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Mark Reckless

PEP · Politician

Mark Reckless is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Mark Reckless · مارك ريكليس · マーク・レックレス · 马克·雷克利斯				[sources]
Alias	Mark John Reckless · マーク・レックレス · 馬克·雷克利斯 · 马克·雷克利斯				[sources]
Birth date	1970-12-06				[sources]
Place of birth	London				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Country	United Kingdom · Wales				[sources]
Citizenship	United Kingdom · Wales				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status) · State government (unknown status)				[sources]
Email	Mark.Reckless@assembly.wales				[sources]
First name	Mark				[sources]
Last name	Reckless				[sources]
Political association	Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party · Brexit Party · Conservative Party · UK Independence Party				[sources]
Website	www.markreckless.com · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q575027				[sources]
Wikipedia Article	en.wikipedia.org				[sources]
Position	House of Commons (member, 2010-2014) · House of Commons (member, 2010-2015) · Member of the 5th National Assembly for Wales (2016-2017) · Member of the 5th National Assembly for Wales (2017-2021) · National Assembly for Wales (member, 2016-) · 3 more...				[sources]
Education	Christ Church · Columbia Business School · Marlborough College				[sources]
Last change	2026-04-01	Last processed	2026-04-01	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

British politician (born 1970)

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
member of the 55th Parliament of the United Kingdom	2014-11-20	2015-03-30

Data sources

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons272,227

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Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories340,542

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Global · Wikidata · non-official source

MySociety's EveryPolitician Legislators40,554

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions500,334

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata327,982

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-4ada49b5-0493-4346-afd7-c3001a50777b · evpo-1bf1a090-aa1f-4779-a667-d95b4981fc2d

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