IRRANCA-DAVIES, Huw

Member for Ogmore (revised boundary) since 6 May 2010, for Ogmore 2002-10. Committees: Member, Welsh Grand Committee; Member, All-Party Group on Coalfield Communities; Member, PLP Committee on Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, on Home Affairs, on International Development; Member, Coal Compensation Liaison Committee (Wales). Political career: Shadow Minister for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs since 2010; Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 2008-10; Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales 2007-08; Parliamentary Private Secretary Northern Ireland Office, Department of Work and Pensions, Department of Culture Media and Sport; Assistant Whip 2006-07; Parliamentary Private Secretary to Tessa Jowell as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport 2005-06; PPS, Department for Work and Pensions 2004-05; PPS to Jane Kennedy as Minister of State, Northern Ireland Office 2003-04. Special political interests: Middle East, Wales, EU, law and order, social justice. Profession/Trade: Senior Lecturer, Swansea Metropolitan University. Affiliations: Patron, Maesteg Celtic Cricket Club; President, Ogmore Vale Male Voice Choir; Vice-President, British Resorts Association; President, Swansea Valley Scout Association; President, Garw Valley Ladies Choir; Vice-President, Maesteg Amateur Operatic Society; Vice-President, Pencoed and District Choral Society; Member, Friends of Cor Bro Ogwr; Vice-President, Y Bont; Patron, LETS Garw Scheme; Honorary Member, Natymoel Boys and Girls Club; Patron (proposed), Mynydd Carn Adventure Activity Centre. Education: Crewe and Alsager College, BA (Hons); University of Wales, Swansea Institute, Msc. Languages: English, Welsh. Hobbies: Family activities, hill-walking, cycling, motorcycling, reading, biographies and historical fiction, rugby. b. 22 January 1963, Swansea. Married with three children.