Shadow Cabinet of Wales
The Welsh Shadow Cabinet is constituted by members of the largest party not part of the Welsh Government. Since 27 June 2018, this has been the Welsh Conservatives, led by the Leader of the Opposition Paul Davies.[1]
Both the Welsh Conservatives and Plaid Cymru currently refer to their own front benches as Shadow Cabinets. As of December 2018 the following speak for their respective party and question the relevant minister in plenary session.
Conservative Shadow Cabinet
| Portfolio | Name | Constituency | Term | ||
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| Leader of the Opposition | style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color; width: 1px" | | .jpg)
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Paul Davies MS | Preseli Pembrokeshire | 2018– |
| Chief Whip and Shadow Minister for External Affairs & International Relations | style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color; width: 1px" | | .jpg)
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Darren Millar MS | Clwyd West | 2018– |
| Shadow Minister for Government Resilience & Efficiency | style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color; width: 1px" | | .jpg)
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Angela Burns MS | Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire | 2018– |
| Shadow Minister for Finance | style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color; width: 1px" | | 
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Nick Ramsay MS | Monmouth | 2018– |
| Shadow Minister for Education, Skills and Welsh Language | style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color; width: 1px" | | 
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Suzy Davies MS | South Wales West | 2018– |
| Shadow Minister for Business, Economy and Infrastructure, and Mid Wales | style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color; width: 1px" | | .jpg)
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Russell George MS | Montgomeryshire | 2018– |
| Shadow Minister for Equalities, Children and Young People | style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color; width: 1px" | | 
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Laura Anne Jones MS | South Wales East | 2020– |
| Shadow Minister for Climate Change, Energy & Rural Affairs | style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color; width: 1px" | | _(2).jpg)
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Janet Finch-Saunders MS | Aberconwy | 2018– |
| Shadow Minister for Health, Social Services & Sport | style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color; width: 1px" | | 
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Andrew RT Davies MS | South Wales Central | 2018– |
| Shadow Minister for Local Government, Housing & Communities, Armed Forces and North Wales | style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color; width: 1px" | | .jpg)
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Mark Isherwood MS | North Wales | 2018– |
| Shadow Counsel General & Shadow Minister for Culture & Communications | style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color; width: 1px" | | 
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David Melding MS | South Wales Central | 2018– |
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Plaid Cymru Shadow Cabinet
After winning the 2018 Plaid Cymru leadership election with 49.7% of first preference votes, Adam Price installed former leadership rivals Leanne Wood (22.3%) and Rhun ap Iorwerth (28%) in high ranking positions in his shadow cabinet. He most recently updated his cabinet in a January 2020 reshuffle.
| Portfolio | Name | Constituency | Term | ||
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| Leader of Plaid Cymru | style="background-color: Template:Plaid Cymru/meta/color; width: 1px" | | .jpg)
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Adam Price MS | Carmarthen East and Dinefwr | 2018– |
| Deputy Leader and Shadow Minister for Health and Finance | style="background-color: Template:Plaid Cymru/meta/color; width: 1px" | | .jpg)
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Rhun ap Iorwerth MS | Ynys Môn | 2020– |
| Deputy Leader and Chief Whip
Shadow Minister for Education, Culture and the Welsh Language |
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Siân Gwenllian MS | Arfon | 2018– |
| Shadow Minister for the Environment and Rural Affairs | style="background-color: Template:Plaid Cymru/meta/color; width: 1px" | | .jpg)
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Llyr Huws Gruffydd MS | North Wales | 2018– |
| Shadow Minister for the Economy, Tackling Poverty and Transport | style="background-color: Template:Plaid Cymru/meta/color; width: 1px" | | 
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Helen Mary Jones MS | Mid and West Wales | 2020– |
| Shadow Minister for Justice and Equalities | style="background-color: Template:Plaid Cymru/meta/color; width: 1px" | | _(cropped)_(cropped).jpg)
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Leanne Wood MS | Rhondda | 2018– |
| Shadow Minister for post-16 Education, Skills and Innovation | style="background-color: Template:Plaid Cymru/meta/color; width: 1px" | | _(2).jpg)
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Bethan Sayed MS | South Wales West | 2020– |
| Shadow Minister for Constitutional Affairs, International Relations and Leaving the EU | style="background-color: Template:Plaid Cymru/meta/color; width: 1px" | | .jpg)
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Dr Dai Lloyd MS | South Wales West | 2018– |
| Shadow Minister for Public Service Transformation and the Future | style="background-color: Template:Plaid Cymru/meta/color; width: 1px" | | .jpg)
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Delyth Jewell MS | South Wales East | 2020– |
| Shadow Counsel General | style="background-color: Template:Plaid Cymru/meta/color; width: 1px" | | Elfyn Llwyd[2] | Not elected | 2018– | |
2016 Plaid-Conservative Shadow Cabinets
At the 2016 election, Plaid Cymru, led by Leanne Wood, became the largest party not in government having won 12 seats to the Welsh Conservatives' 11. On 14 October 2016 Dafydd Elis-Thomas left Plaid Cymru to sit as an independent, so that Plaid Cymru and the Welsh Conservatives both held 11 seats. During this period, Wood was not referred to as Leader of the Opposition, but merely as leader of Plaid Cymru.[3] The Conservative group grew to 12 when Mark Reckless defected from UKIP to the Conservative group on 6 April 2017, and the Welsh Conservative leader, Andrew R.T. Davies at the time, was referred to as Leader of the Opposition once more.[4]
See also
References
- ^ "Paul Davies MS". Senedd Cymru.
- ^ "The Shadow Cabinet". Plaid Cymru. June 2020.]]|}
- ^ "The Record of Proceedings - 18/10/2016". Senedd Cymru.
- ^ "The Record of Proceedings - 02/05/2017". Senedd Cymru.