Martin Caton

Biography:

Martin Caton was re-elected MP for Gower in May 2010 with a majority of 2,683 votes.

Martin Caton moved to Wales in 1970 when he took up employment in agricultural research at, what was then the Welsh Plant Breeding Station, Aberystwyth (now the Institute for Grassland and Environmental Research).

In Aberystwyth he became actively involved in the Labour Party and Trade Union movement.

In 1984 he came to live in the Gower Constituency when he began work as researcher for David Morris, the Member of the European Parliament. In the years that followed he served on Mumbles Community Council, Swansea City Council and the City and County of Swansea.

In the General Election of 1997, he won the Gower seat for Labour and has represented the constituency in the House of Commons since then.

Martin lives, with his wife Bethan, in West Cross, Mumbles in the Gower Constituency. Soon after his first election he opened a staffed Adive Office in Gorseinon, which continues to serve the interests of his constituents. He holds monthly surgeries in Clydach, Gorseinon, Mumbles and Pontardulais and also special village and street surgeries throughout Gower. For more information please see the ‘contact me’ page on this website.

Constituency: Gower

Constituency Address: 9, Pontardulais Road, Gorseinon, Swansea SA4 4FE

Constituency Tel: 01792-892100

Date of Birth: 15 June 1951

Party: Labour

Personal Website: http://www.martin-caton.co.uk/

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