Brian Gibbons

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name=Brian Gibbons AM


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office = Assembly Member
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party = LabourDr. Brian Gibbons, AM, FRCGP (born in Dublin, 25 August 1950) is the Labour Party Assembly Member for Aberavon since May 1999. He was appointed Welsh Assembly Government Minister for Social Justice and Local Government in July 2007.

A son of the former Irish Fianna Fáil politician, the late Dr. Hugh Gibbons, he was raised in western Ireland, he came to Yorkshire in 1976 to train as a general medical practitioner in Calderdale. Gibbons was GP for Blaengwynfi. He also worked as a GP in partnership with Dr. Julian Tudor Hart at Glyncorrwg in the Afan Valley near Port Talbot, Wales.

A member of the BMA, the Socialist Health Association, and the Medical Practitioners Union (UNITE). He is a fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners, and a former Secretary to the Morgannwg Local Medical Committee.

Political background

Assembly Member for Aberavon since May 1999 (First Assembly) and was appointed a Deputy Minister for Health (coalition government) in October 2000. He was appointed a Deputy Minister for Economic Development and Transport from May 2003 (Second Assembly) and promoted when appointed Welsh Assembly Government Minister for Health and Social Services in January 2005. In the first Cabinet of the Third Assembly he was appointed Minister for the Economy and Transport in May 2007, and Minister for Social Justice and Local Government in the coalition government July 2007.

External links

* [http://www.briangibbons.co.uk/ Brian Gibbons AM Website]
* [http://www.welshlabour.org.uk/ Welsh Labour Party Website]
* [http://new.wales.gov.uk/?lang=en Website of the Welsh Assembly Government]

Offices held