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Jane Hutt
Jane Hutt (born 1949) is a Welsh Labour politician and a Minister in the Welsh Assembly Government, and a member of the National Assembly for Wales for the Vale of Glamorgan, and currently the Welsh Assembly Government Minister for Education, Children and Young People.

Education
BA (Hons) at the University of Kent at Canterbury in 1970, a Certificate of Qualification in Social Work at the London School of Economics in 1972 and a MSc at Bristol University in 1995

Professional career
Hutt held non-political appointments as director of the equal opportunities organisation Chwarae Teg and non-executive director of the Cardiff Community Health Care Trust. Member New Deal Task Force. Vice Chair Wales Council for Voluntary Action. School Governor. Welsh member on the New Opportunities (UK) Fund.

Political career
Hutt was a councillor on South Glamorgan County Council and a former vice-chair of the Social Services Committee.

Hutt was elected to the National Assembly for Wales in 1999 and immediately became Health Minister. She remained in post until January 2005, when she became Minister for Assembly Business and Chief Whip, with additional responsibility for Openness in Government; Communications Strategy; co-ordinating Government policy in relation to children; and Equality and Equality of Opportunity. In the first Cabinet of the Third Assembly she was appointed Minister for Budget and Assembly Business (31 May 2007). In the coalition Cabinet announced on 19 July 2007 she became Minister for Education, Children and Young People.