Brian Gibbons
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| Brian Gibbons AM, FRCGP | |
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| Assumed office 6 May 1999 |
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| Preceded by | New Assembly |
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| Majority | 6,571 (32.0%) |
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| Born | 25 August 1950 Dublin, Ireland |
| Political party | Labour |
Dr Brian Gibbons, AM, FRCGP (born in Dublin, 25 August 1950) has been the Labour Party Assembly Member for Aberavon since May 1999. He was appointed Welsh Assembly Government Minister for Social Justice and Local Government in July 2007.
A son of the former Irish Fianna Fáil politician, the late Dr Hugh Gibbons, he was raised in western Ireland, and moved to Yorkshire in 1976 to train as a general medical practitioner in Calderdale. He subsequently became a GP in Blaengwynfi and also worked as a GP in partnership with Dr Julian Tudor Hart at Glyncorrwg in the Afan Valley near Port Talbot.
A member of the BMA, the Socialist Health Association, and the Medical Practitioners Union (UNITE), he is a fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners, and a former Secretary to the Morgannwg Local Medical Committee.
[edit] Political background
Assembly Member for Aberavon since May 1999 (First Assembly), Gibbons was appointed a Deputy Minister for Health (coalition government) in October 2000. He was appointed a Deputy Minister for Economic Development and Transport in May 2003 (Second Assembly) and was promoted to the post of Welsh Assembly Government Minister for Health and Social Services in January 2005. In the first Cabinet of the Third Assembly he was appointed Minister for the Economy and Transport in May 2007, and Minister for Social Justice and Local Government in the coalition government in July 2007.
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[edit] Offices held
| National Assembly for Wales | ||
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Assembly Member for Aberavon 1999–present |
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Deputy Minister for Health and Social Services 2000 - 2003 |
Succeeded by John Griffiths |
| Preceded by Alun Pugh |
Deputy Minister for Economic Development 2003 - 2005 |
Succeeded by Tamsin Dunwoody |
| Preceded by Jane Hutt |
Minister for Health and Social Services 2005 – 2007 |
Succeeded by Edwina Hart |
| Preceded by Andrew Davies |
Minister for Economy and Transport 2007 (May 31 to July 19) |
Succeeded by Ieuan Wyn Jones |
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Minister for Social Justice and Local Government 2007–present |
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