Jeffrey Cuthbert

Who is Jeffrey Cuthbert?

Jeffrey Hambley Cuthbert is Minister for Communities and Tackling Poverty in the Welsh Government and has been a Labour Party member of the National Assembly for Wales for Caerphilly since 2003. He began his career in the mining industry and later worked for the Welsh Joint Education Committee as Head of the Asset to Industry Unit.

Cuthbert was born in Glasgow to a Welsh mother and Scottish father, but brought up in Cardiff, where he attended Whitchurch County Secondary Modern followed by studying mining engineering at University College, Cardiff. He joined the Labour Party in the mid-1960s. As a mining engineer he worked at Markham and Oakdale pits.

A member of the Militant group from the mid-60s to early-80s, Cuthbert later became Chair of Caerphilly Constituency Labour Party. He left the mining industry to develop qualifications for Modern Apprenticeships with WJEC, and became a Corporate Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. He was a governor of the Lewis School, Pengam, and served as Principal of a part-time Adult Education Centre at Aberbargoed.