The Rt Hon the Lady Gale

Foretitle(s): Baroness (Life Peer UK 1999), of Blaenrhondda in the County of Mid Glamorgan;
Surname: GALE
Style: The Rt Hon the Lady Gale
Recreations: walking, swimming, gardening, travel

Career: sewing machinist 1955-56 and 1965-69, shop asst 1956-59; joined Lab Pty 1966, former shop steward Tailors and Garment Workers Union 1967-70, women's offr and asst organiser Wales Lab Pty 1976-84, gen sec Wales Lab Pty 1984-99; sits as Lab peer in House of Lords; oppn whip 2010-; memb: Information Ctee 2000-03, Select Ctee on Info, Jt Ctee on Statutory Investments 2004-07, EU Select Ctee Sub-Ctee G on Social Policy and Consumer Affrs 2006-09, Work of Arts Ctee 2010-12; jt sec Assoc Parly Gp for Animal Welfare 2001-10 (memb 2000-, vice-chair 2000-01), chair All Pty Gp on Parkinson's 2008; memb: Inter Parly Union 1999-, All-Pty Parly Gp for Children in Wales (jt sec 2006-09), All-Pty Gp on Smoking and Health, All-Pty Arts and Heritage Gp, British/Taiwan Parly Friendship Gp; memb Parly Assemby Cncl of Europe 2008-; GMB Union (Lab Organisers Branch): memb 1976-, chair Wales and SW section 1986-99, equal opportunities offr 1991-99; memb Welsh Lab Women's Ctee 1999, cmmr for Wales The Women's Nat Cmmn 2004-09; vice-chair Lab Animal Welfare Soc 1999-; pres Treherbert and Dist Branch Br Legion 2002-, patron Kidney Wales Fndn 2008-, pres Nat Assoc of Old Age Pensioners of Wales 2010-; memb: Bevan Fndn, Parkinson's UK; memb: IPU 1999-, CPA 2007-; Val Feld Welsh Woman of the Year Award 2005