Norman Baker receives the Lib Dem Minister of the Year award at the Asian Voice Political and Public Awards.
The award winners were nominated by the readers of Asian Voice, Britain’s oldest and leading ethnic newsweekly reaching over 200,000 British Asians in the UK over the last 40 years.
Winners were selected by an independent panel of judges including Keith Vaz MP who praised Norman for bringing “vast knowledge and new ideas to the Home Office.”
During the short time he has been at the Home Office, Norman has been working on combating violence against women, eradicating Female Genital Multilation, reducing the use of animals in scientific research and improving the effectiveness of the country’s drug policies.
The award is the latest in a series of awards. Since becoming an MP in 1997 he has been named Channel 4’s Opposition Politician of the Year and The Spectator’s Inquisitor of the Year as well as last year’s Outstanding Contribution to Transport, presented to him at the National Transport Awards on his leaving the Department for Transport to become Minister at the Home Office.
Norman said: “I am very honoured to be given this award and it is very gratifying to receive such recognition for my work in the Home Office, despite having only been there for less than six months. I hope that the work I am doing, and continue to do, will make a real difference to people’s lives, especially to the most vulnerable in society and those who have suffered as the victims of crime.”
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