| Robin Millar | |
| Birth Date: | 1968 10, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Bangor, Wales |
| Office1: | Member of Parliament for Aberconwy |
| Term Start1: | 12 December 2019 |
| Term End1: | 30 May 2024 |
| Predecessor1: | Guto Bebb |
| Successor1: | Constituency abolished |
| Party: | Conservative |
| Alma Mater: | University of Manchester[1] |
| Nationality: | British |
Robin John Millar (born 15 October 1968)[2] is a British Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Aberconwy from 2019 to 2024.[3] [4] [5]
Robin Millar was born in Bangor in 1968, where his father was chairman of the Conwy Conservative Association.[6] Millar went to Ysgol Friars School, then studied civil engineering at UMIST and later moved to Suffolk to support his wife’s work as an equine veterinary nurse.[7] While living there he worked as a civil engineer in Cambridge, Russia, the Netherlands and the USA. He later set up Millar Consulting helping to transform public services, local government and membership organisations.[8]
Millar started his political career in 2003 as a member of Forest Heath Council for the All Saints ward in Newmarket.[9] Millar was deputy leader of Forest Heath Council and Mayor of Newmarket in 2003.[10] When journalist Bill Curtis asked Millar why he got into politics, he told the interviewer that he has 'always been a problem solver'.
He contested the Arfon constituency at the 2010 general election, finishing in 3rd place with 16.7% of the vote. He later became a member for both Suffolk County Council for the Newmarket and Red Lodge seat and West Suffolk District Council for Newmarket North before becoming an MP in 2019.[11] [12] He resigned as a director and trustee of the Conservative Christian Fellowship on his election. [13]
In May 2021 Millar wrote an essay entitled "A Common Sense Model for Poverty" for inclusion in Common Sense: Conservative Thinking for a Post-Liberal Age published by the Common Sense Group, an informal group of Conservative MPs.[14]
In October 2022, he was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales.[15] Millar resigned from the position on 29 June 2023 in order to vote against new regulations on sex education in Northern Ireland.[16] [17] Robin Millar is currently the Chairman of the Outdoor Learning All Party Parliamentary Group. Millar backed the Outdoor Learning Policy Report, a policy report by UK Youth, in October 2023.