Kamlesh Patel, Baron Patel of Bradford

Kamlesh Patel, Baron Patel of Bradford

Kamlesh Kumar Patel, Baron Patel of Bradford (born September 28, 1960 ) is a British politician from India who has been a Life Peer member of the House of Lords since 2006 and deals in particular with questions of drug, health and social policy.

Life

Patel graduated and was later a professor at the University of Central Lancashire and director of the Center for Ethnicity and Health ( Center for Ethnicity and Health ). In addition, he had been working for the Advisory Board of the Home Office against Drug Abuse since 1990 , where he was a member of the working group for criminal justice from 1990 to 1996 and also a member of the Advisory Board between 1993 and 1996. He also committed between 1995 and 2008 in the Commission for the Law on Mental Health ( Mental Health Act Commission ) and was first board member, then from 2001 to 2002 Vice-Chairman and most recently from 2002 to 2008 chairman of the commission. In addition, from 1997 to 1998 he was a member of the Advisory Board of the Central Council for Education, Training and Social Work and, between 2001 and 2008, of the Advisory Board of the Agency for the Treatment of Substance Misuse and at the same time chairman of its examination and risk committees. He was also a member of the Advisory Board of the Healthcare Commission from 2003 to 2005 and was also the British representative in the UNICEF worldwide working group on water, sanitation and hygiene.

Patel was raised to the nobility by a letters patent dated June 8, 2006 as a life peer entitled Baron Patel of Bradford , of Bradford in the County of West Yorkshire . Shortly thereafter took place on 10 July 2006 its introduction ( Introduction ) as a member of the House of Lords .

In the following years he was involved as a member and trustee of the Commission for Drug Policy from 2007 to 2009 and as chairman of the National Audit Group for Drug Treatment in Prisons between 2008 and 2010. He has also been Associate Director of the National Health Service (NHS) Partnership Trust in Leicestershire since 2008, and has been an advisor to communities on legal and inclusion programs since 2008. Patel, who represented the Labor Party in the House of Lords until 2011 and has since been a member of the group of non-party members of the House of Lords ( Crossbencher ), was between October 2008 and June 2009 with the title of Lord in Waiting, HM Household Parliamentary Secretary ( Whip ) of the Labor Group in the upper house and after the electoral defeat of the Labor Party in the general election on 6 May 2010 spokesman for the opposition for communities and local government.

Since 2010 Patel has chaired the Communities, Rights and Inclusion Governance Committee and the Integrated Equality and Human Rights Committee in Leicestershire.

Web links

• Entry on Parliament's homepage (accessed October 24, 2012)
• Entry in the Hansard
• Entry in They Work For You (accessed October 24, 2012)