Press release

Ministerial appointments: July 2022

The Queen has been pleased to approve the following ministerial appointments.

From:
Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
Published
7 July 2022
Last updated
7 July 2022 — See all updates
This was published under the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

The Queen has been pleased to approve the following appointments:

  • Rt Hon Greg Clark MP as Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
  • Rt Hon James Cleverly MP as Secretary of State for Education
  • Rt Hon Sir Robert Buckland QC MP as Secretary of State for Wales
  • Rt Hon Kit Malthouse MP as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
  • Shailesh Vara MP as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
  • Andrew Stephenson MP as Minister without Portfolio. He will attend Cabinet.
  • Johnny Mercer MP as a Minister of State (Minister for Veterans’ Affairs) at the Cabinet Office. He will attend Cabinet.
  • Graham Stuart MP as a Minister of State at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
  • Stephen McPartland MP as a Minister of State (Minister for Security) at the Home Office
  • Tom Pursglove MP as a Minister of State jointly at the Home Office and the Ministry of Justice
  • James Heappey MP as a Minister of State at the Ministry of Defence
  • Will Quince MP as a Minister of State at the Department for Education
  • Maria Caulfield MP as a Minister of State at the Department for Health and Social Care
  • Paul Scully MP as a Minister of State at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities. He remains as Minister for London.
  • Marcus Jones MP as a Minister of State at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
  • Matt Warman MP as a Minister of State at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
  • Trudy Harrison MP as a Minister of State at the Department for Transport
  • Edward Timpson CBE MP as Solicitor General
  • Richard Fuller MP to be Economic Secretary to the Treasury
  • Rt Hon Stuart Andrew MP to be a Minister of State at the Ministry of Justice
  • Alan Mak MP to be Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury
  • Sarah Dines MP to be a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State jointly at the Ministry of Justice and the Home Office
  • Rehman Chishti MP to be a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
  • Lia Nici MP to be a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
  • Brendan Clarke-Smith MP to be a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Education
  • Andrew Griffith MP to be a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for International Trade
  • Jane Hunt MP to be a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy;
  • Karl McCartney MP to be a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Transport
  • James Morris MP to be a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Health and Social Care
  • Andrea Jenkyns MP to be a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Education
  • Simon Baynes MP to be a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State jointly at the Ministry of Justice and the Home Office
  • Steve Double MP to be a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
  • Amanda Solloway MP to be a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Home Office, and a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Equalities) at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
  • Peter Bone MP to be Deputy Leader of the House of Commons
  • Heather Wheeler MP to be a Parliamentary Secretary at the Cabinet Office
  • Guy Opperman MP to be a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Work and Pensions
  • Julie Marson MP to be a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Work and Pensions, and an Assistant Government Whip
  • Damian Collins MP to be a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
  • Michael Tomlinson MP to be Vice Chamberlain of HM Household (Government Whip)
  • Craig Whitaker MP to be a Government Whip (Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury)
  • James Duddridge MP to be a Government Whip (Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury)
  • Stuart Anderson MP to be an Assistant Government Whip
  • Joy Morrissey MP to be an Assistant Government Whip
  • Sir David Evennett MP to be an Assistant Government Whip
  • Adam Holloway MP to be an Assistant Government Whip
  • Suzanne Webb MP to be an Assistant Government Whip
  • David Morris MP to be an Assistant Government Whip

Updates to this page

Published 7 July 2022
Last updated 7 July 2022 + show all updates

  1. Added further appointments.

  2. First published.