Willy Bach, Baron 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
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
Incumbent
Assumed office 27 July 1998 Life Peerage
Personal details
Born	William Stephen Goulden Bach (1946-12-25) 25 December 1946 (age 77)
Political party	Labour

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.