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Eluned Parrott
Welsh politician
Eluned Parrott is a WelshLiberal Democrat politician. She was an Assembly Member (AM) of the National Assembly for Wales between and She is a Commissioner of the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales.
Background
Eluned was born in Abergavenny. She studied at St Peter's Collegiate School, in Wolverhampton. Parrott gained a degree in music from Cardiff University, and has a postgraduate diploma in marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing.[1]
Before becoming an A.M., she worked as a community engagement manager for Cardiff University, leading a team that organises educational outreach and community events for the public. She has lived in the South Wales Central region since ; ten years in Cardiff Central and Cardiff West constituencies, and then eight years in the Vale of Glamorgan.
Parrott lives with her husband and two children in Rhoose, in the Vale of Glamorgan.[1]
Political career
Parrott contested the Vale of Glamorgan seat at the general election.[2] She polled per cent of the vote, the highest Welsh Liberal Democrat vote share in the seat for decades.[3]
National Assembly for Wales
She became the first Welsh Liberal Democrat to be elected to the South Wales Central Assembly region in after the first candidate, John Dixon, failed to be reinstated following his suspension.[4] He had been suspended on the grounds of being a member of the Care Council for Wales. In July she was given the Enterprise, Transport, Europe and Business portfolios by the Welsh leader Kirsty Williams. As a result, in the Welsh Assembly she sat on the Enterprise and Business Committee and Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee.[5]
Parrott was not re-elected at the National Assembly for Wales election.[6]
Post-Assembly career
Parrott is a Commissioner of the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales.[7]