Rebecca Evans | |
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Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Constitution and Cabinet Office [lower-alpha 1] | |
Assumed office 13 December 2018 | |
First Minister | Mark Drakeford Vaughan Gething |
Preceded by | Office established [lower-alpha 2] |
Minister for Local Government | |
In office 13 May 2021 –20 March 2024 | |
First Minister | Mark Drakeford |
Preceded by | Julie James |
Succeeded by | Julie James |
Trefnydd of the Senedd | |
In office 13 December 2018 –13 May 2021 | |
First Minister | Mark Drakeford |
Preceded by | Julie James |
Succeeded by | Lesley Griffiths |
Minister for Housing and Regeneration | |
In office 3 November 2017 –13 December 2018 | |
First Minister | Carwyn Jones |
Preceded by | Office established |
Succeeded by | Hannah Blythyn |
Minister for Social Services and Public Health | |
In office 19 May 2016 –3 November 2017 | |
First Minister | Carwyn Jones |
Preceded by | Office established |
Succeeded by | Huw Irranca-Davies (Children and Social Care) |
Deputy Minister for Farming and Food | |
In office 8 July 2014 –19 May 2016 | |
First Minister | Carwyn Jones |
Preceded by | Alun Davies (Agriculture) |
Succeeded by | Hannah Blythyn (Minister for the Environment) |
Member of the Senedd for Gower | |
Assumed office 6 May 2016 | |
Preceded by | Edwina Hart |
Majority | 4,795 (14.4%) |
Member of the Senedd for Mid and West Wales | |
In office 5 May 2011 –6 May 2016 | |
Preceded by | Alun Davies |
Succeeded by | Eluned Morgan |
Personal details | |
Born | [ citation needed ] Bridgend,Wales | 2 August 1976
Political party | Welsh Labour and Co-operative |
Alma mater | Sidney Sussex College,Cambridge University of Leeds |
Rebecca Mary Evans (born 2 August 1976) is a Welsh Labour and Co-operative politician who has served as Cabinet Secretary for Finance,Constitution and Cabinet Office since 2024. She was previously Minister for Finance from 2018 to 2024. [1] Evans has served as the Member of the Senedd (MS) for Gower since 2016, [2] and a Member for Mid and West Wales from 2011 to 2016.
Evans has previously served in the Welsh Government as the Deputy Minister for Farming and Food (2014–16),Minister for Social Care and Public Health (2016–17) and Minister for Housing and Regeneration (2017–18). She was Trefnydd (Leader) of the Senedd from 2018 to 2021.
Evans was born in Bridgend,Wales in 1976. [3] She obtained a BA degree in history at the University of Leeds, [2] and an MPhil in Historical Studies at Sidney Sussex College,Cambridge. [2]
She worked as Policy and Public Affairs Officer for a national charity representing disabled people and their families. Evans is also a former Welsh Labour Organiser for Mid and West Wales,and a former Senior Researcher and Communications Officer for an Assembly Member.
Evans was elected in 2011 as one of four regional MSs representing Mid and West Wales in the Senedd. [4] At the 2016 election,she was elected as the member for the Gower constituency.
Between her election in 2011 and her promotion to ministerial office,Evans served on the National Assembly for Wales’Environment and Sustainable Development Committee and its Common Agricultural Policy Task and Finish Group,the Heath and Social Care Committee,and the Children,Young People and Education Committee. She has also served as chair of the Cross-party group on Nursing and midwifery,the cross-party group on mental health and was the co-chair of the cross-party group on disability.
On 8 July 2014,Evans joined the Welsh Government as the Deputy Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries,in a minor reshuffle following the sacking of Alun Davies. [5] The office was renamed to Deputy Minister for Farming and Food in September 2014. [6]
Following the 2016 Assembly election,she was appointed to the new role of Minister for Social Care and Public Health. She moved to another new role as Minister for Housing and Regeneration in a reshuffle on 3 November 2017. [7]
In December 2018,Evans joined Mark Drakeford's first Cabinet as the Minister for Finance and Trefnydd (Leader) of the Senedd.
Evans introduced and was the government minister responsible for the Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Act 2022 which allowed the Welsh government to amend tax law using statutory instruments. [8]
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