Welsh Assembly Government

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Template:PoliticsUK Image:WAG logo.png The Welsh Assembly Government (WAG) (Welsh: Llywodraeth Cynulliad Cymru, LlCC) is the executive body of the National Assembly for Wales, consisting of the First Minister and his Cabinet. As at September 2005, the Cabinet Members of the Welsh Assembly Government are:

First Minister: Rt. Hon Rhodri Morgan
Minister for Finance, Local Government and Public Services: Sue Essex
Business Minister, Minister for Equalities & Minister for Children: Jane Hutt
Minister for Social Justice and Regeneration: Edwina Hart
Minister for Enterprise, Innovation and Networks: Andrew Davies
Minister for Education, Lifelong Learning & Skills: Jane Davidson
Minister for Environment, Planning and Countryside: Carwyn Jones
Minister for Health & Social Services: Dr Brian Gibbons
Minister for Culture, Welsh Language and Sport: Alun Pugh

Deputy Minister for Social Justice & Regeneration (Communities): Huw Lewis
Deputy Minister Enterprise, Innovation and Networks and for Environment, Planning & Countryside: Tamsin Dunwoody
Deputy Minister for Finance, Local Government & Public Services & Education, Lifelong Learning & Skills: Christine Chapman
Deputy Minister for Health & Social Services (Older People & Public Health): John Griffiths

The Welsh Assembly Government has no independent executive powers in law (unlike, for instance, the Scottish Ministers and Ministers in the UK government). The Assembly was established as a body corporate by the 1998 Government of Wales Act and the executive, as a committee of the Assembly, only has those powers that the Assembly as a whole votes to vest in ministers.

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