Norman Baker

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Norman Baker

Norman Baker has been the Lib Dem MP for Lewes since 1997. He was appointed a parliamentary under-secretary at the Department for Transport in 2010.[1]

In October 2013, he was appointed as minister of state for crime prevention in October 2013 at the Home Office.[2] He resigned from this role on 3 November 2014.

Background

Previously Baker has carried out a number of different roles within parliament, including:

  • Shadow secretary of state for the environment and transport from 2002 to 2005.
  • Shadow environment and rural affairs secretary from 2005 to 2006.
  • Shadow minister for the cabinet office and chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster in 2007.
  • Shadow secretary of state for transport from 2007 to 2010.
  • Parliamentary under secretary for transport from 2010 to 2013. <ref> The Rt Hon Norman Baker MP GOV.UK, accessed 27 February 2015 Cite error: The opening <ref> tag is malformed or has a bad name

Notes

  1. Norman Baker, www.parliament.uk, accessed 20 August 2013.
  2. Ministerial appointments: 7 October 2013, Prime Minister's Office, 7 October 2013.