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{{Short description|Junior minister in the British Treasury}}
{{Infobox Political post
{{Infobox Political post
| post = Financial Secretary to the Treasury
| post = {{small|[[United Kingdom]]}}<br>Financial Secretary to the Treasury
| body =
| body =
| nativename =
| nativename =
| insignia = Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom (HM Government).svg
| insignia = Coat of arms of the United Kingdom (2022, lesser arms).svg
| insigniacaption =[[Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom|Royal Arms]] of [[Government of the United Kingdom|His Majesty's Government]]
| insigniacaption = [[Royal Arms]] of [[His Majesty's Government]]
| department = [[HM Treasury|His Majesty's Treasury]]
| department = [[His Majesty's Treasury]]
| image =
| image = Official portrait of Victoria Atkins MP.jpg
| incumbent = [[Victoria Atkins]]
| incumbent = [[Spencer Livermore, Baron Livermore|Lord Livermore]]
| incumbentsince = 25 October 2022
| incumbentsince = 8 July 2024
| style =
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| residence =
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| deputy =
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| salary =
| salary =
| website = [http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/ HM Treasury]
| website = {{URL|https://www.gov.uk/government/ministers/financial-secretary-to-the-treasury|Official website}}
| reports_to = [[First Lord of the Treasury]] <br/> [[Chancellor of the Exchequer|Chancellor of the Exchequer & Second Lord of the Treasury]]
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The '''financial secretary to the Treasury''' is a mid-level ministerial post in [[HM Treasury|His Majesty's Treasury]]. It is nominally the fifth most significant ministerial role within the Treasury after the [[First Lord of the Treasury|first lord of the Treasury]], the [[chancellor of the Exchequer]], the [[Chief Secretary to the Treasury|chief secretary to the Treasury]], and the [[Paymaster General|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 (government)|Cabinet]] in the past.
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 (government)|Cabinet]] in the past.


The incumbent as of October 2022 is [[Victoria Atkins]]. The previous office holder was [[Andrew Griffith]] who left the government after [[Rishi Sunak]] became the prime minister. The position is shadowed by the [[Shadow Financial Secretary to the Treasury|shadow financial secretary to the treasury]].
The current holder of the position is [[Spencer Livermore, Baron Livermore|Lord Livermore]], who was appointed by Prime Minister [[Keir Starmer]] following the Labour Party’s victory in the 2024 General Election.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/08/emily-thornberry-sorry-and-surprised-not-to-be-given-cabinet-role-by-starmer |title=The Guardian |access-date=8 July 2024 |last1=Elgot |first1=Jessica }}</ref> The position is shadowed by the [[Shadow Financial Secretary to the Treasury|shadow financial secretary to the treasury]].


==History==
==History==
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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 [[Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury|Senior Secretary to the Treasury]]. The first Junior Secretary to the Treasury is recorded as [[Thomas Harley (of Kinsham)|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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/office-holders/vol1/pp29-31|title=Secretaries 1660-1870|publisher=British History Online|access-date=9 October 2016}}</ref>
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 [[Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury|Senior Secretary to the Treasury]]. The first Junior Secretary to the Treasury is recorded as [[Thomas Harley (of Kinsham)|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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/office-holders/vol1/pp29-31|title=Secretaries 1660-1870|publisher=British History Online|access-date=9 October 2016}}</ref>


In 1923 [[William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford|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 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]].<ref>{{citation|url=https://www.techuk.org/insights/news/item/1371-andrea-leadsom-mp-appointed-new-city-minister-within-hmt|title=Andrea Leadsom MP appointed new City Minister for HMT|publisher=Tech UK|date=10 April 2014|access-date=4 August 2016}}</ref>
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]].<ref>{{citation|url=https://www.techuk.org/insights/news/item/1371-andrea-leadsom-mp-appointed-new-city-minister-within-hmt|title=Andrea Leadsom MP appointed new City Minister for HMT|publisher=Tech UK|date=10 April 2014|access-date=4 August 2016}}</ref>


Appointment to the position of Financial Secretary to the Treasury is often considered an important stepping stone in a politician's career; the four of previous five holders of the office have gone on to hold Cabinet-level positions.
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 (1942)|Norman Lamont]].
Notable former Financial Secretaries to the Treasury include [[Lord Frederick Cavendish]], [[Austen Chamberlain]], [[Stanley Baldwin]], [[Enoch Powell]], [[Nigel Lawson]], and [[Norman Lamont]].


==Current role==
==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]].{{Citation needed|date=September 2011}} 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]].{{Citation needed|date=September 2011}}
The current responsibilities of the Financial Secretary to the Treasury include Departmental responsibility for the [[Office for National Statistics]], and the [[Royal Mint]].{{Citation needed|date=September 2011}} 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]].{{Citation needed|date=September 2011}}


==Financial Secretaries to the Treasury since 1830==
==List of financial secretaries to the Treasury since 1830==
:''see [[Secretary to the Treasury]] for earlier incumbents''
:''see [[Secretary to the Treasury]] for earlier incumbents''


'''Colour key''' (for political parties):<br/>
===1830–1900===
{{Legend2|{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}|[[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
{{Legend2|{{Party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}|[[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
{{Legend2|{{Party color|Peelite}}|[[Peelite]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
{{Legend2|{{Party color|Tories (British political party)}}|[[Tories (British political party)|Tories]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
{{Legend2|{{Party color|Whigs (British political party)}}|[[Whigs (British political party)|Whig]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
{{Legend2|{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}|[[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
{{Legend2|{{Party color|National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)}}|[[National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)|Liberal National]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
{{Legend2|{{Party color|Liberal Unionist Party}}|[[Liberal Unionist]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
{{Legend2|{{Party color|National Labour Organisation}}|[[National Labour Organisation|National Labour]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
{{Legend2|{{Party color|National Government (United Kingdom)}}|''None''|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
{{Legend2|{{Party color|Unionist Party (Scotland)}}|[[Unionist Party (Scotland)|Unionist]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}


{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
'''Colour key''' (for political parties): <br />
! colspan=3 | Financial Secretary
{{legend2|{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}|[[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
! colspan=2 | Term of office
{{legend2|{{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}|[[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
! Political party
{{legend2|{{party color|Peelite}}|[[Peelite]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
! colspan=2 | [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]]
{{legend2|{{party color|Tories (British political party)}}|[[Tories]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
! [[Chancellor of the Exchequer|Chancellor]]
{{legend2|{{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}|[[Whigs (British political party)|Whig]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}


|- style="height:1em"
{|class="wikitable"
| style="background-color:{{Party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" |
!colspan=2|Name
| [[File:1stBaronMonteagle.jpg|60px]]
!Portrait
| [[Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon|Thomas Spring Rice]]
!colspan=2|Term of office
| 26 November 1830
!Political party
| 6 June 1834
!colspan=2|[[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]]
| [[Whigs (British political party)|Whig]]
![[Chancellor of the Exchequer|Chancellor]]
| rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" |
| rowspan=2 | [[Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey|Earl Grey]]
| rowspan=3 | [[John Spencer, Viscount Althorp|Viscount Althorp]]

|- style="height:1em"
| rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" |
| rowspan=2 | [[File:Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook by Sir George Hayter.jpg|60px]]
| rowspan=2 | [[Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook|Francis Baring]]
| rowspan=2 | 6 June 1834
| rowspan=2 | 14 November 1834
| rowspan=2 | Whig

|- style="height:1em"
| style="background-color:{{Party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" |
| [[William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne|Viscount Melbourne]]
|-
|-
| colspan=3 | ''Office not in use''
|style="background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" |
| colspan=3 | 15 November 1834 – 19 December 1834
|[[Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon|Thomas Spring Rice]]
| style="background-color:{{Party color|Tories (British political party)}}" |
|[[File:1stBaronMonteagle.jpg|60px]]
| [[Duke of Wellington]]<br/>{{Small|([[Wellington caretaker ministry|Caretaker]])}}
|26 November 1830
| [[Thomas Denman, 1st Baron Denman|Lord Denman]]<br/>{{Small|[[Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales|LCJ]] (''interim'')}}
|6 June 1834
|[[Whigs (British political party)|Whig]]
|rowspan="2" style="background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" |
|rowspan=2|[[Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey|Earl Grey]]
|rowspan=3|[[John Spencer, Viscount Althorp|Viscount Althorp]]
|-
|-
|rowspan="2" style="background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" |
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Tory Party (UK)}}" |
| [[File:Blank.png|60px]]
|rowspan=2|[[Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook|Francis Baring]]
| [[Thomas Fremantle, 1st Baron Cottesloe|Thomas Fremantle]]
|rowspan=2|[[File:Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook by Sir George Hayter.jpg|60px]]
|rowspan=2|6 June 1834
| 20 December 1834
| April 1835
|rowspan=2|14 November 1834
| [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]<br/>or [[Tories (British political party)|Tory]]
|rowspan=2|Whig
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|-
| [[Robert Peel|Peel]]
|style="background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" |
| [[Robert Peel|Peel]]
|[[William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne|Viscount Melbourne]]

|-
|- style="height:1em"
|colspan="3"|''Office not in use''
| style="background-color:{{Party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" |
|colspan="3"|15 November 1834 - 19 December 1834
| |[[File:Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook by Sir George Hayter.jpg|60px]]
|style="background-color: {{party color|Tories (British political party)}}" |
| [[Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook|Francis Baring]]
|[[Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington|Duke of Wellington]]<br />{{small|([[Wellington caretaker ministry|Caretaker]])}}
| 21 April 1835
|[[Thomas Denman, 1st Baron Denman|Lord Denman]]<br />{{small|[[Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales|LCJ]] (''interim'')}}
| 26 August 1839
|-
| [[Whigs (British political party)|Whig]]
|
| rowspan=3 style="background-color:{{Party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" |
|[[Thomas Fremantle, 1st Baron Cottesloe|Sir Thomas Fremantle, Bt]]
| rowspan=3 | [[William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne|Viscount Melbourne]]
|
| [[Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon|Spring Rice]]
|20 December 1834

|April 1835
|- style="height:1em"
|[[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]<br />or [[Tory]]
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| style="background-color:{{Party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" |
|[[Robert Peel|Peel]]
| [[File:Blank.png|60px]]
|[[Robert Peel|Peel]]
| [[Robert Gordon (MP)|Robert Gordon]]
| 6 September 1839
|-
| 1841
|style="background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" |
| Whig
|[[Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook|Francis Baring]]
||[[File:Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook by Sir George Hayter.jpg|60px]]
| rowspan=2 | [[Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook|Baring]]

|21 April 1835
|- style="height:1em"
|26 August 1839
|[[Whigs (British political party)|Whig]]
| style="background-color:{{Party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" |
| [[File:Blank.png|60px]]
|rowspan="3" style="background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" |
| [[Richard More O'Ferrall]]
|rowspan=3|[[William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne|Viscount Melbourne]]
| 9 June 1841
|[[Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon|Spring Rice]]
| 30 August 1841
|-
| Whig
|style="background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" |

|[[Robert Gordon (MP)|Robert Gordon]]
|- style="height:1em"
|
| style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|6 September 1839
| [[File:Blank.png|60px]]
|1841
| [[Sir George Clerk, 6th Baronet|George Clerk]]
|Whig
| 8 September 1841
|rowspan=2|[[Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook|Baring]]
| 1845
|-
| [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
|style="background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" |
| rowspan=2 style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|[[Richard More O'Ferrall]]
| rowspan=2 | [[Robert Peel|Peel]]
|
| rowspan=2 | [[Henry Goulburn|Goulburn]]
|9 June 1841

|30 August 1841
|- style="height:1em"
|Whig
| style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|-
| [[File:1stViscountCardwell.jpg|60px]]
|style="background-color: {{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| [[Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell|Edward Cardwell]]
|[[Sir George Clerk, 6th Baronet|Sir George Clerk]]
| 4 February 1845
|
| 29 June 1846
|8 September 1841
| Conservative
|1845

|[[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
|- style="height:1em"
|rowspan="2" style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| style="background-color:{{Party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" |
|rowspan=2|[[Robert Peel|Peel]]
| [[File:Blank.png|60px]]
|rowspan=2|[[Henry Goulburn|Goulburn]]
| [[John Parker (Whig politician)|John Parker]]
|-
| 7 July 1846
|style="background-color: {{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| 1849
|[[Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell|Edward Cardwell]]
| [[Whigs (British political party)|Whig]]
|[[File:1stViscountCardwell.jpg|60px]]
| rowspan=3 style="background-color:{{Party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" |
|4 February 1845
| rowspan=3 | [[Lord John Russell]]
|29 June 1846
| rowspan=3 | [[Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax|Wood]]
|Conservative

|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" |
|- style="height:1em"
| style="background-color:{{Party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" |
| [[File:Blank.png|60px]]
|[[John Parker (Whig politician)|John Parker]]
| [[Sir William Goodenough Hayter, 1st Baronet|William Goodenough Hayter]]
|
| 22 May 1849
|7 July 1846
| 1850
|1849
| Whig
|[[Whigs (British political party)|Whig]]

|rowspan="3" style="background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" |
|- style="height:1em"
|rowspan=3|[[John Russell, 1st Earl Russell|Lord John Russell]]
| style="background-color:{{Party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" |
|rowspan=3|[[Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax|Wood]]
| [[File:Sir George Cornewall Lewis, 2nd Bt.jpg|60px]]
|-
| [[George Cornewall Lewis]]
|style="background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" |
| 9 July 1850
|[[Sir William Goodenough Hayter, 1st Baronet|William Goodenough Hayter]]
| 1852
|
| Whig
|22 May 1849

|1850
|- style="height:1em"
|Whig
| style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|-
| [[File:Gahamilton.jpg|60px]]
|style="background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" |
|[[George Cornewall Lewis]]
| [[George Alexander Hamilton]]
| 2 March 1852
|[[File:Sir George Cornewall Lewis, 2nd Bt.jpg|60px]]
| 1852
|9 July 1850
| [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
|1852
| style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|Whig
| [[Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby|Earl of Derby]]
|-
| [[Disraeli]]
|style="background-color: {{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

|[[George Alexander Hamilton]]
|- style="height:1em"
|[[File:Gahamilton.jpg|60px]]
| rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" |
|2 March 1852
| rowspan=2 | [[File:James Wilson by Sir John Watson-Gordon.jpg|60px]]
|1852
| rowspan=2 | [[James Wilson (UK politician)|James Wilson]]
|[[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
| rowspan=2 | 5 January 1853
|style="background-color: {{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| rowspan=2 | 19 February 1858
|[[Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby|Earl of Derby]]
| rowspan=2 | [[Whigs (British political party)|Whig]]
|[[Benjamin Disraeli|Disraeli]]
| style="background-color:{{Party color|Peelite}}" |
|-
| [[George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen|Earl of Aberdeen]]<br/>{{Small|([[Aberdeen ministry|Coalition]])}}
|rowspan="2" style="background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" |
| [[Gladstone]]
|rowspan=2|[[James Wilson (UK politician)|James Wilson]]

|rowspan=2|[[File:James Wilson by Sir John Watson-Gordon.jpg|60px]]
|- style="height:1em"
|rowspan=2|5 January 1853
| style="background-color:{{Party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" |
|rowspan=2|19 February 1858
| [[Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston|Viscount Palmerston]]
|rowspan=2|[[Whigs (British political party)|Whig]]
| [[George Cornewall Lewis|Lewis]]
|style="background-color: {{party color|Peelite}}" |

|[[George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen|Earl of Aberdeen]]<br />{{small|([[Aberdeen ministry|Coalition]])}}
|- style="height:1em"
|[[William Ewart Gladstone|Gladstone]]
| style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|-
| [[File:Gahamilton.jpg|60px]]
|style="background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" |
| [[George Alexander Hamilton]]
|[[Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston|Viscount Palmerston]]
| 2 March 1858
|[[George Cornewall Lewis|Lewis]]
| 1859
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
| rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|[[George Alexander Hamilton]]
| rowspan=2 | [[Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby|Earl of Derby]]
|[[File:Gahamilton.jpg|60px]]
| rowspan=2 | [[Disraeli]]
|2 March 1858

|1859
|- style="height:1em"
|[[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
|rowspan="2" style="background-color: {{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|rowspan=2|[[Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby|Earl of Derby]]
| [[File:Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh.jpg|60px]]
| [[Stafford Northcote]]
|rowspan=2|[[Benjamin Disraeli|Disraeli]]
| 21 January 1859
|-
| 1859
|style="background-color: {{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| Conservative
|[[Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh|Sir Stafford Northcote, Bt]]

|[[File:Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh.jpg|60px]]
|- style="height:1em"
|21 January 1859
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
|1859
| [[File:Blank.png|60px]]
|Conservative
| [[Samuel Laing (science writer)|Samuel Laing]]
|-
| 24 June 1859
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
| 1860
|[[Samuel Laing (science writer)|Samuel Laing]]
| [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]]
|
| rowspan=3 style="background-Color:{{Party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
|24 June 1859
| rowspan=3 | [[Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston|Viscount Palmerston]]
|1860
| rowspan=4 | [[Gladstone]]
|[[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]]

|rowspan="3" style="background-Color:{{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
|- style="height:1em"
|rowspan=3|[[Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston|Viscount Palmerston]]
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
|rowspan=4|[[William Ewart Gladstone|Gladstone]]
| [[File:Blank.png|60px]]
|-
| [[Frederick Peel]]
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
| 2 November 1860
|[[Frederick Peel]]
| 1865
|
| Liberal
|2 November 1860
|1865
|Liberal
|- style="height: 30px"
|- style="height: 30px"
|rowspan="2" style="background-Color:{{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
| rowspan=2 style="background-Color:{{Party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
|rowspan=2|[[Hugh Childers]]
| rowspan=2 | [[File:Hugh Childers, Lock & Whitfield woodburytype, 1876-83 crop.jpg|60px]]
|rowspan=2|[[File:Hugh Childers, Lock & Whitfield woodburytype, 1876-83 crop.jpg|60px]]
| rowspan=2 | [[Hugh Childers]]
|rowspan=2|19 August 1865
| rowspan=2 | 19 August 1865
|rowspan=2|26 June 1866
| rowspan=2 | 26 June 1866
|rowspan=2|Liberal
| rowspan=2 | Liberal
|-
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
|[[John Russell, 1st Earl Russell|Earl Russell]]
|-
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|[[George Ward Hunt]]
|[[File:George Ward Hunt (30 July 1825 – 29 July 1877) .jpg|60px]]
|14 July 1866
|29 February 1868
|[[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|[[Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby|Earl of Derby]]
|[[Benjamin Disraeli|Disraeli]]
|-
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|[[George Sclater-Booth, 1st Baron Basing|George Sclater-Booth]]
|[[File:George_Sclater-Booth,_Vanity_Fair,_1874-08-08.jpg|60px]]
|4 March 1868
|1 December 1868
|Conservative
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|[[Benjamin Disraeli|Disraeli]]
|[[George Ward Hunt|Hunt]]
|-
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
|[[Acton Smee Ayrton]]
|[[File:Acton_Smee_Ayrton,_Vanity_Fair,_1869-10-23.jpg|60px]]
|9 December 1868
|1869
|[[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]]
|rowspan="4" style="background-Color:{{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
|rowspan=4|[[William Ewart Gladstone|Gladstone]]
|rowspan=3|[[Robert Lowe|Lowe]]
|-
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
|[[James Stansfeld]]
|[[File:James Stansfeld.JPG|60px]]
|2 November 1869
|1871
|Liberal
|-
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
|[[William Edward Baxter]]
|[[File:William Edward Baxter00.jpg|60px]]
|17 March 1871
|11 August 1873
|Liberal
|-
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
|[[John George Dodson, 1st Baron Monk Bretton|John Dodson]]
|[[File:John George Dodson, 1st Baron Monk Bretton.jpg|60px]]
|11 August 1873
|1874
|Liberal
|[[William Ewart Gladstone|Gladstone]]
|-
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|[[William Henry Smith (1825–1891)|William Henry Smith]]
|[[File:William Henry Smith (1825–1891).jpg|60px]]
|21 February 1874
|1877
|[[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
|rowspan="3" style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|rowspan=3|[[Benjamin Disraeli|Disraeli]]
|rowspan=3|[[Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh|Northcote]]
|-
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|[[Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby|Frederick Stanley]]
|[[File:Frederick Arthur Stanley.jpg|60px]]
|14 August 1877
|1878
|Conservative
|-
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|[[Henry Selwin-Ibbetson, 1st Baron Rookwood|Sir Henry Selwin-Ibbetson, Bt]]
|
|2 April 1878
|21 April 1880
|Conservative
|-
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
|[[Lord Frederick Cavendish]]
|[[File:Cavendish, Lord Frederick Charles (1836-1882), by John D. Miller, pubd 1883 (after Sir William Blake Richmond, exh. RA 1874).jpg|60px]]
|28 April 1880
|1882
|[[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]]
|rowspan="4" style="background-Color:{{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
|rowspan=4|[[William Ewart Gladstone|Gladstone]]
|rowspan=2|[[William Ewart Gladstone|Gladstone]]
|-
|rowspan="2" style="background-Color:{{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
|rowspan=2|[[Leonard Courtney, 1st Baron Courtney of Penwith|Leonard Courtney]]
|rowspan=2|[[File:1stLordCourteney.jpg|60px]]
|rowspan=2|6 May 1882
|rowspan=2|12 December 1884
|rowspan=2|Liberal
|-
|rowspan=2|[[Hugh Childers|Childers]]
|-
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
|Sir [[J. T. Hibbert]]
|[[File:John_Tomlinson_Hibbert.jpg|60px]]
|12 December 1884
|9 June 1885
|Liberal
|-
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|[[Henry Holland, 1st Viscount Knutsford|Sir Henry Holland, Bt]]
|[[File:Knutsford1.JPG |60px]]
|24 June 1885
|1885
|[[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
|rowspan="3" style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|rowspan=3|[[Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury|Marquess of Salisbury]]
|rowspan=3|[[Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn|Hicks Beach]]
|-
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|[[Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley|Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bt]]
|[[File:Matthew White Ridley sketch.jpg|60px]]
|1885
|1886
|Conservative
|-
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|[[William Jackson, 1st Baron Allerton|William Jackson]]
|[[File:William_Lawies_Jackson.JPG|60px]]
|1886
|28 January 1886
|Conservative
|-
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
|[[Henry Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton|Henry Fowler]]
|[[File:Portrait of Henry Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton.jpg|60px]]
|6 February 1886
|20 July 1886
|[[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]]
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
|[[William Ewart Gladstone|Gladstone]]
|[[William Vernon Harcourt (politician)|Harcourt]]
|-
|rowspan="2" style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|rowspan=2|[[William Jackson, 1st Baron Allerton|William Jackson]]
|rowspan=2| [[File:William_Lawies_Jackson.JPG|60px]]
|rowspan=2|3 August 1886
|rowspan=2|1891
|rowspan=2|[[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
|rowspan="3" style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|rowspan=3|[[Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury|Marquess of Salisbury]]
|[[Lord Randolph Churchill]]
|-
|rowspan=2|[[George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen|Viscount Goschen]]
|-
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|[[John Eldon Gorst]]
|[[File:John Eldon Gorst.jpg|60px]]
|9 November 1891
|11 August 1892
|Conservative
|-
|rowspan="2" style="background-Color:{{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
|rowspan=2|Sir [[J. T. Hibbert]]
|rowspan=2|[[File:John_Tomlinson_Hibbert.jpg|60px]]
|rowspan=2|18 August 1892
|rowspan=2|22 June 1895
|rowspan=2|[[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]]
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
|[[William Ewart Gladstone|Gladstone]]
|rowspan=2|[[William Vernon Harcourt (politician)|Harcourt]]
|-
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
|[[Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery|Earl of Rosebery]]
|-
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|[[Robert William Hanbury]]
|[[File:Robert_Hanbury.JPG|60px]]
|29 June 1895
|1900
|[[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|[[Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury|Marquess of Salisbury]]<br />{{small|([[Unionist Government 1895–1905|Unionist Coalition]])}}
|[[Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn|Hicks Beach]]
|-
|}


|- style="height:1em"
===1900–2001===
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
| [[John Russell, 1st Earl Russell|Earl Russell]]


|- style="height:1em"
'''Colour key''' (for political parties): <br />
{{legend2|{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}|[[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| [[File:George Ward Hunt (30 July 1825 – 29 July 1877) .jpg|60px]]
{{legend2|{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}|[[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
| [[George Ward Hunt]]
{{legend2|{{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}|[[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
| 14 July 1866
{{legend2|{{party color|National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)}}|[[National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)|Liberal National]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
| 29 February 1868
{{legend2|{{party color|Liberal Unionist Party}}|[[Liberal Unionist Party|Liberal Unionist]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
| [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
{{legend2|{{party color|National Labour Organisation}}|[[National Labour Organisation|National Labour]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
{{legend2|{{party color|National Government (United Kingdom)}}|''None''|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
| [[Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby|Earl of Derby]]
{{legend2|{{party color|Unionist Party (Scotland)}}|[[Unionist Party (Scotland)|Unionist]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
| [[Disraeli]]


|- style="height:1em"
{|class="wikitable"
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
!colspan=2|Name
| [[File:George Sclater-Booth, Vanity Fair, 1874-08-08.jpg|60px]]
!Portrait
| [[George Sclater-Booth]]
!colspan=2|Term of office
| 4 March 1868
!Political party
| 1 December 1868
!colspan=2|[[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]]
| Conservative
![[Chancellor of the Exchequer|Chancellor]]
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|-
| [[Disraeli]]
|rowspan="2" style="background-color: {{party color|Liberal Unionist Party}}" |
| [[George Ward Hunt|Hunt]]
|rowspan=2|Sir [[Austen Chamberlain]]
|rowspan=2|[[File:Austen Chamberlain nobel.jpg|60px]]
|rowspan=2|7 November 1900
|rowspan=2|11 August 1902
|rowspan=2|[[Liberal Unionist Party|Liberal Unionist]]
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|[[Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury|Marquess of Salisbury]]<br />{{small|([[Unionist Government 1895–1905|Unionist Coalition]])}}
|rowspan=2|[[Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn|Hicks Beach]]
|-
|rowspan="4" style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|rowspan=4|[[Arthur Balfour|Balfour]]<br />{{small|([[Unionist Government 1895–1905|Unionist Coalition]])}}
|-
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|[[William Hayes Fisher, 1st Baron Downham|William Fisher]]
|[[File:William Hayes Fisher, 1st Baron Downham.jpg|60px]]
|11 August 1902
|April 1903
|[[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
|rowspan=2|[[Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee|Ritchie]]
|-
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|[[Arthur Elliot (politician)|Arthur Elliot]]
|[[File:Arthur Elliott.png|60px]]
|10 April 1903
|9 October 1903
|Conservative
|-
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|[[Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire|Victor Cavendish]]
|[[File:GG Duke of Devonshire.jpg|60px]]
|9 October 1903
|5 December 1905
|Conservative
|[[Austen Chamberlain|A. Chamberlain]]
|-
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
|[[Reginald McKenna]]
|[[File:Reginald McKenna photo.jpg|60px]]
|12 December 1905
|23 January 1907
|[[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]]
|rowspan="2" style="background-Color:{{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
|rowspan=2|[[Henry Campbell-Bannerman|Campbell-Bannerman]]
|rowspan=2|[[H. H. Asquith|Asquith]]
|-
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
|[[Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford|Walter Runciman]]
|[[File:1905 Walter Runciman.jpg|60px]]
|29 January 1907
|1908
|Liberal
|-
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
|[[Sir Charles Hobhouse, 4th Baronet|Charles Hobhouse]]
|[[File:Charles Hobhouse 2.jpg|60px]]
|12 April 1908
|1911
|Liberal
|rowspan="7" style="background-Color:{{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
|rowspan=5|[[H. H. Asquith|Asquith]]<br />{{small|([[Liberal government 1905–15|I]])}}
|rowspan=5|[[David Lloyd George|Lloyd George]]
|-
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
|[[Thomas McKinnon Wood]]
|[[File:Thomas Mackinnon Wood.jpg|60px]]
|23 October 1911
|13 February 1912
|Liberal
|-
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
|[[Charles Masterman]]
<small>MP for [[Bethnal Green South West (UK Parliament constituency)|Bethnal Green South West]]</small>


|- style="height:1em"
<small>(1873–1927)</small>
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
|[[File:1906 Charles Masterman.jpg|60px]]
| [[File:Acton Smee Ayrton, Vanity Fair, 1869-10-23.jpg|60px]]
|13 February 1912
| [[Acton Smee Ayrton]]
|11 February 1914
| 9 December 1868
|Liberal
| 1869
|-
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
| [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]]
| rowspan=4 style="background-Color:{{Party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
|[[Edwin Montagu]]
| rowspan=4 | [[Gladstone]]
<small>MP for [[Chesterton (UK Parliament constituency)|Chesterton]]</small>
| rowspan=3 | [[Robert Lowe|Lowe]]


|- style="height:1em"
<small>(1879–1924)</small>
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
|[[File:Edwin Samuel Montagu.jpg|60px]]
| [[File:James Stansfeld.JPG|60px]]
|11 February 1914
| [[James Stansfeld]]
|3 February 1915
| 2 November 1869
|Liberal
| 1871
|-
| Liberal
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
|[[Francis Dyke Acland]]
<small>MP for [[Camborne (UK Parliament constituency)|Camborne]]</small>


|- style="height:1em"
<small>(1874–1939)</small>
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
|[[File:Francis_Dyke_Acland.jpg|60px]]
| [[File:William Edward Baxter00.jpg|60px]]
|3 February 1915
| [[William Edward Baxter]]
|25 May 1915
| 17 March 1871
|Liberal
| 11 August 1873
|-
| Liberal
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
|[[Edwin Montagu]]
<small>MP for [[Chesterton (UK Parliament constituency)|Chesterton]]</small>


|- style="height:1em"
<small>(1879–1924)</small>
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
|[[File:Edwin Samuel Montagu.jpg|60px]]
| [[File:John George Dodson, 1st Baron Monk Bretton.jpg|60px]]
|26 May 1915
| [[John George Dodson, 1st Baron Monk Bretton|John Dodson]]
|9 July 1916
| 11 August 1873
|Liberal
| 1874
|rowspan=2|[[H. H. Asquith|Asquith]]<br />{{small|([[Asquith coalition ministry|Coalition]])}}
| Liberal
|rowspan=2|[[Reginald McKenna|McKenna]]
| [[Gladstone]]
|-
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
|[[Thomas McKinnon Wood]]
<small>MP for [[Glasgow St Rollox (UK Parliament constituency)|Glasgow St Rollox]]</small>


|- style="height:1em"
<small>(1855–1927)</small>
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|[[File:Thomas Mackinnon Wood.jpg|60px]]
| [[File:William Henry Smith (1825–1891).jpg|60px]]
|9 July 1916
| [[William Henry Smith (1825–1891)|William Henry Smith]]
|5 December 1916
| 21 February 1874
|Liberal
| 1877
|-
| [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
|style="background-color: {{party color|National Government (United Kingdom)}}" |
| rowspan=3 style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|Sir [[Hardman Lever]]
| rowspan=3 | [[Disraeli]]
<small>[[Baronet]]</small>
| rowspan=3 | [[Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh|Northcote]]
|[[File:Hardman Lever 1917.jpg|60px]]
|15 December 1916
|19 May 1919{{Ref label|aaa|Note 1}}
|''None''<br />{{small|Civil servant}}
|rowspan="3" style="background-Color:{{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
|rowspan=3|[[David Lloyd George|Lloyd George]]<br />{{small|([[Lloyd George ministry|Coalition]])}}
|rowspan=2|[[Andrew Bonar Law|Law]]<br />{{small|(December 1916<br />– January 1919)}}<br />[[Austen Chamberlain|A. Chamberlain]]<br />{{small|(January 1919<br />– April 1921)}}
|-
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|[[Stanley Baldwin]]
<small>MP for [[Bewdley (UK Parliament constituency)|Bewdley]]</small>


|- style="height:1em"
<small>(1867–1947)</small>
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|[[File:Stanley Baldwin ggbain.35233.jpg|60px]]
| [[File:Frederick Arthur Stanley.jpg|60px]]
|18 June 1917{{Ref label|aaa|Note 1}}
| [[Frederick Stanley]]
|1 April 1921
| 14 August 1877
|[[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
| 1878
|-
| Conservative
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
|[[Hilton Young, 1st Baron Kennet|Hilton Young]]
<small>MP for [[Norwich (UK Parliament constituency)|Norwich]]</small>


|- style="height:1em"
<small>(1879–1960)</small>
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|[[File:Lord Kennet.jpg|60px]]
| [[File:Blank.png|60px]]
|21 April 1921
| [[Henry Selwin-Ibbetson]]
|19 October 1922
| 2 April 1878
|[[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]]
| 21 April 1880
|[[Robert Horne, 1st Viscount Horne of Slamannan|Horne]]
| Conservative
|-
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|[[John Hills (politician)|John Hills]]
<small>MP for [[City of Durham (UK Parliament constituency)|City of Durham]]</small>


|- style="height:1em"
<small>(1867–1938)</small>
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
|[[File:John Waller Hills.jpg|60px]]
| [[File:Cavendish, Lord Frederick Charles (1836-1882), by John D. Miller, pubd 1883 (after Sir William Blake Richmond, exh. RA 1874).jpg|60px]]
|6 November 1922
| [[Lord Frederick Cavendish]]
|1923
| 28 April 1880
|[[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
| 1882
|rowspan="2" style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]]
|rowspan=2|[[Bonar Law|Law]]
| rowspan=4 style="background-Color:{{Party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
|rowspan=3|[[Stanley Baldwin|Baldwin]]
| rowspan=4 | [[Gladstone]]
|-
| rowspan=2 | [[Gladstone]]
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|[[Archibald Boyd-Carpenter]]
<small>MP for [[Bradford North (UK Parliament constituency)|Bradford North]]</small>


|- style="height:1em"
<small>(1873–1937)</small>
| rowspan=2 style="background-Color:{{Party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
|[[File:Archibald Boy-Carpenter.jpg|60px]]
| rowspan=2 | [[File:1stLordCourteney.jpg|60px]]
|12 March 1923
| rowspan=2 | [[Leonard Courtney]]
|May 1923
| rowspan=2 | 6 May 1882
|Conservative
| rowspan=2 | 12 December 1884
| rowspan=2 | Liberal
|-
|-
| rowspan=2 | [[Hugh Childers|Childers]]
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|[[William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford|Sir William Joynson-Hicks]]
<small>MP for [[Twickenham (UK Parliament constituency)|Twickenham]]</small>


|- style="height:1em"
<small>(1865–1932)</small>
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
|[[File:Viscount Brentford.jpg|60px]]
| [[File:John Tomlinson Hibbert.jpg|60px]]
|25 May 1923
| [[J. T. Hibbert]]
|27 August 1923{{Ref label|aab|Note 2}}
| 12 December 1884
|Conservative
| 9 June 1885
|rowspan="2" style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| Liberal
|rowspan=2|[[Stanley Baldwin|Baldwin]]
|-
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|[[Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne|Walter Guinness]]
<small>MP for [[Bury St Edmunds (UK Parliament constituency)|Bury St Edmunds]]</small>


|- style="height:1em"
<small>(1880–1944)</small>
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|[[File:Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne.png|60px]]
| [[File:Knutsford1.JPG |60px]]
|5 October 1923
| [[Henry Holland, 1st Viscount Knutsford|Henry Holland]]
|1923
| 24 June 1885
|Conservative
| 1885
|[[Neville Chamberlain|N. Chamberlain]]
| [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
|-
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| rowspan=3 style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| rowspan=3 | [[Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury|Marquess of Salisbury]]
|[[William Graham (Edinburgh MP)|William Graham]]
| rowspan=3 | [[Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn|Hicks Beach]]
<small>MP for [[Edinburgh Central (UK Parliament constituency)|Edinburgh Central]]</small>


|- style="height:1em"
<small>(1887–1932)</small>
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|[[File:Willie Graham.jpg|60px]]
| [[File:Matthew White Ridley sketch.jpg|60px]]
|23 January 1924
| [[Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley|Matthew White Ridley]]
|4 November 1924
| 1885
|[[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]
| 1886
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| Conservative
|[[Ramsay MacDonald|MacDonald]]
|[[Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden|Snowden]]
|-
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|[[Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne|Walter Guinness]]
<small>MP for [[Bury St Edmunds (UK Parliament constituency)|Bury St Edmunds]]</small>


|- style="height:1em"
<small>(1880–1944)</small>
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|[[File:Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne.png|60px]]
| [[File:William Lawies Jackson.JPG|60px]]
|11 November 1924
| [[William Jackson, 1st Baron Allerton|William Jackson]]
|5 November 1925
| 1886
|[[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
| 28 January 1886
|rowspan="3" style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| Conservative
|rowspan=3|[[Stanley Baldwin|Baldwin]]
|rowspan=3|[[Winston Churchill|Churchill]]
|-
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|[[Ronald McNeill, 1st Baron Cushendun|Ronald McNeill]]
<small>MP for [[Canterbury (UK Parliament constituency)|Canterbury]]</small>


|- style="height:1em"
<small>(1861–1934)</small>
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
|[[File:Ronald McNeill, 1st Baron Cushendun.jpg|60px]]
| [[File:Portrait of Henry Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton.jpg|60px]]
|5 November 1925
| [[Henry Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton|Henry Fowler]]
|1 November 1927
| 6 February 1886
|Conservative
| 20 July 1886
|-
| [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]]
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
|[[Arthur Samuel, 1st Baron Mancroft|Arthur Samuel]]
| [[Gladstone]]
<small>MP for [[Farnham (UK Parliament constituency)|Farnham]]</small>
| [[William Vernon Harcourt (politician)|Harcourt]]


|- style="height:1em"
<small>(1872–1942)</small>
| rowspan=2 style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|
| rowspan=2 | [[File:William Lawies Jackson.JPG|60px]]
|1 November 1927
| rowspan=2 | [[William Jackson, 1st Baron Allerton|William Jackson]]
|5 June 1929
| rowspan=2 | 3 August 1886
|Conservative
| rowspan=2 | 1891
| rowspan=2 | [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
| rowspan=3 style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| rowspan=3 | [[Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury|Marquess of Salisbury]]
| [[Lord Randolph Churchill]]
|-
|-
| rowspan=2 | [[George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen|Viscount Goschen]]
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
|[[Frederick Pethick-Lawrence, 1st Baron Pethick-Lawrence|Frederick Pethick-Lawrence]]
<small>MP for [[Leicester West (UK Parliament constituency)|Leicester West]]</small>


|- style="height:1em"
<small>(1871–1961)</small>
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|[[File:British Political Personalities 1936-1945 HU59768.jpg|60px]]
| [[File:John Eldon Gorst.jpg|60px]]
|11 June 1929
| [[John Eldon Gorst]]
|August 1931
| 9 November 1891
|[[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]
| 11 August 1892
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| Conservative
|[[Ramsay MacDonald|MacDonald]]<br />{{small|([[Second MacDonald ministry|II]])}}
|rowspan=2|[[Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden|Snowden]]
|-
|rowspan="2" style="background: {{party color|Unionist Party (Scotland)}}" |
|rowspan=2|[[Walter Elliot (Scottish Unionist MP)|Walter Elliot]]
<small>MP for [[Glasgow Kelvingrove (UK Parliament constituency)|Glasgow Kelvingrove]]</small>


|- style="height:1em"
<small>(1888–1958)</small>
| rowspan=2 style="background-Color:{{Party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
|rowspan=2|[[File:Walter Elliott MP.jpg|60px]]
|rowspan=2|24 August 1931
| rowspan=2 | [[File:John Tomlinson Hibbert.jpg|60px]]
|rowspan=2|29 September 1932
| rowspan=2 | [[J. T. Hibbert]]
|rowspan=2|[[Unionist Party (Scotland)|Unionist]]
| rowspan=2 | 18 August 1892
| rowspan=2 | 22 June 1895
|rowspan="4" style="background-Color:{{party color|National Labour Organisation}}" |
| rowspan=2 | [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]]
|[[Ramsay MacDonald|MacDonald]]<br />{{small|([[First National ministry]])}}
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
|-
| [[Gladstone]]
|rowspan=3|[[Ramsay MacDonald|MacDonald]]<br />{{small|([[Second National ministry]])}}
|rowspan=6|[[Neville Chamberlain|N. Chamberlain]]
| rowspan=2 | [[William Vernon Harcourt (politician)|Harcourt]]
|-
|style="background-Color:{{party color|National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)}}" |
|[[Leslie Hore-Belisha, 1st Baron Hore-Belisha|Leslie Hore-Belisha]]
<small>MP for [[Plymouth Devonport (UK Parliament constituency)|Plymouth Devonport]]</small>


|- style="height:1em"
<small>(1893–1957)</small>
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
|[[File:Leslie Hore.jpg|60px]]
| [[Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery|Earl of Rosebery]]
|29 September 1932

|29 June 1934
|- style="height:1em"
|[[National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)|Liberal National]]
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|-style="height:30px"
| [[File:Robert Hanbury.JPG|60px]]
|rowspan="2" style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| [[Robert William Hanbury]]
|rowspan=2|[[Duff Cooper]]
| 29 June 1895
<small>MP for [[Westminster St George's (UK Parliament constituency)|Westminster St George's]]</small>
| 1900
| [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| [[Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury|Marquess of Salisbury]]<br/>{{Small|([[Unionist Government 1895–1905|Unionist Coalition]])}}
| [[Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn|Hicks Beach]]

|- style="height:1em"
| rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Liberal Unionist Party}}" |
| rowspan=2 | [[File:Austen Chamberlain nobel.jpg|60px]]
| rowspan=2 | [[Austen Chamberlain]]
| rowspan=2 | 7 November 1900
| rowspan=2 | 11 August 1902
| rowspan=2 | [[Liberal Unionist]]
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| [[Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury|Marquess of Salisbury]]<br/>{{Small|([[Unionist Government 1895–1905|Unionist Coalition]])}}
| rowspan=2 | [[Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn|Hicks Beach]]

|- style="height:1em"
| rowspan=4 style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| rowspan=4 | [[Arthur Balfour|Balfour]]<br/>{{Small|([[Unionist Government 1895–1905|Unionist Coalition]])}}

|- style="height:1em"
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| [[File:William Hayes Fisher, 1st Baron Downham.jpg|60px]]
| [[William Hayes Fisher, 1st Baron Downham|William Fisher]]
| 11 August 1902
| April 1903
| [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
| rowspan=2 | [[Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee|Ritchie]]

|- style="height:1em"
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| [[File:Arthur Elliott.png|60px]]
| [[Arthur Elliot (politician)|Arthur Elliot]]
| 10 April 1903
| 9 October 1903
| Conservative

|- style="height:1em"
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| [[File:GG Duke of Devonshire.jpg|60px]]
| [[Victor Cavendish]]
| 9 October 1903
| 5 December 1905
| Conservative
| [[Austen Chamberlain|A. Chamberlain]]

|- style="height:1em"
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
| [[File:Reginald McKenna photo.jpg|60px]]
| [[Reginald McKenna]]
| 12 December 1905
| 23 January 1907
| [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]]
| rowspan=2 style="background-Color:{{Party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
| rowspan=2 | [[Campbell-Bannerman]]
| rowspan=2 | [[Asquith]]

|- style="height:1em"
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
| [[File:1905 Walter Runciman.jpg|60px]]
| [[Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford|Walter Runciman]]
| 29 January 1907
| 1908
| Liberal

|- style="height:1em"
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
| [[File:Charles Hobhouse 2.jpg|60px]]
| [[Charles Hobhouse]]
| 12 April 1908
| 1911
| Liberal
| rowspan=7 style="background-Color:{{Party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
| rowspan=5 | [[Asquith]]<br/>{{Small|([[Liberal government 1905–15|I]])}}
| rowspan=5 | [[Lloyd George]]

|- style="height:1em"
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
| [[File:Thomas Mackinnon Wood.jpg|60px]]
| [[Thomas McKinnon Wood]]
| 23 October 1911
| 13 February 1912
| Liberal

|- style="height:1em"
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
| [[File:1906 Charles Masterman.jpg|60px]]
| [[Charles Masterman]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Bethnal Green South West]]}}
| 13 February 1912
| 11 February 1914
| Liberal

|- style="height:1em"
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
| [[File:Edwin Samuel Montagu.jpg|60px]]
| [[Edwin Montagu]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Chesterton (UK Parliament constituency)|Chesterton]]}}
| 11 February 1914
| 3 February 1915
| Liberal


|- style="height:1em"
<small>(1890–1954)</small>
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
|rowspan=2|[[File:Duff Cooper MP (cropped).jpg|60px]]
| [[File:Francis Dyke Acland.jpg|60px]]
|rowspan=2|29 June 1934
| [[Francis Dyke Acland]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Camborne (UK Parliament constituency)|Camborne]]}}
|rowspan=2|22 November 1935
| 3 February 1915
|rowspan=2|[[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
| 25 May 1915
| Liberal

|- style="height:1em"
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
| [[File:Edwin Samuel Montagu.jpg|60px]]
| [[Edwin Montagu]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Chesterton (UK Parliament constituency)|Chesterton]]}}
| 26 May 1915
| 9 July 1916
| Liberal
| rowspan=2 | [[Asquith]]<br/>{{Small|([[Asquith coalition ministry|Coalition]])}}
| rowspan=2 | [[Reginald McKenna|McKenna]]

|- style="height:1em"
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
| [[File:Thomas Mackinnon Wood.jpg|60px]]
| [[Thomas McKinnon Wood]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Glasgow St Rollox (UK Parliament constituency)|Glasgow St Rollox]]}}
| 9 July 1916
| 5 December 1916
| Liberal

|- style="height:1em"
| style="background-color:{{Party color|National Government (United Kingdom)}}" |
| [[File:Hardman Lever 1917.jpg|60px]]
| [[Hardman Lever]]<br/>{{Small|[[Baronet]]}}
| 15 December 1916
| 19 May 1919<br/>{{Ref label|aaa|Note 1}}
| ''None''<br/>{{Small|Civil servant}}
| rowspan=3 style="background-Color:{{Party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
| rowspan=3 | [[Lloyd George]]<br/>{{Small|([[Lloyd George ministry|Coalition]])}}
| rowspan=2 | [[Andrew Bonar Law|Law]]<br/>{{Small|(December 1916<br/>– January 1919)}}<br/>[[Austen Chamberlain|A. Chamberlain]]<br/>{{Small|(January 1919<br/>– April 1921)}}

|- style="height:1em"
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| [[File:Stanley Baldwin ggbain.35233.jpg|60px]]
| [[Stanley Baldwin]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Bewdley (UK Parliament constituency)|Bewdley]]}}
| 18 June 1917<br/>{{Ref label|aaa|Note 1}}
| 1 April 1921
| [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]

|- style="height:1em"
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
| [[File:Lord Kennet.jpg|60px]]
| [[Hilton Young]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Norwich (UK Parliament constituency)|Norwich]]}}
| 21 April 1921
| 19 October 1922
| [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]]
| [[Robert Horne, 1st Viscount Horne of Slamannan|Horne]]

|- style="height:1em"
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| [[File:John Waller Hills.jpg|60px]]
| [[John Hills (politician)|John Hills]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[City of Durham (UK Parliament constituency)|City of Durham]]}}
| 6 November 1922
| 1923
| [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
| rowspan=2 style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| rowspan=2 | [[Bonar Law|Law]]
| rowspan=3 | [[Stanley Baldwin|Baldwin]]

|- style="height:1em"
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| [[File:Archibald Boy-Carpenter.jpg|60px]]
| [[Archibald Boyd-Carpenter]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Bradford North]]}}
| 12 March 1923
| May 1923
| Conservative

|- style="height:1em"
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| [[File:Viscount Brentford.jpg|60px]]
| [[William Joynson-Hicks]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Twickenham (UK Parliament constituency)|Twickenham]]}}
| 25 May 1923
| 27 August 1923<br/>{{Ref label|aab|Note 2}}
| Conservative
| rowspan=2 style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| rowspan=2 | [[Stanley Baldwin|Baldwin]]

|- style="height:1em"
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| [[File:Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne.png|60px]]
| [[Walter Guinness]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Bury St Edmunds (UK Parliament constituency)|Bury St Edmunds]]}}
| 5 October 1923
| 1923
| Conservative
| [[Neville Chamberlain|N. Chamberlain]]

|- style="height:1em"
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| [[File:Willie Graham.jpg|60px]]
| [[William Graham (Edinburgh MP)|William Graham]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Edinburgh Central (UK Parliament constituency)|Edinburgh Central]]}}
| 23 January 1924
| 4 November 1924
| [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| [[Ramsay MacDonald|MacDonald]]
| [[Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden|Snowden]]

|- style="height:1em"
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| [[File:Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne.png|60px]]
| [[Walter Guinness]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Bury St Edmunds (UK Parliament constituency)|Bury St Edmunds]]}}
| 11 November 1924
| 5 November 1925
| [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
| rowspan=3 style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| rowspan=3 | [[Stanley Baldwin|Baldwin]]
| rowspan=3 | [[Churchill]]

|- style="height:1em"
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| [[File:Ronald McNeill, 1st Baron Cushendun.jpg|60px]]
| [[Ronald McNeill]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Canterbury (UK Parliament constituency)|Canterbury]]}}
| 5 November 1925
| 1 November 1927
| Conservative

|- style="height:1em"
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| [[File:Blank.png|60px]]
| [[Arthur Samuel, 1st Baron Mancroft|Arthur Samuel]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Farnham (UK Parliament constituency)|Farnham]]}}
| 1 November 1927
| 5 June 1929
| Conservative

|- style="height:1em"
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| [[File:British Political Personalities 1936-1945 HU59768.jpg|60px]]
| [[Frederick Pethick-Lawrence]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Leicester West]]}}
| 11 June 1929
| August 1931
| [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| [[Ramsay MacDonald|MacDonald]]<br/>{{Small|([[Second MacDonald ministry|II]])}}
| rowspan=2 | [[Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden|Snowden]]
|-
|-
|rowspan="3" style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| rowspan=2 style="background: {{Party color|Unionist Party (Scotland)}}" |
| rowspan=2 | [[File:Walter Elliott MP.jpg|60px]]
|rowspan=3|[[Stanley Baldwin|Baldwin]]<br />{{small|([[Third National ministry]])}}
| rowspan=2 | [[Walter Elliot (Scottish Unionist MP)|Walter Elliot]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Glasgow Kelvingrove (UK Parliament constituency)|Glasgow Kelvingrove]]}}
| rowspan=2 | 24 August 1931
| rowspan=2 | 29 September 1932
| rowspan=2 | [[Unionist Party (Scotland)|Unionist]]
| rowspan=4 style="background-Color:{{Party color|National Labour Organisation}}" |
| [[Ramsay MacDonald|MacDonald]]<br/>{{Small|([[First National ministry]])}}
|-
|-
| rowspan=3 | [[Ramsay MacDonald|MacDonald]]<br/>{{Small|([[Second National ministry]])}}
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| rowspan=6 | [[Neville Chamberlain|N. Chamberlain]]
|[[William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil|William Morrison]]
<small>MP for [[Cirencester and Tewkesbury (UK Parliament constituency)|Cirencester and Tewkesbury]]</small>


|- style="height:1em"
<small>(1893–1961)</small>
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)}}" |
|[[File:Lord Dunrossil-02.jpg|60px]]
| [[File:Leslie Hore.jpg|60px]]
|22 November 1935
| [[Leslie Hore-Belisha]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Plymouth Devonport]]}}
|29 October 1936
| 29 September 1932
|Conservative
| 29 June 1934
| [[National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)|Liberal National]]
|-style="height:30px"
|-style="height:30px"
|rowspan="2" style="background: {{party color|Unionist Party (Scotland)}}" |
| rowspan=2 style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|rowspan=2|[[John Colville, 1st Baron Clydesmuir|John Colville]]
| rowspan=2 | [[File:Duff Cooper MP (cropped).jpg|60px]]
| rowspan=2 | [[Duff Cooper]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Westminster St George's]]}}
<small>MP for [[Midlothian and Peebles Northern (UK Parliament constituency)|Midlothian and Peebles Northern]]</small>
| rowspan=2 | 29 June 1934
| rowspan=2 | 22 November 1935
| rowspan=2 | [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]


|- style="height:1em"
<small>(1894–1954)</small>
| rowspan=3 style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|rowspan=2|
| rowspan=3 | [[Stanley Baldwin|Baldwin]]<br/>{{Small|([[Third National ministry]])}}
|rowspan=2|29 October 1936

|rowspan=2|1938
|- style="height:1em"
|rowspan=2|[[Unionist Party (Scotland)|Unionist]]
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| [[File:Lord Dunrossil-02.jpg|60px]]
| [[William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil|William Morrison]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Cirencester and Tewkesbury]]}}
| 22 November 1935
| 29 October 1936
| Conservative
|-style="height:30px"
| rowspan=2 style="background: {{Party color|Unionist Party (Scotland)}}" |
| rowspan=2 | [[File:Blank.png|60px]]
| rowspan=2 | [[John Colville, 1st Baron Clydesmuir|John Colville]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Midlothian and Peebles Northern (UK Parliament constituency)|Midlothian and Peebles Northern]]}}
| rowspan=2 | 29 October 1936
| rowspan=2 | 1938
| rowspan=2 | [[Unionist Party (Scotland)|Unionist]]
|-style="height:30px"
|-style="height:30px"
|rowspan="3" style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| rowspan=3 style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|rowspan=3|[[Neville Chamberlain|N. Chamberlain]]<br />{{small|([[Fourth National ministry]])}}
| rowspan=3 | [[Neville Chamberlain|N. Chamberlain]]<br/>{{Small|([[Fourth National ministry]])}}
|rowspan=4|[[John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon|Simon]]
| rowspan=4 | [[John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon|Simon]]
|-
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|[[Euan Wallace]]
<small>MP for [[Hornsey (UK Parliament constituency)|Hornsey]]</small>


|- style="height:1em"
<small>(1892–1941)</small>
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|[[File:Euan Wallace.jpg|60px]]
| [[File:Euan Wallace.jpg|60px]]
|16 May 1938
| [[Euan Wallace]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Hornsey (UK Parliament constituency)|Hornsey]]}}
|21 April 1939
| 16 May 1938
|[[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
| 21 April 1939
| [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
|-style="height:30px"
|-style="height:30px"
|rowspan="3" style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| rowspan=3 style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|rowspan=3|[[Harry Crookshank]]
| rowspan=3 | [[File:Harrycrookshank.jpg|60px]]
<small>MP for [[Gainsborough (UK Parliament constituency)|Gainsborough]]</small>
| rowspan=3 | [[Harry Crookshank]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Gainsborough (UK Parliament constituency)|Gainsborough]]}}
| rowspan=3 | 21 April 1939
| rowspan=3 | 7 February 1943
| rowspan=3 | Conservative


|- style="height:1em"
<small>(1893–1961)</small>
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|rowspan=3|[[File:Harrycrookshank.jpg|60px]]
| [[Neville Chamberlain|N. Chamberlain]]<br/>{{Small|([[Chamberlain war ministry|War]])}}
|rowspan=3|21 April 1939
|rowspan=3|7 February 1943
|rowspan=3|Conservative
|-
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|[[Neville Chamberlain|N. Chamberlain]]<br />{{small|([[Chamberlain war ministry|War]])}}
|-
|rowspan="5" style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|rowspan=4|[[Winston Churchill|Churchill]]<br />{{small|([[Churchill war ministry|War]])}}
|rowspan=2|[[Kingsley Wood|Wood]]
|-
|rowspan="2" style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|rowspan=2|[[Ralph Assheton, 1st Baron Clitheroe|Ralph Assheton]]
<small>MP for [[Rushcliffe (UK Parliament constituency)|Rushcliffe]]</small>


|- style="height:1em"
<small>(1901–1984)</small>
| rowspan=5 style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|rowspan=2|
| rowspan=4 | [[Churchill]]<br/>{{Small|([[Churchill war ministry|War]])}}
|rowspan=2|7 February 1943
|rowspan=2|29 October 1944
| rowspan=2 | [[Kingsley Wood|Wood]]

|rowspan=2|Conservative
|- style="height:1em"
| rowspan=2 style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| rowspan=2 | [[File:Blank.png|60px]]
| rowspan=2 | [[Ralph Assheton, 1st Baron Clitheroe|Ralph Assheton]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Rushcliffe (UK Parliament constituency)|Rushcliffe]]}}
| rowspan=2 | 7 February 1943
| rowspan=2 | 29 October 1944
| rowspan=2 | Conservative
|-
|-
|rowspan=3|[[John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley|Anderson]]
| rowspan=3 | [[John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley|Anderson]]
|-style="height:30px"
|-style="height:30px"
|rowspan="2" style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| rowspan=2 style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|rowspan=2|[[Osbert Peake, 1st Viscount Ingleby|Osbert Peake]]
| rowspan=2 | [[File:Blank.png|60px]]
<small>MP for [[Leeds North (UK Parliament constituency)|Leeds North]]</small>
| rowspan=2 | [[Osbert Peake]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Leeds North (UK Parliament constituency)|Leeds North]]}}
| rowspan=2 | 29 October 1944

| rowspan=2 | 26 July 1945
<small>(1897–1966)</small>
|rowspan=2|
| rowspan=2 | Conservative
|rowspan=2|29 October 1944
|rowspan=2|26 July 1945
|rowspan=2|Conservative
|-
|-
|[[Winston Churchill|Churchill]]<br />{{small|([[Churchill caretaker ministry|Caretaker]])}}
| [[Churchill]]<br/>{{Small|([[Churchill caretaker ministry|Caretaker]])}}
|-
|rowspan="2" style="background-Color:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
|rowspan=2|[[Glenvil Hall|William Glenvil Hall]]
<small>MP for [[Colne Valley (UK Parliament constituency)|Colne Valley]]</small>


|- style="height:1em"
<small>(1887–1962)</small>
| rowspan=2 style="background-Color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
|rowspan=2|
|rowspan=2|4 August 1945
| rowspan=2 | [[File:Blank.png|60px]]
| rowspan=2 | [[William Glenvil Hall]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Colne Valley (UK Parliament constituency)|Colne Valley]]}}
|rowspan=2|2 March 1950
|rowspan=2|[[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]
| rowspan=2 | 4 August 1945
| rowspan=2 | 2 March 1950
|rowspan="4" style="background-Color:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
|rowspan=4|[[Clement Attlee|Attlee]]
| rowspan=2 | [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]
| rowspan=4 style="background-Color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
|[[Hugh Dalton|Dalton]]
| rowspan=4 | [[Attlee]]
| [[Hugh Dalton|Dalton]]
|-
|-
|rowspan=2|[[Stafford Cripps|Cripps]]
| rowspan=2 | [[Stafford Cripps|Cripps]]
|-
|rowspan="2" style="background-Color:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
|rowspan=2|[[Douglas Jay]]
<small>MP for [[Battersea North (UK Parliament constituency)|Battersea North]]</small>


|- style="height:1em"
<small>(1907–1996)</small>
| rowspan=2 style="background-Color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
|rowspan=2|
|rowspan=2|2 March 1950
| rowspan=2 | [[File:Blank.png|60px]]
| rowspan=2 | [[Douglas Jay]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Battersea North (UK Parliament constituency)|Battersea North]]}}
|rowspan=2|26 October 1951
|rowspan=2|Labour
| rowspan=2 | 2 March 1950
| rowspan=2 | 26 October 1951
| rowspan=2 | Labour
|-
|-
|[[Hugh Gaitskell|Gaitskell]]
| [[Hugh Gaitskell|Gaitskell]]
|-
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|[[John Boyd-Carpenter, Baron Boyd-Carpenter|John Boyd-Carpenter]]
<small>MP for [[Kingston-upon-Thames (UK Parliament constituency)|Kingston-upon-Thames]]</small>


|- style="height:1em"
<small>(1908–1998)</small>
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|
| [[File:Blank.png|60px]]
|30 October 1951
| [[John Boyd-Carpenter]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Kingston-upon-Thames (UK Parliament constituency)|Kingston-upon-Thames]]}}
|28 July 1954
| 30 October 1951
|[[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
| 28 July 1954
|rowspan="2" style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
|rowspan=2|[[Winston Churchill|Churchill]]
| rowspan=2 style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|rowspan=3|[[Rab Butler|Butler]]
| rowspan=2 | [[Churchill]]
|-
| rowspan=3 | [[Rab Butler|Butler]]
|rowspan="3" style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|rowspan=3|[[Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor|Henry Brooke]]
<small>MP for [[Hampstead (UK Parliament constituency)|Hampstead]]</small>


|- style="height:1em"
<small>(1903–1984)</small>
| rowspan=3 style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|rowspan=3|
|rowspan=3|28 July 1954
| rowspan=3 | [[File:Blank.png|60px]]
| rowspan=3 | [[Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor|Henry Brooke]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Hampstead (UK Parliament constituency)|Hampstead]]}}
|rowspan=3|January 1957
|rowspan=3|Conservative
| rowspan=3 | 28 July 1954
| rowspan=3 | January 1957
|-
|rowspan="2" style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| rowspan=3 | Conservative
|rowspan=2|[[Anthony Eden|Eden]]
|-
|[[Harold Macmillan|Macmillan]]
|-
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|[[Enoch Powell]]
<small>MP for [[Wolverhampton South West (UK Parliament constituency)|Wolverhampton South West]]</small>


|- style="height:1em"
<small>(1912–1998)</small>
| rowspan=2 style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|[[File:Encoch Powell 7 Allan Warren.jpg|60px]]
| rowspan=2 | [[Anthony Eden|Eden]]
|14 January 1957
|15 January 1958
|Conservative
|rowspan="5" style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|rowspan=5|[[Harold Macmillan|Macmillan]]
|[[Peter Thorneycroft|Thorneycroft]]
|-
|-
| [[Harold Macmillan|Macmillan]]
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|[[Jack Simon, Baron Simon of Glaisdale|Jack Simon]]
<small>MP for [[Middlesbrough West (UK Parliament constituency)|Middlesbrough West]]</small>


|- style="height:1em"
<small>(1911–2006)</small>
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|
| [[File:Encoch Powell 7 Allan Warren.jpg|60px]]
|15 January 1958
| [[Enoch Powell]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Wolverhampton South West]]}}
|22 October 1959
| 14 January 1957
|Conservative
| 15 January 1958
|rowspan=2|[[Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory|Heathcoat-Amory]]
| Conservative
|-style="height:30px"
|rowspan="2" style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| rowspan=5 style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|rowspan=2|[[Edward Boyle, Baron Boyle of Handsworth|Sir Edward Boyle]]
| rowspan=5 | [[Harold Macmillan|Macmillan]]
| [[Peter Thorneycroft|Thorneycroft]]
<small>MP for [[Birmingham Handsworth (UK Parliament constituency)|Birmingham Handsworth]]</small>


|- style="height:1em"
<small>(1923–1981)</small>
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|rowspan=2|
| [[File:Blank.png|60px]]
|rowspan=2|22 October 1959
| [[Jack Simon, Baron Simon of Glaisdale|Jack Simon]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Middlesbrough West]]}}
|rowspan=2|16 July 1962
| 15 January 1958
|rowspan=2|Conservative
| 22 October 1959
|-
| Conservative
|[[Selwyn Lloyd|Lloyd]]
| rowspan=2 | [[Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory|Heathcoat-Amory]]
|-style="height:30px"
| rowspan=2 style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| rowspan=2 | [[File:Blank.png|60px]]
| rowspan=2 | [[Edward Boyle, Baron Boyle of Handsworth|Edward Boyle]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Birmingham Handsworth (UK Parliament constituency)|Birmingham Handsworth]]}}
| rowspan=2 | 22 October 1959
| rowspan=2 | 16 July 1962
| rowspan=2 | Conservative
|-
|-
| [[Selwyn Lloyd|Lloyd]]
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|[[Anthony Barber]]
<small>MP for [[Doncaster (UK Parliament constituency)|Doncaster]]</small>


|- style="height:1em"
<small>(1920–2005)</small>
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|
| [[File:Blank.png|60px]]
|16 July 1962
| [[Anthony Barber]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Doncaster (UK Parliament constituency)|Doncaster]]}}
|20 October 1963
| 16 July 1962
|Conservative
| 20 October 1963
|rowspan=2|[[Reginald Maudling|Maudling]]
| Conservative
| rowspan=2 | [[Reginald Maudling|Maudling]]

|- style="height:1em"
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| [[File:Blank.png|60px]]
| [[Alan Green (MP)|Alan Green]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Preston South]]}}
| 23 October 1963
| 16 October 1964
| Conservative
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| [[Douglas-Home]]

|- style="height:1em"
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| [[File:1989 International Commission of Jurists uitreiking 4.jpg|60px]]
| [[Niall MacDermot]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Derby North]]}}
| 21 October 1964
| 29 August 1967
| [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]
| rowspan=4 style="background-Color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| rowspan=4 | [[Harold Wilson|Wilson]]
| rowspan=2 | [[James Callaghan|Callaghan]]

|- style="height:1em"
| rowspan=2 style="background-Color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| rowspan=2 | [[File:Blank.png|60px]]
| rowspan=2 | [[Harold Lever]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Manchester Cheetham (UK Parliament constituency)|Manchester Cheetham]]}}
| rowspan=2 | 29 August 1967
| rowspan=2 | 13 October 1969
| rowspan=2 | Labour
|-
|-
| rowspan=2 | [[Roy Jenkins|Jenkins]]
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

|[[Alan Green (MP)|Alan Green]]
|- style="height:1em"
{{small|MP for [[Preston South (UK Parliament constituency)|Preston South]]<br />(1911–1991)}}
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
|
| [[File:official portrait of Lord Taverne crop 2.jpg|60px]]
|23 October 1963
| [[Dick Taverne]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Lincoln (UK Parliament constituency)|Lincoln]]}}
|16 October 1964
| 13 October 1969
|Conservative
| 19 June 1970
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| Labour
|[[Alec Douglas-Home|Douglas-Home]]
|-
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
|[[Niall MacDermot]]
{{small|MP for [[Derby North (UK Parliament constituency)|Derby North]]<br />(1916–1996)}}
|[[File:1989 International Commission of Jurists uitreiking 4.jpg|60px]]
|21 October 1964
|29 August 1967
|[[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]
|rowspan="4" style="background-Color:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
|rowspan=4|[[Harold Wilson|Wilson]]
|rowspan=2|[[James Callaghan|Callaghan]]
|-
|rowspan="2" style="background-Color:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
|rowspan=2|[[Harold Lever, Baron Lever of Manchester|Harold Lever]]
{{small|MP for [[Manchester Cheetham (UK Parliament constituency)|Manchester Cheetham]]<br />(1914–1995)}}
|rowspan=2|
|rowspan=2|29 August 1967
|rowspan=2|13 October 1969
|rowspan=2|Labour
|-
|rowspan=2|[[Roy Jenkins|Jenkins]]
|-
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
|[[Dick Taverne]]
{{small|MP for [[Lincoln (UK Parliament constituency)|Lincoln]]<br />(born 1928)}}
|[[File:official portrait of Lord Taverne crop 2.jpg|60px]]
|13 October 1969
|19 June 1970
|Labour
|-style="height:30px"
|-style="height:30px"
|rowspan="2" style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| rowspan=2 style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|rowspan=2|[[Patrick Jenkin]]
| rowspan=2 | [[File:Blank.png|60px]]
{{small|MP for [[Wanstead and Woodford (UK Parliament constituency)|Wanstead and Woodford]]<br />(1926–2016) )}}
| rowspan=2 | [[Patrick Jenkin]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Wanstead and Woodford (UK Parliament constituency)|Wanstead and Woodford]]}}
|rowspan=2|
| rowspan=2 | 19 June 1970
|rowspan=2|19 June 1970
| rowspan=2 | 7 April 1972
|rowspan=2|7 April 1972
| rowspan=2 | [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
|rowspan=2|[[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
| rowspan=3 style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| rowspan=3 | [[Edward Heath|Heath]]
|rowspan="3" style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| [[Iain Macleod|Macleod]]
|rowspan=3|[[Edward Heath|Heath]]
|[[Iain Macleod|Macleod]]
|-style="height:30px"
|-style="height:30px"
|rowspan=2|[[Anthony Barber|Barber]]
| rowspan=2 | [[Anthony Barber|Barber]]

|-
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|- style="height:1em"
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|[[Terence Higgins, Baron Higgins|Terrence Higgins]]
| [[File:Official portrait of Lord Higgins crop 2.jpg|60px]]
{{small|MP for [[Worthing (UK Parliament constituency)|Worthing]]<br />(born 1928)}}
| [[Terence Higgins, Baron Higgins|Terrence Higgins]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Worthing (UK Parliament constituency)|Worthing]]}}
| 7 April 1972
|[[File:Official portrait of Lord Higgins crop 2.jpg|60px]]
| 4 March 1974
|7 April 1972
| Conservative
|4 March 1974

|Conservative
|- style="height:1em"
|-
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| [[File:Blank.png|60px]]
|[[John Gilbert, Baron Gilbert|John Gilbert]]
| [[John Gilbert, Baron Gilbert|John Gilbert]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Dudley East]]}}
{{small|MP for [[Dudley East (UK Parliament constituency)|Dudley East]]<br />(1927–2013)}}
| 8 March 1974
|
| 17 June 1975
|8 March 1974
| [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]
|17 June 1975
|[[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]
| rowspan=2 style="background-Color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| rowspan=2 | [[Harold Wilson|Wilson]]
|rowspan="2" style="background-Color:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
|rowspan=2|[[Harold Wilson|Wilson]]
| rowspan=3 | [[Denis Healey|Healey]]
|rowspan=3|[[Denis Healey|Healey]]
|-style="height:30px"
|-style="height:30px"
|rowspan="2" style="background-Color:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| rowspan=2 style="background-Color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
|rowspan=2|[[Robert Sheldon, Baron Sheldon|Robert Sheldon]]
| rowspan=2 | [[File:Blank.png|60px]]
{{small|MP for [[Ashton under Lyne (UK Parliament constituency)|Ashton under Lyne]]<br />(1923–2020)}}
| rowspan=2 | [[Robert Sheldon]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Ashton under Lyne (UK Parliament constituency)|Ashton under Lyne]]}}
|rowspan=2|
| rowspan=2 | 17 June 1975
|rowspan=2|17 June 1975
| rowspan=2 | 4 May 1979
|rowspan=2|4 May 1979
| rowspan=2 | Labour

|rowspan=2|Labour
|- style="height:1em"
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| [[James Callaghan|Callaghan]]

|- style="height:1em"
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| [[File:Official portrait of Lord Lawson of Blaby crop 2.jpg|60px]]
| [[Nigel Lawson]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Blaby (UK Parliament constituency)|Blaby]]}}
| 4 May 1979
| 14 September 1981
| [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
| rowspan=6 style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| rowspan=6 | [[Margaret Thatcher|Thatcher]]
| rowspan=2 | [[Geoffrey Howe|Howe]]

|- style="height:1em"
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| [[File:Blank.png|60px]]
| [[Nicholas Ridley, Baron Ridley of Liddesdale|Nicholas Ridley]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Cirencester and Tewkesbury]]}}
| September 1981
| 11 June 1983
| Conservative

|- style="height:1em"
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| [[File:Mr John Moore M.P. addressing the Annual LSE Society Dinner, 5th June, 1985.jpg|60px]]
| [[John Moore, Baron Moore of Lower Marsh|John Moore]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Croydon Central]]}}
| 19 October 1983
| 21 May 1986
| Conservative
| rowspan=3 | [[Nigel Lawson|Lawson]]

|- style="height:1em"
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| [[File:Official portrait of Lord Lamont of Lerwick 2020 crop 2.jpg|60px]]
| [[Norman Lamont]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Kingston-upon-Thames (UK Parliament constituency)|Kingston-upon-Thames]]}}
| 21 May 1986
| 24 July 1989
| Conservative

|- style="height:1em"
| rowspan=2 style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| rowspan=2 | [[File:Official portrait of Lord Lilley crop 2.jpg|60px]]
| rowspan=2 | [[Peter Lilley]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[St Albans (UK Parliament constituency)|St Albans]]}}
| rowspan=2 | 24 July 1989
| rowspan=2 | 14 July 1990
| rowspan=2 | Conservative
|-
|-
| [[John Major|Major]]
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

|[[James Callaghan|Callaghan]]
|- style="height:1em"
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| [[File:Francis Maude, Minister for the Cabinet Office.jpg|60px]]
| [[Francis Maude]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[North Warwickshire (UK Parliament constituency)|North Warwickshire]]}}
| 14 July 1990
| 9 April 1992
| Conservative
| rowspan=5 style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| rowspan=5 | [[John Major|Major]]
| rowspan=2 | [[Norman Lamont|Lamont]]

|- style="height:1em"
| rowspan=2 style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| rowspan=2 | [[File:Stephen dorrell mp -nhs confederation annual conferencepercent2c manchester-11july2011 - crop.jpg|60px]]
| rowspan=2 | [[Stephen Dorrell]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Loughborough (UK Parliament constituency)|Loughborough]]}}
| rowspan=2 | 11 April 1992
| rowspan=2 | 11 July 1994
| rowspan=2 | Conservative
|-
|-
| rowspan=3 | [[Kenneth Clarke|Clarke]]
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

|[[Nigel Lawson]]
|- style="height:1em"
{{small|MP for [[Blaby (UK Parliament constituency)|Blaby]]<br />(born 1932)}}
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|[[File:Official portrait of Lord Lawson of Blaby crop 2.jpg|60px]]
| [[File:Official portrait of Lord Young of Cookham, 2020.jpg|60px]]
|4 May 1979
| [[Sir George Young, 6th Baronet|George Young]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Ealing Acton (UK Parliament constituency)|Ealing Acton]]}}
|14 September 1981
| 11 July 1994
|[[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
| 5 July 1995
|rowspan="6" style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| Conservative
|rowspan=6|[[Margaret Thatcher|Thatcher]]

|rowspan=2|[[Geoffrey Howe|Howe]]
|- style="height:1em"
|-
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| style="background-Color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| [[File:Michael Jack CBE.png|60px]]
|[[Nicholas Ridley, Baron Ridley of Liddesdale|Nicholas Ridley]]
{{small|MP for [[Cirencester and Tewkesbury (UK Parliament constituency)|Cirencester and Tewkesbury]]<br />(1929–1993)}}
| [[Michael Jack]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Fylde (UK Parliament constituency)|Fylde]]}}
| 5 July 1995
|
| 2 May 1997
|September 1981
| Conservative
|11 June 1983

|Conservative
|- style="height:1em"
|-
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| [[File:Official portrait of Baroness Primarolo crop 2.jpg|60px]]
|[[John Moore, Baron Moore of Lower Marsh|John Moore]]
| [[Dawn Primarolo]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Bristol South]]}}
{{small|MP for [[Croydon Central (UK Parliament constituency)|Croydon Central]]<br />(1937–2019)}}
| 2 May 1997
|[[File:Mr John Moore M.P. addressing the Annual LSE Society Dinner, 5th June, 1985.jpg|60px]]
| 4 January 1999
|19 October 1983
| [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]
|21 May 1986
| rowspan=7 style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
|Conservative
|rowspan=3|[[Nigel Lawson|Lawson]]
| rowspan=7 | [[Tony Blair|Blair]]
| rowspan=7 | [[Gordon Brown|Brown]]
|-

|style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|- style="height:1em"
|[[Norman Lamont]]
| style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
{{small|MP for [[Kingston-upon-Thames (UK Parliament constituency)|Kingston-upon-Thames]]<br />(born 1942)}}
|[[File:Official portrait of Lord Lamont of Lerwick 2020 crop 2.jpg|60px]]
| [[File:Blank.png|60px]]
| [[Barbara Roche]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Hornsey and Wood Green]]}}
|21 May 1986
| 4 January 1999
|24 July 1989
| 29 July 1999
|Conservative
| Labour
|-

|rowspan="2" style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|- style="height:1em"
|rowspan=2|[[Peter Lilley]]
| style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
{{small|MP for [[St Albans (UK Parliament constituency)|St Albans]]<br />(born 1943)}}
|rowspan=2|[[File:Official portrait of Lord Lilley crop 2.jpg|60px]]
| [[File:Official portrait of Rt Hon Stephen Timms MP crop 2.jpg|60px]]
| [[Stephen Timms]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[East Ham (UK Parliament constituency)|East Ham]]}}
|rowspan=2|24 July 1989
| 29 July 1999
|rowspan=2|28 November 1990
| 8 June 2001
|rowspan=2|Conservative
| Labour
|-

|[[John Major|Major]]
|- style="height:1em"
|-
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| [[File:Official portrait of Lord Boateng, 2020.jpg|60px]]
|[[Francis Maude]]
| [[Paul Boateng]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Brent South]]}}
{{small|MP for [[North Warwickshire (UK Parliament constituency)|North Warwickshire]]<br />(born 1953)}}
| 8 June 2001
|[[File:Francis Maude, Minister for the Cabinet Office.jpg|60px]]
| May 2002
|28 November 1990
| Labour
|11 April 1992
|- style="height:1em"
|Conservative
|rowspan="5" style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| [[File:RuthKellyMP.jpg|60px]]
|rowspan=5|[[John Major|Major]]
| [[Ruth Kelly]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Bolton West]]}}
|rowspan=2|[[Norman Lamont|Lamont]]
| May 2002
|-
| 9 September 2004
|rowspan="2" style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| Labour
|rowspan=2|[[Stephen Dorrell]]

{{small|MP for [[Loughborough (UK Parliament constituency)|Loughborough]]<br />(born 1952)}}
|- style="height:1em"
|rowspan=2|[[File:Stephen dorrell mp -nhs confederation annual conferencepercent2c manchester-11july2011 - crop.jpg|60px]]
| style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
|rowspan=2|11 April 1992
| [[File:Official portrait of Rt Hon Stephen Timms MP crop 2.jpg|60px]]
|rowspan=2|11 July 1994
| [[Stephen Timms]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[East Ham (UK Parliament constituency)|East Ham]]}}
|rowspan=2|Conservative
| 12 September 2004
|-
| 6 May 2005
|rowspan=3|[[Kenneth Clarke|Clarke]]
| Labour
|-

|style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|- style="height:1em"
|[[Sir George Young, 6th Baronet|Sir George Young, Bt]]
| style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
{{small|MP for [[Ealing Acton (UK Parliament constituency)|Ealing Acton]]<br />(born 1941)}}
|[[File:Official portrait of Lord Young of Cookham, 2020.jpg|60px]]
| [[File:Official portrait of Rt Hon John Healey MP crop 2.jpg|60px]]
| [[John Healey (politician)|John Healey]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Wentworth (UK Parliament constituency)|Wentworth]]}}
|11 July 1994
| 6 May 2005
|5 July 1995
| 28 June 2007
|Conservative
| Labour
|-
|style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|[[Michael Jack]]
{{small|MP for [[Fylde (UK Parliament constituency)|Fylde]]<br />(born 1946)}}
|[[File:Michael_Jack_CBE.png|60px]]
|5 July 1995
|2 May 1997
|Conservative
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
|[[Dawn Primarolo]]
{{small|MP for [[Bristol South (UK Parliament constituency)|Bristol South]]<br />(born 1954)}}
|[[File:Official portrait of Baroness Primarolo crop 2.jpg|60px]]
|2 May 1997
|4 January 1999
|[[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]
|rowspan="3" style="background-color: {{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
|rowspan=3|[[Tony Blair|Blair]]
|rowspan=3|[[Gordon Brown|Brown]]
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
|[[Barbara Roche]]
{{small|MP for [[Hornsey and Wood Green (UK Parliament constituency)|Hornsey and Wood Green]]<br />(born 1954)}}
|
|4 January 1999
|29 July 1999
|Labour
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
|[[Stephen Timms]]
{{small|MP for [[East Ham (UK Parliament constituency)|East Ham]]<br />(born 1955)}}
|[[File:Official portrait of Rt Hon Stephen Timms MP crop 2.jpg|60px]]
|29 July 1999
|8 June 2001
|Labour
|-
|}


|- style="height:1em"
<small>Note 1. {{note|aaa}} Between June 1917 and May 1919 Lever and Baldwin jointly held the position of Financial Secretary.</small><br />
| style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
<small>Note 2. {{note|aab}} As Baldwin was both Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer Joynson-Hicks was a member of the Cabinet.</small>
| [[File:Jane Kennedy.jpg|60px]]
| [[Jane Kennedy (politician)|Jane Kennedy]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Liverpool Wavertree]]}}
| 28 June 2007
| 5 October 2008
| Labour
| rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| rowspan=2 | [[Gordon Brown|Brown]]
| rowspan=2 | [[Alistair Darling|Darling]]


|- style="height:1em"
===2001–present===
| style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| [[File:Official portrait of Rt Hon Stephen Timms MP crop 2.jpg|60px]]
| [[Stephen Timms]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[East Ham (UK Parliament constituency)|East Ham]]}}
| 5 October 2008
| 11 May 2010
| Labour


|- style="height:1em"
'''Colour key''' (for political parties): <br />
{{legend2|{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}|[[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
| style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| [[File:Mark Hoban MP speaking at 'Improving Employment Outcomes' (cropped).jpg|60px]]
{{legend2|{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}|[[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
| [[Mark Hoban]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Fareham (UK Parliament constituency)|Fareham]]}}
| 13 May 2010
| 4 September 2012
| [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
| rowspan=6 style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| rowspan=5 | [[David Cameron|Cameron]]<br/>{{Small|([[Cameron–Clegg coalition|Coalition]])}}
| rowspan=6 | [[George Osborne|Osborne]]


|- style="height:1em"
{|class="wikitable"
| style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
!colspan=2|Name
| [[File:Official portrait of Rt Hon Greg Clark MP crop 2.jpg|60px]]
!Portrait
| [[Greg Clark]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Tunbridge Wells (UK Parliament constituency)|Tunbridge Wells]]}}
!colspan=2|Term of office
| 4 September 2012
!Political party
| 7 October 2013
!colspan=2|[[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]]
| Conservative
![[Chancellor of the Exchequer|Chancellor]]

|-
|- style="height:1em"
|style="background-color: {{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|[[Paul Boateng]]
| [[File:Official portrait of Rt Hon Sajid Javid MP crop 2.jpg|60px]]
{{small|MP for [[Brent South (UK Parliament constituency)|Brent South]]<br />(born 1951)}}
| [[Sajid Javid]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Bromsgrove (UK Parliament constituency)|Bromsgrove]]}}
|[[File:Official portrait of Lord Boateng, 2020.jpg|60px]]
| 7 October 2013
|8 June 2001
| 9 April 2014
|May 2002
| Conservative
|[[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]

|rowspan="4" style="background-color: {{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
|rowspan=4 style="width: 6.5em;"|[[Tony Blair|Blair]]
|- style="height:1em"
| style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|rowspan=4|[[Gordon Brown|Brown]]
| [[File:Official portrait of Nicky Morgan crop 2.jpg|60px]]
|-
| [[Nicky Morgan]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Loughborough (UK Parliament constituency)|Loughborough]]}}
|style="background-color: {{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| 9 April 2014
|[[Ruth Kelly]]
| [[2014 British cabinet reshuffle|15 July 2014]]
{{small|MP for [[Bolton West (UK Parliament constituency)|Bolton West]]<br />(born 1968)}}
| Conservative
|[[File:RuthKellyMP.jpg|60px]]
|May 2002
|9 September 2004
|Labour
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
|[[Stephen Timms]]
{{small|MP for [[East Ham (UK Parliament constituency)|East Ham]]<br />(born 1955)}}
|[[File:Official portrait of Rt Hon Stephen Timms MP crop 2.jpg|60px]]
|12 September 2004
|6 May 2005
|Labour
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
|[[John Healey (politician)|John Healey]]
{{small|MP for [[Wentworth (UK Parliament constituency)|Wentworth]]<br />(born 1960)}}
|[[File:Official portrait of Rt Hon John Healey MP crop 2.jpg|60px]]
|6 May 2005
|28 June 2007
|Labour
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
|[[Jane Kennedy (politician)|Jane Kennedy]]
{{small|MP for [[Liverpool Wavertree (UK Parliament constituency)|Liverpool Wavertree]]<br />(born 1958)}}
|[[File:Jane Kennedy.jpg|60px]]
|28 June 2007
|5 October 2008
|Labour
|rowspan="2" style="background-color: {{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
|rowspan=2|[[Gordon Brown|Brown]]
|rowspan=2|[[Alistair Darling|Darling]]
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
|[[Stephen Timms]]
{{small|MP for [[East Ham (UK Parliament constituency)|East Ham]]<br />(born 1955)}}
|[[File:Official portrait of Rt Hon Stephen Timms MP crop 2.jpg|60px]]
|5 October 2008
|11 May 2010
|Labour
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|[[Mark Hoban]]
{{small|MP for [[Fareham (UK Parliament constituency)|Fareham]]<br />(born 1964)}}
|[[File:Mark Hoban MP speaking at 'Improving Employment Outcomes' (cropped).jpg|60px]]
|13 May 2010
|4 September 2012
|[[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
|rowspan="6" style="background-color: {{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|rowspan=5|[[David Cameron|Cameron]]<br /><small>([[Cameron–Clegg coalition|Coalition]])</small>
|rowspan=6|[[George Osborne|Osborne]]
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|[[Greg Clark]]
{{small|MP for [[Tunbridge Wells (UK Parliament constituency)|Tunbridge Wells]]<br />(born 1967)}}
|[[File:Official portrait of Rt Hon Greg Clark MP crop 2.jpg|60px]]
|4 September 2012
|7 October 2013
|Conservative
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|[[Sajid Javid]]
{{small|MP for [[Bromsgrove (UK Parliament constituency)|Bromsgrove]]<br />(born 1969)}}
|[[File:Official portrait of Rt Hon Sajid Javid MP crop 2.jpg|60px]]
|7 October 2013
|9 April 2014
|Conservative
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|[[Nicky Morgan]]
{{small|MP for [[Loughborough (UK Parliament constituency)|Loughborough]]<br />(born 1972)}}
|[[File:Official portrait of Nicky Morgan crop 2.jpg|60px]]
|9 April 2014
|[[2014 British cabinet reshuffle|15 July 2014]]
|Conservative
|- style="height: 30px"
|- style="height: 30px"
|rowspan="2" style="background-color: {{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|rowspan=2|[[David Gauke]]
| rowspan=2 | [[File:Official portrait of Mr David Gauke crop 2.jpg|60px]]
{{small|MP for [[South West Hertfordshire (UK Parliament constituency)|South West Hertfordshire]]<br />(born 1971)}}
| rowspan=2 | [[David Gauke]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[South West Hertfordshire]]}}
|rowspan=2|[[File:Official portrait of Mr David Gauke crop 2.jpg|60px]]
| rowspan=2 | [[2014 British cabinet reshuffle|15 July 2014]]
|rowspan=2|[[2014 British cabinet reshuffle|15 July 2014]]
| rowspan=2 | 14 July 2016
|rowspan=2|14 July 2016
| rowspan=2 | Conservative
|rowspan=2|Conservative
|-
|-
|[[David Cameron|Cameron]]<br /><small>([[Second Cameron ministry|II]])</small>
| [[David Cameron|Cameron]]<br/>{{Small|([[Second Cameron ministry|II]])}}

|- style="height:1em"
| style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| [[File:Jane Ellison MP.jpg|60px]]
| [[Jane Ellison]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Battersea (UK Parliament constituency)|Battersea]]}}
| 15 July 2016
| 9 June 2017
| Conservative
| style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| [[Theresa May|May]]<br/>{{Small|([[First May ministry|I]])}}
| rowspan=3 | [[Philip Hammond|Hammond]]

|- style="height:1em"
| style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| [[File:Official portrait of Rt Hon Mel Stride MP crop 2.jpg|60px]]
| [[Mel Stride]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Central Devon]]}}
| 12 June 2017
| [[Second May ministry#Changes 2|23 May 2019]]
| Conservative
| rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| rowspan=2 | [[Theresa May|May]]<br/>{{Small|([[Second May ministry|II]])}}

|- style="height:1em"
| rowspan=3 style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| rowspan=3 | [[File:Official portrait of Rt Hon Jesse Norman MP crop 2.jpg|frameless|81x81px]]
| rowspan=3 | [[Jesse Norman]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Hereford and South Herefordshire]]}}
| rowspan=3 | [[Second May ministry#Changes 2|23 May 2019]]
| rowspan=3 | [[2021 British cabinet reshuffle|16 September 2021]]
| rowspan=3 | Conservative

|- style="height:1em"
| rowspan=4 style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| rowspan=4 | [[Boris Johnson|Johnson]]
| [[Sajid Javid|Javid]]
|-
|-
| rowspan=2 | [[Rishi Sunak|Sunak]]
|style="background-color: {{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

|[[Jane Ellison]]
|- style="height:1em"
{{small|MP for [[Battersea (UK Parliament constituency)|Battersea]]<br />(born 1964)}}
| rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|[[File:Jane Ellison MP.jpg|60px]]
| rowspan=2 | [[File:Official portrait of Lucy Frazer MP crop 2.jpg|frameless|81x81px]]
|15 July 2016
| rowspan=2 | [[Lucy Frazer]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[South East Cambridgeshire]]}}
|9 June 2017
| rowspan=2 | [[2021 British cabinet reshuffle|16 September 2021]]
|Conservative
| rowspan=2 | 7 September 2022
|style="background-color: {{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| rowspan=2 | Conservative
|[[Theresa May|May]]<br />{{small|([[First May ministry|I]])}}
|rowspan=3|[[Philip Hammond|Hammond]]
|-
|-
| [[Nadhim Zahawi|Zahawi]]
|style="background-color: {{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

|[[Mel Stride]]
|- style="height:1em"
{{small|MP for [[Central Devon (UK Parliament constituency)|Central Devon]]<br />(born 1961)}}
| rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|[[File:Official portrait of Rt Hon Mel Stride MP crop 2.jpg|60px]]
| rowspan=2 | [[File:Official portrait of Andrew Griffith MP crop 2.jpg|frameless|81x81px]]
|12 June 2017
| rowspan=2 | [[Andrew Griffith]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Arundel and South Downs]]}}
|[[Second May ministry#Changes 2|23 May 2019]]
| rowspan=2 | 8 September 2022
|Conservative
| rowspan=2 | 27 October 2022
|rowspan=2 style="background-color: {{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| rowspan=2 | Conservative
|rowspan=2|[[Theresa May|May]]<br />{{small|([[Second May ministry|II]])}}
| rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| rowspan=2 | [[Liz Truss|Truss]]
| [[Kwarteng]]
|-
|-
| rowspan=3 | [[Jeremy Hunt|Hunt]]
|rowspan=3 style="background-color: {{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

|rowspan=3 | [[Jesse Norman]]
|- style="height:1em"
{{small|MP for [[Hereford and South Herefordshire (UK Parliament constituency)|Hereford and South Herefordshire]]<br />(born 1962)}}
| style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|rowspan=3 |[[File:Official portrait of Rt Hon Jesse Norman MP crop 2.jpg|frameless|81x81px]]
| [[File:Official portrait of Victoria Atkins MP crop 2.jpg|frameless|81x81px]]
|rowspan=3 |[[Second May ministry#Changes 2|23 May 2019]]
| [[Victoria Atkins]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Louth and Horncastle]]}}
|rowspan=3 |[[2021 British cabinet reshuffle|16 September 2021]]
| 27 October 2022
|rowspan=3 |Conservative
| [[November 2023 British cabinet reshuffle|13 November 2023]]
|-
|rowspan=4 style="background-color: {{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| Conservative
| rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|rowspan=4 |[[Boris Johnson|Johnson]]
| rowspan=2 | [[Rishi Sunak|Sunak]]

|[[Sajid Javid|Javid]]
|- style="height:1em"
|-
| style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| style='border-style: solid solid none solid ;' |<br><br>[[Rishi Sunak|Sunak]]
| [[File:Official portrait of Nigel Huddleston MP crop 2.jpg|frameless|81x81px]]
|-
| [[Nigel Huddleston]]<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Mid Worcestershire]]}}
|rowspan=2 style="background-color: {{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| [[November 2023 British cabinet reshuffle|13 November 2023]]
|rowspan=2 | [[Lucy Frazer]]
| 5 July 2024
{{small|MP for [[South East Cambridgeshire (UK Parliament constituency)|South East Cambridgeshire]]<br />(born 1972)}}
| Conservative
|rowspan=2 |[[File:Official portrait of Lucy Frazer MP crop 2.jpg|frameless|81x81px]]

|rowspan=2 |[[2021 British cabinet reshuffle|16 September 2021]]
|- style="height:1em"
|rowspan=2 |7 September 2022
| style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
|rowspan=2 |Conservative
| [[File:3x4.svg|frameless|81x81px]]
| style='border-style: none solid solid solid ;' |{{zwsp}}
| [[Spencer Livermore, Baron Livermore|Lord Livermore]]
|-
| 8 July 2024
|[[Nadhim Zahawi|Zahawi]]
| Incumbent
|-
| [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]
|rowspan=2 style="background-color: {{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| rowspan=1 style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
|rowspan=2 | [[Andrew Griffith]]
| rowspan=1 | [[Keir Starmer|Starmer]]
{{small|MP for [[Arundel and South Downs (UK Parliament constituency)|Arundel and South Downs]]<br />(born 1971)}}
| rowspan=1 | [[Rachel Reeves|Reeves]]
|rowspan=2 |[[File:Official portrait of Andrew Griffith MP crop 2.jpg|frameless|81x81px]]
|rowspan=2 |8 September 2022
|rowspan=2 |27 October 2022
|rowspan=2 |Conservative
|rowspan=2 style="background-color: {{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|rowspan=2 |[[Liz Truss|Truss]]
|[[Kwasi Kwarteng|Kwarteng]]
|-
|rowspan=2 |[[Jeremy Hunt|Hunt]]
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|[[Victoria Atkins]]
{{small|MP for [[Louth and Horncastle (UK Parliament constituency)|Louth and Horncastle]]<br />(born 1976)}}
|[[File:Official portrait of Victoria Atkins MP crop 2.jpg|frameless|81x81px]]
|27 October 2022
|''Incumbent''
|Conservative
|style="background-color: {{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|[[Rishi Sunak|Sunak]]
|}
|}

{{Small|Note 1. {{Note|aaa}} Between June 1917 and May 1919 Lever and Baldwin jointly held the position of Financial Secretary.}}<br/>{{Small|Note 2. {{Note|aab}} As Baldwin was both Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer Joynson-Hicks was a member of the Cabinet.}}


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

Latest revision as of 20:21, 26 October 2024

United Kingdom
Financial Secretary to the Treasury
Royal Arms of His Majesty's Government
since 8 July 2024
His Majesty's Treasury
Reports toFirst Lord of the Treasury
Chancellor of the Exchequer & Second Lord of the Treasury
NominatorPrime Minister
AppointerThe King
(on the advice of the Prime Minister)
Term lengthAt His Majesty's pleasure
Inaugural holderThomas Harley
Formation11 June 1711
WebsiteOfficial website

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

[edit]

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

[edit]

The current responsibilities of the Financial Secretary to the Treasury include Departmental responsibility for the Office for National Statistics, and the Royal Mint.[citation needed] 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.[citation needed]

List of financial secretaries to the Treasury since 1830

[edit]
see Secretary to the Treasury for earlier incumbents

Colour key (for political parties):
  Conservative   Liberal   Peelite   Tories   Whig   Labour   Liberal National   Liberal Unionist   National Labour   None   Unionist

Financial Secretary Term of office Political party Prime Minister Chancellor
Thomas Spring Rice 26 November 1830 6 June 1834 Whig Earl Grey Viscount Althorp
Francis Baring 6 June 1834 14 November 1834 Whig
Viscount Melbourne
Office not in use 15 November 1834 – 19 December 1834 Duke of Wellington
(Caretaker) 		Lord Denman
LCJ (interim)
Thomas Fremantle 20 December 1834 April 1835 Conservative
or Tory 		Peel Peel
Francis Baring 21 April 1835 26 August 1839 Whig Viscount Melbourne Spring Rice
Robert Gordon 6 September 1839 1841 Whig Baring
Richard More O'Ferrall 9 June 1841 30 August 1841 Whig
George Clerk 8 September 1841 1845 Conservative Peel Goulburn
Edward Cardwell 4 February 1845 29 June 1846 Conservative
John Parker 7 July 1846 1849 Whig Lord John Russell Wood
William Goodenough Hayter 22 May 1849 1850 Whig
George Cornewall Lewis 9 July 1850 1852 Whig
George Alexander Hamilton 2 March 1852 1852 Conservative Earl of Derby Disraeli
James Wilson 5 January 1853 19 February 1858 Whig Earl of Aberdeen
(Coalition) 		Gladstone
Viscount Palmerston Lewis
George Alexander Hamilton 2 March 1858 1859 Conservative Earl of Derby Disraeli
Stafford Northcote 21 January 1859 1859 Conservative
Samuel Laing 24 June 1859 1860 Liberal Viscount Palmerston Gladstone
Frederick Peel 2 November 1860 1865 Liberal
Hugh Childers 19 August 1865 26 June 1866 Liberal
Earl Russell
George Ward Hunt 14 July 1866 29 February 1868 Conservative Earl of Derby Disraeli
George Sclater-Booth 4 March 1868 1 December 1868 Conservative Disraeli Hunt
Acton Smee Ayrton 9 December 1868 1869 Liberal Gladstone Lowe
James Stansfeld 2 November 1869 1871 Liberal
William Edward Baxter 17 March 1871 11 August 1873 Liberal
John Dodson 11 August 1873 1874 Liberal Gladstone
William Henry Smith 21 February 1874 1877 Conservative Disraeli Northcote
Frederick Stanley 14 August 1877 1878 Conservative
Henry Selwin-Ibbetson 2 April 1878 21 April 1880 Conservative
Lord Frederick Cavendish 28 April 1880 1882 Liberal Gladstone Gladstone
Leonard Courtney 6 May 1882 12 December 1884 Liberal
Childers
J. T. Hibbert 12 December 1884 9 June 1885 Liberal
Henry Holland 24 June 1885 1885 Conservative Marquess of Salisbury Hicks Beach
Matthew White Ridley 1885 1886 Conservative
William Jackson 1886 28 January 1886 Conservative
Henry Fowler 6 February 1886 20 July 1886 Liberal Gladstone Harcourt
William Jackson 3 August 1886 1891 Conservative Marquess of Salisbury Lord Randolph Churchill
Viscount Goschen
John Eldon Gorst 9 November 1891 11 August 1892 Conservative
J. T. Hibbert 18 August 1892 22 June 1895 Liberal Gladstone Harcourt
Earl of Rosebery
Robert William Hanbury 29 June 1895 1900 Conservative Marquess of Salisbury
(Unionist Coalition) 		Hicks Beach
Austen Chamberlain 7 November 1900 11 August 1902 Liberal Unionist Marquess of Salisbury
(Unionist Coalition) 		Hicks Beach
Balfour
(Unionist Coalition)
William Fisher 11 August 1902 April 1903 Conservative Ritchie
Arthur Elliot 10 April 1903 9 October 1903 Conservative
Victor Cavendish 9 October 1903 5 December 1905 Conservative A. Chamberlain
Reginald McKenna 12 December 1905 23 January 1907 Liberal Campbell-Bannerman Asquith
Walter Runciman 29 January 1907 1908 Liberal
Charles Hobhouse 12 April 1908 1911 Liberal Asquith
(I) 		Lloyd George
Thomas McKinnon Wood 23 October 1911 13 February 1912 Liberal
Charles Masterman
MP for Bethnal Green South West 		13 February 1912 11 February 1914 Liberal
Edwin Montagu
MP for Chesterton 		11 February 1914 3 February 1915 Liberal
Francis Dyke Acland
MP for Camborne 		3 February 1915 25 May 1915 Liberal
Edwin Montagu
MP for Chesterton 		26 May 1915 9 July 1916 Liberal Asquith
(Coalition) 		McKenna
Thomas McKinnon Wood
MP for Glasgow St Rollox 		9 July 1916 5 December 1916 Liberal
Hardman Lever
Baronet 		15 December 1916 19 May 1919
[Note 1] 		None
Civil servant 		Lloyd George
(Coalition) 		Law
(December 1916
– January 1919)
A. Chamberlain
(January 1919
– April 1921)
Stanley Baldwin
MP for Bewdley 		18 June 1917
[Note 1] 		1 April 1921 Conservative
Hilton Young
MP for Norwich 		21 April 1921 19 October 1922 Liberal Horne
John Hills
MP for City of Durham 		6 November 1922 1923 Conservative Law Baldwin
Archibald Boyd-Carpenter
MP for Bradford North 		12 March 1923 May 1923 Conservative
William Joynson-Hicks
MP for Twickenham 		25 May 1923 27 August 1923
[Note 2] 		Conservative Baldwin
Walter Guinness
MP for Bury St Edmunds 		5 October 1923 1923 Conservative N. Chamberlain
William Graham
MP for Edinburgh Central 		23 January 1924 4 November 1924 Labour MacDonald Snowden
Walter Guinness
MP for Bury St Edmunds 		11 November 1924 5 November 1925 Conservative Baldwin Churchill
Ronald McNeill
MP for Canterbury 		5 November 1925 1 November 1927 Conservative
Arthur Samuel
MP for Farnham 		1 November 1927 5 June 1929 Conservative
Frederick Pethick-Lawrence
MP for Leicester West 		11 June 1929 August 1931 Labour MacDonald
(II) 		Snowden
Walter Elliot
MP for Glasgow Kelvingrove 		24 August 1931 29 September 1932 Unionist MacDonald
(First National ministry)
MacDonald
(Second National ministry) 		N. Chamberlain
Leslie Hore-Belisha
MP for Plymouth Devonport 		29 September 1932 29 June 1934 Liberal National
Duff Cooper
MP for Westminster St George's 		29 June 1934 22 November 1935 Conservative
Baldwin
(Third National ministry)
William Morrison
MP for Cirencester and Tewkesbury 		22 November 1935 29 October 1936 Conservative
John Colville
MP for Midlothian and Peebles Northern 		29 October 1936 1938 Unionist
N. Chamberlain
(Fourth National ministry) 		Simon
Euan Wallace
MP for Hornsey 		16 May 1938 21 April 1939 Conservative
Harry Crookshank
MP for Gainsborough 		21 April 1939 7 February 1943 Conservative
N. Chamberlain
(War)
Churchill
(War) 		Wood
Ralph Assheton
MP for Rushcliffe 		7 February 1943 29 October 1944 Conservative
Anderson
Osbert Peake
MP for Leeds North 		29 October 1944 26 July 1945 Conservative
Churchill
(Caretaker)
William Glenvil Hall
MP for Colne Valley 		4 August 1945 2 March 1950 Labour Attlee Dalton
Cripps
Douglas Jay
MP for Battersea North 		2 March 1950 26 October 1951 Labour
Gaitskell
John Boyd-Carpenter
MP for Kingston-upon-Thames 		30 October 1951 28 July 1954 Conservative Churchill Butler
Henry Brooke
MP for Hampstead 		28 July 1954 January 1957 Conservative
Eden
Macmillan
Enoch Powell
MP for Wolverhampton South West 		14 January 1957 15 January 1958 Conservative Macmillan Thorneycroft
Jack Simon
MP for Middlesbrough West 		15 January 1958 22 October 1959 Conservative Heathcoat-Amory
Edward Boyle
MP for Birmingham Handsworth 		22 October 1959 16 July 1962 Conservative
Lloyd
Anthony Barber
MP for Doncaster 		16 July 1962 20 October 1963 Conservative Maudling
Alan Green
MP for Preston South 		23 October 1963 16 October 1964 Conservative Douglas-Home
Niall MacDermot
MP for Derby North 		21 October 1964 29 August 1967 Labour Wilson Callaghan
Harold Lever
MP for Manchester Cheetham 		29 August 1967 13 October 1969 Labour
Jenkins
Dick Taverne
MP for Lincoln 		13 October 1969 19 June 1970 Labour
Patrick Jenkin
MP for Wanstead and Woodford 		19 June 1970 7 April 1972 Conservative Heath Macleod
Barber
Terrence Higgins
MP for Worthing 		7 April 1972 4 March 1974 Conservative
John Gilbert
MP for Dudley East 		8 March 1974 17 June 1975 Labour Wilson Healey
Robert Sheldon
MP for Ashton under Lyne 		17 June 1975 4 May 1979 Labour
Callaghan
Nigel Lawson
MP for Blaby 		4 May 1979 14 September 1981 Conservative Thatcher Howe
Nicholas Ridley
MP for Cirencester and Tewkesbury 		September 1981 11 June 1983 Conservative
John Moore
MP for Croydon Central 		19 October 1983 21 May 1986 Conservative Lawson
Norman Lamont
MP for Kingston-upon-Thames 		21 May 1986 24 July 1989 Conservative
Peter Lilley
MP for St Albans 		24 July 1989 14 July 1990 Conservative
Major
Francis Maude
MP for North Warwickshire 		14 July 1990 9 April 1992 Conservative Major Lamont
Stephen Dorrell
MP for Loughborough 		11 April 1992 11 July 1994 Conservative
Clarke
George Young
MP for Ealing Acton 		11 July 1994 5 July 1995 Conservative
Michael Jack
MP for Fylde 		5 July 1995 2 May 1997 Conservative
Dawn Primarolo
MP for Bristol South 		2 May 1997 4 January 1999 Labour Blair Brown
Barbara Roche
MP for Hornsey and Wood Green 		4 January 1999 29 July 1999 Labour
Stephen Timms
MP for East Ham 		29 July 1999 8 June 2001 Labour
Paul Boateng
MP for Brent South 		8 June 2001 May 2002 Labour
Ruth Kelly
MP for Bolton West 		May 2002 9 September 2004 Labour
Stephen Timms
MP for East Ham 		12 September 2004 6 May 2005 Labour
John Healey
MP for Wentworth 		6 May 2005 28 June 2007 Labour
Jane Kennedy
MP for Liverpool Wavertree 		28 June 2007 5 October 2008 Labour Brown Darling
Stephen Timms
MP for East Ham 		5 October 2008 11 May 2010 Labour
Mark Hoban
MP for Fareham 		13 May 2010 4 September 2012 Conservative Cameron
(Coalition) 		Osborne
Greg Clark
MP for Tunbridge Wells 		4 September 2012 7 October 2013 Conservative
Sajid Javid
MP for Bromsgrove 		7 October 2013 9 April 2014 Conservative
Nicky Morgan
MP for Loughborough 		9 April 2014 15 July 2014 Conservative
David Gauke
MP for South West Hertfordshire 		15 July 2014 14 July 2016 Conservative
Cameron
(II)
Jane Ellison
MP for Battersea 		15 July 2016 9 June 2017 Conservative May
(I) 		Hammond
Mel Stride
MP for Central Devon 		12 June 2017 23 May 2019 Conservative May
(II)
Jesse Norman
MP for Hereford and South Herefordshire 		23 May 2019 16 September 2021 Conservative
Johnson Javid
Sunak
Lucy Frazer
MP for South East Cambridgeshire 		16 September 2021 7 September 2022 Conservative
Zahawi
Andrew Griffith
MP for Arundel and South Downs 		8 September 2022 27 October 2022 Conservative Truss Kwarteng
Hunt
Victoria Atkins
MP for Louth and Horncastle 		27 October 2022 13 November 2023 Conservative Sunak
Nigel Huddleston
MP for Mid Worcestershire 		13 November 2023 5 July 2024 Conservative
Lord Livermore 8 July 2024 Incumbent Labour Starmer Reeves

Note 1. ^ Between June 1917 and May 1919 Lever and Baldwin jointly held the position of Financial Secretary.
Note 2. ^ As Baldwin was both Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer Joynson-Hicks was a member of the Cabinet.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Elgot, Jessica. "The Guardian". Retrieved 8 July 2024.
  2. ^ "Secretaries 1660-1870". British History Online. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
  3. ^ Andrea Leadsom MP appointed new City Minister for HMT, Tech UK, 10 April 2014, retrieved 4 August 2016
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