Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury

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Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury
Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom (HM Government).svg
Royal Arms as used by HM Government
Official portrait of Helen Whately MP.jpg
Incumbent
Helen Whately
since 16 September 2021
HM Treasury
AppointerElizabeth II
on the advice of the Prime Minister
Inaugural holderPhillip Oppenheim
Formation23 July 1996
WebsiteHM Treasury

The Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury is a junior ministerial post in the British 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. Unlike the other posts of Secretary to the Treasury, it is only used occasionally, normally when the post of Paymaster General is allocated to a minister outside the Treasury.

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 position is currently 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

  • Enterprise and productivity including small business taxation and support to the Chancellor of the Exchequer on economic reform
  • Competition and better regulation
  • Science, innovation and skills policy, including implementation of the 10-year science and innovation strategy and the R&D tax credit
  • Regional economic policy
  • Urban regeneration and social exclusion including housing, planning and planning gain supplement;
  • Environmental issues including taxation of transport, international Climate Change issues including global carbon trading and EU ETS, and Energy Issues
  • Taxation of oil
  • Excise duties and gambling, including excise fraud and law enforcement
  • Public-private partnerships including Private Finance Initiative, and Partnerships UK
  • Ministerial responsibility for the Office for National Statistics, the Royal Mint and Departmental Minister for HM Treasury Group
  • Support to the Chief Secretary to the Treasury on public spending issues including long-term challenges in the run up to the Comprehensive Spending Review and selected Cabinet Committees
  • Assist where necessary on European issues
  • Working with the Financial Secretary to the Treasury on the Finance Bill

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
Portrait Name Term of office Party 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 use 1997–2007 N/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 use 2016–2017 N/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 		Incumbent Conservative [13]

References[]

  1. ^ "Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury (Hansard)". Hansard 1803–2005. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Kemi Badenoch MP". Gov.UK. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
  3. ^ "Hon Phillip Oppenheim". UK Parliament. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  4. ^ "Ms Angela Eagle MP". UK Parliament. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  5. ^ "Kitty Ussher". UK Parliament. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  6. ^ "Sarah McCarthy-Fry". UK Parliament. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  7. ^ "Rt Hon David Gauke MP". UK Parliament. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  8. ^ "Rt Hon Priti Patel MP". UK Parliament. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  9. ^ "Rt Hon Damian Hinds MP". UK Parliament. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  10. ^ "Andrew Jones MP". UK Parliament. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  11. ^ "Robert Jenrick MP". UK Parliament. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  12. ^ "Simon Clarke MP". UK Parliament. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
  13. ^ "Reshuffle: Boris Johnson hands out dozens of junior roles". BBC News. 2021-09-16. Retrieved 2021-09-16.

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