Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury

Thomas Edward Taylor, Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury from 1866 to 1868.

The Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury is a junior ministerial position in the British Government. However, the office is now attached to the Treasury in name only. The holder is usually the Government Chief Whip in the House of Commons. The office can be seen as a sinecure, allowing the Chief Whip to draw a government salary, attend Cabinet, and use a Downing Street residence.

Parliamentary Secretaries to the Treasury, 1830–present

19th century

• Thomas Spring Rice 1830–1834
• Charles Wood 1834
• Sir George Clerk, Bt 1834–1835
• Francis Baring 1835–1839
• Hon. Edward Stanley 1839–1841
• Sir Thomas Fremantle, Bt 1841–1844
• Sir George Clerk, Bt 1844–1845
• John Young 1845–1846
• Henry Tufnell 1846–1850
• William Goodenough Hayter 1850–1852
• William Forbes Mackenzie 1852
• William Goodenough Hayter 1853–1858
• Sir William Jolliffe, Bt 1858–1859
• Henry Brand 1859–1866
• Thomas Edward Taylor 1866–1868
• Gerard Noel 1868
• George Glyn 1868–1873
• Arthur Wellesley Peel 1873–1874
• Sir William Hart Dyke, Bt 1874–1880
• Lord Richard Grosvenor 1880–1885
• Aretas Akers-Douglas 1885–1886
• Arnold Morley 1886
• Aretas Akers-Douglas 1886–1892
• Edward Marjoribanks 1892–1894
• Thomas Edward Ellis 1894–1895
• Sir William Walrond, Bt 1895–1902

20th century

• Sir Alexander Acland-Hood, Bt 1902–1905
• George Whiteley 1905–1908
• Jack Pease 1908–1910
• Master of Elibank 1910–1912
• Percy Holden Illingworth 1912–1915
• John William Gulland 1915
• Lord Edmund Talbot 1915–16 (Conservative, jointly)
• John William Gulland 1915–16 (Liberal, jointly)
• Lord Edmund Talbot 1916–21 (Conservative, jointly)
• Neil Primrose 1916–17 (Liberal, jointly)
• Frederick Guest 1917–21 (Liberal, jointly)
• Leslie Orme Wilson 1921– 1922 (Conservative, jointly)
• Charles McCurdy 1921–22 (Liberal, jointly)
• Leslie Orme Wilson 1922–1923
• Bolton Eyres-Monsell 1923–1924
• Ben Spoor 1924
• Bolton Eyres-Monsell 1924–1929
• Tom Kennedy 1929–31
• David Margesson 1931–1940
• Sir Charles Edwards 1940–42 (Labour, jointly)
• James Gray Stuart 1941–45 (Conservative, jointly)
• William Whiteley 1942–51 (Labour, jointly until 1945)
• Patrick Buchan-Hepburn 1951–55
• Edward Heath 1955–1959
• Martin Redmayne 1959–64
• Ted Short 1964–66
• John Silkin 1966–69
• Bob Mellish 1969–70
• Francis Pym 1970–1973
• Humphrey Atkins 1973–1974
• Bob Mellish 1974–1976
• Michael Cocks 1976–1979
• Michael Jopling 1979–1983
• John Wakeham 1983–1987
• David Waddington 1987–1989
• Tim Renton 1989–1990
• Richard Ryder 1990–1995
• Alastair Goodlad 1995–1997
• Nick Brown 1997–1998
• Ann Taylor 1998–2001

21st century

• Hilary Armstrong 2001–2006
• Jacqui Smith 2006–2007
• Geoff Hoon 2007–2008
• Nick Brown 2008–2010
• Patrick McLoughlin 2010–2012
• Andrew Mitchell Sept–Oct 2012
• Sir George Young, Bt. CH 2012–2014
• Michael Gove 2014-2015
• Mark Harper 2015-present

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