Ken Skates

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Ken Skates AM

Member of the Welsh Assembly for Clwyd South
Incumbent
Assumed office 6 May 2011
Preceded by	Karen Sinclair
Majority	2,659 (13.3%)
Personal details
Political party	Labour
Alma mater	University of Cambridge

Ken Skates AM is a Welsh Labour politician, who has represented the constituency of Clwyd South since the National Assembly for Wales election of 2011.^[1]

Skates is from Flintshire, North Wales and attended Cambridge University, graduating in Social and Political Science.^[2]

In 2012 he was one of four AMs to stand up in the Senedd chamber to talk about their experiences with mental health problems.^[2]

Skates was appointed as Deputy Minister for Skills and Technology in June 2013.^[3]

References

National Assembly for Wales
Preceded by Karen Sinclair	Assembly Member for Clwyd South 2011–present	Incumbent
Preceded by Jeff Cuthbert	Deputy Minister for Skills and Technology 26 June 2013 - present	Succeeded by Incumbent

v t e Current members of the National Assembly of Wales

As of the 4th Assembly

Labour (30)	Leighton Andrews Mick Antoniw (Rosemary Butler) Christine Chapman Jeffrey Cuthbert Alun Davies Keith Davies Mark Drakeford Carwyn Jones † Rebecca Evans Vaughan Gething Janice Gregory John Griffiths Lesley Griffiths Edwina Hart Mike Hedges Jane Hutt Julie James Ann Jones Huw Lewis Sandy Mewies Julie Morgan Lynne Neagle Gwyn R Price Jenny Rathbone David Rees Carl Sargeant Ken Skates Gwenda Thomas Joyce Watson

Conservatives (14)	Mohammad Asghar Angela Burns Byron Davies Andrew R. T. Davies † Paul Davies Suzy Davies Janet Finch-Saunders Russell George William Graham Mark Isherwood David Melding Darren Millar Nick Ramsay Antoinette Sandbach

Plaid Cymru (11)	Jocelyn Davies Dafydd Elis-Thomas Llyr Huws Gruffydd Bethan Jenkins Alun Ffred Jones Elin Jones Rhodri Glyn Thomas Leanne Wood† Rhun ap Iorwerth Simon Thomas Lindsay Whittle

Liberal Democrats (5)	Peter Black Eluned Parrott William Powell Aled Roberts Kirsty Williams †

Presiding Officer: Rosemary Butler † = Party leaders

Persondata
Name	Skates, Ken
Alternative names
Short description	Members of the National Assembly for Wales
Date of birth	1976
Place of birth	Wrexham, Wales
Date of death
Place of death

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