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Finance committee y pwyllgor cylllid jocelyn davies am ac
Jocelyn Davies (born 18 June 1959, Usk, Monmouthshire, Wales) is a Plaid Cymru politician and was a member of the National Assembly of Wales, list member for South Wales East since 1999. She was Deputy Minister for Housing and Regeneration. in the Labour/Plaid coalition government from 2007 - 2011.
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- Finance committee y pwyllgor cylllid jocelyn davies am ac
- Jocelyn Davies Interview
- Background
- Political career
- References
Jocelyn Davies Interview
Background
After attending Newbridge Grammar School, she read Law at Harris Manchester College, Oxford. One of the first lay-inspectors of schools in 1993. Davies is married to Newbridge councillor Mike Davies. In 2004, she discovered tissue samples from their daughter, stillborn 16 years previously, were still being held in a Newport hospital.
Jocelyn has three children.
Political career
Davies was a councillor on Islwyn Borough Council 1987-91 and contested the Islwyn by-election, 1995.
She has been a member of the National Assembly of Wales, list member for South Wales East, since 1999 and has served as Plaid Cymru Party Business Manager since 2000.
In the Second Assembly she was Chair on both the Committee on the Inquiry into the E.coli outbreak in Wales; and the South Wales East Regional Committee.
In the Third Assembly she was appointed Deputy Minister for Housing in the Labour and Plaid Cymru coalition government on 19 July.