Willy Bach, Baron Bach

The Lord Bach
Bach in 2019
Leicestershire Police and Crime Commissioner
In office
12 May 2016 – 12 May 2021
DeputyKirk Master
Preceded byClive Loader
Succeeded byRupert Matthews
Shadow Attorney General
In office
3 December 2014 – 14 September 2015
LeaderEd Miliband
Harriet Harman (Acting)
Preceded byEmily Thornberry
Succeeded byCatherine McKinnell
Ministerial offices
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice
In office
5 October 2008 – 11 May 2010
Prime MinisterGordon Brown
Preceded byThe Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
Succeeded byJonathan Djanogly
Lord-in-Waiting
Government Whip
In office
7 November 2007  – 9 June 2009
Prime MinisterGordon Brown
Preceded byThe Lord Truscott
Succeeded byThe Lord Faulkner of Worcester
In office
28 July 1999 – 21 November 2000
Prime MinisterTony Blair
Preceded byThe Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
Succeeded byThe Lord Truscott (2007)
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Farming, Food and Sustainable Energy
In office
10 May 2005 – 5 May 2006
Prime MinisterTony Blair
Preceded byThe Lord Whitty
Succeeded byThe Lord Rooker
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence Procurement
In office
9 June 2001 – 6 May 2005
Prime MinisterTony Blair
Preceded byThe Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean
Succeeded byThe Lord Drayson
Parliamentary Secretary for Lord Chancellor's Department
In office
22 November 2000 – 11 June 2001
Prime MinisterTony Blair
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byThe Baroness Scotland of Asthal
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
27 July 1998
Life Peerage
Personal details
Born
William Stephen Goulden Bach

(1946-12-25) 25 December 1946 (age 77)
Political partyLabour

William Stephen Goulden "Willy" Bach, Baron Bach (born 25 December 1946) is a British Labour member of the House of Lords. He was a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Ministry of Justice from 2008 to 2010. He resigned from the opposition front bench when he was elected the Leicestershire Police and Crime Commissioner on 6 May 2016. He did not stand again at the 2021 PCC election and was succeeded by the Conservative Rupert Matthews.