our general quality of life. Yet transport has remained a Cinderella area for too long....

Mark wrote about his passion for urban walking in this month's Total Politics: My selection in the final month of the last millennium for the Cities of London and Westminster seat commenced a ten year (and counting) love affair with the political, cultural and financial heart of the world’s most exciting city. It also sparked in me a passion for historical reading and urban walking.

Any organisation whose performance and reputation declines as precipitously as the Royal Mail's in recent years cannot expect to survive. Battered by the rise of the internet, competition from leaner and more flexible rivals, a massive pensions shortfall and an increasingly truculent workforce, this...

Mark is a member of the All-Party Group on Football and represented the Conservatives on its reports into the game's governance (2003-04) and finances (2008-09)...