Alun Pugh

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name=Alun Pugh

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birth_place = flagicon|Wales Llwynypia, Wales
office = Assembly Member
constituency= Clwyd West
term_start = 1999
term_end = 2007
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successor = Darren Millar
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party = Labour

Alun John Pugh (born 9 June 1955 in Llwynypia, Mid Glamorgan) is a former Labour Welsh Assembly Government Minister for Culture, Welsh Language and Sport. Pugh was born into a poor coal mining family in the Rhondda Valleys. He moved to North Wales in the mid 1980s. Pugh currently lives in his former constituency near Ruthin, and lived in Deganwy for much of his time in North Wales. He has learnt conversational Welsh as an adult.

Education

Degree in Business Finance and post-graduate qualifications in computer science and education.

Professional career

Head of Business Studies at Coleg Llandrillo Cymru, a large further education college . Four years later, he was promoted to an associate principalship at West Cheshire College. where he became assistant principal as well as teaching business finance ). Following the 2007 elections he took a mountaineering sabbatical in the Himalyas, and on his return to Wales was appointed as Director of the Snowdonia Society, an environmental charity. He also contributes to the work of the Vestri Foundation, a not-for-profit company supporting sustainable development and community regeneration in Wales.

Political career

Elected in the National Assembly for Wales election in 1999 to the marginal Clwyd West seat of the National Assembly for Wales. Became the Deputy Minister for Economic Development in October 2000. He was re-elected in 2003 as well as being appointed to the post of Minister for Culture, Welsh Language and Sport in the Welsh Assembly Government. Pugh remained an Assembly Member until his 2007 election defeat by Conservative Darren Millar by a margin of 1,596 votes.

References

* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/uk/wales/13036.stm BBC Website September 1999]

Offices held