Eluned Parrott | |
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| Member of the Welsh Assembly for South Wales Central | |
| In office 6 July 2011 –6 April 2016 | |
| Preceded by | Chris Franks |
| Succeeded by | Gareth Bennett |
| Personal details | |
| Political party | Welsh Liberal Democrats |
Eluned Parrott (born 1974) is a Welsh Liberal Democrat politician. She was an Assembly Member (AM) of the National Assembly for Wales between 2011 and 2016. She is a Commissioner of the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales.
Eluned was born in Abergavenny. She studied at St Peter's Collegiate School,in Wolverhampton. Parrott gained a degree in Music from Cardiff University,and has a postgraduate diploma in marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing. [1]
Before becoming an A.M.,she worked as a community engagement manager for Cardiff University,leading a team that organises educational outreach and community events for the public. She has lived in the South Wales Central region since 1993;ten years in Cardiff Central and Cardiff West constituencies,and then eight years in the Vale of Glamorgan.
Parrott contested the Vale of Glamorgan seat at the 2010 general election. [2] This is a seat with little history of Welsh Liberal Democrat success. She polled 15.2 per cent of the vote,the highest Welsh Liberal Democrat vote share in the seat for decades. [3]
She became the first Welsh Liberal Democrat to be elected to the South Wales Central Assembly region in 2011 after the first candidate,John Dixon,failed to be reinstated following his suspension. [4] He had been suspended on the grounds of being a member of the Care Council for Wales. In July 2011 she was given the Enterprise,Transport,Europe and Business portfolios by the Welsh leader Kirsty Williams. As a result,in the Welsh Assembly she sat on the Enterprise and Business Committee and Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee. [5] Parrott is a Commissioner of the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales. [6]
Parrott lives with her husband and two children in Rhoose,in the Vale of Glamorgan. [1]
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