Christopher Roy ROBERTSHAW MHK
Constituency: Douglas East
Contact Details
Address: Legislative Buildings, Finch Road, Douglas, IM1 3PW
Tel: 01624 651503
Email: chris.robertshaw@gov.im
Address as: Mr Robertshaw
Full title: Mr Chris Robertshaw MHK
Personal
Born: 1948, Chester
Education: St Peter’s Seminary Mill Hill Fathers.
Family: Married to Joan, 1 son, Mark and 1 daughter, Helen, 5 grandsons, Joseph, Jack, Jake, Robert and Samuel.
Career: British army followed by thirty-five years in tourism which included many years as Managing Director, Company Secretary and Registrar of Sefton Hotel plc. For part of the period concurrently Managing Director of an ABTA/ATOL registered travel agency.
Public Service: Director of Kemmyrk, a charity for the homeless, Previously a Member of the Hospital Administration Committee and Director of the Manx Housing Trust.
Publications: Compiled, edited and published the Isle of Man’s first Pocket Guide.
Interests: Family, travel, reading, Manx dry stone walling, architecture.
Parliamentary Profile
Current Posts
Member of the House of Keys 2010-date.
Deputy Speaker of the House of Keys 2016-date.
Member of the Emoluments Committee 2015-date.
Member of the House of Keys Management and Members' Standards Committee 2015-date.
Member of the Tynwald Standards and Members' Interests Committee 2015-date.
Member of the Environment and Infrastructure Policy Review Committee 2016-date.
Member of the Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs and Justice 2017-date.
Member of the Public Accounts Committee 2018-date.
Chairman of the Economic Policy Review Committee 2018-date.
Parliamentary Career
Minister: Social Care 2011-14, Community Culture and Leisure 2014, Policy and Reform 2014-15.
Chair: Civil Service Commission 2014-15; Whitley Council (Employers' Side) 2014-15; Planning Committee 2015-16.
Vice-Chair: Public Sector Pensions Authority 2014-15.
Tynwald Committees: Select Committee on the Committee System 2010-11, Select Committee on Service Charges and Freehold Property 2010-11; Chairman Select Committee of Tynwald on the Operation of the Jury System 2015-16, Select Committee of Tynwald on the Funding of Nursing and Residential Care 2015-16; Chairman of the Select Committee of Tynwald on Financing of Infrastructure Schemes and Projects 2018-July 2018; Member of the Select Committee of Tynwald on the Development of Unoccupied Urban Sites April 2018-November.
Council of Ministers' Committees: Single Legal Entity Committee Feb-June 2017.
Electoral History
Stood unsuccessfully in 2006, elected as Member of the House of Keys for Douglas East at a by-election in 2010, re-elected in 2011, re-elected in 2016.
Commonwealth Parliamentary Association
Member: Isle of Man Branch
Study Visit: Westminster, London 2012.
Political Interests
Economics and the built environment.