Chief Secretary to the Treasury
United Kingdom Chief Secretary to the Treasury | |
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Royal Arms of His Majesty's Government | |
Incumbent since 5 July 2024Darren Jones | |
His Majesty's Treasury | |
Style | The Right Honourable |
Reports to | Chancellor of the Exchequer Prime Minister |
Nominator | Prime Minister |
Appointer | The Monarch (on the advice of the Prime Minister) |
Term length | At His Majesty's pleasure |
Formation | 8 October 1961 |
First holder | Henry Brooke |
Salary | £121,326 per annum (2022)[1] (including £86,584 MP salary)[2] |
Website | Official Website |
The Chief Secretary to the Treasury is a ministerial office in the government of the United Kingdom and is the second most senior ministerial office in HM Treasury, after the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The office was created in 1961 to share the burden of representing HM Treasury with the chancellor.[citation needed]
The minister is shadowed by the Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury who sits on the Official Opposition frontbench.
History and responsibilities
Between 1961 and 2015, the holder of the office of Chief Secretary to the Treasury was of full cabinet rank. This formally made HM Treasury the only department to have more than one ministerial position of cabinet rank.[3][4]
The office holder is responsible for public expenditure, including spending reviews.[5]
List of chief secretaries to the Treasury
Conservative Labour Liberal Democrat | |||||||||
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Chief secretary | Term of office | Party | Ministry | Chancellor | |||||
Henry Brooke MP for Hampstead[6] | 9 October 1961 | 13 July 1962 | Conservative | Macmillan (I & II) | Selwyn Lloyd | ||||
| John Boyd-Carpenter[7] MP for Kingston-upon-Thames | 13 July 1962 | 16 October 1964 | Conservative | Reginald Maudling | ||||
Douglas-Home | |||||||||
Jack Diamond[8] MP for Gloucester | 20 October 1964 | 19 June 1970 | Labour | Wilson (I & II) | James Callaghan | ||||
Roy Jenkins | |||||||||
Maurice Macmillan[9] MP for Farnham | 23 June 1970 | 7 April 1972 | Conservative | Heath | Iain Macleod | ||||
Anthony Barber | |||||||||
Patrick Jenkin[10] MP for Wanstead and Woodford | 7 April 1972 | 8 January 1974 | Conservative | ||||||
Tom Boardman[11] MP for Leicester South West | 8 January 1974 | 4 March 1974 | Conservative | ||||||
Joel Barnett[12] MP for Heywood and Royton | 7 March 1974 | 4 May 1979 | Labour | Wilson (III & IV) | Denis Healey | ||||
Callaghan | |||||||||
John Biffen[13] MP for Oswestry | 5 May 1979 | 5 January 1981 | Conservative | Thatcher I | Geoffrey Howe | ||||
Leon Brittan[14] MP for Cleveland and Whitby | 5 January 1981 | 11 June 1983 | Conservative | ||||||
Peter Rees[15] MP for Dover | 11 June 1983 | 2 September 1985 | Conservative | Thatcher II | Nigel Lawson | ||||
John MacGregor[16] MP for South Norfolk | 2 September 1985 | 13 June 1987 | Conservative | ||||||
John Major[17] MP for Huntingdon | 13 June 1987 | 24 July 1989 | Conservative | Thatcher III | |||||
Norman Lamont[18] MP for Kingston-upon-Thames | 24 July 1989 | 28 November 1990 | Conservative | John Major | |||||
David Mellor[19] MP for Putney | 28 November 1990 | 10 April 1992 | Conservative | Major I | Norman Lamont | ||||
Michael Portillo[20] MP for Enfield Southgate | 10 April 1992 | 20 July 1994 | Conservative | Major II | |||||
Kenneth Clarke | |||||||||
Jonathan Aitken[21] MP for South Thanet | 20 July 1994 | 5 July 1995 | Conservative | ||||||
William Waldegrave[22] MP for Bristol West | 5 July 1995 | 2 May 1997 | Conservative | ||||||
Alistair Darling[23] MP for Edinburgh Central | 3 May 1997 | 27 July 1998 | Labour | Blair I | Gordon Brown | ||||
Stephen Byers[24] MP for North Tyneside | 27 July 1998 | 23 December 1998 | Labour | ||||||
Alan Milburn[25] MP for Darlington | 23 December 1998 | 11 October 1999 | Labour | ||||||
Andrew Smith[26] MP for Oxford East | 11 October 1999 | 29 May 2002 | Labour | ||||||
Blair II | |||||||||
Paul Boateng[27] MP for Brent South | 29 May 2002 | 6 May 2005 | Labour | ||||||
Des Browne[28] MP for Kilmarnock and Loudoun | 6 May 2005 | 5 May 2006 | Labour | Blair III | |||||
Stephen Timms[29] MP for East Ham | 5 May 2006 | 28 June 2007 | Labour | ||||||
Andy Burnham[30] MP for Leigh | 28 June 2007 | 24 January 2008 | Labour | Brown | Alistair Darling | ||||
Yvette Cooper[31] MP for Pontefract and Castleford | 24 January 2008 | 5 June 2009 | Labour | ||||||
Liam Byrne[32] MP for Birmingham Hodge Hill | 5 June 2009 | 11 May 2010 | Labour | ||||||
David Laws[33] MP for Yeovil | 12 May 2010 | 29 May 2010 | Liberal Democrat | Cameron–Clegg (Con.–L.D.) | George Osborne | ||||
Danny Alexander[34] MP for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey | 29 May 2010 | 8 May 2015 | Liberal Democrat | ||||||
Greg Hands[35] MP for Chelsea and Fulham | 11 May 2015 | 14 July 2016 | Conservative | Cameron II | |||||
David Gauke[36] MP for South West Hertfordshire | 14 July 2016 | 11 June 2017 | Conservative | May I | Philip Hammond | ||||
Liz Truss[37] MP for South West Norfolk | 11 June 2017 | 24 July 2019 | Conservative | May II | |||||
Rishi Sunak[38] MP for Richmond (Yorks) | 24 July 2019 | 13 February 2020 | Conservative | Johnson I | Sajid Javid | ||||
| Johnson II | ||||||||
Steve Barclay[39] MP for North East Cambridgeshire | 13 February 2020 | 15 September 2021 | Conservative | Rishi Sunak | |||||
Simon Clarke[40] MP for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland | 15 September 2021 | 6 September 2022 | Conservative | ||||||
Nadhim Zahawi | |||||||||
Chris Philp[41] MP for Croydon South | 6 September 2022 | 14 October 2022 | Conservative | Truss | Kwasi Kwarteng | ||||
Edward Argar[42] MP for Charnwood | 14 October 2022 | 25 October 2022 | Conservative | Jeremy Hunt | |||||
John Glen[43] MP for Salisbury | 25 October 2022 | 13 November 2023 | Conservative | Sunak | |||||
Laura Trott MP for Sevenoaks | 13 November 2023 | 5 July 2024 | Conservative | ||||||
Darren Jones MP for Bristol North West | 5 July 2024 | Incumbent | Labour | Starmer | Rachel Reeves |
See also
- Secretary to the Treasury
- Financial Secretary to the Treasury
- Economic Secretary to the Treasury
- Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury
- Paymaster General
References
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- ^ W H Greenleaf (1983), The British Political Tradition: Volume III, Part One, Much Governed Nation, Routledge
- ^ "Chief Secretary to the Treasury – GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 2024-05-07.
- ^ "Mr Henry Brooke". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Retrieved 6 October 2017.
- ^ "Mr John Boyd-Carpenter". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Retrieved 6 October 2017.
- ^ "Mr Jack Diamond". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Retrieved 6 October 2017.
- ^ "Rt Hon Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden". UK Parliament. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
- ^ "Lord Jenkin of Roding". UK Parliament. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
- ^ "Mr Thomas Boardman". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Retrieved 6 October 2017.
- ^ "Lord Barnett". UK Parliament. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
- ^ "Rt Hon John Biffen". UK Parliament. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
- ^ "Lord Brittan of Spennithorne". UK Parliament. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
- ^ "Mr Peter Rees". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Retrieved 6 October 2017.
- ^ "Lord MacGregor of Pulham Market". UK Parliament. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ^ "Rt Hon John Major". UK Parliament. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ^ "Lord Lamont of Lerwick". UK Parliament. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ^ "Rt Hon David Mellor". UK Parliament. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ^ "Rt Hon Michael Portillo". UK Parliament. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ^ "Jonathan Aitken". UK Parliament. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ^ "Lord Waldegrave of North Hill". UK Parliament. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ^ "Lord Darling of Roulanish". UK Parliament. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ^ "Mr Stephen Byers". UK Parliament. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ^ "Mr Alan Milburn". UK Parliament. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ^ "Rt Hon Andrew Smith". UK Parliament. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ^ "Lord Boateng". UK Parliament. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ^ "Lord Browne of Ladyton". UK Parliament. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ^ "Rt Hon Stephen Timms MP". UK Parliament. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ^ "Rt Hon Andy Burnham". UK Parliament. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ^ "Rt Hon Yvette Cooper MP". UK Parliament. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ^ "Rt Hon Liam Byrne MP". UK Parliament. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ^ "Rt Hon David Laws". UK Parliament. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ^ "Rt Hon Danny Alexander". UK Parliament. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ^ "Rt Hon Greg Hands MP". UK Parliament. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ^ "Rt Hon David Gauke MP". UK Parliament. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ^ "Rt Hon Elizabeth Truss MP". UK Parliament. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ^ "Rishi Sunak MP". UK Parliament. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
- ^ "Rt Hon Steve Barclay MP". UK Parliament. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
- ^ "The Rt Hon Simon Clarke MP". gov.uk. Retrieved 26 September 2022.
- ^ "Chris Philp MP". gov.uk. Retrieved 26 September 2022.
- ^ "UK treasury minister Philp to be replaced by Edward Argar". Reuters. 14 October 2022. Retrieved 14 October 2022.
- ^ "John Glen appointed Chief Secretary to UK Treasury – statement". Reuters. 25 October 2022. Retrieved 25 October 2022.>