Rebecca Evans

In 2014 she was appointed as the Deputy Minister for Farming and Food in the Welsh Government. Following the 2016 election she became Minister for Social Care and Public Health and was moved to become Minister for Housing and Regeneration in November 2017.

On 8 July 2014 she was appointed as the Deputy Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries in the Welsh Government, in a minor reshuffle following the sacking of Alun Davies. By September 2014 her role was renamed Deputy Minister for Farming and Food. After the 2016 election, she was appointed Minister for Social Care and Public Health. She was further reshuffled in November 2017 to the new role of Minister for Housing and Regeneration.

Evans was elected in 2011, as one of the four regional MSs representing Mid and West Wales in the Senedd Cymru/Welsh Parliament. At the 2016 election she was elected as the member for the Gower Constituency.

Between her election in 2011 and her promotion to ministerial office Evans has served on the National Assembly for Wales’ Environment and Sustainable Development Committee and its Common Agricultural Policy Task and Finish Group, the Heath and Social Care Committee, and the Children, Young People and Education Committee. She has also served as chair of the Cross party group on Nursing and midwifery, the cross party group on mental health and was the co-chair of the cross party group on disability.

Rebecca Mary Evans (born 2 August 1976) is a Welsh Labour Co-operative politician serving as Minister for Finance and Trefnydd (Leader) of the Senedd Cymru since 2018, and has served as Member of the Senedd (MS) for Gower since 2016. She was previously the MS for Mid and West Wales from 2011 to 2016.