Home Secretary
United Kingdom Secretary of State for the Home Department | |
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since 12 May 2010 | |
Home Office | |
Style | The Right Honourable (Formal prefix) Home Secretary Minister Madam Secretary |
Member of | British Cabinet Privy Council National Security Council |
Reports to | The Prime Minister |
Seat | Westminster, London |
Appointer | The British Monarch on advice of the Prime Minister |
Term length | No fixed term |
Inaugural holder | William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne |
Formation | 27 March 1782 |
Website | www.gov.uk |
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Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department (Home Secretary) is a senior official as one of the Great Offices of State within Her Majesty's Government and head of the Home Office. The office is a British Cabinet level position.
The Home Secretary is responsible for the internal affairs of England and Wales, and for immigration and citizenship for the United Kingdom. The remit of the Home Office also includes policing in England and Wales and matters of national security, as the Security Service, MI5, is directly accountable to the Home Secretary. Formerly, the Home Secretary was the minister responsible for prisons and probation in England and Wales; however, in 2005 those responsibilities were transferred to the newly created Ministry of Justice under the Lord Chancellor.
The current Home Secretary is The Rt Hon. Theresa May, MP, appointed on 12 May 2010 by Queen Elizabeth II on the advice of the Prime Minister, David Cameron, to serve in the Conservative-Liberal Democratic coalition government. May was reappointed by Cameron on 8 May 2015 to serve as Home Secretary in the Conservative government.
List of Home Secretaries
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Home Secretaries, 1782–1801
Home Secretaries, 1801–1900
Home Secretaries, 1900–2001
Home Secretaries, 2001–present
Name | Portrait | Term of office | Political party | Prime Minister | |||
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style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | David Blunkett | 8 June 2001 | 15 December 2004 | Labour | rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Tony Blair | |
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Charles Clarke | 15 December 2004 | 5 May 2006 | Labour | |||
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | John Reid | 5 May 2006 | 27 June 2007 | Labour | |||
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Jacqui Smith | 28 June 2007 | 5 June 2009 | Labour | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Gordon Brown | |
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Alan Johnson | 5 June 2009 | 11 May 2010 | Labour | |||
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Theresa May | 12 May 2010 | Incumbent | Conservative |
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | David Cameron (I · II) |
See also
- Cabinet (government)
- Departments of the United Kingdom Government
- Ministry of Justice
- List of British ministries
- Great Offices of State
- Shadow Home Secretary
References
- List of Home Secretaries from UKpolitics