Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury

United Kingdom Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury
Royal Arms as used by Her Majesty's Government
Incumbent Robert Jenrick since 9 January 2018
HM Treasury
Appointer	Elizabeth II on the advice of the Prime Minister
Inaugural holder	Phillip Oppenheim
Formation	23 July 1996
Website	HM Treasury

The Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury is a junior ministerial post in the British Treasury, ranked below the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, the Paymaster General and the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, and alongside the Economic Secretary to the Treasury. It ranks at Parliamentary Secretary level and is not a Cabinet office. Unlike the other posts of Secretary to the Treasury, it is only used occasionally, normally when the post of Paymaster General is allocated to a Minister outside the Treasury.

The office was reinstated in June 2007, when Angela Eagle was appointed Exchequer Secretary after Tessa Jowell had been appointed Paymaster General and Olympic Minister within the Cabinet Office. The previous Exchequer Secretary was Phillip Oppenheim, who held the post from 23 July 1996 to 2 May 1997, when he lost his seat in the general election that brought Tony Blair to power. Angela Eagle was replaced by Kitty Ussher in the June 2009 reshuffle, with Jowell continuing in the Paymaster General role. Ussher resigned on 17 June 2009 and was immediately replaced by Sarah McCarthy-Fry. Following the 2010 general election, the post was taken by Conservative MP David Gauke.^[1] In May 2015, Conservative MP Damian Hinds assumed the office.^[2] From 15 June 2017 to January 2018, Andrew Jones served as the Exchequer Secretary to HM Treasury.^[3] On 9 January 2018, Robert Jenrick was appointed to the post.^[4]

Responsibilities

HM Treasury

• Enterprise and productivity including small business taxation and support to the Chancellor of the Exchequer on economic reform
• Competition and better regulation
• Science, innovation and skills policy, including implementation of the 10-year science and innovation strategy and the R&D tax credit
• Regional economic policy
• Urban regeneration and social exclusion including housing, planning and planning gain supplement;
• Environmental issues including taxation of transport, international Climate Change issues including global carbon trading and EU ETS, and Energy Issues
• Taxation of oil
• Excise duties and gambling, including excise fraud and law enforcement
• Public-private partnerships including Private Finance Initiative, and Partnerships UK
• Ministerial responsibility for the Office for National Statistics, the Royal Mint and Departmental Minister for HM Treasury Group
• Support to the Chief Secretary to the Treasury on public spending issues including long-term challenges in the run up to the Comprehensive Spending Review and selected Cabinet Committees
• Assist where necessary on European issues
• Working with the Financial Secretary to the Treasury on the Finance Bill

Responsibility for procurement policy and the former Office of Government Commerce was transferred to the Cabinet Office in 2011.

List of Exchequer Secretaries

Portrait		Name	Term of office		Party	Prime Minister		Chancellor	Ref.
		Phillip Oppenheim MP for Amber Valley	23 July 1996	2 May 1997	Conservative		Major	Clarke	[5]
Office not in use			1997–2007		N/A		Blair	Brown
		Angela Eagle MP for Wallasey	29 June 2007	9 June 2009	Labour		Brown	Darling	[6]
		Kitty Ussher MP for Burnley	9 June 2009	17 June 2009	Labour				[7]
		Sarah McCarthy-Fry MP for Portsmouth North	17 June 2009	11 May 2010	Labour				[8]
		David Gauke MP for South West Hertfordshire	13 May 2010	15 July 2014	Conservative		Cameron (Coalition)	Osborne	[9]
		Priti Patel MP for Witham	15 July 2014	11 May 2015	Conservative				[10]
		Damian Hinds MP for East Hampshire	12 May 2015	13 July 2016	Conservative		Cameron (II)		[11]
Office not in use			2016–2017		N/A		May (I)	Hammond
		Andrew Jones MP for Harrogate and Knaresborough	15 June 2017	8 January 2018	Conservative		May (II)		[12]
		Robert Jenrick MP for Newark	9 January 2018	Incumbent	Conservative				[13]

References

See also

• Secretary to the Treasury