National Assembly for Wales

Assembly Member Biographies

Lorraine Barrett

Lorraine Barrett AM / AC

Cardiff South and Penarth

Labour

Labour

Assembly Commissioner

Biography

Lorraine Barrett was elected to the Assembly in the first Assembly elections in 1999. She was subsequently re-elected in 2003 and 2007.

Lorraine’s political interests include health, the environment, arts & culture and animal welfare. She takes an interest in all things Secular as a member of the British Humanist Association and the National Secular Society. She chairs the All Party Group on Animal Welfare and the Assembly group of Labour Co-operative Party members. She currently sits on the Health, Wellbeing and Local Government Committee; the Public Accounts Committee, Legislation Committee No. 4 and the Sustainability Committee. She is also a member of Welsh Labour's Executive Committee, the Co-operative Party, Unite the Union and is an Assembly Commissioner with responsibility for the Sustainable Assembly.

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Contact details

e-mail: lorraine.barrett@wales.gov.uk

Lorraine Barrett AM
National Assembly for Wales,
Cardiff Bay
Cardiff
CF99 1NA

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2007 Election Results

Name Party Number of votes % of votes
Lorraine Barrett Labour Party

10106

37.8

Karen Robson Welsh Conservative Party

7352

27.5

Dominic Hannigan Welsh Liberal Democrats

5445

20.4

Jason Toby Plaid Cymru- Party of Wales

3825

14.3