Press release

Ministerial Appointments: September - October 2022

The following government appointments were made September - October 2022.

From:
Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
Published
6 September 2022
Last updated
10 October 2022 — See all updates

Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service, and Minister for the Union

  • Rt Hon Elizabeth Truss MP

Department of Health and Social Care

  • Deputy Prime Minister, and Secretary of State for Health and Social Care – Rt Hon Dr Thérèse Coffey MP
  • Minister of State – Rt Hon Robert Jenrick MP
  • Minister of State – Will Quince MP
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – Dr Caroline Johnson MP
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – Neil O’Brien MP
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – Nick Markham CBE*

HM Treasury

  • Chancellor of the Exchequer – Rt Hon Kwasi Kwarteng MP
  • Chief Secretary to the Treasury – Rt Hon Chris Philp MP**
  • Minister of State (Economic Secretary to the Treasury) – Richard Fuller MP*
  • Minister of State (Financial Secretary to the Treasury) – Andrew Griffith MP*
  • Parliamentary Secretary (Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury) – Felicity Buchan MP†

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

  • Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth and Development Affairs – Rt Hon James Cleverly MP
  • Minister of State (Minister for Development) – Rt Hon Vicky Ford MP**
  • Minister of State – Leo Docherty MP
  • Minister of State – Rt Hon Jesse Norman MP
  • Minister of State – Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
  • Minister of State – Rt Hon Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park*
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – Gillian Keegan MP

Home Office

  • Secretary of State for the Home Department – Rt Hon Suella Braverman KC MP
  • Minister of State (Minister for Security) – Rt Hon Tom Tugendhat MBE MP**
  • Minister of State – Tom Pursglove MP
  • Minister of State – Jeremy Quin MP
  • Minister of State – Simon Murray
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – Mims Davies MP
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – Lord Sharpe of Epsom OBE

Ministry of Defence

  • Secretary of State for Defence – Rt Hon Ben Wallace MP
  • Minister of State (Minister for the Armed Forces and Veterans) – Rt Hon James Heappey MP**
  • Minister of State – Rt Hon Alec Shelbrooke MP
  • Minister of State – Baroness Goldie DL*
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – Sarah Atherton MP

Ministry of Justice

  • Lord Chancellor, and Secretary of State for Justice – Rt Hon Brandon Lewis CBE MP
  • Minister of State – Rachel Maclean MP
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – Rob Butler MP
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – Gareth Johnson MP
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – Mike Freer MP
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – Lord Bellamy KC*

Cabinet Office

  • Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Minister for Intergovernmental Relations, and Minister for Equalities – Rt Hon Nadhim Zahawi MP
  • COP26 President – Rt Hon Alok Sharma MP
  • Minister without Portfolio – Rt Hon Jake Berry MP*
  • Paymaster General, and Minister for the Cabinet Office – Rt Hon Edward Argar MP**
  • Minister of State – Baroness Neville-Rolfe DBE CMG*
  • Minister of State – Dominic Johnson CBE (jointly with the Department for International Trade)*
  • Parliamentary Secretary – Brendan Clarke-Smith MP
  • Parliamentary Secretary (Minister for Women) – Katherine Fletcher MP (jointly with the Department for Transport)
  • Parliamentary Secretary – Baroness Stedman–Scott OBE DL (jointly with the Department for Work and Pensions)

Office of the Leader of the House of Commons

  • Lord President of the Council, and Leader of the House of Commons – Rt Hon Penny Mordaunt MP

Office of the Leader of the House of Lords

  • Lord Privy Seal, and Leader of the House of Lords – Rt Hon Lord True CBE
  • Minister of State (Deputy Leader of the House of Lords) – Rt Hon Earl Howe GBE*

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

  • Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy – Rt Hon Jacob Rees-Mogg MP
  • Minister of State (Minister for Climate) – Rt Hon Graham Stuart MP**
  • Minister of State – Jackie Doyle-Price MP
  • Minister of State – Nusrat Ghani MP
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – Dean Russell MP
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – Lord Callanan

Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

  • Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, and Minister for the North – Rt Hon Simon Clarke MP
  • Minister of State, (Minister for London) – Paul Scully MP
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – Dehenna Davison MP
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – Lee Rowley MP
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – Rt Hon Andrew Stephenson MP
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – Baroness Scott of Bybrook OBE

Department for International Trade

  • Secretary of State for International Trade and President of the Board of Trade – Rt Hon Kemi Badenoch MP
  • Minister of State – Rt Hon Greg Hands MP

  • Minister of State – James Duddridge MP

  • Minister of State – Dominic Johnson CBE (jointly with the Cabinet Office)*
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – Marcus Fysh MP

Department for Work and Pensions

  • Secretary of State for Work and Pensions – Rt Hon Chloe Smith MP
  • Minister of State – Victoria Prentis MP
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – Alex Burghart MP
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – Claire Coutinho MP
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – Baroness Stedman–Scott OBE DL (jointly with the Cabinet Office)

Department for Education

  • Secretary of State for Education – Rt Hon Kit Malthouse MP
  • Minister of State – Kelly Tolhurst MP
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – Jonathan Gullis MP
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – Andrea Jenkyns MP
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – Baroness Barran MBE*

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

  • Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs – Rt Hon Ranil Jayawardena MP
  • Minister of State - Rt Hon Mark Spencer MP
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – Trudy Harrison MP
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – Scott Mann MP
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – Rt Hon Lord Benyon*

Department for Transport

  • Secretary of State for Transport – Rt Hon Anne-Marie Trevelyan MP
  • Minister of State – Kevin Foster MP
  • Minister of State – Rt Hon Lucy Frazer KC MP
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – Katherine Fletcher MP (jointly with the Cabinet Office)
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – Baroness Vere of Norbiton

Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

  • Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport – Rt Hon Michelle Donelan MP
  • Minister of State – Julia Lopez MP
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – Rt Hon Stuart Andrew MP
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – Damian Collins MP
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – Lord Kamall

Northern Ireland Office

  • Secretary of State for Northern Ireland – Rt Hon Chris Heaton-Harris MP
  • Minister of State – Steve Baker MP
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – Lord Caine*

Scotland Office

  • Secretary of State for Scotland – Rt Hon Alister Jack MP
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – David Duguid MP
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – Lord Offord of Garvel*

Wales Office

  • Secretary of State for Wales – Rt Hon Sir Robert Buckland KC MP
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – David TC Davies MP

Whips – House of Commons

  • Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (Chief Whip) – Rt Hon Wendy Morton MP**
  • Treasurer of HM Household (Deputy Chief Whip) – Craig Whittaker MP
  • Comptroller of HM Household (Government Whip) – Rebecca Harris MP
  • Vice Chamberlain of HM Household (Government Whip) – Jo Churchill MP

Junior Lords of the Treasury

  • Government Whip (Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury) – Rt Hon Sir David Evennett MP
  • Government Whip (Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury) – Amanda Solloway MP
  • Government Whip (Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury) – Nigel Huddleston MP
  • Government Whip (Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury) – Sarah Dines MP
  • Government Whip (Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury) – Adam Holloway MP

Assistant Whips (Commons)

  • Assistant Government Whip – Stuart Anderson MP
  • Assistant Government Whip – Darren Henry MP
  • Assistant Government Whip – Mark Jenkinson MP
  • Assistant Government Whip – Damien Moore MP
  • Assistant Government Whip – Joy Morrissey MP
  • Assistant Government Whip – Lia Nici MP
  • Assistant Government Whip – Jacob Young MP

Whips – House of Lords

  • Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms (Lords Chief Whip) – Rt Hon Baroness Williams of Trafford
  • Captain of The King’s Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard (Deputy Chief Whip) – Earl of Courtown

Baronesses and Lords in Waiting

  • Baroness in Waiting – Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist
  • Lord in Waiting – Lord Davies of Gower
  • Lord in Waiting – Lord Harlech
  • Lord in Waiting – Viscount Younger of Leckie

Law Officers

  • Attorney General – Rt Hon Michael Ellis KC MP**
  • Solicitor General – Michael Tomlinson MP
  • HM Advocate General for Scotland – Lord Stewart of Dirleton KC

Key

  • *unpaid

  • **attends Cabinet

  • † paid as a Parliamentary Secretary

Updates to this page

Published 6 September 2022
Last updated 10 October 2022 + show all updates

  1. Full list of ministerial appointments.

  2. Added the appointment of the Rt Hon Greg Hands MP as a Minister of State in the Department for International Trade

  3. Ministerial Appointment added

  4. Added appointments for Thursday 8 September

  5. Added latest set of appointments.

  6. updated

  7. updated

  8. Updated with junior ministers

  9. First published.