Chief Secretary to the Treasury facts for kids

Quick facts for kids United Kingdom Chief Secretary to the Treasury
Royal Arms of His Majesty's Government
Incumbent Darren Jones since 5 July 2024
His Majesty's Treasury
Style	The Right Honourable
Reports to	Chancellor of the Exchequer Prime Minister
Nominator	Prime Minister
Appointer	The Monarch (on the advice of the Prime Minister)
Term length	At His Majesty's pleasure
Formation	8 October 1961
First holder	Henry Brooke
Salary	£121,326 per annum (2022) (including £86,584 MP salary)

The Chief Secretary to the Treasury is a ministerial office in the government of the United Kingdom and is the second most senior ministerial office in HM Treasury, after the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The office was created in 1961 to share the burden of representing HM Treasury with the chancellor.

The minister is shadowed by the Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury who sits on the Official Opposition frontbench.

History and responsibilities

Between 1961 and 2015, the holder of the office of Chief Secretary to the Treasury was of full cabinet rank. This formally made HM Treasury the only department to have more than one ministerial position of cabinet rank..

The office holder is responsible for public expenditure, including spending reviews.

List of chief secretaries to the Treasury

Chief Secretary to the Treasury

Conservative           Labour           Liberal Democrat
Chief secretary			Term of office		Party	Ministry	Chancellor
		Henry Brooke MP for Hampstead	9 October 1961	13 July 1962	Conservative	Macmillan (I & II)		Selwyn Lloyd
‍		John Boyd-Carpenter MP for Kingston-upon-Thames	13 July 1962	16 October 1964	Conservative			Reginald Maudling
						Douglas-Home
		Jack Diamond MP for Gloucester	20 October 1964	19 June 1970	Labour	Wilson (I & II)		James Callaghan
								Roy Jenkins
		Maurice Macmillan MP for Farnham	23 June 1970	7 April 1972	Conservative	Heath		Iain Macleod
								Anthony Barber
		Patrick Jenkin MP for Wanstead and Woodford	7 April 1972	8 January 1974	Conservative
		Tom Boardman MP for Leicester South West	8 January 1974	4 March 1974	Conservative
		Joel Barnett MP for Heywood and Royton	7 March 1974	4 May 1979	Labour	Wilson (III & IV)		Denis Healey
						Callaghan
		John Biffen MP for Oswestry	5 May 1979	5 January 1981	Conservative	Thatcher I		Geoffrey Howe
		Leon Brittan MP for Cleveland and Whitby	5 January 1981	11 June 1983	Conservative
		Peter Rees MP for Dover	11 June 1983	2 September 1985	Conservative	Thatcher II		Nigel Lawson
		John MacGregor MP for South Norfolk	2 September 1985	13 June 1987	Conservative
		John Major MP for Huntingdon	13 June 1987	24 July 1989	Conservative	Thatcher III
		Norman Lamont MP for Kingston-upon-Thames	24 July 1989	28 November 1990	Conservative			John Major
		David Mellor MP for Putney	28 November 1990	10 April 1992	Conservative	Major I		Norman Lamont
		Michael Portillo MP for Enfield Southgate	10 April 1992	20 July 1994	Conservative	Major II
								Kenneth Clarke
		Jonathan Aitken MP for South Thanet	20 July 1994	5 July 1995	Conservative
		William Waldegrave MP for Bristol West	5 July 1995	2 May 1997	Conservative
		Alistair Darling MP for Edinburgh Central	3 May 1997	27 July 1998	Labour	Blair I		Gordon Brown
		Stephen Byers MP for North Tyneside	27 July 1998	23 December 1998	Labour
		Alan Milburn MP for Darlington	23 December 1998	11 October 1999	Labour
		Andrew Smith MP for Oxford East	11 October 1999	29 May 2002	Labour
						Blair II
		Paul Boateng MP for Brent South	29 May 2002	6 May 2005	Labour
		Des Browne MP for Kilmarnock and Loudoun	6 May 2005	5 May 2006	Labour	Blair III
		Stephen Timms MP for East Ham	5 May 2006	28 June 2007	Labour
		Andy Burnham MP for Leigh	28 June 2007	24 January 2008	Labour	Brown		Alistair Darling
		Yvette Cooper MP for Pontefract and Castleford	24 January 2008	5 June 2009	Labour
		Liam Byrne MP for Birmingham Hodge Hill	5 June 2009	11 May 2010	Labour
		David Laws MP for Yeovil	12 May 2010	29 May 2010	Liberal Democrat	Cameron–Clegg (Con.–L.D.)		George Osborne
		Danny Alexander MP for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey	29 May 2010	8 May 2015	Liberal Democrat
		Greg Hands MP for Chelsea and Fulham	11 May 2015	14 July 2016	Conservative	Cameron II
		David Gauke MP for South West Hertfordshire	14 July 2016	11 June 2017	Conservative	May I		Philip Hammond
		Liz Truss MP for South West Norfolk	11 June 2017	24 July 2019	Conservative	May II
		Rishi Sunak MP for Richmond (Yorks)	24 July 2019	13 February 2020	Conservative	Johnson I		Sajid Javid
​						Johnson II
		Steve Barclay MP for North East Cambridgeshire	13 February 2020	15 September 2021	Conservative			Rishi Sunak
		Simon Clarke MP for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland	15 September 2021	6 September 2022	Conservative
								Nadhim Zahawi
		Chris Philp MP for Croydon South	6 September 2022	14 October 2022	Conservative	Truss		Kwasi Kwarteng
		Edward Argar MP for Charnwood	14 October 2022	25 October 2022	Conservative			Jeremy Hunt
		John Glen MP for Salisbury	25 October 2022	13 November 2023	Conservative	Sunak
		Laura Trott MP for Sevenoaks	13 November 2023	5 July 2024	Conservative
		Darren Jones MP for Bristol North West	5 July 2024	Incumbent	Labour	Starmer		Rachel Reeves

See also

• Secretary to the Treasury
• Financial Secretary to the Treasury
• Economic Secretary to the Treasury
• Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury
• Paymaster General