![]() Chief Secretary to the Treasury | |
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Her Majesty's Treasury | |
Style | The Right Honourable |
Reports to | Chancellor of the Exchequer and Prime Minister |
Appointer | The Monarch on advice of the Prime Minister |
Term length | At Her Majesty's Pleasure |
Formation | 8 October 1961 |
First holder | Henry Brooke |
Website | www |
The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (CST) is the third most senior ministerial office in HM Treasury, after the First Lord of the Treasury (though this office is only nominal and held by the Prime Minister, who works out of the Cabinet Office) and the Chancellor of the Exchequer/Second Lord of the Treasury.
The office was created in 1961, to share the burden of representing the Treasury with the Chancellor of the Exchequer.[]
Between 1961 and 2015, the holder of the office of Chief Secretary to the Treasury was of cabinet rank. This formally made the HM Treasury the only department to have more than one ministerial position of cabinet rank.[1][2] Since 2015, however, the status of the office has been reduced to "also attending Cabinet".[]
The office holder is responsible for public expenditure, including spending reviews.[3]