Gordon Raymond Banks (born 14 June 1955) is a British Labour politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ochil and South Perthshire from 2005 to 2015.

Banks was born in Acomb, Northumberland and educated at the Lornshill Academy in Alloa and then the Glasgow College of Building.

[citation needed] He has worked in the construction industry for 31 years, and formed his own building supplies business in 1986.

[citation needed] In October 2010, he was appointed as one of the Shadow Ministers of the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills.

He resigned from this role in April 2011 to concentrate on his constituency duties, and was succeeded by Chuka Ummuma.