Janet Finch-Saunders

Janet Finch-Saunders is a Welsh Conservative Party politician, and Assembly Candidate for the seat of Aberconwy in the National Assembly for Wales election in May 2011.
Background
Finch-Saunders is from a farming background in Lancashire. At the age of 11 she moved with her family to North Wales and attended Ysgol John Bright’s school in Llandudno. Finch-Saunders then went on to study Business Management at Llandrillo College and opened her first retail business when she was just seventeen, expanding her business into other towns across North Wales.
Finch-Saunders is very interested in Welsh politics and is a former Y.C. Chairman of Aberconwy. She is married to Gareth, who is also a North Wales businessman and they have two children. Finch-Saunders is also currently learning to speak Welsh and is a School Governor at Ysgol Gogarth.
Political career
In 1994 Finch-Saunders was elected onto Llandudno Town Council and achieved a “historic first” by successfully aspiring to the position of “The Mayor of Llandudno” this followed in the steps of her late mother and also father who had also both individually held this position.
She was also elected onto Conwy County Borough Council, topping the poll in the Craig-y-Don Ward in 2004, and was appointed to the Cabinet with overall responsibility for Community Safety and Public Protection matters - a role that Finch-Saunders enjoyed and believes matters much to the residents in Wales.
2003 saw Finch-Saunders selected as the candidate for the high profile seat of Wrexham and was also successful in gaining the no 3 position on the regional list in 2003 and again in 2007. In July 2010 Finch-Saunders was selected in an "Open Hustings" to stand for the Welsh Conservatives to represent the Aberconwy constituency in the Welsh Assembly.
Appointed as a “Deputy Health” spokeswoman, was involved in the campaign against the downgrading and withdrawing of services at Llandudno hospital and is a former volunteer member of the “Community Health Council”. She is also a keen supporter of the Hospice movement and believes passionately that increased core funding should emanate from the Welsh Assembly health budget.
In 2008 Finch-Saunders again topped the poll and was re-elected onto Conwy County Borough Council but a "Rainbow coalition" was formed with the Conservatives excluded, thus causing them to go into formal opposition. Finch-Saunders is currently the group leader of the Conservative group in Opposition on Conwy County Borough Council.
Then January 2011 saw Finch-Saunders appointed as Policy Adviser by the leader of the Conservative Party in Wales. In her new role she will advise Nick Bourne AM on policy involving local government.

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