Style The Right Honourable Inaugural holder Henry Brooke Website HM Treasury | Term length No fixed term Formation 8 October 1961 | |
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Appointer The British Monarch
on advice of the Prime Minister | ||
The Chief Secretary to the Treasury is the second most senior ministerial position in HM Treasury, after the Chancellor of the Exchequer. It 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 post of Chief Secretary to the Treasury was automatically a member of the Cabinet making the Treasury the only Department to have two ministers automatically serving in the Cabinet. Since 2015, however, the status of the Chief Secretary to the Treasury has been reduced to an "also attending Cabinet" role.
The position's responsibilities include negotiating with departments about budget allocations, public sector pay, and procurement policy.
Chief Secretaries to the Treasury
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