Willy Bach, Baron Bach

The Right Honourable
The Lord Bach
The Right Honourable The Lord Bach
	Bach in 2019
Leicestershire Police and Crime Commissioner
	In office; 12 May 2016 – 12 May 2021
Deputy	Kirk Master
Preceded by	Clive Loader
Succeeded by	Rupert Matthews
Shadow Attorney General
	In office; 3 December 2014 – 14 September 2015
Leader	Ed Miliband; Harriet Harman (Acting)
Preceded by	Emily Thornberry
Succeeded by	Catherine McKinnell
Prime Minister
Ministerial offices
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice
	In office; 5 October 2008 – 11 May 2010
Prime Minister	Gordon Brown
Preceded by	The Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
Succeeded by	Jonathan Djanogly
Lord-in-Waiting; Government Whip
	In office; 7 November 2007 – 9 June 2009
Prime Minister	Gordon Brown
Preceded by	The Lord Truscott
Succeeded by	The Lord Faulkner of Worcester
	In office; 28 July 1999 – 21 November 2000
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Preceded by	The Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
Succeeded by	The Lord Truscott (2007)
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Farming, Food and Sustainable Energy
	In office; 10 May 2005 – 5 May 2006
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Preceded by	The Lord Whitty
Succeeded by	The Lord Rooker
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence Procurement
	In office; 9 June 2001 – 6 May 2005
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Preceded by	The Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean
Succeeded by	The Lord Drayson
Parliamentary Secretary for Lord Chancellor's Department
	In office; 22 November 2000 – 11 June 2001
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	The Baroness Scotland of Asthal
Member of the House of Lords
	Lord Temporal
	Life peerage ; 27 July 1998
Personal details
Born	William Stephen Goulden Bach; 25 December 1946
Party	Labour
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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.