Peter Gerald Hain PC MP (born February 16, 1950, Nairobi, Kenya) is a British Labour Party politician and Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (he is also Secretary of State for Wales). He is the Member of Parliament for the Welsh constituency of Neath. He came to the UK from South Africa as a teenager, and was a noted anti-apartheid campaigner in the 1970s.

Paul Peter Murphy (born 25 November 1948) is a British politician for the Labour Party. He is MP for Torfaen, Wales, and was appointed Secretary of State for Wales on 28 July 1999. He was Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from 24 October 2002 to 5 May 2005. He was succeeded by Peter Hain and left the government, becoming chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee.

Hywel Rhodri Morgan, PC AM (born 29 September 1939) is a Welsh politician; the Labour National Assembly for Wales Member for the constituency of Cardiff West; and the second and current First Minister for Wales.

Ronald Davies (born 6 August, 1946) is a Welsh politician, former Secretary of State for Wales, former Member of Parliament and former member of the Welsh Assembly. He is credited with being the 'architect of devolution' in Wales and led the campaign to create a National Assembly for Wales. He became the first Cabinet Minister to resign from Tony Blair's Cabinet, in 1998. In 2004 he resigned from the Labour Party, joining Forward Wales, …

David James Fletcher Hunt, Baron Hunt of Wirral, PC, MBE (born 21 May 1942), is an English Conservative politician, and was a member of the Cabinet during the Margaret Thatcher and John Major administrations. He became Member of Parliament for Wirral after winning a by-election in 1976. The seat was broken up and Hunt became Member of Parliament for the new Wirral West constituency in 1983. In government he served as a whip and junior minister under Margaret Thatcher, …

John Redwood has been the Member of Parliament for Wokingham since 1987. First attending Kent College, Canterbury, he graduated from Magdalen College, and has a DPhil from All Souls, Oxford. A businessman by background, he has been a director of NM Rothschild merchant bank and chairman of a quoted industrial PLC. John was an Oxfordshire County Councillor in the 1970s. In the mid-1980s he was Chief Policy Advisor to Margaret Thatcher .

William Jefferson Hague (born 26 March 1961) is a British politician, the Member of Parliament for Richmond, North Yorkshire, former leader of the Conservative Party, and current Conservative Shadow Foreign Secretary. He was the first leader of the Conservative party not to have become Prime Minister since Austen Chamberlain in the early 1920s.

Alun Michael has been named as the new minister responsible for ecommerce, replacing the previous e-minister, Mike O'Brien, who has moved to the role of Solicitor General. Michael was previously minister of state for rural affairs from 2001. He is best know for steering anti-fox hunting legislation through parliament in the face of stiff opposition from the pro-hunt lobby.

Cheryl Elise Kendall Gillan (born 21 April, 1952 in Llandaff, Cardiff) is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Chesham and Amersham and Shadow Secretary of State for Wales.

Nicholas Richard Ainger (born October 24, 1949) is a British Labour Member of Parliament for the constituency of Carmarthen West and Pembrokeshire South, and from 2005 until 2007 was the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Wales Office. He served continuously in the Tony Blair government. From 1997 until 2001 as the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Wales Office and it predecessor the Welsh Office, serving three successive Welsh Secretaries (Ron Davies, …

Glyn Davies (May 22 1919 - January 6 2003, was a Welsh economist, best known for his 1994 book, "A History Of Money From Ancient Times To The Present Day". Davies was born in Aberbeeg, near Abertillery, where his father was a miner. He was educated at Llandrindod Wells and Tonypandy, and studied economics at University of Wales, Cardiff.

Gareth Thomas (born 1954) is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was Member of Parliament for Clwyd West 1997-2005. Born in Penygroes, Gwynedd, Thomas is the son of a toolmaker. Although brought up on Merseyside he is a fluent Welsh language speaker. After graduating in Law from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, he was initially employed in the insurance industry and managed a loss adjusting company in the West Indies.

Lembit Öpik (born 2 March 1965) is a British politician of Estonian descent. He is a Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for the Montgomeryshire constituency. He is Leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats and his party's shadow spokesman in opposition to the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform.

Wayne David (born July 1, 1957) is a British politician. He is the Labour Member of Parliament for Caerphilly.

Dr David Hywel Francis FRSA (born June 6, 1946) is a Welsh politician and current member of Parliament. Francis, a Labour MP, has represented the constituency of Aberavon in Parliament since 2001.

Ann Clwyd Roberts (born 21 March 1937, Denbigh) is a British Labour MP. She has represented Cynon Valley in Wales since 1984.

Jonathan Peter Evans (born June 2, 1950 in Tredegar) is a British lawyer and Conservative Party politician. A former Member of Parliament (MP), he is now a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Wales, and since 2001 has been the leader of the Conservative group of MEPs. He contested the 1987 general election in the marginal Brecon and Radnorshire constituency, but lost by 56 votes to the sitting Liberal MP Richard Livsey.

Cledwyn Hughes, Baron Cledwyn of Penrhos, CH, PC, (14 September 1916 - 22 February 2001), was a Welsh Labour politician. Educated at Holyhead Grammar School and the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, he served in the RAFVR in the Second World War. He became a solicitor and a town clerk of Holyhead. He was a governor of the University of Wales and the National Museum of Wales. He served as an Anglesey County Councillor.

James "Jim" Griffiths CH (19 September 1890-7 August 1975), was a Welsh Labour politician, trade union leader and the first ever Secretary of State for Wales He was born in the strongly Welsh-speaking village of Betws, near Ammanford in Carmarthenshire. The youngest of ten children his father was the local blacksmith. His brother (David Rees Griffiths, 1882-1953) was a notable Welsh poet who took the bardic name of 'Amanwy' after his native valley.

Sir Jon Shortridge , Permanent Secretary

Lady Megan Lloyd George CH (22 April 1902–14 May 1966) was a British politician, the first female Member of Parliament for a Welsh constituency, and Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party. She later became a Labour MP. The youngest child of David Lloyd George and his wife, Margaret, she was born Megan Arvon George in Criccieth, Caernarfonshire, in what is now Gwynedd. After her father was raised to the Peerage as Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor, …

Thomas George Thomas, 1st Viscount Tonypandy, PC (29 January 1909 - 22 September 1997) was a British Labour politician and Speaker of the British House of Commons.

Keith Lander Best was Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Anglesey from 1979 (when he gained the seat from Labour) to 1983, and for (the renamed) Ynys Môn from 1983 to 1987. He was personal assistant to the Secretary of State for Wales from 1981 to 1984. Best was born in Brighton and educated at Keble College, Oxford, before becoming a barrister in 1973. He served in the Territorial Army 1967-87 and as a Brighton Borough councillor 1976-80.

John Morris, Baron Morris of Aberavon, KG, PC, QC (born 5 November, 1931), is a retired UK Labour politician.

Peter John Mitchell Thomas, Baron Thomas of Gwydir, PC, QC (born July 31, 1920) is a Welsh Conservative politician, now retired.

Peter Edward Walker, Baron Walker of Worcester, MBE PC (born 25 March 1932) was Conservative MP for Worcester between March 1961 and April 1992, and the founder of the Tory Reform Group. He was a close ally of Edward Heath, and was dismissed by Margaret Thatcher when she became leader in February 1975 because he objected to her social and economic policies. He rose very quickly through the ranks of the Conservative Party, and entered the Shadow Cabinet in 1965, …

Roger Nicholas Edwards, Baron Crickhowell of Pont Esgob in the Black Mountains and County of Powys, PC (born 25 February 1934) is a British Conservative Party politician and a former Secretary of State for Wales.