Keith Davies

For the footballer, see Keith Davies (footballer).

For the Australian murder suspect, see Murder of Kylie Maybury.

Keith Davies in 2011

Keith Davies is a Welsh Labour^[1] politician and was the National Assembly for Wales member for Llanelli from 2011 until 2016. He beat Helen Mary Jones who was the deputy leader of Plaid Cymru,and incumbent AM for Llanelli, in May 2011.

He is a member of the Enterprise and Business Committee, and Environment and Sustainability Committee. His membership of crossparty groups includes: The Armed Forces and Cadets, Human Trafficking, Kidney, Older people, and Muscular Dystrophy. He is the founding chair of the Cross Party Group on the Welsh Language.

Davies was a teacher and a Director of Education at Carmarthenshire County Council,^[2] but lost his job in 2000 when departments were merged. He sued for unfair dismissal and won his case against Carmarthenshire County Council ^[3] In 2004 he was elected Labour County Councillor for the ward of Hengoed. He lost the seat to Plaid Cymru in 2008.

Personal life

Davies was born in Gwaun-Cae- Gurwen and educated at Ystalyfera Grammar School before studying Mathematics and Physics at Swansea University. Davies has two ex-teenaged sons, one of which, Ifan Dafydd, studied Aerospace Engineering at Swansea University. His interests include following the Llanelli Scarlets and Furnace Rugby Football Club.

Disrepute charge

In 2012, he apologised to the Assembly for his drunken behaviour at a Cardiff hotel.^[2]

Illness

On 28 September 2012, Keith Davies was admitted to hospital being described as being seriously ill.^[4] On the 23 October 2012, Mr Davies was discharged from hospital with the diagnosis of a blood clot. ^[5]

References

External links

Personal political website

National Assembly for Wales
Preceded by Helen Mary Jones	Assembly Member for Llanelli 2011 – 2016	Succeeded by Lee Waters

Members of the National Assembly for Wales 2011–2016

4th Assembly

Labour (30)	Leighton Andrews Mick Antoniw (Rosemary Butler) Christine Chapman Jeffrey Cuthbert Alun Davies Keith Davies Mark Drakeford Carwyn Jones † Rebecca Evans Vaughan Gething Janice Gregory John Griffiths Lesley Griffiths Edwina Hart Mike Hedges Jane Hutt Julie James Ann Jones Huw Lewis Sandy Mewies Julie Morgan Lynne Neagle Gwyn R Price Jenny Rathbone David Rees Carl Sargeant Ken Skates Gwenda Thomas Joyce Watson

Conservatives (14)	Mohammad Asghar Angela Burns Andrew R. T. Davies † Byron Davies/Altaf Hussain Paul Davies Suzy Davies Janet Finch-Saunders Russell George William Graham Janet Haworth Mark Isherwood David Melding Darren Millar Nick Ramsay

Plaid Cymru (11)	Jocelyn Davies Llŷr Huws Gruffydd Bethan Jenkins Alun Ffred Jones Elin Jones Ieuan Wyn Jones † (leader/AM till June 2013) Rhodri Glyn Thomas Leanne Wood † (leader from June 2013) Rhun ap Iorwerth (AM from Aug 2013) Simon Thomas Lindsay Whittle

Liberal Democrats (5)	Peter Black Eluned Parrott William Powell Aled Roberts Kirsty Williams †

Presiding Officer: Rosemary Butler † = Party leaders

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