Minister of State for Transport
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The Minister of State for Rail is a mid-level ministerial position in the Department for Transport of the Government of the United Kingdom. The minister is deputy to the Secretary of State for Transport.
United Kingdom Minister of State for Rail and HS2 | |
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since 8 July 2024 | |
Department for Transport | |
Style | Minister |
Reports to | Secretary of State for Transport |
Nominator | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom |
Appointer | The King (on advice of the Prime Minister) |
Term length | At His Majesty's pleasure |
First holder | Lynda Chalker |
Ministers of State for Transport
editName (Cabinet status) |
Portrait | Term of office | Political party | P.M. | Transp.Sec. | |||
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Lynda Chalker | 18 October 1983 | 10 January 1986 | Conservative | Thatcher | ||||
David Mitchell | 23 January 1986 | 25 July 1988 | ||||||
Michael Portillo | 25 July 1988 | 4 May 1990 | ||||||
Roger Freeman | 4 May 1990 | 20 July 1994 | ||||||
The Lord Brabazon of Tara | 23 July 1990 | 14 April 1992 | ||||||
The Earl of Caithness | 14 April 1992 | 11 January 1994 | Major | Rifkind MacGregor Mawhinney Young | ||||
John Watts | 20 July 1994 | 2 May 1997 | ||||||
Gavin Strang (in Cabinet) |
2 May 1997 | 18 June 1998 | Labour | Blair | Prescott (DPM, SSETR) | |||
John Reid (attended Cabinet) |
27 July 1998 | 17 May 1999 | ||||||
Helen Liddell | 17 May 1999 | 29 July 1999 | ||||||
The Lord Macdonald of Tradeston (attended Cabinet) |
29 July 1999 | 8 June 2001 | ||||||
John Spellar (attended Cabinet) |
8 June 2001 | 12 June 2003 | Byers (SSTLR) | |||||
Darling | ||||||||
Kim Howells | 12 June 2003 | 10 September 2004 | ||||||
Tony McNulty | 10 September 2004 | 9 May 2005 | ||||||
Stephen Ladyman | 9 May 2005[1] | 28 June 2007 | ||||||
Alexander | ||||||||
Rosie Winterton | 28 June 2007 | 3 October 2008 | Brown | Kelly | ||||
The Lord Adonis | 3 October 2008 | 5 June 2009 | Hoon | |||||
Sadiq Khan (attended Cabinet when his responsibilities were on the agenda) |
9 June 2009[2][3] | 11 May 2010 | Adonis | |||||
Theresa Villiers | 12 May 2010 | 4 September 2012 | Conservative | Cameron | Hammond | |||
Simon Burns | 5 September 2012 | 5 October 2013 | McLoughlin | |||||
The Baroness Kramer | 5 October 2013 | 8 May 2015 | Liberal Democrats | |||||
John Hayes | 15 July 2014 | 11 May 2015 | Conservative | |||||
Robert Goodwill | 11 May 2015 | 16 July 2016 | ||||||
John Hayes | 16 July 2016 | 9 January 2018 | May | Grayling | ||||
Jo Johnson | 9 January 2018 | 9 November 2018 | ||||||
Jesse Norman | 12 November 2018 | 23 May 2019 | ||||||
Michael Ellis | 23 May 2019 | 24 July 2019 | ||||||
George Freeman | 26 July 2019 | 13 February 2020 | Johnson | Shapps | ||||
Chris Heaton-Harris | 25 July 2019 | 19 December 2021 | ||||||
Andrew Stephenson | 13 February 2020 | 7 July 2022 | ||||||
Wendy Morton[a] | 19 December 2021 | 6 September 2022 | ||||||
Trudy Harrison[b] | 7 July 2022 | 7 September 2022 | ||||||
Kevin Foster | 7 September 2022 | 26 October 2022 | Truss | Trevelyan | ||||
Lucy Frazer | 8 September 2022 | 26 October 2022 | ||||||
Minister of State for Decarbonisation and Technology | ||||||||
Jesse Norman | 26 October 2022 | 13 November 2023 | Sunak | Harper | ||||
Minister of State for Rail and HS2 | ||||||||
Huw Merriman | 27 October 2022 | 5 July 2024 | ||||||
Minister of State for Rail | ||||||||
The Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill | 8 July 2024 | Incumbent | Labour | Starmer | Haigh |
References
edit- ^ National Archive: Department for Transport biography of Stephen Ladyman
- ^ "Sadiq Khan, Former MP, Tooting, profile", www.theyworkforyou.com, TheyWorkForYou, retrieved 21 May 2017
- ^ Banerjee, Subhajit (7 June 2009). "Minister appointment on Twitter". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 11 June 2009. Retrieved 7 June 2011.