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Present

  • Rt Hon Eluned Morgan MS (Chair)
  • Huw Irranca-Davies MS
  • Jayne Bryant MS
  • Mark Drakeford MS
  • Rebecca Evans MS
  • Jane Hutt MS
  • Julie James MS
  • Jeremy Miles MS
  • Lynne Neagle MS
  • Ken Skates MS
     
  • Dawn Bowden MS
  • Sarah Murphy MS
  • Vikki Howells MS
  • Jack Sargeant MS 

Officials

  • Andrew Goodall, Permanent Secretary
  • Rachel Garside-Jones, Transition Director Office of the First Minister
  • Rebecca Dunn, Head of Cabinet Division
  • Victoria Jones, Principal Private Secretary, First Minister
  • Toby Mason, Head of Strategic Communications
  • Sinead Gallagher, Deputy Director Cabinet Office
  • Wayne David, Special Adviser
  • Sarah Dickins, Special Adviser
  • Madeleine Brindley, Special Adviser
  • Ian Butler, Special Adviser
  • Haf Davies, Special Adviser
  • Victoria Evans, Special Adviser
  • David Hooson, Special Adviser
  • Kirsty Keenan, Special Adviser
  • Jackie Jones, Special Adviser
  • Stephen Jones, Special Adviser
  • Philippa Marsden, Special Adviser
  • Martha O’Neil, Special Adviser
  • Maddie Rees, Special Adviser
  • Victoria Solomon, Special Adviser
  • Mary Wimbury, Special Adviser
  • Christopher W Morgan, Head of Cabinet Secretariat (minutes)
  • Damian Roche, Cabinet Secretariat
  • Helena Bird, Permanent Secretary’s office
  • Kath Hallett, First Minister’s office
  • Tracey Burke, Director General Climate Change & Rural Affairs
  • Sioned Evans, Director General, Education, Culture and Îʶ¦ÓéÀÖ Language
  • Tim Moss, Chief Operating Officer
  • Judith Paget, Director General Health and Social Services  
  • Andrew Slade, Director General, Economy, Energy and Transport  
  • Nia James, Director Legal Services

Item 1: Minutes of the previous meeting

1.1 Cymeradwyodd y Cabinet gofnodion y 17 Chwefror 2025 / Cabinet approved the minutes of 17 February 2025.   

Item 2: First Minister’s items

Recess visits

2.1 The First Minister thanked those Cabinet Secretaries and Ministers who had undertaken official visits during recess. 

St David’s Day events 

2.2 The First Minister informed Cabinet that she would be travelling to Brussels the following evening and then onto Paris later in the week, to attend a series of events to celebrate St David’s Day.

Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip and Counsel General and Minister for Delivery 

2.3 The First Minister put on record her thanks to the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip and Counsel General and Minister for Delivery who had both recently announced that they would be standing down at the next Senedd election. 

Item 3: Senedd Business

3.1 Cabinet considered the Plenary Grid and noted voting time was scheduled for 7:30pm on Tuesday and at 6.25pm on Wednesday. 

3.2 It was noted the First Minister would be issuing a Written Statement on Ukraine the following day.

Cabinet Secretariat
March 2025