United Kingdom Minister Without Portfolio
In the United Kingdom, the minister without portfolio is often a cabinet position, and is sometimes used to enable the chairman of the governing party, contemporarily either the chairman of the Conservative Party or the chair of the Labour Party to attend cabinet meetings (if so, they hold the title of Party chairman).
The sinecure positions of Lord Privy Seal, Paymaster General, and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster which have few responsibilities and have a higher rank in the order of precedence than minister without portfolio can also be used to similar effect. The office is currently held by Richard Holden.
| United Kingdom Minister without Portfolio | |
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| Style | The Right Honourable |
| Reports to | The Prime Minister |
| Nominator | The Prime Minister |
| Appointer | The British Monarch on the advice of the Prime Minister |
| Term length | No fixed term |
| Salary | £159,038 per annum (2022) (including £86,584 MP salary) |
| Website | GOV.UK |
The corresponding shadow minister is the Shadow Minister without Portfolio.
List of office holders
18th century
- The Lord Somers, as part of the Townshend ministry
- Henry Seymour Conway, as part of the Chatham ministry and Grafton ministry
19th century
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20th century (first half)
| Minister | Concurrent office(s) | Tenure | Political party | Prime Minister | |||
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 | Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne | 25 May 1915 – December 1916 | Liberal Unionist | H. H. Asquith (Coalition) | |||
 | Arthur Henderson | Member of the War Cabinet | 10 December 1916 – 12 August 1917 | Labour | David Lloyd George (Coalition) | ||
 | Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner | 10 December 1916 – 18 April 1918 | Conservative | ||||
 | Jan Smuts | 22 June 1917 – 10 January 1919 | South African Party | ||||
 | Edward Carson | 17 July 1917 – 21 January 1918 | Ulster Unionist Party (Irish Unionist) | ||||
 | George Barnes | Member of the War Cabinet (until October 1919) | 13 August 1917 – 27 January 1920 | Labour | |||
 | Austen Chamberlain | Member of the War Cabinet | 18 April 1918 – 10 January 1919 | Conservative | |||
 | Eric Campbell Geddes | 10 January – 31 October 1919 | |||||
 | Laming Worthington-Evans | Member of the War Cabinet (until October 1919) | 10 January 1919 – 13 February 1921 | ||||
 | Christopher Addison | 1 April – 14 July 1921 | Liberal | ||||
.jpg) | Anthony Eden | Minister for League of Nations affairs | 7 June – 22 December 1935 | Conservative | Stanley Baldwin (Coalition) | ||
 | Eustace Percy | 7 June 1935 – 31 March 1936 | |||||
 | Leslie Burgin | Minister of Supply-designate | 21 April – 14 July 1939 | National Liberal Party | Neville Chamberlain (Coalition) | ||
 | Maurice Hankey | Member of the War Cabinet | September 1939 – 10 May 1940 | no party | Neville Chamberlain (Coalition) | ||
 | Arthur Greenwood | 11 May 1940 – 22 February 1942 | Labour | Winston Churchill (Coalition) | |||
 | William Jowitt | 30 December 1942 – 8 October 1944 | |||||
20th century (second half)
| Minister | Concurrent office(s) | Tenure | Political party | Prime Minister | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | A. V. Alexander | 4 October – 20 December 1946 | Labour Co-operative | Clement Attlee | ||||
| | Arthur Greenwood | 17 April – 29 September 1947 | Labour | |||||
| Geoffrey FitzClarence, 5th Earl of Munster | 18 October 1954 – 1957 | Conservative | Winston Churchill | |||||
| Anthony Eden | ||||||||
 | Stormont Mancroft, 2nd Baron Mancroft | 11 June 1957 – 1958 | Harold Macmillan | |||||
 | Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn, 11th Earl of Dundee | 23 October 1958 – 1961 | Unionist | |||||
| | Percy Mills, 1st Baron Mills | Deputy Leader of the House of Lords | 9 October 1961 – 13 July 1962 | Conservative | ||||
| Bill Deedes | 13 July 1962 – 16 October 1964 | |||||||
| Alec Douglas-Home | ||||||||
 | Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington | Leader of the House of Lords | 20 October 1963 – 16 October 1964 | |||||
| | Eric Fletcher | 19 October 1964 – 6 April 1966 | Labour | Harold Wilson | ||||
| | Arthur Champion, Baron Champion | Deputy Leader of the House of Lords | 21 October 1964 – 7 January 1967 | |||||
| | Douglas Houghton | 6 April 1966 – 7 January 1967 | ||||||
| | Edward Shackleton, Baron Shackleton | Deputy Leader of the House of Lords | 7 January 1967 – 16 January 1968 | |||||
 | Patrick Gordon Walker | 7 January – 21 August 1967 | ||||||
 | George Thomson | 17 October 1968 – 6 October 1969 | ||||||
| | Peter Shore | 6 October 1969 – 19 June 1970 | ||||||
| | Niall Macpherson, 1st Baron Drumalbyn | 15 October 1970 – 1974 | Unionist | Edward Heath | ||||
| | Morys Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare | 8 January – March 1974 | Conservative | |||||
 | David Young, Baron Young of Graffham | advising on unemployment | 11 September 1984 – 3 September 1985 | Margaret Thatcher | ||||
| | Jeremy Hanley | Chairman of the Conservative Party | 20 July 1994 – 5 July 1995 | John Major | ||||
| | Brian Mawhinney | 5 July 1995 – 2 May 1997 | ||||||
 | Peter Mandelson | called the "Dome Secretary" | 5 May 1997 – 26 July 1998 | Labour | Tony Blair | |||
21st century
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See also
References
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