- Alun Pugh
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birth_place = flagicon|WalesLlwynypia ,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 = LabourAlun John Pugh (born
9 June 1955 inLlwynypia ,Mid Glamorgan ) is a former LabourWelsh Assembly Government Minister for Culture, Welsh Language and Sport. Pugh was born into a poorcoal mining family in theRhondda Valleys. He moved to North Wales in the mid 1980s. Pugh currently lives in his former constituency nearRuthin , and lived inDeganwy 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 incomputer science andeducation .Professional career
Head of Business Studies at
Coleg Llandrillo Cymru , a largefurther 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 theSnowdonia 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 theWelsh Assembly Government . Pugh remained an Assembly Member until his 2007 election defeat by ConservativeDarren 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
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