Eluned Parrott (born 1974) is a

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Liberal Democrat politician. She was an

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(AM) of the

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between 2011 and 2016. She is a Commissioner of the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales.

Biography

Eluned was born in

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. She studied at St Peter's Collegiate School, in Wolverhampton. Parrott gained a degree in music from

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, and has a postgraduate diploma in marketing from the

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. Before becoming an A.M., she worked as a community engagement manager for Cardiff University, leading a team that organises

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and community events for the public. She has lived in the South Wales Central region since 1993; ten years in Cardiff Central and Cardiff West constituencies, and then eight years in the Vale of Glamorgan. Parrott contested the Vale of Glamorgan seat at the 2010 general election. This is a seat with little history of Welsh Liberal Democrat success. She polled 15.2 per cent of the vote, the highest Welsh Liberal Democrat vote share in the seat for decades. She became the first Welsh Liberal Democrat to be elected to the South Wales Central Assembly region in 2011 after the first candidate, John Dixon, failed to be reinstated following his suspension. He had been suspended on the grounds of being a member of the

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. In July 2011 she was given the Enterprise, Transport, Europe and Business portfolios by the Welsh leader

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. As a result, in the Welsh Assembly she sat on the Enterprise and Business Committee and Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee. Parrott is a Commissioner of the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales. Parrott lives with her husband and two children in Rhoose, in the

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Parrott, Eluned Liberal Democrat members of the Senedd Living people Wales AMs 2011–2016 1974 births People from the Vale of Glamorgan Female members of the Senedd Liberal Democrats (UK) parliamentary candidates Alumni of Cardiff University