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Nia Griffith MP
Member of Parliament for Llanelli & Shadow Secretary of State for Wales
Nia Griffith is the Member of Parliament for Llanelli and Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for Wales. She lives in Llanelli, and before becoming an MP, worked as a language teacher in local comprehensive schools and Estyn inspector.
Her previous parliamentary roles, when Labour was in Government, include being Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP, Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, working on the Climate Change Bill, the Marine Bill and flooding, and PPS to Harriet Harman MP supporting her work as Leader of the House of Commons, Minister for Women and Equalities and Acting Leader of the Labour Party
Since Labour has been in opposition, she has served as a shadow business minister, with responsibility for consumer affairs and employment, Shadow Wales Minister and Shadow Secretary of State for Defence.
Nia links her parliamentary work very directly with the interests and concerns of her constituents, and combines action through legislation and questioning ministers in Parliament with a very hands-on approach to problems in the constituency.
Every year, Carmarthenshire County Council, Llanelli Rural & Town Councils, Llanelli Chamber of Commerce and Ymlaen Llanelli, run a Christmas lights design competition with the winning design displayed in Stepney Street, Llanelli. We are delighted…
Schoolchildren from across Llanelli have been showing off their art skills as part of a competition to design the annual Christmas Card to be used by Dame Nia Griffith MP and Lee Waters MS. Hundreds…
ABANDONING the 2019 Conservative Manifesto commitment to the triple lock on state pensions for the second year in a row could leave 17,330 pensioners in Llanelli £900 worse off a year on average, according to…
ELUNED Morgan MS and Nia Griffith MP visited Prince Philip Hospital today to learn more about the Lung Cancer Symptom Assessment Line (LUMEN) pilot project. Funded by Moondance Cancer Initiative, Hywel Dda University Health Board's…
There were extraordinary scenes at Westminster today as MP's voted on the issue of fracking. Chaos reined and accusations of bullying flew as well as rumours that other members of the Prime Minister's government had…
THE Welsh Government’s £108 million Cultural Recovery Fund was fundamental to the survival of many cultural organisations in Wales during the COVID-19 pandemic which helped safeguarded 2,700 FTE jobs, a new report has shown. During…