Delyth Evans

Delyth Evans
Official portrait, 2000
Deputy Minister for Rural Affairs, Culture and Environment[a]
In office 24 July 2000 – 1 May 2003
First Minister	Rhodri Morgan[b]
Preceded by	Carwyn Jones
Succeeded by	Office abolished
Assembly Member for Mid and West Wales
In office 1 May 2000 – 1 May 2003 Serving with Nick Bourne, Glyn Davies and Cynog Dafis
Preceded by	Alun Michael
Succeeded by	Lisa Francis
Personal details
Born	(1958-03-17) 17 March 1958 (age 66) Cardiff, Wales
Political party	Labour
Spouse	Ed Richards
Children	2
Alma mater	University College of Wales, Aberystwyth (BA Hons)
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Margaret Delyth Evans (born 17 March 1958) is a Welsh executive and former politician who served as Deputy Minister for Rural Affairs, Culture and Environment in the National Assembly for Wales from 2000 to 2003. A member of the Labour Party, she was the Assembly Member (AM) for Mid and West Wales from 2000 until her retirement from the National Assembly in 2003. In 2010, she became the chief executive of the charity Dress For Success London, where she remained until 2014.^[c] She has also been a director at the Film Agency for Wales, a trustee at the charity United Response, and has sat on the board of Sport Wales since 2019.

Evans was born in Cardiff, Wales. She joined the Labour Party in 1984, where she later served as an adviser to Labour leader John Smith from 1992 to 1994. Labour selected her to stand in the 1999 National Assembly for Wales election as the second top-up candidate in the party list for the Mid and West Wales region, behind Welsh Labour leader Alun Michael. After Michael's resignation from the assembly in 2000, Evans automatically succeeded him as AM for Mid and West Wales in accordance with the assembly's electoral system. From July 2000, she served in the administration of Rhodri Morgan as Deputy Secretary for Agriculture, Local Government and Environment, later serving as Deputy Minister for Rural Affairs, Culture and Environment after the office was reorganised in October 2000, before retiring at the 2003 assembly election to spend more time with her family. In 2013, she was selected as the Labour Party's candidate for the House of Commons constituency of Camarthen West and South Pembrokeshire at the 2015 general election, where she lost to Simon Hart of the Conservative Party, the incumbent member of Parliament at the time.
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