Jocelyn Davies
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| Jocelyn Davies AM | |
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| Constituency | South Wales East Region |
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| Born | June 18, 1959  Wales |
| Political party | Plaid Cymru |
Jocelyn Davies (b. June 18, 1959, Usk, Monmouthshire) is a Plaid Cymru politician and a member of the National Assembly of Wales, list member for South Wales East since 1999. She is currently Deputy Minister for Housing
[edit] Background
Newbridge Grammar school. Read Law at Harris Manchester College, Oxford. One of the first lay-inspectors of schools in 1993. Davies is married to Newbridge councilor Mike Davies. In 2004, she discovered tissue samples from their daughter, stillborn 16 years previously, were still being held in a Newport hospital.
[edit] Political career
Davies was a councilor on Islwyn Borough Council 1987-91 and contested the Islwyn by-election, 1995. She has been a member of the National Assembly of Wales, list member for South Wales East, since 1999 and has served as Plaid Cymru Party Business Manager since 2000.
In the Second Assembly she was Chair on both the Committee on the Inquiry into the E.coli outbreak in Wales; and the South Wales East Regional Committee.
In the Third Assembly she was appointed Deputy Minister for Housing in the Labour and Plaid Cymru coalition government on July 19.
[edit] Offices held
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Assembly Member for South Wales East 1999–present |
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Deputy Minister for Housing 2007–present |
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