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The Financial Secretary to the Treasury is a mid-level ministerial post in HM Treasury. It is nominally the fifth most significant ministerial role within the Treasury after the first lord of the Treasury, the chancellor of the Exchequer, the chief secretary to the Treasury, and the paymaster general. However, the role of First Lord of the Treasury is always held by the prime minister who is not a Treasury minister, and the position of Paymaster General is a sinecure often held by the Minister for the Cabinet Office to allow the holder of that office to draw a government salary. In practice it is, therefore, the third most senior Treasury minister and has attended Cabinet in the past.
The current holder of the position is Lord Livermore, who was appointed by Prime Minister Keir Starmer following the Labour Party’s victory in the 2024 General Election.[1] The position is shadowed by the shadow financial secretary to the treasury.
History
The role of Financial Secretary to the Treasury was created in 1711 and was known as the Junior Secretary to the Treasury to help deal with the increasing workload of the Senior Secretary to the Treasury. The first Junior Secretary to the Treasury is recorded as Thomas Harley who was appointed on 11 June 1711. The position has continued without any major interruption to the present day. Initially when the position of Senior Secretary to the Treasury became vacant not as the result of an election of change of government the Junior Secretary was usually automatically promoted to the senior role. Over time however, the roles of the Senior and Junior Secretaries began to diverge with the Senior Secretary post being used as a sinecure post for the Chief Whip, with no formal responsibilities to the Treasury. The Junior Secretary however remained a substantive position working in the Treasury. As such the Senior Secretary became known as the 'Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury' while the Junior Secretary became known as the 'Financial Secretary to the Treasury' and the 'automatic' promotion from Junior to Senior ceased. While the exact date this change occurred is disputed it is agreed that by 1830 the distinction was complete.[2]
In 1923 Sir William Joynson-Hicks became the–to date–only Financial Secretary to serve in the Cabinet due to the Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin, also concurrently serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer.
In May 2010 as part of the ministerial reorganisation by the First Cameron ministry, the Financial Secretary was given the additional semi-official title of City Minister. This position was retained until April 2014 when following the promotion of Sajid Javid to Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport the portfolio of City Minister was moved from the Financial Secretary to the Treasury to the Economic Secretary to the Treasury.[3]
Appointment to the position of Financial Secretary to the Treasury is often considered an important stepping stone in a politician's career; six of the ten most recent holders of the office have gone on to hold Cabinet-level positions.
Notable former Financial Secretaries to the Treasury include Lord Frederick Cavendish, Austen Chamberlain, Stanley Baldwin, Enoch Powell, Nigel Lawson, and Norman Lamont.
Current role
The current responsibilities of the Financial Secretary to the Treasury include Departmental responsibility for the Office for National Statistics, and the Royal Mint.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". The Financial Secretary to the Treasury had Departmental responsibility for HM Customs & Excise until the merger with the Inland Revenue to form HM Revenue & Customs.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
List of financial secretaries to the Treasury since 1830
- see Secretary to the Treasury for earlier incumbents
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| Financial Secretary | Term of office | Political party | Prime Minister | Chancellor | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | File:1stBaronMonteagle.jpg | Thomas Spring Rice | 26 November 1830 | 6 June 1834 | Whig | rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Earl Grey | Viscount Althorp |
| rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | File:Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook by Sir George Hayter.jpg | Francis Baring | 6 June 1834 | 14 November 1834 | Whig | |||
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Viscount Melbourne | |||||||
| Office not in use | 15 November 1834 – 19 December 1834 | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Duke of Wellington (Caretaker)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Lord Denman LCJ (interim)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | ||||
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Blank.png | Thomas Fremantle | 20 December 1834 | April 1835 | Conservative or Tory |
style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | Peel | Peel |
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | File:Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook by Sir George Hayter.jpg | Francis Baring | 21 April 1835 | 26 August 1839 | Whig | rowspan=3 style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Viscount Melbourne | Spring Rice |
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | File:Blank.png | Robert Gordon | 6 September 1839 | 1841 | Whig | Baring | ||
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | File:Blank.png | Richard More O'Ferrall | 9 June 1841 | 30 August 1841 | Whig | |||
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | File:Blank.png | George Clerk | 8 September 1841 | 1845 | Conservative | rowspan=2 style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | Peel | Goulburn |
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | File:1stViscountCardwell.jpg | Edward Cardwell | 4 February 1845 | 29 June 1846 | Conservative | |||
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | File:Blank.png | John Parker | 7 July 1846 | 1849 | Whig | rowspan=3 style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Lord John Russell | Wood |
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | File:Blank.png | William Goodenough Hayter | 22 May 1849 | 1850 | Whig | |||
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | File:Sir George Cornewall Lewis, 2nd Bt.jpg | George Cornewall Lewis | 9 July 1850 | 1852 | Whig | |||
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | File:Gahamilton.jpg | George Alexander Hamilton | 2 March 1852 | 1852 | Conservative | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Earl of Derby | Disraeli |
| rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | File:James Wilson by Sir John Watson-Gordon.jpg | James Wilson | 5 January 1853 | 19 February 1858 | Whig | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Earl of Aberdeen (Coalition)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Gladstone |
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Viscount Palmerston | Lewis | ||||||
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | File:Gahamilton.jpg | George Alexander Hamilton | 2 March 1858 | 1859 | Conservative | rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Earl of Derby | Disraeli |
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | File:Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh.jpg | Stafford Northcote | 21 January 1859 | 1859 | Conservative | |||
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Blank.png | Samuel Laing | 24 June 1859 | 1860 | Liberal | rowspan=3 style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | Viscount Palmerston | Gladstone |
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Blank.png | Frederick Peel | 2 November 1860 | 1865 | Liberal | |||
| rowspan=2 style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Hugh Childers, Lock & Whitfield woodburytype, 1876-83 crop.jpg | Hugh Childers | 19 August 1865 | 26 June 1866 | Liberal | |||
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | Earl Russell | |||||||
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:George Ward Hunt (30 July 1825 – 29 July 1877) .jpg | George Ward Hunt | 14 July 1866 | 29 February 1868 | Conservative | style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | Earl of Derby | Disraeli |
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:George Sclater-Booth, Vanity Fair, 1874-08-08.jpg | George Sclater-Booth | 4 March 1868 | 1 December 1868 | Conservative | style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | Disraeli | Hunt |
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Acton Smee Ayrton, Vanity Fair, 1869-10-23.jpg | Acton Smee Ayrton | 9 December 1868 | 1869 | Liberal | rowspan=4 style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | Gladstone | Lowe |
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:James Stansfeld.JPG | James Stansfeld | 2 November 1869 | 1871 | Liberal | |||
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:William Edward Baxter00.jpg | William Edward Baxter | 17 March 1871 | 11 August 1873 | Liberal | |||
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:John George Dodson, 1st Baron Monk Bretton.jpg | John Dodson | 11 August 1873 | 1874 | Liberal | Gladstone | ||
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:William Henry Smith (1825–1891).jpg | William Henry Smith | 21 February 1874 | 1877 | Conservative | rowspan=3 style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | Disraeli | Northcote |
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Frederick Arthur Stanley.jpg | Frederick Stanley | 14 August 1877 | 1878 | Conservative | |||
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Blank.png | Henry Selwin-Ibbetson | 2 April 1878 | 21 April 1880 | Conservative | |||
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Cavendish, Lord Frederick Charles (1836-1882), by John D. Miller, pubd 1883 (after Sir William Blake Richmond, exh. RA 1874).jpg | Lord Frederick Cavendish | 28 April 1880 | 1882 | Liberal | rowspan=4 style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | Gladstone | Gladstone |
| rowspan=2 style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:1stLordCourteney.jpg | Leonard Courtney | 6 May 1882 | 12 December 1884 | Liberal | |||
| Childers | ||||||||
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:John Tomlinson Hibbert.jpg | J. T. Hibbert | 12 December 1884 | 9 June 1885 | Liberal | |||
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Knutsford1.JPG | Henry Holland | 24 June 1885 | 1885 | Conservative | rowspan=3 style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | Marquess of Salisbury | Hicks Beach |
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Matthew White Ridley sketch.jpg | Matthew White Ridley | 1885 | 1886 | Conservative | |||
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:William Lawies Jackson.JPG | William Jackson | 1886 | 28 January 1886 | Conservative | |||
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Portrait of Henry Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton.jpg | Henry Fowler | 6 February 1886 | 20 July 1886 | Liberal | style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | Gladstone | Harcourt |
| rowspan=2 style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:William Lawies Jackson.JPG | William Jackson | 3 August 1886 | 1891 | Conservative | rowspan=3 style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | Marquess of Salisbury | Lord Randolph Churchill |
| Viscount Goschen | ||||||||
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:John Eldon Gorst.jpg | John Eldon Gorst | 9 November 1891 | 11 August 1892 | Conservative | |||
| rowspan=2 style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:John Tomlinson Hibbert.jpg | J. T. Hibbert | 18 August 1892 | 22 June 1895 | Liberal | style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | Gladstone | Harcourt |
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | Earl of Rosebery | |||||||
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Robert Hanbury.JPG | Robert William Hanbury | 29 June 1895 | 1900 | Conservative | style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | Marquess of Salisbury (Unionist Coalition)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Hicks Beach |
| rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | File:Austen Chamberlain nobel.jpg | Austen Chamberlain | 7 November 1900 | 11 August 1902 | Liberal Unionist | style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | Marquess of Salisbury (Unionist Coalition)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Hicks Beach |
| rowspan=4 style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | Balfour (Unionist Coalition)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |||||||
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:William Hayes Fisher, 1st Baron Downham.jpg | William Fisher | 11 August 1902 | April 1903 | Conservative | Ritchie | ||
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Arthur Elliott.png | Arthur Elliot | 10 April 1903 | 9 October 1903 | Conservative | |||
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:GG Duke of Devonshire.jpg | Victor Cavendish | 9 October 1903 | 5 December 1905 | Conservative | A. Chamberlain | ||
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Reginald McKenna photo.jpg | Reginald McKenna | 12 December 1905 | 23 January 1907 | Liberal | rowspan=2 style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | Campbell-Bannerman | Asquith |
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:1905 Walter Runciman.jpg | Walter Runciman | 29 January 1907 | 1908 | Liberal | |||
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Charles Hobhouse 2.jpg | Charles Hobhouse | 12 April 1908 | 1911 | Liberal | rowspan=7 style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | Asquith (I)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Lloyd George |
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Thomas Mackinnon Wood.jpg | Thomas McKinnon Wood | 23 October 1911 | 13 February 1912 | Liberal | |||
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:1906 Charles Masterman.jpg | Charles Masterman MP for Bethnal Green South WestScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
13 February 1912 | 11 February 1914 | Liberal | |||
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Edwin Samuel Montagu.jpg | Edwin Montagu MP for ChestertonScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
11 February 1914 | 3 February 1915 | Liberal | |||
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Francis Dyke Acland.jpg | Francis Dyke Acland MP for CamborneScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
3 February 1915 | 25 May 1915 | Liberal | |||
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Edwin Samuel Montagu.jpg | Edwin Montagu MP for ChestertonScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
26 May 1915 | 9 July 1916 | Liberal | Asquith (Coalition)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
McKenna | |
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Thomas Mackinnon Wood.jpg | Thomas McKinnon Wood MP for Glasgow St RolloxScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
9 July 1916 | 5 December 1916 | Liberal | |||
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | File:Hardman Lever 1917.jpg | Hardman Lever BaronetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
15 December 1916 | 19 May 1919 <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[Note 1] |
None Civil servantScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
rowspan=3 style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | Lloyd George (Coalition)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Law (December 1916 – January 1919)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". A. Chamberlain (January 1919 – April 1921)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Stanley Baldwin ggbain.35233.jpg | Stanley Baldwin MP for BewdleyScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
18 June 1917 <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[Note 1] |
1 April 1921 | Conservative | |||
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Lord Kennet.jpg | Hilton Young MP for NorwichScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
21 April 1921 | 19 October 1922 | Liberal | Horne | ||
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:John Waller Hills.jpg | John Hills MP for City of DurhamScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
6 November 1922 | 1923 | Conservative | rowspan=2 style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | Law | Baldwin |
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Archibald Boy-Carpenter.jpg | Archibald Boyd-Carpenter MP for Bradford NorthScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
12 March 1923 | May 1923 | Conservative | |||
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Viscount Brentford.jpg | William Joynson-Hicks MP for TwickenhamScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
25 May 1923 | 27 August 1923 <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[Note 2] |
Conservative | rowspan=2 style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | Baldwin | |
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne.png | Walter Guinness MP for Bury St EdmundsScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
5 October 1923 | 1923 | Conservative | N. Chamberlain | ||
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Willie Graham.jpg | William Graham MP for Edinburgh CentralScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
23 January 1924 | 4 November 1924 | Labour | style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | MacDonald | Snowden |
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne.png | Walter Guinness MP for Bury St EdmundsScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
11 November 1924 | 5 November 1925 | Conservative | rowspan=3 style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | Baldwin | Churchill |
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Ronald McNeill, 1st Baron Cushendun.jpg | Ronald McNeill MP for CanterburyScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
5 November 1925 | 1 November 1927 | Conservative | |||
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Blank.png | Arthur Samuel MP for FarnhamScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
1 November 1927 | 5 June 1929 | Conservative | |||
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:British Political Personalities 1936-1945 HU59768.jpg | Frederick Pethick-Lawrence MP for Leicester WestScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
11 June 1929 | August 1931 | Labour | style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | MacDonald (II)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Snowden |
| rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color" | | File:Walter Elliott MP.jpg | Walter Elliot MP for Glasgow KelvingroveScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
24 August 1931 | 29 September 1932 | Unionist | rowspan=4 style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | MacDonald (First National ministry)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
| MacDonald (Second National ministry)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
N. Chamberlain | |||||||
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Leslie Hore.jpg | Leslie Hore-Belisha MP for Plymouth DevonportScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
29 September 1932 | 29 June 1934 | Liberal National | |||
| rowspan=2 style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Duff Cooper MP (cropped).jpg | Duff Cooper MP for Westminster St George'sScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
29 June 1934 | 22 November 1935 | Conservative | |||
| rowspan=3 style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | Baldwin (Third National ministry)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |||||||
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Lord Dunrossil-02.jpg | William Morrison MP for Cirencester and TewkesburyScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
22 November 1935 | 29 October 1936 | Conservative | |||
| rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color" | | File:Blank.png | John Colville MP for Midlothian and Peebles NorthernScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
29 October 1936 | 1938 | Unionist | |||
| rowspan=3 style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | N. Chamberlain (Fourth National ministry)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Simon | ||||||
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Euan Wallace.jpg | Euan Wallace MP for HornseyScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
16 May 1938 | 21 April 1939 | Conservative | |||
| rowspan=3 style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Harrycrookshank.jpg | Harry Crookshank MP for GainsboroughScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
21 April 1939 | 7 February 1943 | Conservative | |||
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | N. Chamberlain (War)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |||||||
| rowspan=5 style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | Churchill (War)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Wood | ||||||
| rowspan=2 style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Blank.png | Ralph Assheton MP for RushcliffeScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
7 February 1943 | 29 October 1944 | Conservative | |||
| Anderson | ||||||||
| rowspan=2 style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Blank.png | Osbert Peake MP for Leeds NorthScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
29 October 1944 | 26 July 1945 | Conservative | |||
| Churchill (Caretaker)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | ||||||||
| rowspan=2 style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Blank.png | William Glenvil Hall MP for Colne ValleyScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
4 August 1945 | 2 March 1950 | Labour | rowspan=4 style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | Attlee | Dalton |
| Cripps | ||||||||
| rowspan=2 style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Blank.png | Douglas Jay MP for Battersea NorthScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
2 March 1950 | 26 October 1951 | Labour | |||
| Gaitskell | ||||||||
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Blank.png | John Boyd-Carpenter MP for Kingston-upon-ThamesScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
30 October 1951 | 28 July 1954 | Conservative | rowspan=2 style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | Churchill | Butler |
| rowspan=3 style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Blank.png | Henry Brooke MP for HampsteadScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
28 July 1954 | January 1957 | Conservative | |||
| rowspan=2 style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | Eden | |||||||
| Macmillan | ||||||||
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Encoch Powell 7 Allan Warren.jpg | Enoch Powell MP for Wolverhampton South WestScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
14 January 1957 | 15 January 1958 | Conservative | rowspan=5 style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | Macmillan | Thorneycroft |
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Blank.png | Jack Simon MP for Middlesbrough WestScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
15 January 1958 | 22 October 1959 | Conservative | Heathcoat-Amory | ||
| rowspan=2 style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Blank.png | Edward Boyle MP for Birmingham HandsworthScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
22 October 1959 | 16 July 1962 | Conservative | |||
| Lloyd | ||||||||
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Blank.png | Anthony Barber MP for DoncasterScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
16 July 1962 | 20 October 1963 | Conservative | Maudling | ||
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Blank.png | Alan Green MP for Preston SouthScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
23 October 1963 | 16 October 1964 | Conservative | style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | Douglas-Home | |
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:1989 International Commission of Jurists uitreiking 4.jpg | Niall MacDermot MP for Derby NorthScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
21 October 1964 | 29 August 1967 | Labour | rowspan=4 style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | Wilson | Callaghan |
| rowspan=2 style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Blank.png | Harold Lever MP for Manchester CheethamScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
29 August 1967 | 13 October 1969 | Labour | |||
| Jenkins | ||||||||
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Official portrait of Lord Taverne crop 2.jpg | Dick Taverne MP for LincolnScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
13 October 1969 | 19 June 1970 | Labour | |||
| rowspan=2 style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Blank.png | Patrick Jenkin MP for Wanstead and WoodfordScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
19 June 1970 | 7 April 1972 | Conservative | rowspan=3 style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | Heath | Macleod |
| Barber | ||||||||
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Official portrait of Lord Higgins crop 2.jpg | Terrence Higgins MP for WorthingScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
7 April 1972 | 4 March 1974 | Conservative | |||
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Blank.png | John Gilbert MP for Dudley EastScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
8 March 1974 | 17 June 1975 | Labour | rowspan=2 style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | Wilson | Healey |
| rowspan=2 style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Blank.png | Robert Sheldon MP for Ashton under LyneScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
17 June 1975 | 4 May 1979 | Labour | |||
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | Callaghan | |||||||
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Official portrait of Lord Lawson of Blaby crop 2.jpg | Nigel Lawson MP for BlabyScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
4 May 1979 | 14 September 1981 | Conservative | rowspan=6 style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | Thatcher | Howe |
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Blank.png | Nicholas Ridley MP for Cirencester and TewkesburyScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
September 1981 | 11 June 1983 | Conservative | |||
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Mr John Moore M.P. addressing the Annual LSE Society Dinner, 5th June, 1985.jpg | John Moore MP for Croydon CentralScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
19 October 1983 | 21 May 1986 | Conservative | Lawson | ||
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Official portrait of Lord Lamont of Lerwick 2020 crop 2.jpg | Norman Lamont MP for Kingston-upon-ThamesScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
21 May 1986 | 24 July 1989 | Conservative | |||
| rowspan=2 style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Official portrait of Lord Lilley crop 2.jpg | Peter Lilley MP for St AlbansScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
24 July 1989 | 14 July 1990 | Conservative | |||
| Major | ||||||||
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Francis Maude, Minister for the Cabinet Office.jpg | Francis Maude MP for North WarwickshireScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
14 July 1990 | 9 April 1992 | Conservative | rowspan=5 style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | Major | Lamont |
| rowspan=2 style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Stephen dorrell mp -nhs confederation annual conferencepercent2c manchester-11july2011 - crop.jpg | Stephen Dorrell MP for LoughboroughScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
11 April 1992 | 11 July 1994 | Conservative | |||
| Clarke | ||||||||
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Official portrait of Lord Young of Cookham, 2020.jpg | George Young MP for Ealing ActonScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
11 July 1994 | 5 July 1995 | Conservative | |||
| style="background-Color:Template:Party color" | | File:Michael Jack CBE.png | Michael Jack MP for FyldeScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
5 July 1995 | 2 May 1997 | Conservative | |||
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | File:Official portrait of Baroness Primarolo crop 2.jpg | Dawn Primarolo MP for Bristol SouthScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
2 May 1997 | 4 January 1999 | Labour | rowspan=7 style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Blair | Brown |
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | File:Blank.png | Barbara Roche MP for Hornsey and Wood GreenScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
4 January 1999 | 29 July 1999 | Labour | |||
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | File:Official portrait of Rt Hon Stephen Timms MP crop 2.jpg | Stephen Timms MP for East HamScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
29 July 1999 | 8 June 2001 | Labour | |||
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | File:Official portrait of Lord Boateng, 2020.jpg | Paul Boateng MP for Brent SouthScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
8 June 2001 | May 2002 | Labour | |||
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | File:RuthKellyMP.jpg | Ruth Kelly MP for Bolton WestScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
May 2002 | 9 September 2004 | Labour | |||
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | File:Official portrait of Rt Hon Stephen Timms MP crop 2.jpg | Stephen Timms MP for East HamScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
12 September 2004 | 6 May 2005 | Labour | |||
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | File:Official portrait of Rt Hon John Healey MP crop 2.jpg | John Healey MP for WentworthScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
6 May 2005 | 28 June 2007 | Labour | |||
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | File:Jane Kennedy.jpg | Jane Kennedy MP for Liverpool WavertreeScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
28 June 2007 | 5 October 2008 | Labour | rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Brown | Darling |
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | File:Official portrait of Rt Hon Stephen Timms MP crop 2.jpg | Stephen Timms MP for East HamScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
5 October 2008 | 11 May 2010 | Labour | |||
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | File:Mark Hoban MP speaking at 'Improving Employment Outcomes' (cropped).jpg | Mark Hoban MP for FarehamScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
13 May 2010 | 4 September 2012 | Conservative | rowspan=6 style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Cameron (Coalition)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Osborne |
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | File:Official portrait of Rt Hon Greg Clark MP crop 2.jpg | Greg Clark MP for Tunbridge WellsScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
4 September 2012 | 7 October 2013 | Conservative | |||
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | File:Official portrait of Rt Hon Sajid Javid MP crop 2.jpg | Sajid Javid MP for BromsgroveScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
7 October 2013 | 9 April 2014 | Conservative | |||
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | File:Official portrait of Nicky Morgan crop 2.jpg | Nicky Morgan MP for LoughboroughScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
9 April 2014 | 15 July 2014 | Conservative | |||
| rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | File:Official portrait of Mr David Gauke crop 2.jpg | David Gauke MP for South West HertfordshireScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
15 July 2014 | 14 July 2016 | Conservative | |||
| Cameron (II)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | ||||||||
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | File:Jane Ellison MP.jpg | Jane Ellison MP for BatterseaScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
15 July 2016 | 9 June 2017 | Conservative | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | May (I)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Hammond |
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | File:Official portrait of Rt Hon Mel Stride MP crop 2.jpg | Mel Stride MP for Central DevonScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
12 June 2017 | 23 May 2019 | Conservative | rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | May (II)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
| rowspan=3 style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | File:Official portrait of Rt Hon Jesse Norman MP crop 2.jpg | Jesse Norman MP for Hereford and South HerefordshireScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
23 May 2019 | 16 September 2021 | Conservative | |||
| rowspan=4 style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Johnson | Javid | ||||||
| Sunak | ||||||||
| rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | File:Official portrait of Lucy Frazer MP crop 2.jpg | Lucy Frazer MP for South East CambridgeshireScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
16 September 2021 | 7 September 2022 | Conservative | |||
| Zahawi | ||||||||
| rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | File:Official portrait of Andrew Griffith MP crop 2.jpg | Andrew Griffith MP for Arundel and South DownsScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
8 September 2022 | 27 October 2022 | Conservative | rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Truss | Kwarteng |
| Hunt | ||||||||
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | File:Official portrait of Victoria Atkins MP crop 2.jpg | Victoria Atkins MP for Louth and HorncastleScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
27 October 2022 | 13 November 2023 | Conservative | rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Sunak | |
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | File:Official portrait of Nigel Huddleston MP crop 2.jpg | Nigel Huddleston MP for Mid WorcestershireScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
13 November 2023 | 5 July 2024 | Conservative | |||
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | File:3x4.svg | Lord Livermore | 8 July 2024 | Incumbent | Labour | rowspan=1 style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Starmer | Reeves |
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