Chief Secretary to the Treasury

Chief Secretary to the Treasury
Chief Secretary to the Treasury
	Royal Arms of Her Majesty's Government
	Incumbent; Rishi Sunak; since 24 July 2019
	Her Majesty's Treasury
Style	The Right Honourable
Reports to	Chancellor of the Exchequer
Appointer	The Monarch; on advice of the Prime Minister
Term length	At Her Majesty’s Pleasure
Formation	8 October 1961
First holder	Henry Brooke
Website	www.hm-treasury.gov.uk

The Chief Secretary to the Treasury is the third most senior ministerial position in HM Treasury, after the First Lord of the Treasury and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. It was created in 1961, to share the burden of representing the Treasury with the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

History and responsibilities

Between 1961 and 2015 the holder of the post of Chief Secretary to the Treasury was automatically a member of the Cabinet. This formally made the Treasury the only Department to have three ministerial positions automatically of Cabinet rank and the only department still to have more than one ministerial position of cabinet rank.^[1]^[2]

Since 2015 the status of the Chief Secretary to the Treasury has been reduced to an "also attending Cabinet" role.

The position's responsibilities include negotiating with departments about budget allocations, public sector pay, and procurement policy.

List of Chief Secretaries to the Treasury

Chief Secretary to the Treasury
Conservative Labour Liberal Democrat
Portrait		Name	Term of office		Party	Ministry	Chancellor		Ref.
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|		Henry Brooke MP for Hampstead	9 October 1961	13 July 1962	Conservative	Macmillan (I & II)	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Selwyn Lloyd	^[3]
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color; border:none" \|‍		John Boyd-Carpenter MP for Kingston-upon-Thames	13 July 1962	16 October 1964	Conservative	Macmillan (I & II)	rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Reginald Maudling	^[4]
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color; border:none" \|		John Boyd-Carpenter MP for Kingston-upon-Thames	13 July 1962	16 October 1964	Conservative	Douglas-Home		Reginald Maudling	^[4]
rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|		Jack Diamond MP for Gloucester	20 October 1964	19 June 1970	Labour	Wilson (I & II)	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	James Callaghan	^[5]
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|		Jack Diamond MP for Gloucester	20 October 1964	19 June 1970	Labour	Wilson (I & II)	Roy Jenkins		^[5]
rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|		Maurice Macmillan MP for Farnham	23 June 1970	7 April 1972	Conservative	Heath	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Iain Macleod	^[6]
rowspan=3 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|		Maurice Macmillan MP for Farnham	23 June 1970	7 April 1972	Conservative		Anthony Barber		^[6]
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|		Patrick Jenkin MP for Wanstead and Woodford	7 April 1972	8 January 1974	Conservative			^[7]
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	File:The Lord Boardman.jpg	Tom Boardman MP for Leicester South West	8 January 1974	4 March 1974	Conservative			^[8]
rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|		Joel Barnett MP for Heywood and Royton	7 March 1974	4 May 1979	Labour	Wilson (III & IV)	rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Denis Healey	^[9]
Callaghan		Joel Barnett MP for Heywood and Royton	7 March 1974	4 May 1979	Labour			Denis Healey	^[9]
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|		John Biffen MP for Oswestry	5 May 1979	5 January 1981	Conservative	Thatcher I	rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Geoffrey Howe	^[10]
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|		Leon Brittan MP for Cleveland and Whitby	5 January 1981	11 June 1983	Conservative	Thatcher I	^[11]	Geoffrey Howe
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|		Peter Rees MP for Dover	11 June 1983	2 September 1985	Conservative	Thatcher II	rowspan=3 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Nigel Lawson	^[12]
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|		John MacGregor MP for South Norfolk	2 September 1985	13 June 1987	Conservative	Thatcher II	^[13]
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|		John Major MP for Huntingdon	13 June 1987	24 July 1989	Conservative	Thatcher III	^[14]
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|		Norman Lamont MP for Kingston-upon-Thames	24 July 1989	28 November 1990	Conservative	Thatcher III	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	John Major	^[15]
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|		David Mellor MP for Putney	28 November 1990	10 April 1992	Conservative	Major I	rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Norman Lamont	^[16]
rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|		Michael Portillo MP for Enfield Southgate	10 April 1992	20 July 1994	Conservative	Major II	^[17]	Norman Lamont
rowspan=3 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|		Michael Portillo MP for Enfield Southgate	10 April 1992	20 July 1994	Conservative		^[17]	Kenneth Clarke
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|		Jonathan Aitken MP for South Thanet	20 July 1994	5 July 1995	Conservative		^[18]
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|		William Waldegrave MP for Bristol West	5 July 1995	2 May 1997	Conservative		^[19]
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|		Alistair Darling MP for Edinburgh Central	3 May 1997	27 July 1998	Labour	Blair (I–III)	rowspan=7 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Gordon Brown	^[20]
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|		Stephen Byers MP for North Tyneside	27 July 1998	23 December 1998	Labour		^[21]
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|		Alan Milburn MP for Darlington	23 December 1998	11 October 1999	Labour		^[22]
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|		Andrew Smith MP for Oxford East	11 October 1999	29 May 2002	Labour		^[23]
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|		Paul Boateng MP for Brent South	29 May 2002	6 May 2005	Labour		^[24]
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|		Des Browne MP for Kilmarnock and Loudoun	6 May 2005	5 May 2006	Labour		^[25]
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|		Stephen Timms MP for East Ham	5 May 2006	27 June 2007	Labour		^[26]
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|		Andy Burnham MP for Leigh	28 June 2007	24 January 2008	Labour	Brown	rowspan=3 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Alistair Darling	^[27]
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|		Yvette Cooper MP for Pontefract and Castleford	24 January 2008	5 June 2009	Labour		^[28]
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|		Liam Byrne MP for Birmingham Hodge Hill	5 June 2009	11 May 2010	Labour		^[29]
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democrats (UK)/meta/color" \|		David Laws MP for Yeovil	12 May 2010	29 May 2010	Liberal Democrat	Cameron–Clegg (Con.–L.D.)	rowspan=3 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	George Osborne	^[30]
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democrats (UK)/meta/color" \|		Danny Alexander MP for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey	29 May 2010	7 May 2015	Liberal Democrat	Cameron–Clegg (Con.–L.D.)	^[31]
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|		Greg Hands MP for Chelsea and Fulham	11 May 2015	14 July 2016	Conservative	Cameron II	^[32]
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|		David Gauke MP for South West Hertfordshire	14 July 2016	11 June 2017	Conservative	May I	rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Philip Hammond	^[33]
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|		Elizabeth Truss MP for South West Norfolk	11 June 2017	24 July 2019	Conservative	May II	^[34]	Philip Hammond
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|		Rishi Sunak MP for Richmond (Yorks)	24 July 2019	Incumbent	Conservative	Johnson^{[disambiguation needed]}	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Sajid Javid	^[35]

References

^ F N Forman; N D J Baldwin (2007), Mastering British Politics (5th ed.), Palgrave Macmillan
^ W H Greenleaf (1983), The British Political Tradition: Volume III, Part One, Much Governed Nation, Routledge
^ "Mr Henry Brooke". Hansard 1803–2005. UK Parliament. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
^ "Mr John Boyd-Carpenter". Hansard 1803–2005. UK Parliament. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
^ "Mr Jack Diamond". Hansard 1803–2005. UK Parliament. 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". Hansard 1803–2005. UK Parliament. 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". Hansard 1803–2005. UK Parliament. 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.

[1] F N Forman; N D J Baldwin (2007), Mastering British Politics (5th ed.), Palgrave Macmillan

[2] W H Greenleaf (1983), The British Political Tradition: Volume III, Part One, Much Governed Nation, Routledge

[3] "Mr Henry Brooke". Hansard 1803–2005. UK Parliament. Retrieved 6 October 2017.

[4] "Mr John Boyd-Carpenter". Hansard 1803–2005. UK Parliament. Retrieved 6 October 2017.

[5] "Mr Jack Diamond". Hansard 1803–2005. UK Parliament. Retrieved 6 October 2017.

[6] "Rt Hon Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden". UK Parliament. Retrieved 6 October 2017.

[7] "Lord Jenkin of Roding". UK Parliament. Retrieved 6 October 2017.

[8] "Mr Thomas Boardman". Hansard 1803–2005. UK Parliament. Retrieved 6 October 2017.

[9] "Lord Barnett". UK Parliament. Retrieved 6 October 2017.

[10] "Rt Hon John Biffen". UK Parliament. Retrieved 6 October 2017.

[11] "Lord Brittan of Spennithorne". UK Parliament. Retrieved 6 October 2017.

[12] "Mr Peter Rees". Hansard 1803–2005. UK Parliament. Retrieved 6 October 2017.

[13] "Lord MacGregor of Pulham Market". UK Parliament. Retrieved 5 October 2017.

[14] "Rt Hon John Major". UK Parliament. Retrieved 5 October 2017.

[15] "Lord Lamont of Lerwick". UK Parliament. Retrieved 5 October 2017.

[16] "Rt Hon David Mellor". UK Parliament. Retrieved 5 October 2017.

[17] "Rt Hon Michael Portillo". UK Parliament. Retrieved 5 October 2017.

[18] "Jonathan Aitken". UK Parliament. Retrieved 5 October 2017.

[19] "Lord Waldegrave of North Hill". UK Parliament. Retrieved 5 October 2017.

[20] "Lord Darling of Roulanish". UK Parliament. Retrieved 5 October 2017.

[21] "Mr Stephen Byers". UK Parliament. Retrieved 5 October 2017.

[22] "Mr Alan Milburn". UK Parliament. Retrieved 5 October 2017.

[23] "Rt Hon Andrew Smith". UK Parliament. Retrieved 5 October 2017.

[24] "Lord Boateng". UK Parliament. Retrieved 5 October 2017.

[25] "Lord Browne of Ladyton". UK Parliament. Retrieved 5 October 2017.

[26] "Rt Hon Stephen Timms MP". UK Parliament. Retrieved 5 October 2017.

[27] "Rt Hon Andy Burnham". UK Parliament. Retrieved 5 October 2017.

[28] "Rt Hon Yvette Cooper MP". UK Parliament. Retrieved 5 October 2017.

[29] "Rt Hon Liam Byrne MP". UK Parliament. Retrieved 5 October 2017.

[30] "Rt Hon David Laws". UK Parliament. Retrieved 5 October 2017.

[31] "Rt Hon Danny Alexander". UK Parliament. Retrieved 5 October 2017.

[32] "Rt Hon Greg Hands MP". UK Parliament. Retrieved 5 October 2017.

[33] "Rt Hon David Gauke MP". UK Parliament. Retrieved 5 October 2017.

[34] "Rt Hon Elizabeth Truss MP". UK Parliament. Retrieved 5 October 2017.

[35] "Rishi Sunak MP". UK Parliament. Retrieved 25 July 2019.

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v t e UK cabinet portfolios
Cabinet of the United Kingdom
Cabinet ministers	Prime Minister / First Lord of the Treasury / Minister for the Union / Minister for the Civil Service Deputy Prime Minister / Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster / Secretary of State in the Cabinet Office. Chancellor of the Exchequer Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Secretary Home Secretary Defence Secretary Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary Justice Secretary / Lord Chancellor Science, Innovation and Technology Secretary Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Secretary / Minister for Intergovernmental Relations Health and Social Care Secretary Lord President of the Council / Leader of the House of Commons Leader of the House of Lords / Lord Privy Seal Business and Trade Secretary / President of the Board of Trade / Minister for Women and Equalities Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Secretary Work and Pensions Secretary Education Secretary Transport Secretary Culture, Media and Sport Secretary Minister without portfolio Northern Ireland Secretary Scottish Secretary Welsh Secretary
Also attending Cabinet	Chief Whip / Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury Chief Secretary to the Treasury Attorney General for England and Wales / Advocate General for Northern Ireland Minister for the Cabinet Office / Paymaster General Minister of State for Immigration Minister of State for Security Minister of State for Development and Africa Minister of State for the Armed Forces and Veterans

v t e HM Treasury
Headquarters: 1, Horse Guards Road
Ministers	First Lord of the Treasury Chancellor of the Exchequer / Second Lord of the Treasury Chief Secretary to the Treasury Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury* Paymaster General Financial Secretary to the Treasury & City Minister Economic Secretary to the Treasury Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury Commercial Secretary to the Treasury Lords Commissioners of the Treasury*
Civil Service	Permanent Secretary to the Treasury
Non-ministerial departments	Government Actuary's Department National Savings and Investments
Executive agencies	Debt Management Office Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt Government Internal Audit Agency National Infrastructure Commission
Executive non-departmental public bodies	Office for Budget Responsibility Reclaim Fund
Other bodies	Crown Estate Infrastructure and Projects Authority Office of Tax Simplification Royal Mint UK Government Investments
Topics	Autumn Budget Budget day Spring Statement
Offices in italics are not currently in use * Sinecure offices nominally associated with the Treasury de facto held by Government Whips

v t e Ministers of HM Treasury
Cabinet ministers	Rishi Sunak (First Lord of the Treasury and Prime Minister) Jeremy Hunt (Second Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer)
Ministers also attending Cabinet	Laura Trott (Chief Secretary to the Treasury) John Glen (Paymaster General)
Junior ministers	Nigel Huddleston (Financial Secretary to the Treasury & City Minister) Bim Afolami (Economic Secretary to the Treasury) Gareth Davies (Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury)
* also attending Cabinet

History and responsibilities

List of Chief Secretaries to the Treasury

See also

References