![]() Bates contested the November 1991 by-election in Langbaurgh caused by the death of Conservative MP Richard Holt. At the 1987 general election, he stood for parliament for the first time, contesting the Tyne Bridge parliamentary constituency, which was retained by the Labour Party. He contested several elections to Gateshead Borough Council for the Conservative Party between 19. He was a founder member of Gateshead Young Conservatives, Chairman of Northern Area Young Conservatives and a member of the National Advisory Committee of the Young Conservatives from 1984 to 1989. He also has an MBA from Wadham College, Oxford.īates joined the Conservative Party in Gateshead in 1979, later becoming Chairman of Gateshead Conservative Association. ![]() In 1987, he was part of a team who bid successfully for a City Technology College to be located in Gateshead and in 1990, Emmanuel College was formally opened and is one of only three remaining CTCs in England not to convert into academies. Early life and education īorn in Gateshead in 1961, Bates attended Heathfield Senior High School and Gateshead College. In April 2019, Bates submitted his second resignation from the position and vacated his role as Minister of State. 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. He returned to government as a Minister of State in the Department for International Development in October 2016. In March 2016, he resigned as Minister of State in order to undertake a 2000-mile solo walk from Buenos Aires to Rio de Janeiro to raise awareness for the Olympic truce. In May 2015 he was appointed Minister of State in the Home Office. Michael Walton Bates, Baron Bates (born ) is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom serving in the House of Lords since 2008 having previously represented the constituency of Langbaurgh in the House of Commons from 1992 to 1997.įrom 2014 to 2015, he was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Criminal Information at the Home Office. Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Criminal Information Minister of State for International Development
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