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Department Of Economy And Transport
The Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning () is a member of the Cabinet in the Welsh Government. The current officeholder is Rebecca Evans since September 2024. The position was titled ''Minister for the Economy and Transport'' from 2007 to 2011. The Minister had responsibility for the Department for the Economy and Transport, which combined two devolved functions of the Welsh Government: Business and Economy, and Transport. The department was created in June 2007, as successor to the Department for Enterprise Innovation and Networks, following the National Assembly for Wales elections in May 2007. Deputy First Minister Ieuan Wyn Jones AM was appointed to the post in July 2007, succeeding Dr Brian Gibbons AM, who had been Minister since the previous month, and held the position until 13 May 2011. The role was renamed Minister for Business, Enterprise, Technology and Science during Edwina Hart's tenure in office from 2011 to 2016. The post adopted the previ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Welsh Government
The Welsh Government ( ) is the Executive (government), executive arm of the Welsh devolution, devolved government of Wales. The government consists of Cabinet secretary, cabinet secretaries and Minister of State, ministers. It is led by the First Minister of Wales, first minister, usually the leader of the largest party in the Senedd (Welsh Parliament; ), who selects ministers with the approval of the Senedd. The government is responsible for Table (parliamentary procedure), tabling policy in Devolved, reserved and excepted matters, devolved areas (such as health, education, economic development, transport and local government) for consideration by the Senedd and implementing policy that has been approved by it. The current Welsh Government is a Eluned Morgan government, Labour minority administration, following the 2021 Senedd election. It is led by Eluned Morgan who has been the first minister of Wales since August 2024. History The Welsh Office Prior to devolution in 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Member Of The National Assembly For Wales
A member of the Senedd (MS; plural: ''MSs''; ; , plural: ) is a representative elected to the Senedd (Welsh Parliament; ). There are sixty members, with forty members chosen to represent individual Senedd constituencies, and twenty to represent the five electoral regions of the Senedd in Wales. Each person in Wales is represented by five MSs: one for their local constituency (encompassing their local area where they reside), and another four covering their electoral region (a large grouping of constituencies). Wales's five electoral regions are Mid and West Wales, North Wales, South Wales Central, South Wales East and South Wales West. A holder of this office was formerly known as an assembly member (AM; plural: AMs; ; , plural: ), under the legislature's former name, the National Assembly for Wales, from its inception in 1999 until 2020 when it adopted its current names, Welsh Parliament, and , simply referred to as Senedd in both English and Welsh. Since 2011, mem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Davies (Labour Politician)
Andrew David Davies (born 5 May 1952) is a Welsh politician who represented the constituency of Swansea West in the National Assembly for Wales from 1999 to 2011. He is a member of Welsh Labour. Davies was born in Hereford to Welsh parents; his mother is from Llandeilo and his father from Holywell, Flintshire. Davies attended Hereford Cathedral School and Swansea University, where he trained as a teacher. Professional career He worked for the Ford Motor Company and a public affairs company. Davies is also a qualified counsellor and has lectured in further, higher and continuing education. Political career Former Chair of Swansea West Labour Party and member of the Welsh Labour Executive Committee, he was a regional party official from 1984 to 1991. Davies was one of the architects of devolution as main organiser of the Labour Party Yes Campaign in 1997. He has served as a member of the Welsh Assembly Government for the first ten years of devolution serving under both Alun Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Rhodri Morgan Government
The first Rhodri Morgan government was a government of Wales formed on 16 October 2000 by Rhodri Morgan and was a coalition government with the Welsh Liberal Democrats, Liberal Democrats, it was officially referred to as the 'Coalition Partnership' . It was preceded by the Interim Morgan administration, a Welsh Labour, Labour minority administration headed by Rhodri Morgan between February and October 2000. This was the first devolved government of Wales to use the term "Welsh Assembly Government" rather than "Assembly Administration" to describe itself. It was also the first to use the term "minister" rather than "secretary" when referring to members of the government; the position of First Secretary was retitled First Minister while the title of Assembly Secretary (or simply Secretary) was replaced with Minister. Background Rhodri Morgan became First Secretary of Wales on 15 February 2000, between February and October 2000 and headed up a minority government with 28 of the As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Welsh Liberal Democrats
The Welsh Liberal Democrats () is a Liberalism, liberal, Federalism, federalist political party in Wales, part of UK Liberal Democrats (UK), Liberal Democrats. The party is led by Jane Dodds, who has served as an Member of the Senedd, MS for Mid and West Wales (Senedd electoral region), Mid and West Wales since 2021 Senedd election, May 2021. The party currently has one elected member in the Senedd and one Welsh seat in the UK House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons. It also has several members of the House of Lords. The party had 69 local councillors serving in principal authorities as of the 2022 local authority elections, up 10 from 2017. Mark Williams (politician), Mark Williams, then-Leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats, was defeated at the 2017 United Kingdom general election, 2017 general election in his Ceredigion (UK Parliament constituency), Ceredigion constituency by Ben Lake of Plaid Cymru, whose majority of 104 made the seat one of the most margina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deputy First Minister Of Wales
The deputy first minister of Wales () is the deputy leader of the Welsh Government. The post was created in October 2000 when Mike German of the Welsh Liberal Democrats was appointed Deputy First Minister as part of a coalition government with Welsh Labour. Since the office was created, the holder has traditionally been the party leader of the junior partner in coalition with Welsh Labour, though this changed in 2024 with the appointment of Labour's Huw Irranca-Davies in the Labour government of Eluned Morgan. The last holder was Ieuan Wyn Jones of Plaid Cymru who was also the minister for the Economy and Transport. Ieuan Wyn Jones served in the office as part of the One Wales agreement between Plaid Cymru and Welsh Labour between 2007 and 2011. During the July 2024 Welsh Labour leadership election, Eluned Morgan stated that she was running on a joint ticket, with the role of Deputy First Minister to be resurrected under her government, and the position to be granted to Huw I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael German (cropped)
Michael German is a retired American FBI agent, scholar, and writer. He is a fellow in the Brennan Center for Justice's Liberty and National Security program. Life During his 16-year career as a Special Agent in the FBI, German spent many months undercover, first among white supremacists and then among right-wing militants. German left the FBI in 2004 as a whistleblower, alleging misconduct and mismanagement in counterterrorism cases. German reported this mismanagement to Congress. His 2008 book, ''Thinking Like a Terrorist: Insights of a Former FBI Undercover Agent'', was about his experiences as a special agent. He spent seven years as a Senior Policy Counsel at the ACLU’s Washington Legislative Office, working on issues relating to national security policies and civil rights. German joined writer and director Daniel Ragussis in creating the screenplay for ''Imperium'', starring Daniel Radcliffe as an undercover FBI Special Agent under an FBI case agent played by Toni Coll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike German, Baron German
Michael James German, Baron German (born 8 May 1945) is a Welsh politician who was Deputy First Minister of Wales from 2000 to 2001 and 2002 to 2003 and Welsh Liberal Democrats, Leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats in the National Assembly from 1999 to 2008 and overall Welsh Party leader between 2007 Welsh Liberal Democrats leadership election, 2007 and 2008 Welsh Liberal Democrats leadership election, 2008. The first-ever deputy first minister of Wales, he was also Minister for the Economy (Wales), Minister for Economic Development from 2000 to 2001 and Minister for Rural Affairs (Wales), Minister for Rural Affairs and Wales Abroad from 2002 to 2003. He was elected to the National Assembly for Wales in 1999 where he was Assembly Member (Welsh Assembly), Assembly Member (AM) for South Wales East until 2010 and led his party group until 2008. In 2010, he was granted a life peerage and has since served in the House of Lords as a working peer for the Liberal Democrats. Ideologica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Interim Rhodri Morgan Administration
The interim Rhodri Morgan administration was a temporary government of Wales formed on 9 February 2000 by Rhodri Morgan, following the resignation of Alun Michael as First Secretary, which was pre-empted by a vote of no-confidence by Plaid Cymru. Rhodri Morgan was named as Acting First Secretary on 9 February and confirmed as the permanent First Secretary on 15 February 2000. This Ministry ran until Morgan formed a coalition government with the Liberal Democrats in October 2000. This administration was always viewed as temporary and Labour had mooted looking for a coalition partner following their perceived poor showing in the 1999 election. Cabinet ''* Indicates that the individual kept the same or similar job in the next government.'' ''** Indicates that the individual was moved to a new job in the next government.'' ''*** Indicates that the individual was either sacked or quit and held no ministerial role in the next government.'' Deputy Secretaries Deputy Secretar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Administration
The Michael administration was formed by Alun Michael following the 1999 National Assembly for Wales election and was a Welsh Labour Party, Labour minority administration. Cabinet References {{Welsh Labour Welsh governments Ministries of Elizabeth II ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Welsh Labour Party
Welsh Labour (), formerly known as the Labour Party in Wales (), is an autonomous section of the United Kingdom Labour Party in Wales and the largest party in modern Welsh politics. Welsh Labour and its forebears have won a plurality of the Welsh vote at every UK general election since 1922, every Assembly and Senedd election since 1999, and all elections to the European Parliament in the period 1979–2004 and in 2014. Welsh Labour holds 27 of the 32 Welsh seats in the UK Parliament, 30 of the 60 seats in the Welsh Senedd and 576 of the 1,264 councillors in principal local authorities including overall control of 10 of the 22 principal local authorities. It has longest winning streak of any political party in the world and has been described as "by some distance the democratic world's most successful election-winning machine". Structure Welsh Labour is formally part of the Labour Party, not separately registered with the Electoral Commission under the terms of the Politic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhodri Morgan Official Portrait (cropped)
Rhodri (; ) is a male first name of Welsh origin. It is derived from the elements ''rhod'' "wheel" and ''rhi'' "king". It may refer to the following people: *Rhodri Molwynog ap Idwal (690–754), Welsh king of Gwynedd (720–754) *Rhodri Mawr ap Merfyn (820–878), Welsh king of Gwynedd (844–878), king of Powys (855–878), king of Seisyllwg (872–878) *Rhodri ap Hyfaidd (845–905), Welsh king of Dyfed (904–905) *Rhodri ap Hywel (died 953), Welsh king of Deheubarth (950–953) *Rhodri ab Owain Gwynedd (c. 1147–1195), Welsh prince of part of Gwynedd (1175–1195) *Rhodri ap Gruffudd (1230–1315), Welsh prince *Rhodri Morgan (1939–2017), Welsh politician, First Minister of Wales 2000–2009 *Rhodri Glyn Thomas (born 1953), Welsh politician * Rhodri Thompson (born 1960), British lawyer *Rhodri Philipps (born 1966), British peer *Rhod Gilbert (born 1968), Welsh comedian and presenter *Rhodri Williams (born 1968), Welsh sports journalist *Rhodri Davies (musician) (born 1971), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
