Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
This article lists past and present Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State serving the Home Secretary of the United Kingdom at the Home Office.
Non-permanent and parliamentary under-secretaries, 1782–present
- April 1782: Evan Nepean
- April 1782: Thomas Orde
- July 1782: Henry Strachey
- April 1783: George North
- February 1784: Hon. John Townshend
- June 1789: Scrope Bernard
- July 1794: The Hon. Thomas Brodrick
- March 1796: Charles Greville
- March 1798: William Wickham
- February 1801: Edward Finch Hatton
- August 1801: Sir George Shee, Bt
- August 1803: Reginald Pole-Carew
- July 1804: John Henry Smyth
- February 1806: Charles Williams-Wynn
- November 1807: Hon. Charles Jenkinson
- February 1810: Henry Goulburn
- August 1812: John Hiley Addington
- April 1818: Henry Clive
- January 1822: George Robert Dawson
- April 1827: Spencer Perceval
- July 1827: Thomas Spring Rice
- January 1828: William Yates Peel
- August 1830: Sir George Clerk
- November 1830: Hon. George Lamb
- January 1834: Viscount Howick
- July 1834: Edward Stanley
- January 1835: William Gregson
- April 1835: Fox Maule
- June 1841: Lord Seymour
- September 1841: John Manners-Sutton
- July 1846: Sir William Somerville, Bt
- July 1847: Sir Denis Le Marchant, Bt
- May 1848: Sir George Cornewall Lewis, Bt
- July 1850: Edward Pleydell-Bouverie
- February 1852: Sir William Jolliffe, Bt
- December 1852: Henry Fitzroy
- February 1855: William Cowper
- August 1855: William Nathaniel Massey
- February 1858: Gathorne Hardy
- June 1859: George Clive
- November 1862: Henry Bruce
- April 1864: Thomas Baring
- May 1866: Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen
- July 1866: The Earl Belmore
- August 1867: Sir James Fergusson, Bt
- August 1868: Sir Michael Hicks Beach, Bt
- December 1868: Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen
- January 1871: George Shaw-Lefevre
- March 1871: Henry Winterbotham
- February 1874: Sir Henry Selwin-Ibbetson, Bt
- April 1878: Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bt
- April 1880: Arthur Peel
- January 1881: Leonard Courtney
- August 1881: The Earl of Rosebery
- June 1883: J. T. Hibbert
- December 1884: Henry Fowler
- June 1885: Charles Stuart-Wortley
- February 1886: Henry Broadhurst
- August 1886: Charles Stuart-Wortley
- August 1892: Herbert Gladstone
- March 1894: George W. E. Russell
- June 1895: Jesse Collings
- August 1902: Thomas Cochrane
- December 1905: Herbert Samuel
- July 1909: Charles Masterman
- February 1912: Ellis Ellis-Griffith
- February 1915: Cecil Harmsworth
- May 1915: William Brace
- January 1919: Sir Hamar Greenwood
- April 1919: John Baird
- October 1922: George Frederick Stanley
- March 1923: Godfrey Locker-Lampson
- January 1924: Rhys Davies
- November 1924: Godfrey Locker-Lampson
- December 1925: Douglas Hacking
- November 1927: Sir Vivian Henderson
- June 1929: Alfred Short
- September 1931: Oliver Stanley
- February 1933: Douglas Hacking
- June 1935: Harry Crookshank
- June 1934: Euan Wallace
- November 1935: Geoffrey Lloyd
- June 1939: Osbert Peake (check date)
- October 1944: The Earl of Munster
- August 1945: George Oliver
- October 1947: Kenneth Younger
- March 1950: Geoffrey de Freitas
- November 1951: David Llewellyn (to Oct 1952)
- February 1952: Sir Hugh Lucas-Tooth, Bt (to Dec 1955)
- November 1952: The Lord Lloyd (to October 1954)
- October 1954: The Lord Mancroft
- January 1957: Patricia Hornsby-Smith (jointly) (to October 1959)
- January 1957: Jocelyn Simon (jointly) (to January 1958)
- January 1958: David Renton (jointly) (to June 1961)
- October 1959: Dennis Vosper (jointly) (to October 1960)
- February 1961: The Earl Bathurst (jointly) (to July 1962)
- June 1961: Charles Fletcher-Cooke (jointly) (to February 1963)
- July 1962: Christopher Montague Woodhouse (jointly) (to October 1964)
- March 1963: Mervyn Pike (jointly) (to October 1964)
- October 1964: The Lord Stonham (jointly) (to August 1967)
- October 1964: George Thomas (jointly) (to April 1966)
- April 1966: Maurice Foley (jointly) (to January 1967)
- April 1966: Dick Taverne (jointly) (to April 1968)
- January 1967: David Ennals (jointly) (to November 1968)
- April 1968: Elystan Morgan (jointly) (to June 1970)
- November 1968: Merlyn Rees (jointly) (to June 1970)
- June 1970: Mark Carlisle
- April 1972: David Lane
- March 1974: Shirley Summerskill (to 1979)
- May 1979: The Lord Belstead
- April 1982: The Lord Elton (to September 1984)
- January 1983: David Mellor (to September 1986)
- March 1984: The Lord Glenarthur (to September 1986)
- September 1986: The Hon. Douglas Hogg
- July 1989: Peter Lloyd
- April 1992: Charles Wardle
- July 1994: Nicholas Baker
- October 1995: Timothy Kirkhope (to May 1997)
- November 1995: The Hon. Tom Sackville (jointly) (to May 1997)
- May 1997: Lord Williams of Mostyn (jointly) (to July 1998)
- May 1997: George Howarth (jointly) (to July 1999)
- May 1997: Mike O'Brien (jointly) (to June 2001)
- July 1998: Kate Hoey (jointly) (to July 1999)
- July 1999: Lord Bassam (jointly) (to June 2001)
- June 2001: Beverley Hughes (jointly) (to May 2002)
- June 2001: Bob Ainsworth (jointly) (to June 2003)
- June 2001: Angela Eagle (jointly) (to May 2002)
- May 2002: Lord Filkin (jointly) (to June 2003)
- June 2002: Michael Wills (jointly) (to July 2003)
- May 2003: Paul Goggins (jointly) (to May 2005)
- June 2003: Caroline Flint (jointly) (to April 2005)
- June 2003: Fiona Mactaggart (jointly) (to April 2005)
- May 2005: Andy Burnham (jointly) (to May 2006)
- Joan Ryan - 5 May 2006 – 29 June 2007
- Meg Hillier - 28 June 2007 – 12 May 2010
- Victoria Atkins (Safeguarding) - from 9 November 2017
- Kevin Foster (Future Borders and Immigration) -
- Chris Philp (Immigration Compliance and the Courts, joint with Ministry of Justice) -
Parliamentary secretaries, 1940–1945
- May 1940: William Mabane (to June 1942)
- October 1940: Ellen Wilkinson (to May 1945)
See also
- List of permanent under secretaries of state of the Home Office
- Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
- Undersecretary