Under Secretary of State for the Home Department

Non-permanent and parliamentary under-secretaries, 1782–present

April 1782: Evan Nepean

April 1782: Thomas Orde

July 1782: Henry Strachey

April 1783: George North

February 1784: Hon. John Townshend

June 1789: Scrope Bernard

July 1794: The Hon. Thomas Brodrick

March 1796: Charles Greville

March 1798: William Wickham

February 1801: Edward Finch Hatton

August 1801: Sir George Shee, Bt

August 1803: Reginald Pole-Carew

July 1804: John Henry Smyth

February 1806: Charles Williams-Wynn

November 1807: Hon. Charles Jenkinson

February 1810: Henry Goulburn

August 1812: John Hiley Addington

April 1818: Henry Clive

January 1822: George Robert Dawson

April 1827: Spencer Perceval

July 1827: Thomas Spring Rice

January 1828: William Yates Peel

August 1830: Sir George Clerk

November 1830: Hon. George Lamb

January 1834: Viscount Howick

July 1834: Edward Stanley

January 1835: William Gregson

April 1835: Fox Maule

June 1841: Lord Seymour

September 1841: John Manners-Sutton

July 1846: Sir William Somerville, Bt

July 1847: Sir Denis Le Marchant, Bt

May 1848: Sir George Cornewall Lewis, Bt

July 1850: Edward Pleydell-Bouverie

February 1852: Sir William Jolliffe, Bt

December 1852: Henry Fitzroy

February 1855: William Cowper

August 1855: William Nathaniel Massey

February 1858: Gathorne Hardy

June 1859: George Clive

November 1862: Henry Bruce

April 1864: Thomas Baring

May 1866: Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen

July 1866: The Earl Belmore

August 1867: Sir James Fergusson, Bt

August 1868: Sir Michael Hicks Beach, Bt

December 1868: Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen

January 1871: George Shaw-Lefevre

March 1871: Henry Winterbotham

February 1874: Sir Henry Selwin-Ibbetson, Bt

April 1878: Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bt

April 1880: Arthur Peel

January 1881: Leonard Courtney

August 1881: The Earl of Rosebery

June 1883: J. T. Hibbert

December 1884: Henry Fowler

June 1885: Charles Stuart-Wortley

February 1886: Henry Broadhurst

August 1886: Charles Stuart-Wortley

August 1892: Herbert Gladstone

March 1894: George W. E. Russell

June 1895: Jesse Collings

August 1902: Thomas Cochrane

December 1905: Herbert Samuel

July 1909: Charles Masterman

February 1912: Ellis Ellis-Griffith

February 1915: Cecil Harmsworth

May 1915: William Brace

January 1919: Sir Hamar Greenwood

April 1919: John Baird

October 1922: George Frederick Stanley

March 1923: Godfrey Locker-Lampson

January 1924: Rhys John Davies

November 1924: Godfrey Locker-Lampson

December 1925: Douglas Hacking

November 1927: Sir Vivian Henderson

June 1929: Alfred Short

September 1931: Oliver Stanley

February 1933: Douglas Hacking

June 1935: Harry Crookshank

June 1934: Euan Wallace

November 1935: Geoffrey Lloyd

June 1939: Osbert Peake (check date)

October 1944: The Earl of Munster

August 1945: George Oliver

October 1947: Kenneth Younger

March 1950: Geoffrey de Freitas

November 1951: David Llewellyn (to Oct 1952)

February 1952: Sir Hugh Lucas-Tooth, Bt (to Dec 1955)

November 1952: The Lord Lloyd (to October 1954)

October 1954: The Lord Mancroft

January 1957: Patricia Hornsby-Smith (jointly) (to October 1959)

January 1957: Jocelyn Simon (jointly) (to January 1958)

January 1958: David Renton (jointly) (to June 1961)

October 1959: Dennis Vosper (jointly) (to October 1960)

February 1961: The Earl Bathurst (jointly) (to July 1962)

June 1961: Charles Fletcher-Cooke (jointly) (to February 1963)

July 1962: Christopher Montague Woodhouse (jointly) (to October 1964)

March 1963: Mervyn Pike (jointly) (to October 1964)

October 1964: The Lord Stonham (jointly) (to August 1967)

October 1964: George Thomas (jointly) (to April 1966)

April 1966: Maurice Foley (jointly) (to January 1967)

April 1966: Dick Taverne (jointly) (to April 1968)

January 1967: David Ennals (jointly) (to November 1968)

April 1968: Elystan Morgan (jointly) (to June 1970)

November 1968: Merlyn Rees (jointly) (to June 1970)

June 1970: Mark Carlisle

April 1972: David Lane

March 1974: Shirley Summerskill (to 1979)

May 1979: The Lord Belstead

April 1982: The Lord Elton (to September 1984)

January 1983: David Mellor (to September 1986)

March 1984: The Lord Glenarthur (to September 1986)

September 1986: The Hon. Douglas Hogg

July 1989: Peter Lloyd

April 1992: Charles Wardle

July 1994: Nicholas Baker

October 1995: Timothy Kirkhope (to May 1997)

November 1995: The Hon. Tom Sackville (jointly) (to May 1997)

May 1997: Lord Williams of Mostyn (jointly) (to July 1998)

May 1997: George Howarth (jointly) (to July 1999)

May 1997: Mike O'Brien (jointly) (to June 2001)

July 1998: Kate Hoey (jointly) (to July 1999)

July 1999: Lord Bassam (jointly) (to June 2001)

June 2001: Beverley Hughes (jointly) (to May 2002)

June 2001: Bob Ainsworth (jointly) (to June 2003)

June 2001: Angela Eagle (jointly) (to May 2002)

May 2002: Lord Filkin (jointly) (to June 2003)

June 2002: Michael Wills (jointly) (to July 2003)

May 2003: Paul Goggins (jointly) (to May 2005)

June 2003: Caroline Flint (jointly) (to April 2005)

June 2003: Fiona Mactaggart (jointly) (to April 2005)

May 2005: Andy Burnham (jointly) (to May 2006)

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Parliamentary secretaries, 1940–1945

May 1940: William Mabane (to June 1942)

October 1940: Ellen Wilkinson (to May 1945)

Ministers for Home Affairs (1960–)

October 1960: Dennis Vosper

June 1961: David Renton

July 1962: Earl Jellicoe

October 1963: Lord Derwent

October 1964: Alice Bacon

August 1967: Lord Stonham

October 1969: Shirley Williams

June 1970: Richard Sharples (jointly) (to April 1972)

June 1970: Lord Windlesham (jointly) (to March 1972)

April 1972: Mark Carlisle (jointly) (to March 1974)

April 1972: Viscount Colville (jointly) (to March 1974)

March 1974: Lord Harris (jointly) (to January 1979)

March 1974: Alex Lyon (jointly) (to April 1976)

April 1976: Brynmor John (jointly) (to May 1979)

January 1979: Lord Boston (jointly) (to May 1979)

May 1979: Leon Brittan (jointly) (to January 1981)

May 1979: Timothy Raison (jointly) (to January 1983)

January 1981: Patrick Mayhew (jointly) (to June 1983)

January 1983: David Waddington (jointly) (to June 1987)

September 1984: The Lord Elton (jointly) (to March 1985)

September 1984: Giles Shaw (jointly) (to September 1986)

September 1986: David Mellor (jointly) (to June 1987)

September 1986: The Earl of Caithness (jointly) (to January 1988)

June 1987: John Patten (jointly) (to April 1992)

January 1988: The Earl Ferrers (jointly) (to July 1994)

October 1989: David Mellor (jointly) (to June 1990)

July 1990: Angela Rumbold (jointly) (to April 1992)

April 1992: Michael Jack (jointly) (to May 1993)

April 1992: Peter Lloyd (jointly) (to July 1994)

May 1993: David Maclean (jointly) (to May 1997)

July 1994: Michael Forsyth (jointly) (to July 1995)

July 1994: The Baroness Blatch (jointly) (to May 1997)

July 1995: Ann Widdecombe (jointly) (to May 1997)

May 1997: Alun Michael (jointly) (to October 1998)

May 1997: Joyce Quin (jointly) (to July 1998)

July 1998: Lord Williams of Mostyn (jointly) (to July 1999)

October 1998: Paul Boateng (jointly) (to June 2001)

July 1999: Charles Clarke (jointly) (to June 2001)

July 1999: Barbara Roche (jointly) (to June 2001)

June 2001: John Denham (jointly) (to May 2003)

June 2001: Keith Bradley (jointly) (to May 2002)

June 2001: Lord Rooker (jointly) (to May 2002)

May 2002: Lord Falconer (jointly) (to June 2003)

May 2002: Hilary Benn (jointly) (to May 2003)

May 2002: Beverley Hughes (jointly) (to April 2004)

June 2003: Hazel Blears (jointly) (to May 2006)

June 2003: Baroness Scotland (jointly) (to April 2005)

April 2004: Des Browne (jointly) (to May 2005)

May 2005: Tony McNulty (jointly) (to May 2006)

May 2006: Liam Byrne (jointly) (to October 2008)

May 2006: Tony McNulty (jointly) (to October 2008)

October 2008: Phil Woolas (jointly) (to May 2010)

May 2010: Damian Green (jointly) (to September 2012)

September 2012: Mark Harper (jointly) (to February 2014)

February 2014: James Brokenshire (jointly) (to Present)

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Permanent under-secretaries, 1782–present

March 1782: J. Bell

April 1782: Evan Nepean

December 1791: John King

February 1806: J. Beckett

June 1817: Henry Hobhouse

July 1827: Samuel March Phillipps

1840: H. Waddington

1867: (Sir) Adolphus Frederick Octavius Liddell

June 1885: Sir H. Maine

July 1885: Sir Godfrey Lushington

1895: Sir Kenelm Digby

1903: Sir Mackenzie Dalzell Chalmers

1908: Sir Edward Troup

1922: Sir John Anderson

1932: Sir Russell Scott

1938: Sir Alexander Maxwell

1948: Sir Frank Newsam

1957: Sir Charles Cunningham

1966: Sir Philip Allen

1972: Sir Arthur Peterson

1977: (Sir) Robert Armstrong

1979: Sir Brian Cubbon

1988: Sir Clive Whitmore

1994: Sir Richard Wilson

1997: Sir David Omand

2001: Sir John Gieve

2005: Sir David Normington

2011: Dame Helen Ghosh

2013: Mark Sedwill