Increasing Diversity in Elected Office

Part of Questions to the Deputy Minister and Chief Whip – in the Senedd at 2:39 pm on 16 July 2019.

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Photo of Mike Hedges Mike Hedges Labour 2:39, 16 July 2019

Can I thank the Minister for that response? I think we have seen some progress—albeit slowly—across a large number of areas like MPs, AMs, and even councillors. Something that concerns me is that we've had seven police and crime commissioners, not one has been a woman, not one has been from an ethnic minority, and it's very much the situation that people are looking at it and seeing that it's only people of a certain type who may be able to stand for becoming police and crime commissioners. What can we do to ensure we have a better mix in police and crime commissioners?