Education
Davies was educated at Llanfair Primary School, Street John"s Preparatory School, Porthcawl, and later boarded at Wycliffe College, Stroud.
Member of the National Assembly for Wales
Davies was educated at Llanfair Primary School, Street John"s Preparatory School, Porthcawl, and later boarded at Wycliffe College, Stroud.
He was elected leader of the Welsh Conservative group in the National Assembly for Wales on 14 July 2011. He is a partner in the family farming business based in Street Hilary near Cowbridge in the Vale of Glamorgan. Davies was a Welsh delegate on the Council of the National Farmers Union (NFU).
Vice president of the local Young Farmers Club.
And is a former Chairman of Creative Communities, which seeks to develop structural community development. Davies is also a life governor of the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society, and was the Society’s Oxford Scholar in 2002.
He is a former governor at Llanfair Primary School. His father died at the Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend in 2008 in circumstances which he describes as traumatic, and about which he and his family complained.
Joining the Conservative Party in 1997, Davies fought Cardiff West in the 2001 general election, and Brecon and Radnorshire in 2005.
He has served as Deputy Chairman (Political) for the Conservative Party in South Wales Central 2002-2003, a region that comprises Cardiff, Rhondda Cynon Taff and the Vale of Glamorgan. And Cardiff West Conservative Association 2004-2005. In March 2006, he was chosen to be the second on the Conservative Party"s list for the 2007 election.
Following a 5.2 per cent swing from Labour to Conservative across the region, the Conservative party secured two seats and Davies was therefore elected.
In the Third Assembly he was appointed Shadow Minister for Transport in the National Assembly for Wales from 7 July 2007 to 16 June 2008, and Shadow Minister for Education, Lifelong Learning and Skills from 16 June 2008. In 2009 he became the Shadow Minister for Health in the National Assembly for Wales.
He launched a survey, Your Welsh National Health Service of attitudes to National Health Service Wales in 2014 with Darren Millar. lieutenant concluded that the Welsh held the National Health Service dear to their hearts, though almost two-thirds of respondents felt the performance of the Welsh National Health Service had declined in recent years.
The survey found a wide range of problems caused by a lack of resources.
Staff complained that Whistleblowers risked professional suicide and some patients said complaints or concerns were not taken seriously by National Health Service managers.
Davies" political interests include education, health and rural affairs He also sits on the Assembly’s Petitions Committee, which reviews petitions from members of the public, as well as sitting on the Subordinate Legislation Committee.