Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
This article lists past and present Under-Secretaries of State serving the Home Secretary of the United Kingdom.
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 - from 9 November 2017
incomplete
Parliamentary secretaries, 1940–1945
- May 1940: William Mabane (to June 1942)
- October 1940: Ellen Wilkinson (to May 1945)
Ministers of State for Home Affairs (1960–)
- October 1960: Dennis Vosper
- June 1961: David Renton
- July 1962: Earl Jellicoe
- October 1963: Lord Derwent
- October 1964: Alice Bacon
- August 1967: Lord Stonham
- October 1969: Shirley Williams
- June 1970: Richard Sharples (jointly) (to April 1972)
- June 1970: Lord Windlesham (jointly) (to March 1972)
- April 1972: Mark Carlisle (jointly) (to March 1974)
- April 1972: Viscount Colville (jointly) (to March 1974)
- March 1974: Lord Harris (jointly) (to January 1979)
- March 1974: Alex Lyon (jointly) (to April 1976)
- April 1976: Brynmor John (jointly) (to May 1979)
- January 1979: Lord Boston (jointly) (to May 1979)
- May 1979: Leon Brittan (jointly) (to January 1981)
- May 1979: Timothy Raison (jointly) (to January 1983)
- January 1981: Patrick Mayhew (jointly) (to June 1983)
- January 1983: David Waddington (jointly) (to June 1987)
- September 1984: The Lord Elton (jointly) (to March 1985)
- September 1984: Giles Shaw (jointly) (to September 1986)
- September 1986: David Mellor (jointly) (to June 1987)
- September 1986: The Earl of Caithness (jointly) (to January 1988)
- June 1987: John Patten (jointly) (to April 1992)
- January 1988: The Earl Ferrers (jointly) (to July 1994)
- October 1989: David Mellor (jointly) (to June 1990)
- July 1990: Angela Rumbold (jointly) (to April 1992)
- April 1992: Michael Jack (jointly) (to May 1993)
- April 1992: Peter Lloyd (jointly) (to July 1994)
- May 1993: David Maclean (jointly) (to May 1997)
- July 1994: Michael Forsyth (jointly) (to July 1995)
- July 1994: The Baroness Blatch (jointly) (to May 1997)
- July 1995: Ann Widdecombe (jointly) (to May 1997)
- May 1997: Alun Michael (jointly) (to October 1998)
- May 1997: Joyce Quin (jointly) (to July 1998)
- July 1998: Lord Williams of Mostyn (jointly) (to July 1999)
- October 1998: Paul Boateng (jointly) (to June 2001)
- July 1999: Charles Clarke (jointly) (to June 2001)
- July 1999: Barbara Roche (jointly) (to June 2001)
- June 2001: John Denham (jointly) (to May 2003)
- June 2001: Keith Bradley (jointly) (to May 2002)
- June 2001: Lord Rooker (jointly) (to May 2002)
- May 2002: Lord Falconer (jointly) (to June 2003)
- May 2002: Hilary Benn (jointly) (to May 2003)
- May 2002: Beverley Hughes (jointly) (to April 2004)
- June 2003: Hazel Blears (jointly) (to May 2006)
- June 2003: Baroness Scotland (jointly) (to April 2005)
- April 2004: Des Browne (jointly) (to May 2005)
- May 2005: Tony McNulty (jointly) (to May 2006)
- May 2006: Liam Byrne (jointly) (to October 2008)
- May 2006: Tony McNulty (jointly) (to October 2008)
- October 2008: Phil Woolas (jointly) (to May 2010)
- May 2010: Baroness Neville-Jones (jointly) (to May 2011)
- May 2010: Damian Green (jointly) (to July 2014)
- May 2010: Nick Herbert (jointly) (to September 2012)
- September 2012: Mark Harper (jointly) (to February 2014)
- July 2014: Mike Penning (jointly) (to July 2016)
- May 2011: Baroness Browning (jointly) (to September 2011)
- September 2011: Lord Henley (jointly) (to September 2012)
- September 2012: Jeremy Browne (jointly) (to October 2013)
- October 2013: Norman Baker (jointly) (to November 2014)
- November 2014: Lynne Featherstone (jointly) (to May 2015)
- February 2014: James Brokenshire (jointly) (to July 2016)
- May 2015: John Hayes (jointly) (to July 2016)
- May 2015: Lord Bates (jointly) (to March 2016)
- March 2016: Lord Keen of Elie (jointly) (to July 2016)
- July 2016: Ben Wallace (jointly) (to July 2019)
- July 2016: Brandon Lewis (jointly) (to January 2018)
- January 2018: Caroline Nokes (jointly) (to July 2019)
- July 2016: Robert Goodwill (jointly) (to June 2017)
- June 2017: Nick Hurd (jointly) (to July 2019)
- July 2019: Brandon Lewis (jointly) (to February 2020)
- July 2016: Baroness Williams of Trafford (jointly) (incumbent)
- July 2019: Kit Malthouse (jointly) (incumbent)
- February 2020: James Brokenshire (jointly) (incumbent)
- March 2020: Lord Greenhalgh (jointly) (incumbent)
Permanent under-secretaries, 1782–present
- March 1782: J. Bell
- April 1782: Evan Nepean
- December 1791: John King
- February 1806: J. Beckett
- June 1817: Henry Hobhouse
- July 1827: Samuel March Phillipps[1]
- 1840: H. Waddington
- 1867: (Sir) Adolphus Frederick Octavius Liddell
- June 1885: Sir H. Maine
- July 1885: Sir Godfrey Lushington
- 1895: Sir Kenelm Digby
- 1903: Sir Mackenzie Dalzell Chalmers
- 1908: Sir Edward Troup
- 1922: Sir John Anderson
- 1932: Sir Russell Scott
- 1938: Sir Alexander Maxwell
- 1948: Sir Frank Newsam
- 1957: Sir Charles Cunningham
- 1966: Sir Philip Allen
- 1972: Sir Arthur Peterson
- 1977: (Sir) Robert Armstrong
- 1979: Sir Brian Cubbon
- 1988: Sir Clive Whitmore
- 1994: Sir Richard Wilson
- 1997: Sir David Omand
- 2001: Sir John Gieve
- 2005: Sir David Normington
- 2011: Dame Helen Ghosh
- 2013: Mark Sedwill[2]
- 2017: (Sir) Philip Rutnam
- 2020: Matthew Rycroft
Notes
- ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1896). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 45. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ "Home Office boss quits over 'campaign against him'". BBC News. 29 February 2020. Retrieved 29 February 2020.