Lesley Griffiths AM has been the Labour Assembly Member for Wrexham since 2007. She became Minister for Health and Social Services in May 2011, having previously served for eighteen months as Deputy Minister for Science, Innovation and Skills in the Welsh Assembly Government. She previously sat on the Communities and Culture, Sustainability and Audit Committees and Legislation Committee No. 5. She set up the Cross-Party Hospice Group. Her political interests include economic development, housing, health and children’s issues. Passionate about her home town and its football team, she is a Patron of ‘Standing Ground’, Wrexham and a former Board Member of Wrexham Supporters Trust

The values that will define my tenure as Minister

Yesterday Wales’ new Health Minister Lesley Griffiths made a significant speech on reshaping the NHS in Wales. Here’s what she had to say to the annual Public Health Wales conference

Think science

Kicking off a series of articles on WalesHome about science, the Deputy Minister for Science, Innovation and Skills writes exclusively for us on the major initiatives to support science, engineering and mathematics

It’s not over yet

This weekend the Labour Party gathers in Brighton for the last time before the next UK General Election. As she prepares to head to the seaside, Lesley Griffiths AM stridently argues that Labour can – and will – win for the fourth time