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Andrew Welsh

Politician

Andrew Welsh is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Andrew Welsh · أندرو ولش · اندرو ويلزى				[sources]
Other name	Andrew Paton Welsh · أندرو ويلزي				[sources]
Birth date	1944-04-19				[sources]
Place of birth	Glasgow				[sources]
Death date	2021-06-17 · 2021-06-18				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Scotland				[sources]
Country	United Kingdom · Scotland				[sources]
Citizenship	United Kingdom				[sources]
Classification	National government (past)				[sources]
First name	Andrew				[sources]
Last name	Welsh				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q334000				[sources]
Position	Member of the 1st Scottish Parliament (1999-2003) · Member of the 2nd Scottish Parliament (2003-2007) · Member of the 3rd Scottish Parliament (2007-2011) · Scottish Parliament (member, 2003-2007) · Scottish Parliament (member, 2007-2011) · 4 more...				[sources]
Education	Govan High School · University of Glasgow				[sources]
Last change	2025-07-01	Last processed	2025-11-11	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Scottish politician (born 1944)

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of the Scottish Parliament	2003-05-01	2007-04-02
Member of the Scottish Parliament

Data sources

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons276,144

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Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Every Politician57,893

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Global · MySociety · non-official source

External databases

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Wikidata335,609

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions551,777

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-b8ed2db8-074b-4d39-8252-b9243348b0db · evpo-3dd8be08-15da-44cd-b361-d07eaf176648

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