The Honourable
Andrew Bayly
FRGS MP
Bayly in 2023
16th Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs
Assumed office
27 November 2023
Prime MinisterChristopher Luxon
Preceded byDuncan Webb
1st Minister for Small Business and Manufacturing
Assumed office
27 November 2023
Prime MinisterChristopher Luxon
Preceded byOffice established
33rd Minister of Statistics
Assumed office
27 November 2023
Prime MinisterChristopher Luxon
Preceded byDeborah Russell
Member of the New Zealand Parliament
for Port Waikato
Hunua (2014–2020)
Assumed office
25 November 2023
In office
20 September 2014 – 14 October 2023
Preceded byPaul Hutchison
Member of the New Zealand Parliament
for National party list
In office
14 October 2023 – 25 November 2023
Succeeded byNancy Lu
Personal details
Born1962 (age 61–62)
Whanganui, New Zealand
Alma materMassey University
ProfessionMerchant banker

Andrew Henry Bayly FRGS MP (born 1962)[1] is a New Zealand businessman, adventurer, and politician. He was elected to the New Zealand Parliament at the 2014 general election as the MP for Hunua, representing the New Zealand National Party.

He is Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Minister of Statistics, and Minister for Small Business and Manufacturing in the Sixth National Government.

Early life and family

Bayly was born in Whanganui and has a twin brother. He attended Wanganui Collegiate School and graduated with a degree in accounting and finance from Massey University.[2][3] He is a chartered accountant and a Fellow of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand, the NZ Institute of Management, the NZ Chartered Institute of Corporate Management and the UK Chartered Association of Certified Accountants.

In the 1970s, while a student, Bayly accidentally shot his brother in the leg while climbing a fence with a gun. While his brother was left with heavy scarring, his leg was saved.[3]

Bayly was an officer in the New Zealand Army Territorials and also served in the British Parachute Regiment.[3][4] He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in London.[2][3]

Bayly is married to Tina. They have three sons.[5]

Business career

Bayly worked as a merchant banker, founding the Cranleigh firm with his brother Paul,[6] where he offered corporate advisory and capital markets advice to a range of government entities, local authorities and corporate clients. Cranleigh has offices in New Zealand, Australia and Singapore.

He was a director of numerous companies, the chair of the board of New Zealand Financial Planning and a trustee of the Enterprise Franklin Development Trust, the economic development arm of the Franklin Council.[2]

Bayly is a former director of Envirofert, an organic compost product company that received the prestigious “Green Ribbon Award” in 2010 for making an outstanding contribution to protecting the environment.[7] Envirofert receives around 60,000 tonnes of green waste and building products every year, and turns most of it into beneficial products, including compost and gypsum. It also has a partnership with Fonterra to process and recycle its waste products.[8]

Adventurer

Bayly had a long career in adventure racing, including competing in three Coast to Coast events, marathons and Ironman events. He is a mountaineer and has climbed Aoraki / Mount Cook, Mount Aspiring / Tititea, and four mountains in Antarctica, including Vinson Massif, the highest mountain in Antarctica. In the summer of 2012/13 he dragged a sled 112 km to the South Pole.[2] In 2016 he and his eldest son James each dragged sledges 120 km to the North Pole, raising $10,000 for the Kōkako Recovery Programme in the Hunua Ranges.[9]

In January 2019, Bayly and his second son Daniel spent a month trekking 500 km through Jordan on camels, retracing the routes of Lawrence of Arabia when he worked with Arab forces during the First World War, as described in his book, Seven Pillars of Wisdom.

Living and eating as a Bedouin, Bayly was able to confirm a number of the claims made by Lawrence. However, Bayly disputed Lawrence’s claim that he could ride his camels up to 80 to 120 miles a day. Taking into account the time involved in collecting firewood and cooking and time for prayers, Bayly’s experience was that a fully laden camel could ably cover up to 50 to 80 km in a day, but only for a few days at most. Bayly’s article about their experience was published in the T. E. Lawrence Society journal, August 2019 edition.[10]

In late December 2022, Bayly travelled to the northernmost province of Mongolia with his third son George to spend time with the Dukha people, one of the last groups of nomadic reindeer herders in the world. They spent two weeks living with a Dukha family, riding reindeer between 20-30 km a day, herding the reindeer and protecting them from attacks by wolves.[11]

One of the aims of the trip was to raise awareness of the Dukha and the precarious nature of their lives. Climate change has adversely affected the terrain inhabited by the Dukha and has led to a decline in reindeer herds. Given the harsh realities of their life and the reducing herds, the Dukha are unlikely to continue their nomadic way of life, and the tradition is likely to die over the next couple of decades. Bayly engaged a NZ film producer and arranged for a Mongolian cameraman to accompany them to record the trip, with a view to making a documentary that will eventually be promoted overseas.

Political career

New Zealand Parliament
Years Term Electorate List Party
2014–2017 51st Hunua 55 National
2017–2020 52nd Hunua 39 National
2020–2023 53rd Port Waikato 17 National
2023 54th List 15 National
2023–present 54th Port Waikato National

In Government, 2014–2017

Bayly was elected to Parliament at the 2014 general election, as the National MP for Hunua with a majority of 17,376 votes.[2][12] He replaced Paul Hutchison who retired. He had the fourth highest majority of all electorate seats in New Zealand. During the 51st New Zealand Parliament, Bayly served as a member of the Finance and Expenditure Committee and the Transport and Industrial Relations Committee, as deputy chair of the Regulations Review Committee, and as chair of the Local Government and Environment Committee.[2]

In September 2016, Bayly proposed a private member's bill to Parliament that would give landlords more power to test and remedy their rental properties of dangerous levels of methamphetamine contamination. The bill would have placed an obligation on the landlord to provide rental accommodation free of methamphetamine contamination while giving them more power to confront the problem in their properties.[13] While it was not selected for introduction, a similar bill was introduced by the National Government in 2017[14] and was later passed unanimously by Parliament under the Labour Government in 2019.[15]

In Opposition, 2017–2023

At the 2017 general election, Bayly retained Hunua by a margin of 19,443 votes.[16] However, National did not win the election. Bayly held various party spokesperson roles under National's four leadership configurations that term. These included building regulation under Bill English; revenue, building and construction under Simon Bridges; revenue, commerce, and state-owned enterprises under Todd Muller and Judith Collins. He was also an associate finance spokesperson under the final three leaders.[17] In the 2017–2020 term, Bayly continued as a member of the Finance and Expenditure Committee.[17]

In September 2019, Bayly was ejected from Parliament for attempting to disrupt Parliamentary proceedings during his questioning of Housing Minister Megan Woods about the Ihumātao dispute.[18]

For the 2020 general election, Bayly's electorate of Hunua was disestablished. A new electorate, Port Waikato, comprising part of the old Hunua electorate and part of the old Waikato electorate, was created. Bayly contested Port Waikato and was re-elected by a margin of 4,313 votes.[19]

Bayly was regarded as a "close ally" to National leader Judith Collins.[20][21] When she reshuffled her shadow cabinet on 11 November 2020 and promoted Bayly to third rank with the positions of shadow treasurer (senior to the finance spokesperson Michael Woodhouse) and National Party spokesperson for infrastructure and statistics.[22] This was a promotion of 14 places in National's shadow cabinet, and Bayly was described by reporters as the "big winner" in the reshuffle, but also as "relatively unknown" and "little-known".[22][23][24] Some media comment focussed on Bayly's title of shadow treasurer, despite there being no person in the Government with the role of Treasurer to shadow, although Collins suggested re-establishing that role if National were to win the next general election.[25] Bayly was given responsible for revenue policy, budget preparation and review, monetary policy, KiwiSaver and the New Zealand Superannuation Fund.[26] However, Bayly was criticised for being "invisible" and ineffective.[21][27]

On 10 November 2021, the New Zealand Superannuation and Retirement Income (Fair Residency) Amendment Bill was passed. This was a member's bill in Bayly’s name, although it had been introduced by former New Zealand First MP Mark Patterson in the previous term of Parliament.[28] The bill changes the criteria for New Zealand superannuation so that older migrants, and New Zealanders who spent large portions of their lives overseas, must wait longer to qualify.[29]

Following the appointment of Christopher Luxon as party leader on 30 November 2021 and a subsequent reshuffle of the shadow cabinet in early December, Bayly was demoted to 15th position and given responsibility for revenue, small business, commerce and consumer affairs, building and construction, and manufacturing.[30]

In Government, 2023–present

Bayly contested Port Waikato in the October 2023 general election, but the electorate vote was postponed to a by-election in November after another candidate died. In the interim, Bayly was elected as a list MP. He won the by-election with a margin of 11,432 votes over New Zealand First candidate Casey Costello.[31][32]

In the Sixth National Government, which formed during the by-election period, Bayly was appointed as a minister outside Cabinet with responsibility for commerce and consumer affairs, statistics, and small business and manufacturing.[33]

References

  1. ↑ James, Colin (2017). National at 80: The Story of the New Zealand National Party. Auckland: David Bateman Ltd. ISBN 9781869539818.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "About". Andrew Bayly | MP for Hunua. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Bradwell, Simon (3 November 2014). "MP reluctant to tell of shooting brother". stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 31 July 2023.
  4. ↑ "National MP embarks on mission to complete Pole double". The New Zealand Herald. 30 March 2016. Retrieved 30 March 2016.
  5. ↑ "Bayly, Andrew: Address in Reply - New Zealand Parliament". www.parliament.nz. Retrieved 31 July 2023.
  6. ↑ Playing Favourites with Paul and Andrew Bayly radionz.co.nz, 28 September 2013
  7. ↑ "Green Ribbon Award winners announced". The Beehive. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  8. ↑ "Fonterra – Waste". www.fonterra.com. Archived from the original on 12 August 2016. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  9. ↑ "MP reflects on North Pole trek". Stuff. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  10. ↑ "Journal Volume XXV to Volume 29 | T. E. Lawrence Society". Retrieved 15 April 2022.
  11. ↑ elocal. "Living with the last reindeer herders in the world – part two". elocal. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
  12. ↑ "Official Count Results -- Hunua". Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 17 January 2020. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
  13. ↑ "Bill will address P-plagued homes". Archived from the original on 19 September 2016. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  14. ↑ "Residential Tenancies Amendment Bill (No 2) — First Reading - New Zealand Parliament". www.parliament.nz. Retrieved 31 July 2023.
  15. ↑ "Residential Tenancies Amendment Bill — Third Reading - New Zealand Parliament". www.parliament.nz. Retrieved 31 July 2023.
  16. ↑ "Hunua - Official Result". Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 17 January 2020. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
  17. 1 2 "Bayly, Andrew - New Zealand Parliament". www.parliament.nz. Retrieved 31 July 2023.
  18. ↑ Small, Zane (19 September 2019). "National MP Andrew Bayly booted from Parliament over Ihumātao questioning". Newshub. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
  19. ↑ "Port Waikato - Official Result". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
  20. ↑ "'Not a role of the board': Goodfellow email contradicts claim; Collins dumped". NZ Herald. 1 August 2023. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
  21. 1 2 Moir, Jo (16 March 2021). "National's finance disappearing act". Newsroom. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
  22. 1 2 "Who is Andrew Bayly? The mountaineer who scaled National's caucus and claimed half of the finance role". NZ Herald. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
  23. ↑ "Collins defends Andrew Bayly promotion to National's number three". RNZ. 11 November 2020. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
  24. ↑ "Bayly big winner from National's caucus shakeup". Newsroom. 11 November 2020. Retrieved 31 July 2023.
  25. ↑ "Judith Collins says National 'lost the boardroom' during last term, but her new finance team can fix that". Stuff. 11 November 2020. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
  26. ↑ Harman, Richard. "National abandons tax cuts | Politik". Retrieved 12 November 2020.
  27. ↑ Campbell, Gordon (26 November 2021). "On National's Less Than Stellar Choices | Scoop News". www.scoop.co.nz. Retrieved 31 July 2023.
  28. ↑ "Tougher residency rules for superannuation passed". NZ Herald. Retrieved 15 April 2022.
  29. ↑ Stock, Rob (10 November 2021). "Law will make migrants and returning Kiwis wait longer for NZ Super". Stuff. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
  30. ↑ "National Party leader Christopher Luxon reveals new caucus lineup". RNZ. 6 December 2021. Retrieved 15 April 2022.
  31. ↑ "Port Waikato byelection: National's Andrew Bayly gets landslide victory". The New Zealand Herald. 27 November 2023. Retrieved 26 November 2023.
  32. ↑ "Port Waikato - Official Result". Electoral Commission. 6 December 2023. Archived from the original on 7 December 2023. Retrieved 7 December 2023.
  33. ↑ Palmer, Russell (24 November 2023). "Cabinet lineup for new government unveiled - who gets what?". Radio New Zealand. Archived from the original on 4 December 2023. Retrieved 18 December 2023.
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