Back مايكل بيتس Arabic مايكل بيتس ARZ Michael Bates, Baron Bates German Michael Bates (baron Bates) French Michael Bates Portuguese
The Lord Bates | |
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 Official portrait, 2019 | |
| Minister of State for International Development | |
| In office 14 October 2016 – 23 April 2019 | |
| Prime Minister | Theresa May |
| Preceded by | The Baroness Anelay of St Johns |
| Succeeded by | The Baroness Sugg |
| Minister of State for Home Affairs | |
| In office 14 May 2015 – 31 March 2016 | |
| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | Lynne Featherstone |
| Succeeded by | The Lord Keen of Elie |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Criminal Information | |
| In office 6 August 2014 – 14 May 2015 | |
| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | The Lord Taylor of Holbeach |
| Succeeded by | The Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon |
| Lord-in-Waiting Government Whip | |
| In office 7 October 2013 – 6 August 2014 | |
| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | The Baroness Stowell of Beeston |
| Succeeded by | The Lord Ashton of Hyde |
| Paymaster General | |
| In office 21 November 1996 – 2 May 1997 | |
| Prime Minister | John Major |
| Preceded by | David Willetts |
| Succeeded by | Geoffrey Robinson |
| Lord Commissioner of the Treasury | |
| In office 17 October 1995 – 11 December 1996 | |
| Prime Minister | John Major |
| Preceded by | Andrew MacKay |
| Succeeded by | Gyles Brandreth |
| Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
| Assumed office 7 July 2008 Life Peerage | |
| Member of Parliament for Langbaurgh | |
| In office 9 April 1992 – 8 April 1997 | |
| Preceded by | Ashok Kumar |
| Succeeded by | Constituency abolished, lost to Ashok Kumar in Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 26 May 1961 Gateshead, England |
| Political party | Conservative |
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| Children | 2 |
Michael Walton Bates, Baron Bates (born 26 May 1961) is a British Conservative Party politician. He has served in the House of Lords since 2008, having previously represented the constituency of Langbaurgh in the House of Commons from 1992 to 1997.
From 2014 to 2015, he was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Criminal Information at the Home Office. In May 2015 he was appointed Minister of State at the Home Office.[1] In March 2016, he resigned as Minister of State[2] in order to undertake a 2000-mile solo walk from Buenos Aires to Rio de Janeiro to raise awareness of the Olympic Truce.[3][4]
He returned to government as a Minister of State in the Department for International Development in October 2016. He offered his resignation on 31 January 2018 for showing "discourtesy" after arriving one minute late for a debate in the chamber, but it was not accepted by the Prime Minister.[5] In April 2019, Bates submitted his second resignation from the position and vacated his role as Minister of State.[6][7]
- ^ "Lord Bates". gov.uk. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
- ^ "Lord Bates resigns as Minister of State for Home Office". gov.uk.
- ^ "Walk for Truce website". Walkfortruce.org. Archived from the original on 28 October 2014. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
- ^ "Gateshead born Lord Bates resigns". ITV News.
- ^ Hassan, Jennifer (1 February 2018). "British lord who resigned for being late still has a job". The Washington Post. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
- ^ Bates, Michael Walton (25 February 2020). "Brexit's court room battle has become toxic – I'm quitting as a minister to search for common ground". Politics Home. Retrieved 18 June 2021.
- ^ Sandhu, Serina (23 May 2019). "The full list of 50 ministers to resign under Theresa May". inews.co.uk. Retrieved 18 June 2021.