Jeremy Miles

Jeremy Miles
Official portrait, 2024
Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Assumed office
11 September 2024
First MinisterEluned Morgan
Preceded byMark Drakeford
Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Welsh Language
In office
21 March 2024 – 16 July 2024
First MinisterVaughan Gething
Preceded byVaughan Gething (Economy)
Himself (Welsh Language)
Succeeded byKen Skates (Economy)
Minister for Education and Welsh Language
In office
13 May 2021 – 20 March 2024
First MinisterMark Drakeford
Preceded byKirsty Williams (Education)
Eluned Morgan (Welsh Language)
Succeeded byLynne Neagle
Minister for European Transition
In office
13 December 2018 – 13 May 2021
First MinisterMark Drakeford
Preceded byMark Drakeford
Succeeded byOffice abolished
Counsel General for Wales
In office
16 November 2017 – 13 May 2021
First MinisterCarwyn Jones
Mark Drakeford
Preceded byMick Antoniw
Succeeded byMick Antoniw
Member of the Senedd
for Neath
Assumed office
6 May 2016
Preceded byGwenda Thomas
Majority5,221 (18.9%)
Personal details
BornAugust 1971 (age 53)
Pontarddulais, Wales
Political partyLabour Co-op
Residence(s)Swansea Valley, Wales
Alma materNew College, Oxford
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Jeremy Miles (born August 1971) is a Welsh Labour Co-op politician serving as Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care since September 2024.

He previously served in the Welsh Government as Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Welsh Language from March to July 2024,[1][2] Counsel General for Wales from 2017 to 2021, Brexit Minister from 2018 to 2021, and the Minister for coordinating Wales’ recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic from 2020 to 2021.[3] Miles has been the Member of the Senedd (MS) for Neath since 2016.

In December 2023 Miles became one of two candidates in the Welsh Labour leadership election to replace Mark Drakeford as party leader, losing to Vaughan Gething.[4]

  1. ^ "First Minister Vaughan Gething announces new Welsh Government Cabinet | GOV.WALES". www.gov.wales. 21 March 2024. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
  2. ^ "Four members of Welsh government quit, calling for First Minister Vaughan Gething to resign". BBC News.
  3. ^ "Jeremy Miles MS: Counsel General and Minister for European Transition". Gov.Wales. 13 December 2018. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
  4. ^ "Welsh Labour leadership: Vaughan Gething set to become Wales' first minister". BBC News. 16 March 2024.