Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice
The Rt Hon Shabana Mahmood MP
Biography
Shabana Mahmood was appointed Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice on 5 July 2024. She was elected as the MP for Birmingham Ladywood in July 2024.
Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice
- Oversight of all portfolios, policy, and Ministry of Justice strategy
- Oversight of cross-cutting emergency issues, responses supported by other ministers according to portfolio
- Oversight of international business and future relations with the EU
- MoJ support for the Union.
- Resourcing of the department
- Functions of the Lord Chancellor
- Judicial policy including pay, pensions and diversity (these and other operational decisions affecting the judiciary are reserved to the Lord Chancellor)
- Corporate services