Secretary Of State For Transport
The secretary of state for transport, also referred to as the transport secretary, is a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom, with overall responsibility for the policies of the Department for Transport.
The incumbent is a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.
| United Kingdom Secretary of State for Transport | |
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| Department for Transport | |
| Style | Transport Secretary (informal) The Right Honourable (within the UK and Commonwealth) |
| Type | Minister of the Crown |
| Status | Secretary of State |
| Member of | |
| Reports to | The Prime Minister |
| Seat | Westminster |
| Nominator | The Prime Minister |
| Appointer | The Monarch (on the advice of the Prime Minister) |
| Term length | At His Majesty's Pleasure |
| Formation |
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| First holder | Eric Campbell Geddes (as Minister of Transport) |
| Salary | £159,038 per annum (2022) (including £86,584 MP salary) |
| Website | www |
The office holder works alongside the other transport ministers. The corresponding shadow minister is the shadow secretary of state for transport, and the secretary of state is also scrutinised by the Transport Select Committee.
The current secretary of state for transport is Mark Harper, who was appointed on 25 October 2022.
History
The Ministry of Transport absorbed the Ministry of Shipping and was renamed the Ministry of War Transport in 1941, but resumed its previous name at the end of the war.
The Ministry of Civil Aviation was created by Winston Churchill in 1944 to look at peaceful ways of using aircraft and to find something for the aircraft factories to do after the war. The new Conservative government in 1951 appointed the same minister to both Transport and Civil Aviation, finally amalgamating the ministries on 1 October 1953.
The Ministry was renamed back to the Ministry of Transport on 14 October 1959, when a separate Ministry of Aviation was formed.
Transport responsibilities were subsumed by the Department for the Environment, headed by the secretary of state for the environment from 15 October 1970 to 10 September 1976.
The Department for Transport was recreated as a separate department by James Callaghan in 1976.
The super-department Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions was created in 1997 for Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott.
In 2001, the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions was widely considered unwieldy and so was broken up, with the Transport functions now combined with Local Government and the Regions in the DTLR (Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions).
List of ministers and secretaries of state
Minister of Transport (1919–1941)
Colour key (for political parties):
Conservative Labour National Labour Liberal National Liberal
Minister of (War) Transport and Minister of Civil Aviation (1941–1953)
Colour key (for political parties):
Conservative Labour National Liberal
| Minister of Transport | Minister of Civil Aviation | Term of office | Political party | Prime Minister | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frederick Leathers, 1st Viscount Leathers (Min. of War Transport) | — | 1 May 1941 | 26 July 1945 | Conservative | Winston Churchill (War Coalition) | ||
| Philip Cunliffe-Lister, Viscount Swinton | 8 October 1944 | 26 July 1945 | Conservative | ||||
| Alfred Barnes | Reginald Fletcher, 1st Baron Winster | 3–4 August 1945 | 4 October 1946 | Labour | Clement Attlee | ||
| Harry Nathan, 1st Baron Nathan | 4 October 1946 | 31 May 1948 | Labour | ||||
| Francis Pakenham, Lord Pakenham | 31 May 1948 | 1 June 1951 | Labour | ||||
| David Rees-Williams, 1st Baron Ogmore | 1 June 1951 | 26 October 1951 | Labour | ||||
| Hon. John Maclay | 31 October 1951 | 7 May 1952 | National Liberal | Winston Churchill | |||
| Alan Lennox-Boyd | 7 May 1952 | 1 October 1953 | Conservative | ||||
Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation (1953–1959)
Colour key (for political parties):
Conservative
| Minister | Term of office | Political party | Prime Minister | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alan Lennox-Boyd | 1 October 1953 | 28 July 1954 | Conservative | Winston Churchill | ||
| John Boyd-Carpenter | 28 July 1954 | 20 December 1955 | Conservative | |||
| Harold Watkinson | 20 December 1955 | 14 October 1959 | Conservative | Anthony Eden | ||
| Harold Macmillan | ||||||
Minister of Transport (1959–1970)
Colour key (for political parties):
Conservative Labour
| Minister | Term of office | Political party | Prime Minister | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ernest Marples | 14 October 1959 | 16 October 1964 | Conservative | Harold Macmillan | ||
| Alec Douglas-Home | ||||||
| Thomas Fraser | 16 October 1964 | 23 December 1965 | Labour | Harold Wilson | ||
| Barbara Castle | 23 December 1965 | 6 April 1968 | Labour | |||
| Richard Marsh | 6 April 1968 | 6 October 1969 | Labour | |||
| Fred Mulley | 6 October 1969 | 22 June 1970 | Labour | |||
| John Peyton | 23 June 1970 | 14 October 1970 | Conservative | Edward Heath | ||
Minister within the Department of the Environment (1970–1976)
Colour key (for political parties):
Conservative Labour
| Minister | Term of office | Length of Term | Political party | Prime Minister | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peter Walker | 15 October 1970 | 5 November 1972 | 2 years | Conservative | Edward Heath | ||
| Geoffrey Rippon | 5 November 1972 | 4 March 1974 | 1 year, 3 months | Conservative | |||
| Anthony Crosland | 5 March 1974 | 8 April 1976 | 2 years, 1 month | Labour | Harold Wilson | ||
The junior ministers responsible for transport within the Department for the Environment:
Minister for Transport Industries (1970–1974)
- John Peyton (Conservative, 15 October 1970 – 7 March 1974)
Minister for Transport (1974–1976)
- Fred Mulley (Labour, 7 March 1974 – 12 June 1975)
- John Gilbert (Labour, 12 June 1975 – 10 September 1976)
Secretary of State for Transport (1976–1979)
Colour key (for political parties):
Labour
| Secretary of State | Term of office | Length of Term | Political party | Prime Minister | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Bill Rodgers | 10 September 1976 | 4 May 1979 | 2 years, 7 months | Labour | James Callaghan | ||
Minister of Transport (1979–1981)
Not an official member of the cabinet.
Colour key (for political parties):
Conservative
| Minister | Term of office | Length of Term | Political party | Prime Minister | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Norman Fowler | 11 May 1979 | 5 January 1981 | 1 year, 7 months | Conservative | Margaret Thatcher | ||
Secretary of State for Transport (1981–1997)
Colour key (for political parties):
Conservative
| Secretary of State | Term of office | Length of Term | Political party | Prime Minister | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Norman Fowler | 5 January 1981 | 14 September 1981 | 8 months | Conservative | Margaret Thatcher | ||
 | David Howell | 14 September 1981 | 11 June 1983 | 1 year, 8 months | Conservative | |||
 | Tom King | 11 June 1983 | 16 October 1983 | 4 months | Conservative | |||
 | Hon. Nicholas Ridley | 16 October 1983 | 21 May 1986 | 2 years, 7 months | Conservative | |||
 | John Moore | 21 May 1986 | 13 June 1987 | 1 year | Conservative | |||
| | Paul Channon | 13 June 1987 | 24 July 1989 | 2 years, 1 month | Conservative | |||
| | Cecil Parkinson | 24 July 1989 | 28 November 1990 | 1 year, 4 months | Conservative | |||
.jpg) | Malcolm Rifkind | 28 November 1990 | 10 April 1992 | 2 years, 8 months | Conservative | John Major | ||
 | John MacGregor | 11 April 1992 | 20 July 1994 | 2 years, 3 months | Conservative | |||
| | Brian Mawhinney | 20 July 1994 | 5 July 1995 | 11 months | Conservative | |||
 | Sir George Young, 6th Baronet | 5 July 1995 | 2 May 1997 | 1 year, 9 months | Conservative | |||
Secretary of State for Environment, Transport and the Regions (1997–2001)
Colour key (for political parties):
Labour
| Secretary of State | Term of office | Length of Term | Political party | Prime Minister | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Prescott MP for Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle |  | 2 May 1997 | 7 June 2001 | 4 years, 1 month | Labour | Tony Blair | ||
Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions (2001–2002)
Colour key (for political parties):
Labour
| Secretary of State | Term of office | Length of Term | Political party | Prime Minister | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stephen Byers MP for North Tyneside | 8 June 2001 | 28 May 2002 | 11 months | Labour | Tony Blair | ||
After Byers' resignation, such a division was made, with the portfolios of Local Government and the Regions transferred to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.
During the lifetime of DTLGR, John Spellar served as Minister of State for Transport with a right to attend Cabinet.
- John Spellar (8 June 2001 – 29 May 2002)
Secretary of State for Transport (2002–present)
Colour key (for political parties):
Conservative Labour
| Secretary of State | Term of office | Length of Term | Political party | Prime Minister | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
.jpg) | Alistair Darling MP for Edinburgh South West | 29 May 2002 | 5 May 2006 | 3 years, 11 months | Labour | Tony Blair | ||
 | Douglas Alexander MP for Paisley and South Renfrewshire | 5 May 2006 | 28 June 2007 | 1 year, 1 month | Labour | |||
 | Ruth Kelly MP for Bolton West | 28 June 2007 | 5 October 2008 | 1 year, 3 months | Labour | Gordon Brown | ||
 | Geoff Hoon MP for Ashfield | 5 October 2008 | 5 June 2009 | 8 months | Labour | |||
 | Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis | 6 June 2009 | 6 May 2010 | 11 months | Labour | |||
 | Philip Hammond MP for Runnymede and Weybridge | 12 May 2010 | 14 October 2011 | 1 year, 5 months | Conservative | David Cameron (Coalition) | ||
 | Justine Greening MP for Putney | 14 October 2011 | 6 September 2012 | 10 months | Conservative | |||
 | Patrick McLoughlin MP for Derbyshire Dales | 6 September 2012 | 14 July 2016 | 3 years, 10 months | Conservative | |||
| David Cameron (II) | ||||||||
 | Chris Grayling MP for Epsom and Ewell | 14 July 2016 | 24 July 2019 | 3 years, 10 days | Conservative | Theresa May | ||
 | Grant Shapps MP for Welwyn Hatfield | 24 July 2019 | 6 September 2022 | 3 years, 1 month | Conservative | Boris Johnson | ||
 | Anne-Marie Trevelyan MP for Berwick-upon-Tweed | 6 September 2022 | 25 October 2022 | 7 weeks | Conservative | Liz Truss | ||
 | Mark Harper MP for Forest of Dean | 25 October 2022 | Incumbent | 1 year, 5 months | Conservative | Rishi Sunak | ||
See also
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