Press release
Ministerial Appointments: July 2024
The King has been pleased to approve the following appointments.
The King has been pleased to approve the following appointments:
- Rt Hon Keir Starmer as Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury
- Rt Hon Angela Rayner MP as Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities. She will also be Deputy Prime Minister
- Rt Hon Rachel Reeves MP as Chancellor of the Exchequer
- Rt Hon Pat McFadden MP as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
- Rt Hon David Lammy MP as Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs
- Rt Hon Yvette Cooper MP as Secretary of State for the Home Department
- Rt Hon John Healey MP as Secretary of State for Defence
- Shabana Mahmood MP as Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice
- Wes Streeting MP as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
- Bridget Phillipson MP as Secretary of State for Education
- Rt Hon Ed Miliband MP as Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero
- Liz Kendall MP as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
- Jonathan Reynolds MP as Secretary of State for Business and Trade and President of the Board of Trade
- Peter Kyle MP as Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Louise Haigh MP as Secretary of State for Transport
- Steve Reed OBE MP as Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Lisa Nandy MP as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
- Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
- Ian Murray MP as Secretary of State for Scotland
- Jo Stevens MP as Secretary of State for Wales
- Lucy Powell MP as Lord President of the Council, and Leader of the House of Common
- Rt Hon Baroness Smith of Basildon as Lord Privy Seal, and Leader of the House of Lords
- Rt Hon Sir Alan Campbell MP as Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (Chief Whip);
- Darren Jones MP as Chief Secretary to the Treasury;
- Richard Hermer KC as Attorney General*
- Sir Patrick Vallance KCB as a Minister of State (Minister for Science) in the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology *
- James Timpson OBE as a Minister of State (Minister for Prisons, Parole and Probation) in the Ministry of Justice *
- *The King has been pleased to signify His intention of conferring a Peerage of the United Kingdom for Life.
Published 5 July 2024