:Eluned Parrott
{{Short description|Welsh politician}}
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{{Use British English|date=May 2013}}
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Eluned Parrott is a Welsh Liberal Democrat politician. She was an Assembly Member (AM) of the National Assembly for Wales between 2011 and 2016. 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.{{cite web |date=7 July 2011 |title=The new face in the Senedd |url=https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/local-news/new-face-senedd-2690903 |accessdate=29 June 2021 |publisher=Daily Post}}
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 1993; 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.
Political career
Parrott contested the Vale of Glamorgan seat at the 2010 general election.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/constituency/1390/vale-of-glamorgan|title=Vale of Glamorgan results, 2010|work=The Guardian|accessdate=14 March 2012}} She polled 15.2 per cent of the vote, the highest Welsh Liberal Democrat vote share in the seat for decades.{{cite web|url=http://welshlibdems.org.uk/en/page/eluned-parrott|title=Eluned Parrott|publisher=Welsh Liberal Democrats|accessdate=14 March 2012|archive-date=27 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130727043739/http://welshlibdems.org.uk/en/page/eluned-parrott|url-status=dead}}
= National Assembly for Wales =
She became the first Welsh Liberal Democrat to be elected to the South Wales Central Assembly region in 2011 after the first candidate, John Dixon, failed to be reinstated following his suspension.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-14037418|title=No return to Welsh assembly for Lib Dems' John Dixon|date=5 July 2011|publisher=BBC News}} He had been suspended on the grounds of being a member of the Care Council for Wales. In July 2011 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.freedomcentral.org.uk/2011/07/welsh-liberal-democrat-shadow-ministers-announced.html|title=Welsh Liberal Democrat Shadow Ministers announced|publisher=Freedom Central|date=11 July 2011|access-date=6 September 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111104023451/http://www.freedomcentral.org.uk/2011/07/welsh-liberal-democrat-shadow-ministers-announced.html|archive-date=4 November 2011|url-status=dead}}
Parrott was not re-elected at the 2016 National Assembly for Wales election.{{Cite news |title=2016 National Assembly for Wales Election - South Wales Central |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/wales-regions/W10000007 |access-date=2024-11-13 |work=BBC News}}
= Post-Assembly career =
Parrott is a Commissioner of the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales.{{cite web|url=https://gov.wales/national-infrastructure-commission-for-wales/eluned-parrott|title=Eluned Parrott|publisher=Welsh Government|access-date=29 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201024094210/https://gov.wales/national-infrastructure-commission-for-wales/eluned-parrott|archive-date=24 October 2020}}
References
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External links
- {{Commons category-inline|Eluned Parrott}}
{{Welsh AMs 2011-2016|state=collapsed}}
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Category:Liberal Democrat members of the Senedd
Category:People from the Vale of Glamorgan
Category:Female members of the Senedd