Andrew Bayly

Andrew Henry Bayly, FRGS, is a New Zealand politician who was elected to the New Zealand Parliament at the 2014 general election as the MP for Hunua and a representative of the New Zealand National Party.

Andrew Bayly

MP
Member of the New Zealand Parliament
for Port Waikato
Assumed office
17 October 2020
Preceded byNew constituency
Majority4,313
Member of the New Zealand Parliament
for Hunua
In office
20 September 2014 – 17 October 2020
Preceded byPaul Hutchison
Succeeded byConstituency abolished
Majority19,443

Personal life

Bayly was born in Wanganui and has a twin brother. Bayly attended Wanganui Collegiate School and graduated with a degree in Accounting & Finance from Massey University.[1] He is a Chartered Accountant and a Fellow of the NZ Institute of Management, the NZ Chartered Institute of Corporate Management and the UK Chartered Association of Certified Accountants. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in London.[1] Bayly was an officer in the New Zealand Army Territorials and also served in the British Parachute Regiment.[2][3]

He had a long career in adventure racing, including competing in three Coast-to-Coast events, marathons and Ironman events. More recently he took up mountaineering, having scaled many mountain peaks, including Aoraki Mt Cook and Mt. Aspiring, 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.[1] In 2016 he and his son each dragged sledges 120 km to the North Pole, raising $10,000 for the Kokako Bird Recovery Programme in the Hunua Ranges.[4]

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.[2]

Business career

Bayly worked as a merchant banker, founding the Cranleigh firm with his brother Paul,[5] 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.[1]

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.[6] 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.[7]

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

Fifth National Government, 2014–2017

During the 2014 general election Bayly was elected to Parliament as the National MP for the Hunua electorate with a majority of 17,376 votes.[1][8] 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 Select Committee, Transport and Industrial Relations Select Committee, and Deputy Chair of the Regulations Review Select Committee.[1]

In September 2016, Bayly introduced 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, which was backed by the National Party caucus, would place 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.[9]

During the 2017 general election, Bayly retained Hunua by a margin of 19,443 votes.[10]

Sixth Labour Government, 2017–present

In September 2019, Bayly was ejected from Parliament for attempting to disrupt Parliamentary proceedings by asking several questions about the Ihumātao dispute's implications for treaty settlements in New Zealand.[11]

For the 2020 general election, Bayly's electorate of Hunua was renamed Port Waikato, with a new region made partly of the old Hunua electorate and partly of the old Waikato electorate. Bayly contested Port Waikato and was re-elected by a margin of 4,313 votes.[12]

After a shadow cabinet reshuffle on 11 November 2020, Bayly was promoted to number 3 in the National Party rankings and was made shadow-Treasurer. He is also National Party spokesperson for infrastructure and statistics.[13] This was a promotion of 14 places in National's shadow cabinet, and Bayly was described by reporters as "relatively unknown" and "little-known".[14][13]

References
  1. "About". Andrew Bayly | MP for Hunua. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  2. "MP reluctant to tell of shooting brother". stuff.co.nz. 3 November 2014. Retrieved 30 March 2016.
  3. "National MP embarks on mission to complete Pole double". The New Zealand Herald. 30 March 2016. Retrieved 30 March 2016.
  4. "MP reflects on North Pole trek". Stuff. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  5. Playing Favourites with Paul and Andrew Bayly radionz.co.nz, 28 September 2013
  6. "Green Ribbon Award winners announced". The Beehive. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  7. "Fonterra – Waste". www.fonterra.com. Archived from the original on 12 August 2016. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  8. "Official Count Results -- Hunua". Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 17 January 2020. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
  9. "Bill will address P-plagued homes". Archived from the original on 19 September 2016. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  10. "Hunua - Official Result". Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 17 January 2020. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
  11. Small, Zane (19 September 2019). "National MP Andrew Bayly booted from Parliament over Ihumātao questioning". Newshub. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
  12. "Port Waikato - Official Result". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
  13. "Who is Andrew Bayly? The mountaineer who scaled National's caucus and claimed half of the finance role". NZ Herald. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
  14. "Collins defends Andrew Bayly promotion to National's number three". RNZ. 11 November 2020. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
New Zealand Parliament
Preceded by
Paul Hutchison		 Member of Parliament for Hunua
2014–2020		 Constituency abolished
Vacant
Constituency recreated after abolition in 2008
Title last held by
Paul Hutchison		 Member of Parliament for Port Waikato
2020–present		 Incumbent
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