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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]
Alias	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]
Political association	Scottish National Party				[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	2025-12-20	Last processed	2025-12-20	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 3rd Scottish Parliament

Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators57,731

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons275,250

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

The record has been enriched with data from the following external databases:

Wikidata355,558

Wikidata is the structured data project of the Wikipedia community, providing fact-based information edited by humans and machines

External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions552,384

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-3dd8be08-15da-44cd-b361-d07eaf176648

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