William Bach, Baron Bach
William " Willy " Stephen Goulden Bach, Baron Bach (born 25 December 1946 in London) is a British politician ( Labour Party ) and Life Peer.
Life and career
Bach attended Westminster School and then studied at New College, Oxford. There he earned a bachelor's degree (BA Hons) in English Language and Literature from science. He then completed his legal training in Nottingham. He was called to the Bar in 1972; In the same year he came as a young lawyer to Leicester, where he settled permanently. He was a member of the Bar in the King Street ( King Street Chambers ) in the judicial district of Midland ( Midland Circuit). He became chairman of the Criminal Division of the Bar Association ( Chamber 's Criminal Law Practice) 1996. In the Society of Labour Lawyers, Bach is a member of the Executive Committee, as well as co-founder and chairman in East Midlands.
He held various offices in local politics. He was member of the Council ( Councillor ) in Leicester City Council ( 1976-1987 ). From 1991 to 1999 he was a Councillor of the Lutterworth Town Council. From 1993 to 1994 he was mayor ( Mayor ) of Lutterworth. Later he was a member of the Council ( Councillor ) in the Harborough District Council ( 1995-1999).
Bach came unsuccessfully in the lower house elections in 1979, 1983 and 1987. From 1998 to 1999 he was elected member of the National Policy Forum of the Labour Party. During the same period he was a member of the Economic Policy Commission.
He is a member of the Co-operative Party. He held various party posts. From 1989 to 1995 he was District Leader of the Labour Party in the district of Harborough; Since 2007 he hatt this function held again. Since 2007 he has been Chairman of the Labour Party in the constituency of South Leicestershire (South Leicestershire Constituency).
Bach lived in London, from the parliamentary year 2006/2007 in Leicestershire. Bach is married and has three children.
Membership in the House of Lords
Bach was appointed Life peer as Baron Bach of Lutterworth in the County of Leicestershire on 27 July 1998. On 28 July 1998, the official launch took place in the House of Lords with the support of Greville Janner Ewan, Baron Janner of Braunstone and Roy Hattersley. His inaugural address was delivered on 20 October 1998.
From 1999 to 2000, Bach spokesman for the government of Tony Blair for the home office. Between November 2000 and June 2001, he was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State ( Parliamentary Under- Secretary of State ) in the Lord Chancellor's Department. After the British general election, 2001, he was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in June 2001 for Defence Procurement ( Parliamentary Under- Secretary of State for Defence Procurement) in the Ministry of Defence of the United Kingdom and became thus one of the most influential positions in the Ministry of Defence. He was the successor of Elizabeth Symons, Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean in this function.
From June 2001 to 2005, Bach, Minister of State for Defence Procurement ( Minister of State for Defence Procurement). In Bach's time, the decision of the British government between the Boeing X -32 fell and the Lockheed X-35 designs for the Joint Strike Fighter project. In his capacity as Minister of State Bach was also the special role of Britain to stress in the implementation of the project again, at the announcement of the U.S. Department of Defense, that the decision was made in favor of the Lockheed Martin fighter jets present. After the general election in 2005, in May 2005 Paul Drayson, Baron Drayson followed him to the Ministry of Defence. Bach moved from May 2005 as Parliamentary Under- Secretary of State for sustainable agriculture and food security to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. He remained until 2006 at the Office; then he took his parliamentary activity as a backbencher again. From September 2006 to November 2007, he was Chairman of the Board of Directors of SELEX Galileo. There he resigned to return to the government.
From 2007 to 2009 he was the Government Whip. He was from 2007 to 2008 government spokesman for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, 2007-2010 of Justice from 2007 to 2008 for the Ministry of Finance and in 2008 for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. From 2008 to 2010 he was, as the successor of Philip Hunt, then Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the British Ministry of Justice ( Parliamentary Under- Secretary of State for Justice) under Justice Secretary Jack Straw. Since 2010 he is opposition spokesman on justice.
As subjects of political interest, he stated on the website of the House Criminal Justice and Criminal Justice, Local Government, Sports, Foreign Affairs, as well as defense policy and security policy. As states of interest he calls Chile, India, Italy and the United States.
His presence in session initially lay in the middle, and later in the regular range.
More offices
Bach is a member of the Court of the University of Leicester. When Cotesbach Educational Trust has been Deputy Chairman ( Vice Chairman ) and member of the Trusteeship Council ( trustee ).