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{{Short description|Junior minister in the government of the United Kingdom}}
{{Short description|Junior minister in the government of the United Kingdom}}
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The '''parliamentary under-secretary of state''' (or just '''parliamentary secretary''', particularly in departments not led by a [[Secretary of State (United Kingdom)|Secretary of State]])<ref name=":5">{{Cite book|last=Brazier|first=Rodney|url=|title=Ministers of the Crown|date=1997|publisher=[[Clarendon Press]]|isbn=0-19-825988-3|location=|pages=13|oclc=|author-link=Rodney Brazier}}</ref> is the lowest of three tiers of [[Minister (government)|government minister]] in the [[Government of the United Kingdom|UK government]], immediately junior to a [[Minister of State]], which is itself junior to a Secretary of State.<ref name="Cabinet manual">{{cite web |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/60641/cabinet-manual.pdf |author = Cabinet Office |author-link= Cabinet Office |title=Cabinet Manual |publisher=[[HM Government]] |date= Oct 2011 |access-date= 12 Jan 2018 |edition=1st }}</ref>
The '''parliamentary under-secretary of state''' (historically '''under-secretary of state''' or just '''parliamentary secretary''', particularly in departments not led by a [[Secretary of State (United Kingdom)|secretary of state]])<ref name=":5">{{Cite book|last=Brazier|first=Rodney|url=|title=Ministers of the Crown|date=1997|publisher=[[Clarendon Press]]|isbn=0-19-825988-3|location=|pages=13|oclc=|author-link=Rodney Brazier}}</ref> is the lowest of three tiers of [[Minister (government)|government minister]] in the [[Government of the United Kingdom|UK government]], immediately junior to a [[Minister of State|minister of state]], which is itself junior to a secretary of state.<ref name="Cabinet manual">{{cite web |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/60641/cabinet-manual.pdf |author = Cabinet Office |author-link= Cabinet Office |title=Cabinet Manual |publisher=[[HM Government]] |date= Oct 2011 |access-date= 12 Jan 2018 |edition=1st }}</ref>


== Background ==
== Background ==
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The [[Ministerial and Other Salaries Act 1975]] (c. 27) provides that at any one time there can be no more than 83 paid ministers (not counting the [[Lord Chancellor]], up to 3 law officers, and up to 22 whips). Of these, no more than 50 ministers can be paid the salary of a minister senior to a Parliamentary Secretary. Thus, if 50 senior ministers are appointed, the maximum number of paid Parliamentary Secretaries is 33.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1975/27 |title= Ministerial and Other Salaries Act 1975, c.27 | access-date= 19 Jan 2018}}</ref><ref name="limitations-number-ministers">{{cite journal |url=http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN03378/SN03378.pdf |last1= Maer  |first1= Lucinda |last2= Kelly |first2= Richard |title=Limitations on the number of Ministers |series= Briefing Paper |issue=3378 |publisher= House of Commons Library |date= 10 Aug 2017 |access-date= 19 Jan 2018 }}</ref>
The [[Ministerial and Other Salaries Act 1975]] (c. 27) provides that at any one time there can be no more than 83 paid ministers (not counting the [[Lord Chancellor]], up to 3 law officers, and up to 22 whips). Of these, no more than 50 ministers can be paid the salary of a minister senior to a parliamentary secretary. Thus, if 50 senior ministers are appointed, the maximum number of paid parliamentary secretaries is 33.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1975/27 |title= Ministerial and Other Salaries Act 1975, c.27 | access-date= 19 Jan 2018}}</ref><ref name="limitations-number-ministers">{{cite journal |url=http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN03378/SN03378.pdf |last1= Maer  |first1= Lucinda |last2= Kelly |first2= Richard |title=Limitations on the number of Ministers |series= Briefing Paper |issue=3378 |publisher= House of Commons Library |date= 10 Aug 2017 |access-date= 19 Jan 2018 }}</ref>


The limit on the number of unpaid Parliamentary Secretaries is given by the [[House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975]], ensuring that no more than 95 government ministers of any kind can sit in the House of Commons at any one time; there is no upper bound to the number of unpaid ministers sitting in the House of Lords.<ref name="limitations-number-ministers" /><ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1975/24 |title= House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975, c.24 | access-date= 19 Jan 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |url=http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN05226/SN05226.pdf |last= Maer  |first= Lucinda  |title=Ministers in the House of Lords |series= Briefing Paper |issue=5226 |publisher= House of Commons Library |date= 4 Sep 2017 |access-date= 19 Jan 2018 }}</ref>
The limit on the number of unpaid parliamentary secretaries is given by the [[House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975]], ensuring that no more than 95 government ministers of any kind can sit in the House of Commons at any one time; there is no upper bound to the number of unpaid ministers sitting in the House of Lords.<ref name="limitations-number-ministers" /><ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1975/24 |title= House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975, c.24 | access-date= 19 Jan 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |url=http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN05226/SN05226.pdf |last= Maer  |first= Lucinda  |title=Ministers in the House of Lords |series= Briefing Paper |issue=5226 |publisher= House of Commons Library |date= 4 Sep 2017 |access-date= 19 Jan 2018 }}</ref>


The position should not be confused with the [[Permanent Secretary]], which is the most senior civil servant in a government department (also known as the Permanent Under-Secretary of State), nor with a [[Parliamentary Private Secretary]] (an MP serving as an assistant to a minister entitled to directly relevant expenses but no further pay).<ref name="Cabinet manual" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.parliament.uk/site-information/glossary/parliamentary-private-secretary/ |title=Parliamentary Private Secretaries - Glossary page |website= UK Parliament website |publisher=[[Parliament of the United Kingdom]] |access-date= 12 Jan 2018}}</ref>
The position should not be confused with the [[permanent secretary]], which is the most senior civil servant in a government department (also known as the permanent under-secretary of state), nor with a [[parliamentary private secretary]] (an MP serving as an assistant to a minister entitled to directly relevant expenses but no further pay).<ref name="Cabinet manual" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.parliament.uk/site-information/glossary/parliamentary-private-secretary/ |title=Parliamentary Private Secretaries - Glossary page |website= UK Parliament website |publisher=[[Parliament of the United Kingdom]] |access-date= 12 Jan 2018}}</ref>


Of his tenure as an under-secretary in [[Conservative Government 1957–1964|Macmillan's 1957–1963 Conservative government]] from the Lords, the [[Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire|Duke of Devonshire]] noted: "No one who hasn't been a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State has any conception of how unimportant a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State is".<ref>{{Cite ODNB|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/93731|last=Ziegler|first=Philip|orig-date=3 January 2008|date=8 January 2015|title=Cavendish, Andrew Robert Buxton, eleventh duke of Devonshire (1920–2004), landowner}}</ref>
Of his tenure as an under-secretary in [[Conservative Government 1957–1964|Macmillan's 1957–1963 Conservative government]] from the Lords, the [[Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire|Duke of Devonshire]] noted: "No one who hasn't been a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State has any conception of how unimportant a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State is".<ref>{{Cite ODNB|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/93731|last=Ziegler|first=Philip|orig-date=3 January 2008|date=8 January 2015|title=Cavendish, Andrew Robert Buxton, eleventh duke of Devonshire (1920–2004), landowner}}</ref>


== Current Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of State ==
== List of parliamentary under-secretaries of state ==
=== Current ===
There are 44 parliamentary under-secretaries of state, of whom six are unpaid.


There are 44 Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of State, of whom six are unpaid.
The current parliamentary under-secretaries of state are:<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ministers - GOV.UK|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/ministers|access-date=2025-01-13|website=www.gov.uk|language=en}}</ref>
 
The current Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of State are:<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ministers - GOV.UK|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/ministers|access-date=2025-01-13|website=www.gov.uk|language=en}}</ref>


* '''[[HM Treasury]]'''
* '''[[HM Treasury]]'''
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**[[Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Services, Small Business and Exports]] (joint with Department for International Trade)
**[[Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Services, Small Business and Exports]] (joint with Department for International Trade)


== Historic Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of State ==
=== Historic ===
*'''[[Department for Exiting the European Union]]'''
*'''[[Department for Exiting the European Union]]'''
**[[Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union]]
**[[Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union]]
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*'''[[Ministry of Technology]]'''
*'''[[Ministry of Technology]]'''
**[[Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Technology]]
**[[Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Technology]]
*'''Foreign Affairs and Defence'''
*'''Foreign Affairs and War'''
**[[Under-Secretary of State for Air]]
**[[Under-Secretary of State for Air]] at the [[Air Ministry]]
**[[Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs]]
**Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs was formed in 1968 by the merging of
**[[Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations]]
*** Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
**[[Under-Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs]]
*** [[Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs]], which was the result of the 1966 merger of
**[[Under-Secretary of State for India]]
**** [[Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies]] at the [[Colonial Office]]
**[[Under-Secretary of State for War]]
**** [[Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations]], which was originally
**[[Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies]]
***** [[Under-Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs]]
**[[Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies]]
**[[Under-Secretary of State for India]] at the [[India Office]]
**[[Under-Secretary for Ireland]] who lived at the [[Under Secretary's Lodge]]
**[[Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies]], which was the result of the 1801 merger of the
***[[Under-Secretary of State for War]]
***[[Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies]]
**[[Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Supply]]
**[[Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Supply]]
*[[Ministry of Transport (United Kingdom)|'''Ministry of Transport''']]
** [[Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport]]
** [[Under-Secretary of State for Transport]]


== See also ==
== See also ==


* [[List of undersecretary positions]]
* [[Parliamentary secretary]]
* [[Parliamentary secretary]]
* [[Permanent secretary]]
* [[Permanent secretary]]

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Background

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The limit on the number of unpaid parliamentary secretaries is given by the House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975, ensuring that no more than 95 government ministers of any kind can sit in the House of Commons at any one time; there is no upper bound to the number of unpaid ministers sitting in the House of Lords.[4][5][6]

The position should not be confused with the permanent secretary, which is the most senior civil servant in a government department (also known as the permanent under-secretary of state), nor with a parliamentary private secretary (an MP serving as an assistant to a minister entitled to directly relevant expenses but no further pay).[2][7]

Of his tenure as an under-secretary in Macmillan's 1957–1963 Conservative government from the Lords, the Duke of Devonshire noted: "No one who hasn't been a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State has any conception of how unimportant a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State is".[8]

List of parliamentary under-secretaries of state

Current

There are 44 parliamentary under-secretaries of state, of whom six are unpaid.

The current parliamentary under-secretaries of state are:[9]

Historic

See also

References

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