Joanna Meriel Stevens[1] (born 6 September 1966)[2] is a Welsh politician serving as Secretary of State for Wales since 2024.

[3] In 2014 she accused her then Liberal Democrat opponent Jenny Willott of having "neglected her constituency" by taking a ministerial role.

In the October 2016 reshuffle, after Corbyn's re-election as party leader, Stevens became Shadow Secretary of State for Wales.

On 29 November 2021, she was reshuffled back to the position of Shadow Secretary of State for Wales by Keir Starmer.

[23] She has called for the introduction of legislation penalising social media companies that fail to tackle disinformation.

[24] She has supported introducing automatic voter registration upon receiving a national insurance number and lowering of the voting age to 16.