Chief Secretary to the Treasury

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.

Chief Secretary to the Treasury
Royal Arms of Her Majesty's Government
Incumbent
Stephen Barclay
since 13 February 2020
Her Majesty's Treasury
StyleThe Right Honourable
Reports toChancellor of the Exchequer and Prime Minister
AppointerThe Monarch
on advice of the Prime Minister
Term lengthAt Her Majesty’s Pleasure
Formation8 October 1961
First holderHenry Brooke
Websitewww.hm-treasury.gov.uk
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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.
Henry Brooke
MP for Hampstead		 9 October
1961		 13 July
1962		 Conservative Macmillan
(I & II)		 Selwyn Lloyd [3]
‍ John Boyd-Carpenter
MP for Kingston-upon-Thames		 13 July
1962		 16 October
1964		 Conservative Reginald Maudling [4]
Douglas-Home
Jack Diamond
MP for Gloucester		 20 October
1964		 19 June
1970		 Labour Wilson
(I & II)		 James Callaghan [5]
Roy Jenkins
Maurice Macmillan
MP for Farnham		 23 June
1970		 7 April
1972		 Conservative Heath Iain Macleod [6]
Anthony Barber
Patrick Jenkin
MP for Wanstead and Woodford		 7 April
1972		 8 January
1974		 Conservative [7]
Tom Boardman
MP for Leicester South West		 8 January
1974		 4 March
1974		 Conservative [8]
Joel Barnett
MP for Heywood and Royton		 7 March
1974		 4 May
1979		 Labour Wilson
(III & IV)		 Denis Healey [9]
Callaghan
John Biffen
MP for Oswestry		 5 May
1979		 5 January
1981		 Conservative Thatcher I Geoffrey Howe [10]
Leon Brittan
MP for Cleveland and Whitby		 5 January
1981		 11 June
1983		 Conservative [11]
Peter Rees
MP for Dover		 11 June
1983		 2 September
1985		 Conservative Thatcher II Nigel Lawson [12]
John MacGregor
MP for South Norfolk		 2 September
1985		 13 June
1987		 Conservative [13]
John Major
MP for Huntingdon		 13 June
1987		 24 July
1989		 Conservative Thatcher III [14]
Norman Lamont
MP for Kingston-upon-Thames		 24 July
1989		 28 November
1990		 Conservative John Major [15]
David Mellor
MP for Putney		 28 November
1990		 10 April
1992		 Conservative Major I Norman Lamont [16]
Michael Portillo
MP for Enfield Southgate		 10 April
1992		 20 July
1994		 Conservative Major II [17]
Kenneth Clarke
Jonathan Aitken
MP for South Thanet		 20 July
1994		 5 July
1995		 Conservative [18]
William Waldegrave
MP for Bristol West		 5 July
1995		 2 May
1997		 Conservative [19]
Alistair Darling
MP for Edinburgh Central		 3 May
1997		 27 July
1998		 Labour Blair
(I–III)		 Gordon Brown [20]
Stephen Byers
MP for North Tyneside		 27 July
1998		 23 December
1998		 Labour [21]
Alan Milburn
MP for Darlington		 23 December
1998		 11 October
1999		 Labour [22]
Andrew Smith
MP for Oxford East		 11 October
1999		 29 May
2002		 Labour [23]
Paul Boateng
MP for Brent South		 29 May
2002		 6 May
2005		 Labour [24]
Des Browne
MP for Kilmarnock and Loudoun		 6 May
2005		 5 May
2006		 Labour [25]
Stephen Timms
MP for East Ham		 5 May
2006		 27 June
2007		 Labour [26]
Andy Burnham
MP for Leigh		 28 June
2007		 24 January
2008		 Labour Brown Alistair Darling [27]
Yvette Cooper
MP for Pontefract and Castleford		 24 January
2008		 5 June
2009		 Labour [28]
Liam Byrne
MP for Birmingham Hodge Hill		 5 June
2009		 11 May
2010		 Labour [29]
David Laws
MP for Yeovil		 12 May
2010		 29 May
2010		 Liberal Democrat Cameron–Clegg
(Con.–L.D.)		 George Osborne [30]
Danny Alexander
MP for Inverness, Nairn,
Badenoch and Strathspey		 29 May
2010		 7 May
2015		 Liberal Democrat [31]
Greg Hands
MP for Chelsea and Fulham		 11 May
2015		 14 July
2016		 Conservative Cameron II [32]
David Gauke
MP for South West Hertfordshire		 14 July
2016		 11 June
2017		 Conservative May I Philip Hammond [33]
Elizabeth Truss
MP for South West Norfolk		 11 June
2017		 24 July
2019		 Conservative May II [34]
Rishi Sunak
MP for Richmond (Yorks)		 24 July
2019		 13 February
2020		 Conservative Johnson I Sajid Javid [35]
​ Johnson II
Stephen Barclay
MP for North East Cambridgeshire		 13 February
2020		 Incumbent Conservative Rishi Sunak [36]

See also

References
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  2. W H Greenleaf (1983), The British Political Tradition: Volume III, Part One, Much Governed Nation, Routledge
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  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.
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  15. "Lord Lamont of Lerwick". UK Parliament. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
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  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.
  36. "Rt Hon Steve Barclay MP". UK Parliament. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
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