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; Chief Secretary to the Treasury
	Royal Arms of HM Government
	Incumbent; Stephen Barclay; since 13 February 2020
	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.hm-treasury.gov.uk

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.^[]

History and responsibilities

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]

List of Chief Secretaries to the Treasury

Chief Secretary to the Treasury
Portrait	Name	Term of office		Party	Ministry		Ref.
	Henry Brooke MP for Hampstead	9 October 1961	13 July 1962	Conservative	Macmillan (I & II)	Selwyn Lloyd	^[4]
‍	John Boyd-Carpenter MP for Kingston-upon-Thames	13 July 1962	16 October 1964	Conservative	Macmillan (I & II)	Reginald Maudling	^[5]
	John Boyd-Carpenter MP for Kingston-upon-Thames	13 July 1962	16 October 1964	Conservative	Douglas-Home	Reginald Maudling	^[5]
	Jack Diamond MP for Gloucester	20 October 1964	19 June 1970	Labour	Wilson (I & II)	James Callaghan	^[6]
	Jack Diamond MP for Gloucester	20 October 1964	19 June 1970	Labour	Wilson (I & II)	Roy Jenkins	^[6]
	Maurice Macmillan MP for Farnham	23 June 1970	7 April 1972	Conservative	Heath	Iain Macleod	^[7]
	Maurice Macmillan MP for Farnham	23 June 1970	7 April 1972	Conservative		Anthony Barber	^[7]
	Patrick Jenkin MP for Wanstead and Woodford	7 April 1972	8 January 1974	Conservative			^[8]
	Tom Boardman MP for Leicester South West	8 January 1974	4 March 1974	Conservative			^[9]
	Joel Barnett MP for Heywood and Royton	7 March 1974	4 May 1979	Labour	Wilson (III & IV)	Denis Healey	^[10]
	Joel Barnett MP for Heywood and Royton	7 March 1974	4 May 1979	Labour	Callaghan	Denis Healey	^[10]
	John Biffen MP for Oswestry	5 May 1979	5 January 1981	Conservative	Thatcher I	Geoffrey Howe	^[11]
	Leon Brittan MP for Cleveland and Whitby	5 January 1981	11 June 1983	Conservative	Thatcher I	Geoffrey Howe	^[12]
	Peter Rees MP for Dover	11 June 1983	2 September 1985	Conservative	Thatcher II	Nigel Lawson	^[13]
	John MacGregor MP for South Norfolk	2 September 1985	13 June 1987	Conservative	Thatcher II		^[14]
	John Major MP for Huntingdon	13 June 1987	24 July 1989	Conservative	Thatcher III		^[15]
	Norman Lamont MP for Kingston-upon-Thames	24 July 1989	28 November 1990	Conservative	Thatcher III	John Major	^[16]
	David Mellor MP for Putney	28 November 1990	10 April 1992	Conservative	Major I	Norman Lamont	^[17]
	Michael Portillo MP for Enfield Southgate	10 April 1992	20 July 1994	Conservative	Major II	Norman Lamont	^[18]
	Michael Portillo MP for Enfield Southgate	10 April 1992	20 July 1994	Conservative		Kenneth Clarke	^[18]
	Jonathan Aitken MP for South Thanet	20 July 1994	5 July 1995	Conservative			^[19]
	William Waldegrave MP for Bristol West	5 July 1995	2 May 1997	Conservative			^[20]
	Alistair Darling MP for Edinburgh Central	3 May 1997	27 July 1998	Labour	Blair I	Gordon Brown	^[21]
	Stephen Byers MP for North Tyneside	27 July 1998	23 December 1998	Labour			^[22]
	Alan Milburn MP for Darlington	23 December 1998	11 October 1999	Labour			^[23]
	Andrew Smith MP for Oxford East	11 October 1999	29 May 2002	Labour			^[24]
	Andrew Smith MP for Oxford East	11 October 1999	29 May 2002	Labour	Blair II		^[24]
	Paul Boateng MP for Brent South	29 May 2002	6 May 2005	Labour	Blair II		^[25]
	Des Browne MP for Kilmarnock and Loudoun	6 May 2005	5 May 2006	Labour	Blair III		^[26]
	Stephen Timms MP for East Ham	5 May 2006	28 June 2007	Labour	Blair III		^[27]
	Andy Burnham MP for Leigh	28 June 2007	24 January 2008	Labour	Brown	Alistair Darling	^[28]
	Yvette Cooper MP for Pontefract and Castleford	24 January 2008	5 June 2009	Labour			^[29]
	Liam Byrne MP for Birmingham Hodge Hill	5 June 2009	11 May 2010	Labour			^[30]
	David Laws MP for Yeovil	12 May 2010	29 May 2010	Liberal Democrat	Cameron-Clegg (Con.-L.D.)	George Osborne	^[31]
	Danny Alexander MP for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey	29 May 2010	8 May 2015	Liberal Democrat	Cameron-Clegg (Con.-L.D.)		^[32]
	Greg Hands MP for Chelsea and Fulham	11 May 2015	14 July 2016	Conservative	Cameron II		^[33]
	David Gauke MP for South West Hertfordshire	14 July 2016	11 June 2017	Conservative	May I	Philip Hammond	^[34]
	Elizabeth Truss MP for South West Norfolk	11 June 2017	24 July 2019	Conservative	May II	Philip Hammond	^[35]
	Rishi Sunak MP for Richmond (Yorks)	24 July 2019	13 February 2020	Conservative	Johnson I	Sajid Javid	^[36]
	Rishi Sunak MP for Richmond (Yorks)	24 July 2019	13 February 2020	Conservative	Johnson II	Sajid Javid	^[36]
	Stephen Barclay MP for North East Cambridgeshire	13 February 2020	Incumbent	Conservative	Johnson II	Rishi Sunak	^[37]

References

^ F N Forman; N D J Baldwin (2007), Mastering British Politics (5th ed.), Palgrave Macmillan
^ W H Greenleaf (1983), The British Political Tradition: Volume III, Part One, Much Governed Nation, Routledge
^ "Chief Secretary to the Treasury - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved .
^ "Mr Henry Brooke". Hansard 1803-2005. UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.
^ "Mr John Boyd-Carpenter". Hansard 1803-2005. UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.
^ "Mr Jack Diamond". Hansard 1803-2005. UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.
^ "Rt Hon Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.
^ "Lord Jenkin of Roding". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.
^ "Mr Thomas Boardman". Hansard 1803-2005. UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.
^ "Lord Barnett". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.
^ "Rt Hon John Biffen". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.
^ "Lord Brittan of Spennithorne". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.
^ "Mr Peter Rees". Hansard 1803-2005. UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.
^ "Lord MacGregor of Pulham Market". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.
^ "Rt Hon John Major". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.
^ "Lord Lamont of Lerwick". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.
^ "Rt Hon David Mellor". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.
^ "Rt Hon Michael Portillo". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.
^ "Jonathan Aitken". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.
^ "Lord Waldegrave of North Hill". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.
^ "Lord Darling of Roulanish". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.
^ "Mr Stephen Byers". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.
^ "Mr Alan Milburn". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.
^ "Rt Hon Andrew Smith". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.
^ "Lord Boateng". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.
^ "Lord Browne of Ladyton". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.
^ "Rt Hon Stephen Timms MP". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.
^ "Rt Hon Andy Burnham". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.
^ "Rt Hon Yvette Cooper MP". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.
^ "Rt Hon Liam Byrne MP". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.
^ "Rt Hon David Laws". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.
^ "Rt Hon Danny Alexander". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.
^ "Rt Hon Greg Hands MP". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.
^ "Rt Hon David Gauke MP". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.
^ "Rt Hon Elizabeth Truss MP". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.
^ "Rishi Sunak MP". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2019.
^ "Rt Hon Steve Barclay MP". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2020.

[1] F N Forman; N D J Baldwin (2007), Mastering British Politics (5th ed.), Palgrave Macmillan

[2] W H Greenleaf (1983), The British Political Tradition: Volume III, Part One, Much Governed Nation, Routledge

[3] "Chief Secretary to the Treasury - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved .

[4] "Mr Henry Brooke". Hansard 1803-2005. UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.

[5] "Mr John Boyd-Carpenter". Hansard 1803-2005. UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.

[6] "Mr Jack Diamond". Hansard 1803-2005. UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.

[7] "Rt Hon Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.

[8] "Lord Jenkin of Roding". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.

[9] "Mr Thomas Boardman". Hansard 1803-2005. UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.

[10] "Lord Barnett". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.

[11] "Rt Hon John Biffen". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.

[12] "Lord Brittan of Spennithorne". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.

[13] "Mr Peter Rees". Hansard 1803-2005. UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.

[14] "Lord MacGregor of Pulham Market". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.

[15] "Rt Hon John Major". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.

[16] "Lord Lamont of Lerwick". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.

[17] "Rt Hon David Mellor". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.

[18] "Rt Hon Michael Portillo". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.

[19] "Jonathan Aitken". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.

[20] "Lord Waldegrave of North Hill". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.

[21] "Lord Darling of Roulanish". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.

[22] "Mr Stephen Byers". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.

[23] "Mr Alan Milburn". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.

[24] "Rt Hon Andrew Smith". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.

[25] "Lord Boateng". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.

[26] "Lord Browne of Ladyton". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.

[27] "Rt Hon Stephen Timms MP". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.

[28] "Rt Hon Andy Burnham". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.

[29] "Rt Hon Yvette Cooper MP". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.

[30] "Rt Hon Liam Byrne MP". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.

[31] "Rt Hon David Laws". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.

[32] "Rt Hon Danny Alexander". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.

[33] "Rt Hon Greg Hands MP". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.

[34] "Rt Hon David Gauke MP". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.

[35] "Rt Hon Elizabeth Truss MP". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2017.

[36] "Rishi Sunak MP". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2019.

[37] "Rt Hon Steve Barclay MP". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2020.

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Chief Secretary to the Treasury
Royal Arms of HM Government
Incumbent Stephen Barclay since 13 February 2020
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.hm-treasury.gov.uk

History and responsibilities

List of Chief Secretaries to the Treasury

See also

References