Party: Plaid Cymru
Region: South Wales Central
Contact information
Office Address:
32 Gelliwastad Road
Pontypridd
Rhondda Cynon Taf
CF37 2BN
Phone: 01443 480291
Assembly Address:
National Assembly for Wales
Cardiff Bay
Cardiff
CF99 1NA
Phone: 029 2089 8285
Email: Leanne.Wood@wales.gov.uk
Terms of office
- 02/05/2003 - 02/05/2007
- 04/05/2007 - 31/03/2011
- 06/05/2011 -
Membership of Cross Party Groups
- Industrial Communities
- Justice Unions (Chair)
- Public and Commercial Services Union (Chair)
Additional Information
Personal history
Leanne Wood lives in Penygraig in the Rhondda
Professional background
She is a former Probation Officer, Women’s Aid support worker, tutor at Cardiff University and local councillor in Rhondda Cynon Taf.
Political history
She was first elected to the Assembly in May 2003 and has been Plaid Cymru’s spokesperson on the Environment and Sustainability and Social Justice. She is now Plaid Cymru's spokesperson for Housing & Regeneration. Leanne’s political interests include the environment; poverty, unemployment and social justice; issues affecting women and young people; international politics and the anti-war movement; and criminal justice. She is chair of the all-party PCS Union group in the Assembly and chair of the board of trustees at Cwm Cynon Women's Aid. She is committed to working for Wales to become a self-governing decentralist socialist republic
Pamphlets
Making Our Communities Safer,
2008
A Greenprint for the Valleys,
2011
Website:
Affiliations
Member of UNISON
Associate Member of the National Association of Probation Officers.
Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Amnesty International
Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg
CAMRA
Abortion Rights
Republic
Cymru Cuba
Bevan Foundation
