David Rees

Rees is currently the Chair of the Health and Social Care Committee in the Senedd, which considers current health and social care issues, scrutinises government legislation and produces topical reports based on committee inquiries. He is also a member of the Children and Young People’s Committee, considering issues across multiple portfolios, particularly health and education, and playing an important role in advocating for the wellbeing of children and young people.

Through his role as the Chair of the Cross Party Group on Industrial Communities, he is actively involved in campaigns to improve economic and social conditions in Wales’s Communities. At the same time David also acts as the Chair of the Cross Party Group on Science and he strongly advocates the position Science and Technology can play in economic policy.

David Rees is Welsh Labour politician who has been the Member of the Senedd for Aberavon since 2011.

Before being selected as the Welsh Labour candidate for Aberavon, Rees stood in the 2007 election for the South Wales West region.

Rees joined the Labour Party in 1982 and has been an active member ever since. He has held several positions within the Labour Party and was the Constituency Labour Party secretary for Aberavon between 2005 and 2011.