Rebecca Evans (politician)

Rebecca Evans AM
Rebecca Evans in 2016
Member of the Welsh Assembly for Gower
Incumbent
Assumed office 6 May 2016
Preceded by	Edwina Hart
Majority	1,829 (6.1%)
Member of the Welsh Assembly for Mid and West Wales
In office 5 May 2011 – 6 May 2016
Preceded by	Alun Davies
Succeeded by	Eluned Morgan
Personal details
Born	1976
Political party	Welsh Labour Co-operative
Alma mater	University of Leeds

Rebecca Mary Evans (born 1976) is a Welsh Labour Co-operative politician. From 2011 to 2016 she served as a regional Assembly Member (AM) representing Mid and West Wales in the National Assembly for Wales, and since 2016 she has been the constituency AM for Gower. 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.

Evans obtained a BA degree in History at the University of Leeds. She then attended Sidney Sussex College at the University of Cambridge where she received an MPhil degree in Historical Studies.

Evans worked as Policy and Public Affairs Officer for a national charity representing disabled people and their families. She is also a former Welsh Labour Organiser for Mid and West Wales, and a former Senior Researcher and Communications Officer for an Assembly Member.

Since 2011, she has served as one of the four regional Assembly Members representing Mid and West Wales in the National Assembly for Wales.

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.