Alun Michael

Michael was born at Bryngwran, Anglesey, the son of Leslie and Betty Michael. He attended Colwyn Bay Grammar School and studied at Keele University for four years from 1962 to 1966 obtaining a BA degree in Philosophy and English.

He was a reporter for the South Wales Echo, a Cardiff-based evening newspaper, where he was a contemporary of Michael Buerk (later to become a distinguished BBC correspondent) and of Sue Lawley (later to become presenter of the BBC magazine programme Nationwide)."The Reporter's Tale" by Tom Davies Publisher:Berwyn Mountain Press {{ISBN|9780955353949}} In his autobiography Michael Buerk wrote "Alun Michael with his ginger toothbrush-moustache and battered corduroy jacket, was a rather Pooterish character for the Sixties. He did not stay in journalism, which was no surprise, but went into politics, which certainly was"."A Road Taken" by Michael Buerk (Hutchinson 2004) Michael in fact left journalism in 1971 and spent 16 years until 1987 as a "youth and community worker" before entering Parliament.{{Cite web |title=South Wales Police & Crime Commissioner, Rt Hon Alun Michael |url=https://www.southwalescommissioner.org.uk/en/your-commissioner/south-wales-police-crime-commissioner-rt-hon-alun-michael/ |access-date=2023-09-11 |website=www.southwalescommissioner.org.uk}} In 1972 he was appointed a justice of the peace, chairing the Cardiff Juvenile Bench.

Michael was a member of Cardiff City Council for the Rumney ward, subsequently the Trowbridge ward from 1973{{cite web|title=Cardiff Welsh District Council Election Results 1973-1991|url=http://www.electionscentre.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Cardiff-1973-1991.pdf |publisher=The Elections Centre (Plymouth University) |access-date=1 June 2019}} until 1989.

He became an MP at the 1987 general election, inheriting a safe Labour seat from former prime minister James Callaghan. Michael retained this seat in 1992, 1997, 2001, 2005 and 2010 although with declining majorities at each election from 1997 onwards.

Michael was a Shadow Home Affairs Minister while in opposition, prior to becoming a Minister of State in the Home Office (he likes to describe himself as having been "Deputy Home Secretary"){{cite web|url=http://www.alunmichael.net/about-alun.aspx |title=About Alun Michael MP |publisher=Alunmichael.com |date=22 August 1943 |access-date=1 February 2013}} following Labour's landslide victory in the 1997 general election. His rhetoric when coming to office differed from the eventual delivery. As Home Office minister, he pledged there would be "no hiding place for paedophiles" as there would "be cases where the public will have to be told directly that a paedophile is in their area. Several frightening cases in recent months have hammered it home that we must act."{{cite news|title=Nightmare on Any Street|work=The Guardian|date=10 June 1997}} This policy was not realised, and following the case of eight-year-old Sarah Payne and calls for his original policy to be introduced, Michael agreed with the approach being taken by then Dyfed Powys Chief Constable Terence Grange, who said such a plan would drive paedophiles underground. He said "(Grange) warned of the dangers of having open access leading to paedophiles disappearing and therefore posing an even greater risk".{{cite news|title=Naming and Shaming is No Answer say MPs|publisher=Western Mail|date=17 December 2001}} Michael defended his decision not to introduce "Sarah's Law" saying, "These are extremely difficult issues and people are understandably very upset, but there is a danger of serious mistakes being made and this has been shown on a number occasions.".{{cite news|title=She ripped our family apart and changed my lovely little boyforever|publisher=The Wales on Sunday|date=21 March 2010}}

Michael was however responsible for steering the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 through the House of Commons. Amongst other things, this Act introduced ASBOs or Anti-social Behaviour Orders and statutory crime reduction partnerships. He was also responsible for the Government policy on the voluntary and community sector, and introduced the "compact" process to achieve partnership between Government and that sector. Michael later became a member of the Justice Select Committee from November 2007 to May 2010. While on the committee he took part in enquiries into restorative justice, devolution ten years on, the role of the prison officer, and the work of the Crown Prosecution Service.{{cite web |url=http://www.parliament.uk/justicecom/ |title=Justice Select Committee |publisher=Parliament.uk |access-date=1 February 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100124093017/http://www.parliament.uk/justicecom/ |archive-date=24 January 2010 |df=dmy-all }}

In May 1997 Ron Davies was appointed by Tony Blair to the cabinet position of Secretary of State for Wales and then, in September 1998, narrowly defeated Rhodri Morgan in an internal contest for the Labour leadership in Wales. The first election for the National Assembly of Wales was due to be held in May 1999. Should Labour form a government, the Welsh Labour leader would then become what was to be called "First Secretary" – potentially giving Davies a role in both the UK and Welsh legislatures.

However, on 27 October 1998, Davies abruptly resigned as Secretary of State for Wales after adverse publicity about his personal life. Tony Blair overlooked Morgan (then MP for Cardiff West) and appointed Michael as the new Secretary of State for Wales.

Two days later, on 29 October 1998, Davies also resigned the Labour Leadership in Wales, thus relinquishing his ambition to become First Secretary and initiating another leadership contest. Blair again overlooked Morgan and opted to back Michael for the position. According to Neath MP Peter Hain "Rhodri was the party's favourite and feelings ran very high" but nevertheless, in a volte-face, Hain agreed to run the campaign for Michael who he described as "the establishment candidate". Although Morgan had the overwhelming support of individual Labour Party members, Michael, backed by Blair and by the trade unions, won the election.{{cite web|last=Shipton |first=Martin |url=http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/welsh-politics/welsh-politics-news/2012/01/24/peter-hain-on-why-he-backed-alun-michael-over-rhodri-morgan-for-national-assembly-s-first-labour-leader-91466-30185651/2/ |title=Peter Hain on why he backed Alun Michael over Rhodri Morgan for National Assembly's first Labour leader |publisher=WalesOnline |access-date=1 February 2013}}"Outside In" (autobiography of Peter Hain), Biteback (23 January 2012), {{ISBN|978-1-84954-118-3}} This episode led to Michael being described as a "famously tetchy Millbank-backed candidate".{{cite news|title=Labour's Mayoral Candidate: Millbank has got its man, but the games aren't over yet|author=Waugh, Paul |work=The Independent|place=London |date=21 February 2000}} The affair was described by Peter Kellner as "another fix" in order "to ensure Alun Michael became Labour's leader in Wales" which Kellner said "offended so many voters that it lost some of its safest seats, including Rhondda, to Plaid Cymru".{{cite news|title=Peter Kellner: The Welsh|publisher=The Evening Standard |date=20 July 2000}} Tony Blair's favourable treatment of Michael was later described by Kellner as a "determination to foist Alun Michael on the people of Wales", which "produced a spectacular collapse of support".{{cite news|title=The Sunday Essay: Brown's Scottish Obsession|work=Scotland on Sunday|date= 8 July 2001 }} Michael stressed his Welsh credentials, as someone who had grown up in North Wales, lived for 30 years in South Wales and was a speaker of Welsh. He had approached Blair at a very early stage to suggest he stood for the Welsh Assembly elections.{{cite news|title=Alun Michael: Fighting to be first |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/special_report/1999/02/99/welsh_labour_leadership_contest/270204.stm |work=BBC News |date= 17 February 1999 |access-date=9 November 2015}}

The first Assembly election resulted in the Welsh Labour Party winning less than half of the available seats. In the first plenary on 12 May 1999 Michael was elected First Secretary.

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Rather than form a coalition, Michael took the unconventional route of forming a minority government, believing that this offered the potential for a more collaborative and democratic approach to the work of the Assembly.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/1999/may/12/wales.devolution2|title=Michael opts for consensus|last=Gibbs|first=Geoffrey|date=1999-05-12|work=The Guardian|access-date=2019-10-04|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}

However, this was to lead to the very outcome Tony Blair had wanted to prevent, the election of Rhodri Morgan as leader of the Welsh Assembly. On 9 February 2000, after less than nine months in office,{{cite web |url=http://wales.gov.uk/about/history/timeline/?lang=en |title=Welsh Government | Timeline |publisher=Wales.gov.uk |date=5 October 2011 |access-date=1 February 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120626052924/http://wales.gov.uk/about/history/timeline/?lang=en |archive-date=26 June 2012 |df=dmy-all }} Michael resigned in an attempt to avoid a vote of "no confidence" over the availability of Objective 1 funding from the European Union. Blair was in the House of Commons taking Prime Minister's Questions when Michael resigned; his Parliamentary Private Secretary had not been notified of this yet, and moments later Conservative leader William Hague asked: “Will the Prime Minister comment on the fact that within moments of his expressing full confidence in the First Secretary in Wales five or 10 minutes ago, news came through to the House that the First Secretary had resigned, before the vote of confidence had taken place?“{{Cite web|url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/2000/feb/09/engagements#S6CV0344P0_20000209_HOC_96|title=Engagements (Hansard, 9 February 2000)|website=api.parliament.uk}} This led to an exchange that proved humiliating for Blair as he had not been given any notice of Michael's impending resignation. In his resignation Michael also expressed a desire to avoid a debacle resulting from his inevitable re-appointment (and potential repeated removal) arising from an inconsistency in the Assembly's brand-new rules.{{fact|date=May 2024}}

Michael sat on the Welsh Affairs Select Committee from November 2007 to May 2010 and resigned as an MP on 22 October 2012.

In 2001, he was appointed Minister of State for Rural Affairs and Local Environmental Quality, a post within DEFRA. He was the minister most closely connected with a ban on hunting with dogs, for which he attracted much criticism from hunt supporters. Michael was criticised for citing the research of Sir Patrick Bateson as "incontrovertible proof" of the need for a total ban. Sir Patrick said, "Only somebody who was scientifically illiterate could argue that evidence from a new area of research was 'incontrovertible'" but Michael claimed that Bateson had misunderstood the way his work had been cited.[https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200203/cmhansrd/vo030630/debtext/30630-23.htm Hansard Debates], UK Parliament Publications, March 2003[https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200203/cmhansrd/vo021203/debtext/21203-05.htm#21203-05_spmin3 Hansard Debates], UK Parliament Publications, March 2003

In 2004, he presided over the enactment of the Hunting Act which banned hare coursing, beagling, fox hunting, mink and stag hunting in the UK from February 2005. At the time this law was being debated, and immediately after it was passed, Michael maintained his visits to rural areas despite threats and protest, but withdrew from the event to launch the "Right to Roam" stating that access to the countryside was too important to be interrupted by pro-hunt protestors whose plans could put the public at risk. Michael maintained that hunting was a "peripheral issue" citing social and economic issues in rural areas as "the day job". In 2004, he formally approved the order designating the New Forest as a National Park.

In 2005 Michael was moved to a ministerial post in the Department of Trade and Industry as Minister of State for Industry and the Regions, where he served only one year before he was returned to the backbenches in the Cabinet reshuffle of May 2006.

In 2005 the Freedom of Information Act came into force allowing members of the public to request disclosure of information from public bodies. On 18 May 2007 Alun Michael was among the majority of MPs who voted in favour of exempting MPs from having to disclose information under the act.{{cite web|url=http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/division.php?date=2007-05-18&number=123&mpn=Alun_Michael&mpc=Cardiff_South_and_Penarth&house=commons |title=Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill — Third Reading — 18 May 2007 at 13:46 — The Public Whip |publisher=Publicwhip.org.uk |access-date=1 February 2013}}

In his newspaper column in the Penarth Times of 10 May 2010, Michael proposed giving the vote to 14-year-olds as a way of improving turn-out at UK elections. He said: "My first suggestion is to reduce the voting age to 14 – an age which I find young people far better informed and sensibly engaged than was the case in the past – so that everybody takes place in the voting process once before leaving full-time education. They will then know how to vote when they come to engage with political issues later in life".{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-18050159 |title=BBC News – Cardiff South and Penarth MP Alun Michael wants voting age reduced to 14 |publisher=Bbc.co.uk |date=13 May 2012 |access-date=1 February 2013}} This was going much further than official Labour Party policy, which only promised a free vote in Parliament on reducing the voting age to 16 in their 2010 manifesto.{{cite web|url=http://www2.labour.org.uk/uploads/TheLabourPartyManifesto-2010.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2012-08-25 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120305114506/http://www2.labour.org.uk/uploads/TheLabourPartyManifesto-2010.pdf |archive-date=5 March 2012 }}

Michael was one of the MPs who was investigated by The Daily Telegraph in its probe into MPs Expenses Claims in 2009. The Telegraph reported that "Alun Michael claims £4,800 for food in one year, and £2,600 for repairs to his roof at his constituency home in Penarth. Claims for £1,250 cost of repairing a wall and building a 13ft chain link fence."{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5297606/MPs-expenses-Full-list-of-MPs-investigated-by-the-Telegraph.html |title=MPs' expenses: Full list of MPs investigated by the Telegraph |date=8 May 2009 |work=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=1 February 2013 |url-access=subscription}} Subsequently, it was reported he was among 390 MPs required by Sir Thomas Legg to repay taxpayers' money which allegedly they had wrongly-claimed. An audit of claims dating back to 2004 revealed that Michael should repay £18,889.56 for mortgage interest on additional loans "not shown to have been for an eligible purpose". He had also been paid £280 more than he was entitled to claim for council tax in the year 2004/05 – claiming expenses for 12 installments when he had only had to pay 10 to the local authority. Michael blamed a "clerical error" for the inflated claim. He said "The council tax payment came at a time when I was under a lot of stress politically".{{cite web |url=http://www.penarthtimes.co.uk/news/latestnews/4999354.MP_blames__clerical_error__for_expenses_claim/ |title=MP blames 'clerical error' for expenses claim |access-date=2012-08-21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100213102522/http://www.penarthtimes.co.uk/news/latestnews/4999354.MP_blames__clerical_error__for_expenses_claim/ |archive-date=13 February 2010 |df=dmy-all }} Michael repaid £19,169.56 although later in a 2010 Election Hustings meeting in Splott he said press reports of his having been forced to pay back £20,000 were "untrue" and asserted he had "voluntarily" paid back the money.{{Cite web | url=http://audioboo.fm/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=Alun+Michael |title = Audioboom Search}}

In 2011, Michael was investigated by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) over his website. IPSA found he had contravened the rules of the MPs' Expenses Scheme which prohibit MPs from claiming parliamentary expenses for websites which include party logos. Michael had claimed – and been paid – £346.71 which he was not entitled to. He was given 20 days to amend his website but was not required to pay back the money he had been paid.{{cite web |url=http://www.parliamentarycompliance.org.uk/Documents/Publications/Alun%20Michael%20-%20Website%20publication.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2012-08-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111018062414/http://www.parliamentarycompliance.org.uk/Documents/Publications/Alun%20Michael%20-%20Website%20publication.pdf |archive-date=18 October 2011 |df=dmy-all }}

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On 18 June 2012, Michael was chosen as the Labour Party candidate for the inaugural election for Police and Crime Commissioner for South Wales.{{cite web|author=David Cornock |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-18458866 |title=Welsh Labour names police commissioner candidates |publisher=Bbc.co.uk |date=18 June 2012 |access-date=1 February 2013}}

On 13 July 2012 the Western Mail reported that Michael had been "interfering inappropriately" in the selection process for his replacement in Cardiff South and Penarth, to ensure his preferred candidate (Stephen Doughty) was included on the shortlist. Michael responded that he did speak to Ed Miliband, to the party's general secretary Iain McNicol and members of the National Executive Committee, with the purpose to stop a candidate from outside being imposed on the local party.{{cite web|last=Shipton |first=Martin |url=http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/welsh-politics/welsh-politics-news/2012/07/13/alun-michael-at-the-centre-of-selection-row-over-next-cardiff-south-mp-91466-31387398/ |title=Alun Michael at the centre of selection row over next Cardiff South MP|publisher=WalesOnline |date=21 July 2012 |access-date=1 February 2013}}

Having stood down as an MP, Michael was declared the winner of the first-ever election for Police and Crime Commissioner for South Wales on 16 November 2012 (the election having taken place the previous day). The PCC elections used the supplementary vote system. In the first round Michael failed to gain an outright majority against two Independents and a Conservative candidate. In the second-round however Michael garnered 72,751 votes beating the runner-up, Independent candidate and former lawyer Michael Barker,{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-20349894|title=Alun Michael is new south Wales police and crime commissioner|publisher=BBC Wales|date=16 November 2012|access-date=16 November 2012}} by 11,967 votes.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-20349894 |title=BBC News – Alun Michael is new south Wales police and crime commissioner |publisher=Bbc.co.uk |date=16 November 2012 |access-date=1 February 2013}}

In a Parliamentary written answer on 11 December 2012, Damian Green, Minister of State for Police and Criminal Justice, reported that Michael's salary as PCC for South Wales is £85,000 per annum.{{cite web|url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/cmhansrd/cm121211/text/121211w0001.htm#12121178001838 |title=House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 11 Dec 2012 (pt 0001) |publisher=Publications.parliament.uk |access-date=1 February 2013}}

On 9 November 2017 Michael asked Carwyn Jones to define the allegations made against Carl Sargeant, the former Welsh assembly member who apparently took his own life.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/nov/09/carl-sargeant-lauded-as-welsh-first-minister-prepares-statement|title=Carl Sargeant lauded as Welsh first minister prepares statement|last1=Rawlinson|first1=Kevin|date=2017-11-09|work=The Guardian|access-date=2017-11-09|last2=Morris|first2=Steven|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|last3=Halliday|first3=Josh}}

On 23 May 2023, and in reference to the deaths of two boys in a collision in Cardiff, Michael said "It would appear that there were rumours, and those rumours became rife, of a police chase, which wasn't the case and I think it illustrates the speed with which rumours can run around with the activity that goes on social media nowadays, and that events can get out of hand."{{cite web | title=False rumours of police chase after death of teens 'sparked Ely riot' - ITV News | website=ITV News | date=23 May 2023 | url=https://www.itv.com/news/wales/2023-05-23/fatal-road-crash-involving-two-teens-led-to-riots-in-ely | access-date=25 June 2023}} Later the same day this was apparently contradicted by the emergence of household CCTV footage of a police van closely following two people on an electric bike 900 metres from the crash site.{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-65687785|title=Cardiff riots: Police refer themselves to watchdog after crash deaths|work=BBC News |date=23 May 2023}} In response, Jane Dodds, the leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats, said, "This footage raises serious questions over the version of events provided by South Wales Police and PCC Alun Michael. We now need an immediate, impartial investigation. Should Alun Michael be found to have misled the public he should resign."{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/cardiff-ely-riots-car-crash-latest-b2344104.html|title=CCTV appears to show police van following bike moments before Ely crash – live|date=23 May 2023|website=The Independent}}

In 2023, it was announced that Michael would not contest the 2024 South Wales Police and Crime Commissioner elections.{{Cite web |date=2024-04-10 |title=PCC elections: Who is standing in Wales' police elections? |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c043eyp0kgyo |access-date=2024-04-26 |website=BBC News |language=en-GB}} His former deputy, Emma Wools was elected following his retirement in 2024.{{Cite news |last=Boad |first=Claire |date=3 May 2024 |title=First female Police and Crime Commissioners elected in Wales |url=https://hellorayo.co.uk/hits-radio/south-wales/news/wales-elects-first-women-for-police-and-crime-commissioner/ |access-date=18 June 2024 |work=Rayo}}

After his retirement, Michael was appointed as a voluntary ambassador for the charity Action for Children on 6 November 2024.{{Cite news |last=Birt |first=Elizabeth |date=8 November 2024 |title=Alun Michael welcomed as new Action for Children ambassador |url=https://www.penarthtimes.co.uk/news/24708008.alun-michael-welcomed-new-action-children-ambassador/ |access-date=9 November 2024 |work=Penarth Times}}{{Cite news |last=Favorido |first=Niki |date=4 November 2024 |title=Cardiff Castle reception for new Action for Children ambassador Alun Michael |url=https://www.herald.wales/national-news/charity/cardiff-castle-reception-for-new-action-for-children-ambassador-alun-michael/ |access-date=10 November 2024 |work=Herald.Wales}}

• In 1972, Michael was made a Justice of the Peace.{{Cite news |last=McGreevy |first=Ronan |date=8 July 2004 |title=Minister told he can serve on jury |url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/minister-told-he-can-serve-on-jury-6vn8pqq86c9 |access-date=1 January 2025 |work=The Times}}
• In 2016, he was made an Officer of the Order of St John.{{Cite news |last=Lewis |first=Anthony |date=24 June 2016 |title=Police and Crime Commissioner and Penarth resident honoured by St John award |url=https://www.penarthtimes.co.uk/news/14578871.police-and-crime-commissioner-and-penarth-resident-honoured-by-st-john-award/ |access-date=1 January 2025 |work=Penarth Times}}{{Cite journal |date=19 February 2016 |title=No. 61505: 2483272 |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/2483272 |journal=London Gazette |page=3610 |access-date=1 January 2025}}
• In the 2025 New Year Honours, Michael was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to public safety.{{Cite news |last=Atkinson |first=Chloe |date=30 December 2024 |title=2025 New Year Honours: Craig Maxwell among Vale of Glamorgan names |url=https://www.barryanddistrictnews.co.uk/news/24824624.2025-new-year-honours-craig-maxwell-among-vale-glamorgan-names/ |access-date=1 January 2025 |work=Barry & District News}}{{Cite journal |date=30 December 2024 |title=No. 64607: 4782983 |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/4782983 |journal=London Gazette |access-date=1 January 2025}}
• Michael is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.{{Cite news |date=2015 |title=Profile: Alun Michael |url=https://www.politics.co.uk/reference/alun-michael/ |access-date=1 January 2025 |work=Politics.co.uk}}

• Dragon on Our Doorstep: New Politics for a New Millennium in Wales by Alun Michael (University of Wales, Aberystwyth, 2000) {{ISBN|0-9537829-0-5}}
• Labour in Action: Tough on Crime, Tough on the Causes of Crime – a Collection of Essays edited by Alun Michael (Fabian Society, 1997) {{ISBN|0-7163-3033-4}}
• Building the Future Together (Labour Party, 1997)

• List of Welsh AMs/MSs with the shortest service

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