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Nick Ramsay AM is the Conservative Assembly Member for Monmouth and was first elected to the Assembly in 2007. His is the safest Conservative seat in the Assembly. Nick was Shadow Minister for Local Government and Public Services until October 2008 when he was appointed Shadow Minister for Finance. Nick currently sits on the Public Accounts Committee, the Finance Committee and Legislation Committee No. 1. He is also a member of the Cross Party Group on Waterways and the Cross Party Group on Beer and the Pub. |
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Jenny Randerson AM is the Welsh Liberal Democrat AM for Cardiff Central. From 2000 until 2003 she was the Minister for Culture, Sport and the Welsh Language and is now her party’s spokesperson for Economic Development, Education and Transport. |
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Carl Sargeant AM is the Welsh Government Minister for Social Justice and Local Government. Born in St. Asaph, he is a former Quality and Environmental Auditor and industrial fire-fighter. He was first elected in 2003 and was Labour Chief Whip and Deputy Business Manager prior to his appointment in December 2009. |
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Derrick Sherwin is a British television producer, writer, and actor. He is best known as the story editor (1968-69) and later producer (1969-70) of Doctor Who. As of October 2009, he is one of only two producers of the classic series who are still alive. His contributions to the series included introducing UNIT, the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce, moving it from black and white to colour, and casting Jon Pertwee as the Doctor. He remains a writer and television producer. He is half Welsh. |
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Nick Smith is Director of Policy and Partnerships at the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists. He manages the policy and partnerships function across the UK, working closely with colleagues in Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh and Westminster. His previous roles have included secretary general of the European Parliamentary Labour Party, campaign manager with the NSPCC and head of membership development with the British Labour Party. Nick was previously a councillor in the London Borough of Camden, where he chaired a scrutiny panel looking at speech and language therapy provision. He later became executive member for education. He has been selected to be the Labour candidate for Blaenau Gwent in his home constituency in South Wales at the next general election. |
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Guy Stoate is a qualified Social Worker, Teacher and Nurse with a Masters degree in Philosophy of Healthcare. He has considerable practical experience of working with children in a wide variety of settings. He is currently a Childcare Lecturer at Coleg Morgannwg teaching on a range of courses including the Foundation Degree in Childhood Studies. Guy has been an active Trade Unionist for many years and Chairs UCU Wales Education Policy Group. He is currently President of UCU Wales. He is married with three children and lives in Gwaelod-y- Garth near Cardiff. |
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Barry Taylor is Chair of the Caerffili/Blaenau Gwent cell of Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg (The Welsh Language Society), a pressure group which campaigns for the future of the Welsh language throughout Wales. In his day-to-day life he is a teacher in an English-medium primary school, where he is responsible for the teaching of Welsh as a second language throughout the school. |
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Meleri Thomas is PR Manager at Wales Millennium Centre. Prior to that she managed communications for Ofcom initially in Wales and for the past two and a half years at its headquarters in London. She is a former press officer at the Welsh Language Board and was national press officer for Plaid Cymru, based at the party’s head office in Ty Gwynfor. Meleri graduated from Bristol University in 1994 with a degree in Drama, Theatre and Film studies. |
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Rhodri Glyn Thomas AM was elected to the National Assembly in 1999 and represents Carmarthen East and Dinefwr. Between 2007 and 2008 he served as Minister for Culture in the Welsh Assembly Government, and he is now one of the most senior backbenchers in the institution. In the Assembly he has served variously as Chair of the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee, Chair of the Culture Committee and Plaid’s Deputy Assembly Group Leader. He was born in Wrexham in 1953 and attended the University of Wales Aberystwyth, Bangor and Lampeter.A former Chair of CND Cymru, the Welsh spokesperson for Private Business and Chair of the Mid & South Wales Liaison Committee of NSPCC Wales, he is also a Minister of religion. |
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Richard Thomson is a past Head of Campaigns for the SNP and a former Head of Research for the party’s Westminster MPs. His move into full-time political activity followed a career which saw him work in the pensions industry and dabble for a number of years as a semi-pro musician. He now lives in Aberdeenshire and is his party’s candidate in the Gordon Westminster constituency. He is a columnist for the monthly Scots Independent newspaper, and blogs at the similarly titled ‘Scots and Independent‘ website. |
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