Huw Irranca-Davies

Huw Irranca-Davies was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales on Friday 29 June 2007. Huw was born in 1963 and attended Gowerton Comprehensive School, near Swansea.

After leaving Higher Education, Huw worked for local authorities in leisure management. Later, he worked in private sector management, and also spent time as a lecturer at Swansea Institute of Higher Education.

He was elected as MP for Ogmore in the South Wales Valleys in the by-election of February 2002, following the death of Sir Ray Powell.

As an MP, Huw has sat on the Procedures Select Committee to discuss ways of modernising the work of Parliament and has also sat on Standing Committees for the Police Reform Bill, Fireworks Bill and Communications Bill, amongst others.

He has sat on the Welsh Grand Committee and the Northern Ireland Grand Committee. He was also the backbench MP representative on the board of the Coal Health Claims Monitoring Subgroup for Wales.

Huw became Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to the Rt. Hon. Tessa Jowell MP in June 2005, having previously served as PPS to the Rt. Hon. Jane Kennedy MP at the Northern Ireland Office and the Department for Work and Pensions.

In the May 2006 Government reshuffle he was promoted to the Government and most recently has served as Welsh Whip.