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A minister without portfolio is either a government minister with no specific responsibilities or a minister who does not head a particular ministry. The sinecure is particularly common in countries ruled by coalition governments and a cabinet with decision-making authority wherein a minister without portfolio, while he or she may not head any particular office or ministry, still receives a ministerial salary and has the right to cast a vote in cabinet decisions. In some countries where the executive branch is not composed of a coalition of parties and, more often, in countries with purely presidential systems of government, such as the United States, the position of minister without portfolio (or an equivalent position) is uncommon.

Australia

Willie Kelly was given the title in the Cook Ministry from June 1913 to September 1914.

Stanley Bruce was given the title of minister without portfolio when he took up his position in 1932 as the Commonwealth Minister in London. He was given the title by Lyon's Cabinet so that he could better represent the PM and his colleagues free from the limitations of a portfolio. In this case the title was a promotion and carried considerable responsibilities.[1]

Bangladesh

Bangladesh appoints ministers without portfolio during cabinet reshuffles or fresh appointments. Ministers are not usually appointed without portfolio as a coalition negotiation – all long run ministers end up with a portfolio. Suranjit Sengupta was a minister without portfolio in Sheikh Hasina's second government.[2]

Bulgaria

Canada

While the minister without portfolio is seen by some as a mere sinecure appointment, it has been a role that numerous political notables have played over time, including former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, who filled the role in a Pearson cabinet in the 1960s; John Turner also "kept a seat warm" in a Pearson cabinet. Notable Conservatives who filled the role include R. B. Bennett, and Arthur Meighen; however, Meighen served this role after he had been prime minister.

The title of minister without portfolio has been used off and on; in recent times, though, the title has fallen out of favour, and the last minister without portfolio, Gilles Lamontagne, was promoted to postmaster general in 1978. The practice has continued under the guise of ministers of state without responsibilities in the ministers' titles.

The position has also been filled on the federal or provincial level by experienced politicians near the end of their careers as a way of allowing them to counsel the government and take on projects without the burdens associated with administering a government department.

Croatia

Denmark

Three "control ministers" served as ministers without portfolio during World War I.

After the Liberation of Denmark in May 1945, the first Danish cabinet included four ministers without portfolio. Among these were Danish ambassador to the U.S. Henrik Kauffmann, who had conducted his own foreign policy throughout the war and refused to follow orders from Copenhagen as long as Denmark remained occupied by a foreign power. Kauffmann served in this capacity from 12 May to 7 November 1945. The three other holders of this title had joined the cabinet a few days before – Aksel Larsen (Communist Party of Denmark), Kr. Juul Christensen (Danish Unity) and Frode Jakobsen (Social Democrats).

Lise Østergaard held a position as minister without portfolio with special attention to foreign policy issues in Anker Jørgensen's cabinet from 26 February 1977 to 28 February 1980.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen appointed Bertel Haarder to Minister without Portfolio, but effectively Minister for European Affairs. Haarder served in this capacity from 27 November 2001 to 18 February 2005. The reason for appointing a minister without a ministry was the Danish European Union Presidency of 2002. Haarder was considered the most experienced Danish politician on European affairs.

Estonia

Germany

Since 1949, a Federal Minister for Special Affairs (Bundesminister für besondere Aufgaben) is a member of the Federal Government that does not have charge of a Federal Ministry, although some have simultaneously been Chief of the Federal Chancellor's Office.

Hungary

India

Indonesia

Since the inception of the state, Indonesia had ministers without portfolio, usually given the title Menteri Negara ('State Minister'). The number was not fixed, entirely depended on the behest of the President. Below is the list of Ministers without Portfolio in each Cabinet.

Presidential Cabinet (19 August – 14 November 1945)

First Sjahrir Cabinet (11 November 1945 – 28 February 1946)

  • Rasjidi (on religious affairs)

Third Sjahrir Cabinet (5 October 1946 – 27 July 1947)

Sixth Development Cabinet (6 June – 1 October 1997)

The cabinet was unique, with President Suharto moved the Minister of Information Harmoko to the office of State Minister of Special Affairs (Template:Lang-id) on 6 June 1997. The Ministry of Special Affairs was dissolved on 1 October 1997, following the inauguration of next-term's parliament and the appointment of Harmoko as its speaker.

Ireland

The Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act 1939 allows a Minister to be a member of the Government of Ireland who does not have charge of a Department of State, such a person to be known as a "Minister without portfolio".[6] Such a minister may be given a specific style or title. The only substantive minister without portfolio has been Frank Aiken, the Minister for the Co-ordination of Defensive Measures during World War II.[7] By the Emergency Powers Act 1939 then in force, the Minister for Defence was able to delegate some competences to him.[8][9] Such delegation is now done instead[citation needed] with Ministers of State: "junior ministers" who are not members of the government. Junior ministers can be given a right to sit at cabinet; in this case, they often known colloquially as "super-juniors". This allows the Government to circumvent the Constitutional limit of fifteen on the number of Government Ministers.

On a number of occasions a minister has been appointed to an incoming government with the title of a new Department of State. Between the date of appointment and the date of creation of the department, such a minister is formally a minister without portfolio.[10]

Title Govt Minister Appt to govt Dept created Dept
Minister for Economic Planning and Development 15th Martin O'Donoghue 8 July 1977[11] 13 December 1977[12][13] Department of Economic Planning and Development
Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform 29th Brendan Howlin 9 March 2011[14] 6 July 2011[15][16] Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
Minister for Rural and Community Development 31st Michael Ring 14 June 2017[17] 19 July 2017[18] Department of Rural and Community Development
Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science 32nd Simon Harris 27 June 2020[19] 2 August 2020 Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science

Israel

It is common practice in Israel to appoint ministers without portfolio as part of the coalition negotiations. All cabinets in recent years have had at least some such appointment. The Governance Law passed in 2013 forbade Ministers Without Portfolio effectively ending the practice, however in spite of some objections, after the 2015 elections this issue was revisited in the Knesset and it was allowed for the practice to resume. The full alphabetical list of Ministers without Portfolio since 1949 is:

Italy

In the Italian government, Ministers without Portfolio are nominated by the President of the Council of Ministers (Prime Minister) and formally appointed by the President of the Republic to lead particular departments directly under the Presidency (or Presidium) of the Council of Ministers. Unlike the office of State Undersecretary to the Presidency, who fulfils duties in the Prime Minister's remit, Ministers without Portfolio enjoy the full status of ministers but do not lead an independent ministry. Departments on equalities, European affairs and relations with regions, for example, are usually led by ministers without portfolio.

The Monti Cabinet had 6 ministers without portfolio:

The Letta Cabinet had 8 ministers without portfolio:

The Renzi Cabinet had 3 ministers without portfolio:

North Macedonia

As of 2017, ministers without portfolio (министер без ресор) are:

Malta

  • Carmelo Abela (2020–)[21]
  • Joe Mizzi (1996–1998)
  • Konrad Mizzi (2016-2017) On April 28, 2016, following the appearance of his name in the Panama Papers leaks, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat announced in a press conference at the Auberge de Castille that Konrad Mizzi was to be removed from the position of Health and Energy Minister. Mizzi would however retain the title of Minister without portfolio, working within the Office of the Prime Minister.[22][23]

Nepal

Dr. Ram Sharan Mahat.[24]

Netherlands

A minister without portfolio in the Netherlands is a minister that does not head a specific ministry, but assumes the same power and responsibilities as a minister that does. The minister is responsible for a specific part of another minister's policy field. In that sense, a minister without portfolio is comparable to a staatssecretaris (state secretary or junior minister) in Dutch politics, who also falls under another ministry and is responsible for a specific part of that minister's policy field. However, one distinct difference is that a minister without portfolio is a member of the council of ministers and can vote in it, whereas a state secretary is not. The minister for development cooperation has always been a minister without portfolio.

In the second Balkenende cabinet there were three ministers without portfolio: Agnes van Ardenne (Development Cooperation), Rita Verdonk (Integration and Immigration) and Alexander Pechtold (Government Reform and Kingdom Relations).

In the fourth Balkenende cabinet there were three ministers without portfolio: Eberhard van der Laan (Housing, Neighbourhoods and Integration), Bert Koenders (Development Cooperation) and André Rouvoet, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Youth and Family.

The second Rutte cabinet had two ministers without portfolio: Stef Blok (Housing and the Central Government Sector) and Lilianne Ploumen (Development Cooperation).

The third Rutte cabinet has four ministers without portfolio: Sigrid Kaag (Development Cooperation), Sander Dekker (Legal Protection), Martin van Rijn (Medical Care), and Arie Slob (Primary and Secondary Education and Media).

New Zealand

In the First Labour Government from 1935 Mark Fagan was a "Minister without Portfolio" from 1935 to 1939, as was David Wilson from 1939 to 1949. They were appointed to the upper house and made a "minister without portfolio" to add them to the cabinet although neither were elected to a seat in Parliament.

In the Third National Government, Keith Holyoake was made a Minister of State 1975–77 after he had retired as party leader, and in the Fourth National Government Robin Gray was made a Minister of State 1993–96 after he was replaced as Speaker (though he was also Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs). Both appointments were considered sinecures to avoid their return as 'backbenchers'.

The following were appointed to the Executive Council as Ministers without Portfolio.[25]

Key

  Liberal   Reform   United   Labour   National
†: Died in office

Name Portrait Term of Office Prime Minister
height=15 style="border-bottom:solid 0 grey; background:Template:New Zealand Liberal Party/meta/color"| James Carroll 16 March 1892 20 February 1896 style="background:Template:New Zealand Liberal Party/meta/color;"| Ballance
height=15 style="border-top:solid 0 grey; background:Template:New Zealand Liberal Party/meta/color"| style="border-bottom:solid 0 grey; background:Template:New Zealand Liberal Party/meta/color;"| Seddon
style="background:Template:New Zealand Liberal Party/meta/color;"| Alfred Cadman 21 December 1899 9 May 1901 rowspan=3 style="border-top:solid 0 grey; background:Template:New Zealand Liberal Party/meta/color;"|
style="background:Template:New Zealand Liberal Party/meta/color"| William Montgomery 19 July 1893 7 November 1895
height=15 style="border-bottom:solid 0 grey; background:Template:New Zealand Liberal Party/meta/color"| Mahuta Tāwhiao 22 May 1903 6 August 1906
height=15 style="border-top:solid 0 grey; background:Template:New Zealand Liberal Party/meta/color"| style="background:Template:New Zealand Liberal Party/meta/color;"| Hall-Jones
style="background:Template:New Zealand Liberal Party/meta/color"| Āpirana Ngata 7 January 1909 28 March 1912 style="background:Template:New Zealand Liberal Party/meta/color"| Ward
style="background:Template:New Zealand Liberal Party/meta/color"| Peter Buck 28 March 1912 10 July 1912 rowspan=2 style="background:Template:New Zealand Liberal Party/meta/color"| Mackenzie
style="background:Template:New Zealand Liberal Party/meta/color"| Thomas Buxton 28 March 1912 10 July 1912
style="background:Template:Reform Party (New Zealand)/meta/color"| Māui Pōmare 10 July 1912 3 May 1916 rowspan=2 style="border-bottom:solid 0 grey; background:Template:Reform Party (New Zealand)/meta/color"| Massey
style="background:Template:Reform Party (New Zealand)/meta/color"| William Fraser 27 July 1920 16 July 1923†
rowspan=3 style="background:Template:Reform Party (New Zealand)/meta/color"| David Guthrie 25 June 1924 31 March 1927† height=15 style="border-top:solid 0 grey; background:Template:Reform Party (New Zealand)/meta/color"|
style="background:Template:Reform Party (New Zealand)/meta/color"| Bell
height=15 style="border-bottom:solid 0 grey; background:Template:Reform Party (New Zealand)/meta/color"| Coates
style="background:Template:Reform Party (New Zealand)/meta/color"| Heaton Rhodes 18 January 1926 10 December 1928 rowspan=2 style="border-top:solid 0 grey; background:Template:Reform Party (New Zealand)/meta/color"|
style="background:Template:Reform Party (New Zealand)/meta/color"| Francis Bell 24 May 1926 25 August 1928
style="background:Template:United Party (New Zealand)/meta/color"| Sir Joseph Ward 28 May 1930 8 July 1930† rowspan=2 style="background:Template:United Party (New Zealand)/meta/color"| Forbes
style="background:Template:United Party (New Zealand)/meta/color"| Robert Masters 20 August 1930 22 September 1931
style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"| Mark Fagan 6 December 1935 18 July 1939 rowspan=2 style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"| Savage
height=15 style="border-bottom:solid 0 grey; background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"| David Wilson 18 November 1939 30 May 1940
height=15 style="border-top:solid 0 grey; background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"| rowspan=5 style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"| Fraser
style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"| Paraire Karaka Paikea 21 January 1941 6 May 1943†
style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"| Eruera Tirikatene 26 May 1943 13 December 1949
style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"| Adam Hamilton 16 July 1940 5 October 1942
style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"| Gordon Coates 16 July 1940 5 October 1942
style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"| William Polson 15 March 1950 12 December 1950 style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"| Holland
style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"| Sidney Holland 20 September 1957 12 December 1957 rowspan=2 style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"| Holyoake
style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"| David Seath 24 January 1962 20 December 1963
style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"| Hugh Watt 13 March 1975 12 December 1975 style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"| Rowling

Norway

From 2009 to 2013 Karl Eirik Schjøtt-Pedersen (Labour) was a Minister without Portfolio and Chief of Staff in the Prime Ministers Office, where his job was to co-ordinate within government.

Philippines

During the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines, then-Senate President Manuel Roxas was appointed Minister without Portfolio by the Japanese Government.[citation needed]

Portugal

Following the Carnation revolution, several politicians were made ministers without portfolio:

Serbia

Main article: Minister without portfolio (Serbia)

From 2007 to 2008, Dragan Đilas was a "minister without portfolio" in charge of the National Investment Plan.

Taiwan

In the Executive Yuan of the Republic of China, there are several such ministers, at one time. Currently, the ministers without portfolio are:[26]

Singapore

In Singapore, the appointment holder is known as a 'Minister in the Prime Minister's Office'.

Sweden

Tanzania

President Jakaya Kikwete appointed Professor Mark Mwandosya as a minister without portfolio in 2012.

Uganda

Since 2015, the cabinet list has included a minister without portfolio:

United Kingdom

United Kingdom
Minister without Portfolio
Royal Arms as used by Her Majesty's Government
Flag of the United Kingdom
since 13 February 2020
Cabinet Office
StyleThe Right Honourable
Reports toThe Prime Minister
NominatorThe Prime Minister
AppointerThe British Monarch
on the advice of the Prime Minister
Term lengthNo fixed term
Inaugural holderWilliam Cavendish
FormationJanuary 1805
WebsiteGOV.UK

In the United Kingdom, it is often a cabinet position, and is sometimes used to enable people such as the Chairman of the Conservative Party or the Chair of the Labour Party to attend cabinet meetings (if so, they hold the title of "Party chairman"). The sinecure positions of Lord Privy Seal and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster which have few responsibilities and have a higher rank in the Order of Precedence than Minister without Portfolio can also be used for similar effect.

19th century

Name Portrait Concurrent office(s) Tenure Political party Prime Minister
style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland January 1805 – February 1806 Whig style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | William Pitt the Younger
style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | William Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam October 1806 – March 1807 style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | William Grenville
(Ministry of All the Talents)
style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland 4 – 30 October 1809 Tory rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | Spencer Perceval
style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby November 1809 – June 1812 Tory (Pittite)
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | John Pratt, 2nd Earl Camden (created 1st Marquess Camden, August 1812) 8 April – December 1812 Tory
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool
style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | Henry Phipps, 1st Earl of Mulgrave January 1819 – May 1820
style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne April – July 1827 Whig rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | George Canning
style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland July – September 1827 Tory (Canningite)
style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle 22 November 1830 – 5 June 1834 Whig style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 3 September 1841 – July 1846 Conservative style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Robert Peel
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne 28 December 1852 – 21 February 1858 Whig style="background-color: Template:Peelite/meta/color" | George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen
(until February 1855)
style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | Lord John Russell February 1853 – June 1854 style="background-color: Template:Peelite/meta/color" | George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Spencer Horatio Walpole May 1867 – February 1868 Conservative style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Michael Hicks Beach 7 March 1887 – 20 February 1888 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

Edwardian and wartime

Name Portrait Concurrent office(s) Tenure Political party Prime Minister
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Unionist Party/meta/color" | Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne 25 May 1915 – December 1916 Liberal Unionist style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | H. H. Asquith
(Coalition)
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Arthur Henderson Member of the War Cabinet 10 December 1916 – 12 August 1917 Labour rowspan="9" style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | David Lloyd George
(Coalition)
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner 10 December 1916 – 18 April 1918 Conservative
style="background-color: Template:South African Party/meta/color" | Jan Smuts 22 June 1917 – 10 January 1919 South African Party
style="background-color: Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" | Edward Carson 17 July 1917 – 21 January 1918 Ulster Unionist Party (Irish Unionist)
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | George Barnes Member of the War Cabinet (until October 1919) 13 August 1917 – 27 January 1920 Labour
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Austen Chamberlain Member of the War Cabinet 18 April 1918 – 10 January 1919 Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Eric Campbell Geddes 10 January – 31 October 1919
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Laming Worthington-Evans Member of the War Cabinet (until October 1919) 10 January 1919 – 13 February 1921
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Christopher Addison 1 April – 14 July 1921 Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Anthony Eden Minister for League of Nations affairs 7 June – 22 December 1935 Conservative rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Stanley Baldwin
(Coalition)
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Eustace Percy 7 June 1935 – 31 March 1936
style="background-color: Template:National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)/meta/color" | Leslie Burgin Minister of Supply-designate 21 April – 14 July 1939 National Liberal Party style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Neville Chamberlain
(Coalition)
Maurice Hankey Member of the War Cabinet September 1939 – 10 May 1940 no party style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Neville Chamberlain
(Coalition)
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Arthur Greenwood 11 May 1940 – 22 February 1942 Labour rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Winston Churchill
(Coalition)
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | William Jowitt 30 December 1942 – 8 October 1944

Post-war

Name Portrait Concurrent office(s) Tenure Political party Prime Minister
style="background-color: Template:Labour Co-operative/meta/color" | A. V. Alexander 4 October – 20 December 1946 Labour Co-operative rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Clement Attlee
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Arthur Greenwood 17 April – 29 September 1947 Labour
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Geoffrey FitzClarence, 5th Earl of Munster 18 October 1954 – 1957 Conservative style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Winston Churchill
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Anthony Eden
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Stormont Mancroft, 2nd Baron Mancroft 11 June 1957 – 1958 rowspan="4" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Harold Macmillan
style="background-color: Template:Unionist Party (Scotland)/meta/color" | Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn, 11th Earl of Dundee 23 October 1958 – 1961 Unionist
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Percy Mills, 1st Baron Mills style="background-color: Template:House of Lords/meta/color;" | Deputy Leader of the House of Lords 9 October 1961 – 14 July 1962 Conservative
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Bill Deedes 13 July 1962 – 16 October 1964
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Alec Douglas-Home
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington style="background-color: Template:House of Lords/meta/color;" | Leader of the House of Lords 20 October 1963 – 16 October 1964
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Eric Fletcher 19 October 1964 – 6 April 1966 Labour rowspan="7" style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Harold Wilson
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Arthur Champion, Baron Champion style="background-color: Template:House of Lords/meta/color;" | Deputy Leader of the House of Lords 21 October 1964 – 7 January 1967
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Douglas Houghton 6 April 1966 – 7 January 1967
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Edward Shackleton, Baron Shackleton style="background-color: Template:House of Lords/meta/color;" | Deputy Leader of the House of Lords 7 January 1967 – 16 January 1968
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Patrick Gordon Walker 7 January – 21 August 1967
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | George Thomson 17 October 1968 – 6 October 1969
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Peter Shore 6 October 1969 – 19 June 1970
style="background-color: Template:Unionist Party (Scotland)/meta/color" | Niall Macpherson, 1st Baron Drumalbyn 15 October 1970 – 1974 Unionist rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Edward Heath
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Morys Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare 8 January – March 1974 Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | David Young, Baron Young of Graffham advising on unemployment 11 September 1984 – 3 September 1985 rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Margaret Thatcher
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Jeremy Hanley Chairman of the Conservative Party 20 July 1994 – 5 July 1995 John Major
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Brian Mawhinney 5 July 1995 – 2 May 1997
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Peter Mandelson called the "Dome Secretary" 2 May 1997 – 27 July 1998 Labour style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Tony Blair

21st century

Name Portrait Concurrent office(s) Tenure Political party Prime Minister
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Charles Clarke Labour Party Chair 9 June 2001 – October 2002 Labour rowspan="4" style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Tony Blair
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | John Reid 24 October 2002 – April 2003
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Ian McCartney 4 April 2003 – May 2006
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Hazel Blears 5 May 2006 – June 2007
no appointment 28 June 2007 – May 2010 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Gordon Brown
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Sayeeda Warsi, Baroness Warsi Co-Chairman of the Conservative Party 12 May 2010 – September 2012 Conservative rowspan="4" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | David Cameron
(Coalition)
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Grant Shapps 4 September 2012 – May 2015
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Kenneth Clarke Trade envoy 4 September 2012 – July 2014
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | John Hayes Senior Parliamentary Adviser to the Prime Minister (Cabinet Office) 28 March 2013 – July 2014
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Robert Halfon Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party 11 May 2015 – 17 July 2016 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | David Cameron
no appointment 17 July 2016 - 8 January 2018 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Theresa May
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Brandon Lewis Chairman of the Conservative Party 8 January 2018 – 24 July 2019 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | James Cleverly 24 July 2019 – 13 February 2020 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Boris Johnson
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Amanda Milling 13 February 2020 – present style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |

United States

In the United States, an individual who has great influence on government affairs without holding formal office might be described as a "minister without portfolio". Such an appellation is completely unofficial (possibly intended jokingly or disparagingly) and merely serves to underscore the extent of the individual's already-existing influence; it does not grant any new influence or power. Examples include Bernard Baruch,[28] Arthur Burns,[29] and Ivanka Trump.[30]

References

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  3. ^ a b "Just what is a minister without portfolio?". www.rediff.com. Retrieved 13 July 2018.
  4. ^ "Vajpayee reinducts Mamata Banerjee as cabinet minister without portfolio". India Today. Retrieved 13 July 2018.
  5. ^ "Congress: 'Minister without portfolio' is giving 'gyan': Congress hits back at Jaitley's blog". The Times of India.
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