Edwina Hart

Edwina Hart
Minister for Business, Enterprise, Technology and Science
In office
13 May 2011 – 19 May 2016
First MinisterCarwyn Jones
Preceded byIeuan Wyn Jones
Succeeded byKen Skates
Minister for Health and Social Services
In office
4 May 2007 – 13 May 2011
First MinisterRhodri Morgan
Carwyn Jones
Preceded byBrian Gibbons
Succeeded byLesley Griffiths
Minister for Local Government and Regeneration
In office
17 June 2000 – 1 May 2003
First MinisterRhodri Morgan
Preceded byPeter Law
Succeeded bySue Essex
Member of the Welsh Assembly
for Gower
In office
6 May 1999 – 6 April 2016
Preceded byNew Assembly
Succeeded byRebecca Evans
Majority4,864 (18.2%)
Personal details
Born (1957-04-26) 26 April 1957 (age 67)[citation needed]
Gowerton, Wales
Political partyWelsh Labour
SpouseBob Hart
Children1 daughter

Edwina Hart, MBE (born 26 April 1957) is a Welsh Labour[1] politician who represented the constituency of Gower from the establishment of the National Assembly for Wales (Senedd) in 1999 until 2016. Hart served in the Welsh Government as a cabinet minister for the full 17 years she was an AM including as Minister for Health and Social Services from 2007 to 2011 and as Minister for Business, Enterprise, Technology and Science from 2011 to 2016.

She was the runner up to Carwyn Jones in the 2009 Welsh Labour leadership election.

  1. ^ Assembly Member details – Edwina Hart AM, National Assembly for Wales. Retrieved 26 March 2016.

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