Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury

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Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury
Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom (HM Government) (2022).svg
Official portrait of Gareth Davies MP.jpg
Incumbent
Gareth Davies
since 21 April 2023
His Majesty's Treasury
Reports to First Lord of the Treasury
Chancellor of the Exchequer & Second Lord of the Treasury
Nominator Prime Minister
Appointer The King
(on the advice of the Prime Minister)
Term length At His Majesty's pleasure
Inaugural holder Phillip Oppenheim
Formation23 July 1996
Website Official website

The Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury is a junior ministerial post in His Majesty's Treasury, ranked below the First Lord of the Treasury, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, the Paymaster General and the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, and alongside the Economic Secretary to the Treasury. It ranks at Parliamentary Secretary level and is not a Cabinet office.

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The first Exchequer Secretary was Phillip Oppenheim, [1] who held the post from 23 July 1996 to 2 May 1997, when he lost his seat in the general election that brought Tony Blair to power.

After a period of abeyance, the office was reinstated upon Gordon Brown's accession as Prime Minister in June 2007, when Angela Eagle was appointed Exchequer Secretary. The office again fell out of use in July 2016 when Theresa May became Prime Minister, before she reinstated it following the 2017 general election.

The position was held by Helen Whately, having been held by Kemi Badenoch from 2020 to 2021. [2]

The minister is shadowed by the Shadow Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury, who sits on the Official Opposition frontbench.

Responsibilities

HM Treasury

Responsibility for procurement policy and the former Office of Government Commerce was transferred to the Cabinet Office in 2011.

List of Exchequer Secretaries

Key
   Conservative         Labour
PortraitNameTerm of officeParty Prime Minister Chancellor Ref.
No image.svg Phillip Oppenheim
MP for Amber Valley
23 July
1996
2 May
1997
Conservative Major Clarke [3]
Office not in use1997–2007N/A Blair Brown
Official portrait of Ms Angela Eagle MP crop 2.jpg Angela Eagle
MP for Wallasey
29 June
2007
9 June
2009
Labour Brown Darling [4]
Kitty ussher at election count in burnley 2009.JPG Kitty Ussher
MP for Burnley
9 June
2009
17 June
2009
Labour [5]
No image.svg Sarah McCarthy-Fry
MP for Portsmouth North
17 June
2009
11 May
2010
Labour [6]
Official portrait of Mr David Gauke crop 2.jpg David Gauke
MP for South West Hertfordshire
13 May
2010
15 July
2014
Conservative Cameron
(Coalition)
Osborne [7]
Official portrait of Rt Hon Priti Patel MP crop 2.jpg Priti Patel
MP for Witham
15 July
2014
11 May
2015
Conservative [8]
Official portrait of Damian Hinds MP crop 2.jpg Damian Hinds
MP for East Hampshire
12 May
2015
13 July
2016
Conservative Cameron
(II)
[9]
Office not in use2016–2017N/A May (I) Hammond
Official portrait of Andrew Jones MP crop 2.jpg Andrew Jones
MP for Harrogate and Knaresborough
15 June
2017
8 January
2018
Conservative May (II) [10]
Official portrait of Robert Jenrick crop 2.jpg Robert Jenrick
MP for Newark
9 January
2018
24 July
2019
Conservative [11]
Official portrait of Mr Simon Clarke MP crop 2.jpg Simon Clarke
MP for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
27 July
2019
13 February
2020
Conservative Johnson Javid [12]
Official portrait of Mrs Kemi Badenoch crop 2.jpg Kemi Badenoch
MP for Saffron Walden
13 February
2020
16 September
2021
Conservative Sunak [2]
Official portrait of Helen Whately MP crop 2.jpg Helen Whately
MP for Faversham and Mid Kent
16 September
2021
8 July
2022
Conservative [13]
Official portrait of Alan Mak crop 2.jpg Alan Mak
MP for Havant
8 July
2022
7 September
2022
Conservative Zahawi [14]
Official portrait of Felicity Buchan MP crop 2.jpg Felicity Buchan
MP for Kensington
8 September
2022
28 October
2022
Conservative Truss Kwarteng [15]
Hunt
Official portrait of James Cartlidge MP crop 2.jpg James Cartlidge
MP for South Suffolk
28 October
2022
21 April
2023
Conservative Sunak [16]
Official portrait of Gareth Davies MP crop 2.jpg Gareth Davies
MP for Grantham and Stamford
21 April
2023
IncumbentConservative [17]

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