Alun Cairns

The Right Honourable Alun Cairns
Official portrait, 2020
Secretary of State for Wales
In office 19 March 2016 – 6 November 2019
Prime Minister	David Cameron Theresa May Boris Johnson
Preceded by	Stephen Crabb
Succeeded by	Simon Hart
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales Lord Commissioner of the Treasury
In office 15 July 2014 – 19 March 2016
Prime Minister	David Cameron
Preceded by	Stephen Crabb
Succeeded by	Guto Bebb
Member of Parliament for Vale of Glamorgan
In office 6 May 2010 – 30 May 2024
Preceded by	John Smith
Succeeded by	Kanishka Narayan
Member of the Welsh Assembly for South Wales West
In office 6 May 1999 – 6 May 2011
Preceded by	Assembly established
Succeeded by	Suzy Davies
Personal details
Born	(1970-07-30) 30 July 1970 (age 54) Swansea, Wales
Political party	Conservative
Spouse	Emma Elizabeth Turner ​ ​ (m. 1996)​
Children	1
Residence(s)	London, England Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
Alma mater	University of Wales, Newport
Website	Official website

Alun Hugh Cairns^[1] (born 30 July 1970) is a Welsh Conservative politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Vale of Glamorgan from 2010 to 2024.^[2] He served as Secretary of State for Wales from 2016 to 2019.

He was previously a member of the National Assembly for Wales for the South Wales West region from 1999 to 2011. Elected to the British House of Commons at the 2010 general election, he resigned^[3] as Secretary of State for Wales in November 2019, after claims he had known about a former aide's role in the "sabotage" of a rape trial.^[4] Cairns said that he did not know the details of the case and in December 2019 he was cleared of breaking the ministerial code.^[5]