{"id":582090,"date":"2026-05-13T17:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T17:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/582090\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T17:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T17:34:08","slug":"plaid-cymrus-rhun-ap-iorwerth-reveals-new-welsh-government-ministers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/582090\/","title":{"rendered":"Plaid Cymru&#8217;s Rhun ap Iorwerth reveals new Welsh government ministers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Heledd Fychan becomes cabinet minister for culture and sport, a role promoted from a junior ministerial one in the last Labour government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fychan previously had a senior job at Museums Wales before joining the Senedd in 2021. She will also be trefnydd &#8211; which involves organising government business in the Senedd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Plaid leader Adam Price was appointed the minister for enterprise, connectivity and energy, while minister for rural resilience, responsible for farming, is Ll\u0177r Gruffydd &#8211; his party&#8217;s former rural affairs spokesman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile former Plaid Cymru MP Elfyn Llwyd will be returning to frontline politics as counsel general &#8211; the government&#8217;s chief legal adviser. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a quirk of the system, the Senedd will need to be agree the role.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">New MS Dafydd Trystan will be the minister for the constitution and government effectiveness, having previously held major roles within his party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They include being chairman under former leaders Leanne Wood and Adam Price, and chief executive under Ieuan Wyn Jones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heledd Fychan becomes cabinet minister for culture and sport, a role promoted from a junior ministerial one in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-582090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}