Minister for Civil Society

The Minister for Civil Society was a position within the Department for Culture, Media and Sport in the Government of the United Kingdom. It concerned and directly supported charities, volunteering, social enterprise and the Big Society manifesto-committed agenda of the First Cameron ministry (2010–2015) and short-lived Second Cameron ministry.^[1]

Before the new commitments and Cabinet reshuffle on formation of the May Ministry in 2016 the Office for Civil Society supporting the Minister was part of the Cabinet Office. The post was merged with Minister of Sport to become Minister for Sport and Civil Society after the 2017 general election.

Ministers for Civil Society[]

Name		Portrait	Took office	Left office	Political party	Prime Minister
	Nick Hurd		15 May 2010	14 July 2014	Conservative		David Cameron
	Brooks Newmark		15 July 2014	27 September 2014	Conservative
	Rob Wilson		27 September 2014	8 June 2017	Conservative
							Theresa May
	The Lord Ashton of Hyde		8 June 2017	26 July 2019	Conservative
	The Baroness Barran		26 July 2019	Incumbent	Conservative		Boris Johnson

Shadow Ministers for Civil Society[]

Name		Portrait	Term of office		Title	Party	Opposition Leader
	Roberta Blackman-Woods		8 October 2010	7 October 2011	Shadow Minister for Civil Society	Labour	Miliband
	Gareth Thomas		7 October 2011	7 October 2013		Labour
	Lisa Nandy		7 October 2013	14 September 2015		Labour
	Anna Turley		18 September 2015	27 June 2016		Labour	Corbyn
	Ian Lavery		18 September 2015	7 October 2016	Shadow Minister for Trade Unions and Civil Society	Labour
	Steve Reed		3 October 2016	24 June 2019	Shadow Minister for Civil Society	Labour
	Vicky Foxcroft		24 June 2019	10 April 2020		Labour
	Rachael Maskell		10 April 2020	Present	Shadow Minister for Arts, Civil Society and Youth[a]	Labour	Starmer

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