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Ken Skates

PEP · Politician

Ken Skates 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	Ken Skates				[sources]
Alias	Kenneth Christian Skates · Kenneth Skates				[sources]
Birth date	1976-04-02				[sources]
Place of birth	Wrexham				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	not available				[sources]
Country	Wales				[sources]
Citizenship	United Kingdom · Wales				[sources]
Classification	National government (past) · State government (unknown status)				[sources]
Email	Ken.Skates@assembly.wales				[sources]
First name	Ken				[sources]
Last name	Skates				[sources]
Political association	Labour Party · Welsh Labour				[sources]
Website	www.kenskates.co.uk · twitter.com · www.kenskates.co.uk				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q6388501				[sources]
Wikipedia Article	en.wikipedia.org				[sources]
Position	Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Infrastructure (2016-2017) · Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Transport (2017-2018) · Member of the 4th National Assembly for Wales (2011-2016) · Member of the 5th National Assembly for Wales (2016-2021) · Member of the 6th Senedd (2021-) · 4 more...				[sources]
Education	Alun School · Sidney Sussex College · University of Cambridge				[sources]
Last change	2026-04-13	Last processed	2026-04-27	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Member of the Senedd (born 1976)

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

Relationships

Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Legislators40,464

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 Persons in Relevant Categories356,055

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons289,950

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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Wikidata343,261

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions550,907

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

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