Secretary of State for Education

Not to be confused with the Secretary of State for Education, the second-highest-authority of the Ministry of Education of Spain.

Secretary of State for Education
Royal Arms of Her Majesty's Government
Incumbent Gavin Williamson since 24 July 2019
Department for Education
Style	Education Secretary (informal) The Right Honourable (UK and the Commonwealth)
Status	Minister of the Crown
Member of	Cabinet Privy Council
Reports to	The Prime Minister
Seat	Westminster
Appointer	The Crown on advice of the Prime Minister
Term length	At Her Majesty's Pleasure
Formation	10 April 1992
First holder	William Cowper-Temple as Committee of the Council on Education (5 February 1857) John Patten as Secretary of State for Education
Website	www.gov.uk

The Secretary of State for Education, also referred to as the Education Secretary, is a senior Minister of the Crown within the Government of the United Kingdom, and head of the Department for Education. The office forms part of the British Cabinet.

The current Secretary of State for Education is Gavin Williamson, MP since his appointment by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, in July 2019.

Responsibilities

Corresponding to what is generally known as an education minister in many other countries, the Education Secretary's remit is concerned primarily with England. This includes:

• Oversight of the national curriculum
• Management of academies, free schools, early years, apprenticeships, further education and higher education
• Management of teacher recruitment and pay
• Oversight of school infrastructure improvement

History

A committee of the Privy Council was appointed in 1839 to supervise the distribution of certain government grants in the education field. The members of the committee were the Lord President of the Council, the Secretaries of State, the First Lord of the Treasury, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. From 1857 a vice-president was appointed who took responsibility for policy.

On 1 April 1900, the Board of Education Act 1899 abolished the committee and instituted a new board, headed by a president. The members were initially very similar to the old committee and the president of the board was the Lord President of the Council; however, from 1902 this ceased to be the case and the president of the board was appointed separately (although the Marquess of Londonderry happened to hold both jobs from 1903 to 1905).

The Education Act 1944 replaced the Board of Education with a new Ministry of Education.

The Department of Education and Science was created in 1964 with the merger of the offices of Minister of Education and the Minister of Science.

In 1992, the responsibility for science was transferred to Cabinet Office's Office of Public Service, and the department was renamed Department of Education. In 1995 the department merged with the Department of Employment to become the Department for Education and Employment (DfEE) and in 2001 the employment functions were transferred to a newly created Department for Work and Pensions, with the DfEE becoming the Department for Education and Skills (DfES). In 2007 under Gordon Brown's new premiership, the DfES was split into two new departments; the Department for Children, Schools and Families, and a Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills, under two new secretaries of state.

The ministerial office of the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills was, in late 2009, amalgamated into the new ministerial office of the resurgent politician Peter Mandelson, made a peer and given the title Lord Mandelson as the newly created Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills – itself an amalgamation of the responsibilities of the Secretaries of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and Innovation, Universities and Skills. The Secretary of State has remit over higher education policy as well as British business and enterprise. From 14 July 2016 to January 8, 2018 the post was held by Justine Greening, as her predecessor, Nicky Morgan, was sacked by Theresa May. Greening resigned after rejecting a reshuffle to the Department for Work and Pensions.

List of office holders

Vice-President of the Committee of the Council on Education

Colour key (for political parties):
  Whig   Conservative   Liberal

Name		Portrait	Term of office		Length of term	Party	Prime Minister
style="background-color: Template:Whig (British political party)/meta/color" |	William Cowper		5 February 1857	21 February 1858	1 year and 16 days	Whig	style="background-color: Template:Whig (British political party)/meta/color" |	The Viscount Palmerston
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Charles Adderley		12 March 1858	11 June 1859	1 year, 2 months and 30 days	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	The Earl of Derby
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Robert Lowe		24 June 1859	26 April 1864 (resigned)	4 years, 10 months and 2 days	Liberal	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color; border-bottom:solid 0 gray"|	The Viscount Palmerston
rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Henry Bruce		26 April 1864	26 June 1866	2 years and 2 months	Liberal	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color; border-top:solid 0 gray" height=20 |
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |							The Earl Russell
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Henry Lowry-Corry		26 June 1866	19 March 1867	8 months and 21 days	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color; border-bottom:solid 0 gray" |	The Earl of Derby
rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Lord Robert Montagu		19 March 1867	1 December 1868	1 year, 8 months and 12 days	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color; border-top:solid 0 gray" height=20 |
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |							Benjamin Disraeli
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	William Edward Forster		9 December 1868	17 February 1874	5 years, 2 months and 8 days	Liberal	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	William Ewart Gladstone
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Viscount Sandon		2 March 1874	4 April 1878	4 years, 1 month and 2 days	Conservative	rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Benjamin Disraeli
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Lord George Hamilton		4 April 1878	21 April 1880	2 years and 17 days	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	A. J. Mundella		3 May 1880	9 June 1885	5 years, 1 month and 6 days	Liberal	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	William Ewart Gladstone
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Edward Stanhope		24 June 1885	17 September 1885	2 months and 24 days	Conservative	rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	The Marquess of Salisbury
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Sir Henry Holland, Bt		17 September 1885	28 January 1886	4 months and 11 days	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Sir Lyon Playfair		13 February 1886	20 July 1886	5 months and 7 days	Liberal	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	William Ewart Gladstone
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Sir Henry Holland, Bt		3 August 1886	25 January 1887	5 months and 22 days	Conservative	rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	The Marquess of Salisbury
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Sir William Hart Dyke, Bt		25 January 1887	11 August 1892	5 years, 6 months and 17 days	Conservative
rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Arthur Dyke Acland		25 August 1892	21 June 1895	2 years, 9 months and 27 days	Liberal	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	William Ewart Gladstone
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |							The Earl of Rosebery
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Sir John Eldon Gorst		4 July 1895	8 August 1902	7 years, 1 month and 4 days	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	The Marquess of Salisbury (Unionist Coalition)

President of the Board of Education

Colour key (for political parties):
  Liberal Unionist   Conservative   Liberal   Labour   National Labour

Name		Portrait	Term of office		Length of term	Party	Prime Minister
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Unionist Party/meta/color" |	The Duke of Devonshire (also Lord President of the Council)		3 March 1900	8 August 1902	2 years, 5 months and 5 days	Liberal Unionist	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	The Marquess of Salisbury (Unionist Coalition)
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	The Marquess of Londonderry (also Lord President of the Council)		11 August 1902	4 December 1905	3 years, 3 months and 23 days	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Arthur Balfour (Unionist Coalition)
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Augustine Birrell		10 December 1905	23 January 1907	1 year, 1 month and 13 days	Liberal	rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Reginald McKenna		23 January 1907	12 April 1908	1 year, 2 months and 20 days	Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Walter Runciman		12 April 1908	23 October 1911	3 years, 6 months and 11 days	Liberal	rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color; border-bottom:solid 0 gray" |	H. H. Asquith
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Jack Pease		23 October 1911	25 May 1915	3 years, 7 months and 2 days	Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Arthur Henderson		25 May 1915	18 August 1916	1 year, 2 months and 24 days	Labour	rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color; border-top:solid 0 gray" |	H. H. Asquith (Coalition)
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	The Marquess of Crewe		18 August 1916	10 December 1916	3 months and 22 days	Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Herbert Fisher		10 December 1916	19 October 1922	5 years, 10 months and 9 days	Liberal	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	David Lloyd George (Coalition)
rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Edward Wood (subsequently Lord Irwin and Viscount Halifax)		24 October 1922	22 January 1924	1 year, 2 months and 29 days	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Bonar Law
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |							Stanley Baldwin
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Charles Trevelyan		22 January 1924	3 November 1924	9 months and 12 days	Labour	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Ramsay MacDonald
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Lord Eustace Percy		6 November 1924	4 June 1929	4 years, 6 months and 29 days	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Stanley Baldwin
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Sir Charles Trevelyan		7 June 1929	2 March 1931 (resigned)	1 year, 8 months and 23 days	Labour	rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Ramsay MacDonald
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Hastings Lees-Smith		2 March 1931	24 August 1931	5 months and 22 days	Labour
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Sir Donald Maclean		25 August 1931	15 June 1932 (died in office)	9 months and 21 days	Liberal	rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:National Labour Organisation/meta/color" |	Ramsay MacDonald (1st & 2nd National Min.)
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	The Lord Irwin (Viscount Halifax from 1934)		15 June 1932	7 June 1935	2 years, 11 months and 23 days	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Oliver Stanley		7 June 1935	28 May 1937	1 year, 11 months and 21 days	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Stanley Baldwin (3rd National Min.)
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	The Earl Stanhope		28 May 1937	27 October 1938	1 year, 4 months and 29 days	Conservative	rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Neville Chamberlain (4th National Min; War Coalition)
style="background-color: Template:National Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	The Earl De La Warr		27 October 1938	3 April 1940	1 year, 5 months and 7 days	National Labour
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Herwald Ramsbotham		3 April 1940	20 July 1941	1 year, 3 months and 17 days	Conservative	rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Winston Churchill (War Coalition)
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	R. A. Butler		20 July 1941	3 August 1944	3 years and 14 days (Cont. below)	Conservative

Minister of Education

Colour key (for political parties):
  Conservative   Labour

Name		Portrait	Term of office		Length of term	Party	Prime Minister
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	R. A. Butler		3 August 1944	25 May 1945	9 months and 22 days (Cont. from above)	Conservative	rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Winston Churchill (War Coalition)
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Richard Law		25 May 1945	26 July 1945	2 months and 1 day	Conservative	Winston Churchill (Caretaker Min.)
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Ellen Wilkinson		3 August 1945	6 February 1947 (died in office)	1 year, 6 months and 3 days	Labour	rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Clement Attlee
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	George Tomlinson		10 February 1947	26 October 1951	4 years, 8 months and 16 days	Labour
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Florence Horsbrugh		2 November 1951	18 October 1954	2 years, 11 months and 16 days	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color; border-bottom:solid 0 gray" |	Sir Winston Churchill
rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	David Eccles		18 October 1954	13 January 1957	2 years, 2 months and 26 days	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color; border-top:solid 0 gray" height=20 |
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |							Sir Anthony Eden
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	The Viscount Hailsham		13 January 1957	17 September 1957	8 months and 4 days	Conservative	rowspan=4 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Harold Macmillan
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Geoffrey Lloyd		17 September 1957	14 October 1959	2 years and 27 days	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	David Eccles		14 October 1959	13 July 1962	2 years, 8 months and 29 days	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color; border-bottom:solid 0 gray" height=20 |	Sir Edward Boyle, Bt		13 July 1962	1 April 1964	1 year, 8 months and 19 days	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color; border-top:solid 0 gray" |							style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Sir Alec Douglas-Home

Secretary of State for Education and Science

Colour key (for political parties):
  Conservative   Labour

Name		Portrait	Term of office		Length of term	Party	Prime Minister
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Quintin Hogg (formerly Viscount Hailsham)		1 April 1964	16 October 1964	6 months and 15 days	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Sir Alec Douglas-Home
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Michael Stewart		18 October 1964	22 January 1965	3 months and 4 days	Labour	rowspan=4 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Harold Wilson
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Anthony Crosland		22 January 1965	29 August 1967	2 years, 7 months and 7 days	Labour
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Patrick Gordon Walker		29 August 1967	6 April 1968	7 months and 8 days	Labour
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Edward Short		6 April 1968	19 June 1970	2 years, 2 months and 13 days	Labour
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Margaret Thatcher		20 June 1970	4 March 1974	3 years, 8 months and 12 days	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Edward Heath
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Reginald Prentice		5 March 1974	10 June 1975	1 year, 3 months and 5 days	Labour	rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Harold Wilson
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color; border-bottom:solid 0 gray" height=20 |	Fred Mulley		10 June 1975	10 September 1976	1 year and 3 months	Labour
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color; border-top:solid 0 gray" |							rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	James Callaghan
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Shirley Williams		10 September 1976	4 May 1979	2 years, 7 months and 24 days	Labour
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Mark Carlisle		5 May 1979	14 September 1981	2 years, 4 months and 9 days	Conservative	rowspan=5 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Margaret Thatcher
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Sir Keith Joseph, Bt		14 September 1981	21 May 1986	4 years, 8 months and 7 days	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Kenneth Baker		21 May 1986	24 July 1989	3 years, 2 months and 3 days	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	John MacGregor		24 July 1989	2 November 1990	1 year, 3 months and 9 days	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color; border-bottom:solid 0 gray" height=20 |	Kenneth Clarke		2 November 1990	10 April 1992	1 year, 5 months and 8 days	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color; border-top:solid 0 gray" |							style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	John Major

Secretary of State for Education

Colour key (for political parties):
  Conservative

Name		Portrait	Term of office		Length of term	Party	Prime Minister
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	John Patten		10 April 1992	20 July 1994	2 years, 3 months and 10 days	Conservative	rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	John Major
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Gillian Shephard		20 July 1994	5 July 1995	11 months and 15 days (Cont. below)	Conservative

Secretary of State for Education and Employment

Colour key (for political parties):
  Conservative   Labour

Name		Portrait	Term of office		Length of term	Party	Prime Minister
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Gillian Shephard		5 July 1995	2 May 1997	1 year, 9 months and 27 days (Cont. from above)	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	John Major
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	David Blunkett		2 May 1997	8 June 2001	4 years, 1 month and 6 days	Labour	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Tony Blair

Secretary of State for Education and Skills

Colour key (for political parties):
  Labour

Name		Portrait	Term of office		Length of term	Party	Prime Minister
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Estelle Morris		8 June 2001	24 October 2002 (resigned)	1 year, 4 months and 16 days	Labour	rowspan=4 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Tony Blair
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Charles Clarke		24 October 2002	15 December 2004	2 years, 1 month and 21 days	Labour
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Ruth Kelly		15 December 2004	5 May 2006	1 year, 4 months and 20 days	Labour
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Alan Johnson		5 May 2006	27 June 2007	1 year, 1 month and 23 days	Labour

Secretaries of State for Children, Schools and Families; and Innovation, Universities and Skills

In 2007, the education portfolio was divided between the Department for Children, Schools and Families (responsible for infant, primary and secondary education), and the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (responsible for further, higher and adult education). In 2009, the latter department was merged into the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.

Colour key (for political parties):
  Labour   Labour Co-operative

Sec.State for Children, Schools and Families			Sec.State for Innovation, Universities and Skills			Term of office		Length of term	Party	Prime Minister
rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Labour Co-operative/meta/color" |	Ed Balls		style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	John Denham		28 June 2007	5 June 2009	1 year, 11 months and 8 days	Labour Labour Co-op (Balls)	rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Gordon Brown
Post abolished; duties transferred to Sec.State for Business, Innovation and Skills.			5 June 2009	11 May 2010	11 months and 6 days

Secretary of State for Education

The Department for Education and the post of Secretary of State for Education were recreated in 2010.

Responsibility for higher and adult education remained with the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (Vince Cable 2010–2015, Sajid Javid 2015–2016), until reunited with the Department for Education in 2016.

Colour key (for political parties):
  Conservative

Name		Portrait	Term of office		Length of term	Party	Prime Minister
rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Michael Gove		11 May 2010	15 July 2014	4 years, 2 months and 4 days	Conservative	rowspan=4 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	David Cameron (Coalition)
Gove's tenure
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color; border-bottom:solid 0 gray" height=20 |	Nicky Morgan		15 July 2014	14 July 2016	1 year, 11 months and 29 days	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color; border-top:solid 0 gray" |							David Cameron (II)
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color; border-bottom:solid 0 gray" height=20 |	Justine Greening		14 July 2016	8 January 2018	1 year, 5 months and 25 days	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color; border-bottom:solid 0 gray" |	Theresa May (I)
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color; border-top:solid 0 gray" |							rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color; border-top:solid 0 gray" |	Theresa May (II)
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Damian Hinds		8 January 2018	24 July 2019	1 year, 6 months and 16 days	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"|	Gavin Williamson		24 July 2019	Incumbent	4 years, 10 months and 17 days*	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Boris Johnson (I & II)

* Incumbent's length of term last updated: 10 June 2024.

External links

• Department for Education
• Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS)