Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury

The Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury is a junior ministerial post in the British Treasury, ranked below the First Lord of the Treasury, 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.

United Kingdom
Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury
Royal Arms as used by Her Majesty's Government
Incumbent
Kemi Badenoch
since 13 February 2020
HM Treasury
AppointerElizabeth II
on the advice of the Prime Minister
Inaugural holderPhillip Oppenheim
Formation23 July 1996
WebsiteHM Treasury

The first Exchequer Secretary was Phillip Oppenheim,[1] 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. After a period of abeyance, the office was reinstated upon Gordon Brown's accession as Prime Minister in June 2007, when Angela Eagle was appointed Exchequer Secretary. The position has been held by Kemi Badenoch since 13 February 2020.[2]

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
Key
  Conservative       Labour
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 [3]
Office not in use 1997–2007 N/A Blair Brown
Angela Eagle
MP for Wallasey		 29 June
2007		 9 June
2009		 Labour Brown Darling [4]
Kitty Ussher
MP for Burnley		 9 June
2009		 17 June
2009		 Labour [5]
Sarah McCarthy-Fry
MP for Portsmouth North		 17 June
2009		 11 May
2010		 Labour [6]
David Gauke
MP for South West Hertfordshire		 13 May
2010		 15 July
2014		 Conservative Cameron
(Coalition)		 Osborne [7]
Priti Patel
MP for Witham		 15 July
2014		 11 May
2015		 Conservative [8]
Damian Hinds
MP for East Hampshire		 12 May
2015		 13 July
2016		 Conservative Cameron
(II)		 [9]
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) [10]
Robert Jenrick
MP for Newark		 9 January
2018		 24 July
2019		 Conservative [11]
Simon Clarke
MP for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland		 27 July
2019		 13 February
2020		 Conservative Johnson Javid [12]
Kemi Badenoch
MP for Saffron Walden		 13 February
2020		 Incumbent Conservative Sunak [2]

References
  1. "Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury (Hansard)". Hansard 1803–2005. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
  2. "Kemi Badenoch MP". Gov.UK. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
  3. "Hon Phillip Oppenheim". UK Parliament. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  4. "Ms Angela Eagle MP". UK Parliament. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  5. "Kitty Ussher". UK Parliament. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  6. "Sarah McCarthy-Fry". UK Parliament. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  7. "Rt Hon David Gauke MP". UK Parliament. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  8. "Rt Hon Priti Patel MP". UK Parliament. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  9. "Rt Hon Damian Hinds MP". UK Parliament. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  10. "Andrew Jones MP". UK Parliament. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  11. "Robert Jenrick MP". UK Parliament. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  12. "Simon Clarke MP". UK Parliament. Retrieved 27 July 2019.

See also
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