Secretary for Home Affairs

Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Secretary for Home Affairs 民政事務局局長
Emblem of Hong Kong
Incumbent Caspar Tsui since 22 April 2020
Home Affairs Bureau
Style	The Honourable
Appointer	Central People's Government nomination by Chief Executive
Inaugural holder	Michael Suen
Formation	1 July 1997
Website	HAB

The Secretary for Home Affairs is the head of the Home Affairs Bureau of the Government of Hong Kong, which is responsible for local issues, and the provision of community, leisure, and cultural services.

List of office holders[]

Registrars General, 1845–1912[]

No.	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Governor	Ref
1		Samuel Turner Fearon	1845	1845	Sir John Francis Davis (1844–1848)
2			16 July 1845	1849
					Sir George Bonham (1848–1854)
3		William Thomas Mercer 馬撒爾	1 June 1849	1850
4		Charles May	1850	1856
					Sir John Bowring (1854–1859)
5		Daniel Richard Caldwell	15 November 1856	1862
					Sir Hercules Robinson (1859–1865)
6			23 May 1862	October 1864
7		Sir Cecil Clementi Smith	24 October 1864	1881
					Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell (1866–1872)
					Sir Arthur Kennedy (1872–1877)
					Sir John Pope Hennessy (1877–1882)
8		Sir James Russell 羅素	14 May 1881	1883
					Sir George Bowen (1883–1885)
9		Frederick Stewart 史超域	2 April 1883	1887
10		James Stewart Lockhart 駱克	10 October 1887	1901	Sir William Des Voeux (1887–1891)
					Sir William Robinson (1891–1898)
					Sir Henry Arthur Blake (1898–1903)
11		Arthur Winbolt Brewin 蒲魯賢	15 March 1901	1912
					Sir Matthew Nathan (1904–1907)
					Sir Frederick Lugard (1907–1912)

Secretaries for Chinese Affairs, 1913–1941[]

No.	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Governor	Ref
1		Edwin Richard Hallifax 夏理德	25 July 1913	30 November 1933	Sir Francis Henry May (1912–1918)
					Sir Reginald Edward Stubbs (1919–1925)
					Sir Cecil Clementi (1925–1930)
					Sir William Peel (1930–1935)
2		活雅倫	30 November 1933	24 October 1934
3		Norman Lockhart Smith 史美	24 October 1934	20 October 1936
					Sir Andrew Caldecott (1935–1937)
4		Roland Arthur Charles North 那魯麟	20 October 1936	25 December 1941
					Sir Geoffry Northcote (1937–1941)
					Mark Aitchison Young (1941)

Secretaries for Chinese Affairs, 1946–1969[]

No.	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Governor	Ref
5		Brian Charles Keith Hawkins 鶴健士	1945	1946	Military administration
6		杜德	1 May 1946	10 March 1955	Sir Mark Aitchison Young (1946–1947)
					Sir Alexander Grantham (1947–1957)
5		Brian Charles Keith Hawkins 鶴健士	11 March 1955	11 May 1957
7		麥道軻	12 May 1957	1 November 1966
					Sir Robert Brown Black (1958–1964)
					Sir David Trench (1964–1971)
8		David Ronald Holmes 何禮文	2 November 1966	27 February 1969		[1][2]

Secretaries for Home Affairs, 1969–1985[]

No.	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Governor	Ref
1		David Ronald Holmes 何禮文	28 February 1969	17 May 1971	Sir David Trench (1964–1971)	[2]
2		Donald Luddington 陸鼎堂	18 May 1971	2 June 1973		[3]
					Sir Murray MacLehose (1971–1982)
3		Jack Cater 姬達	3 June 1973	14 November 1973		[4]
4		Denis Bray 黎敦義	15 November 1973	4 May 1977		[5]
5		Li Fook-kow 李福逑	8 June 1977[a]	31 August 1980		[6][7]
6		Denis Bray 黎敦義	1 September 1980	31 December 1984		[7][8]
					Sir Edward Youde (1982–1986)
7		Peter Tsao 曹廣榮	1 January 1985	31 March 1985		[8][9]

Secretary for City and New Territories Administration, 1981–1983[]

No.	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Governor	Ref
1		David Akers-Jones 鍾逸傑	1 December 1981	31 January 1983	Sir Murray MacLehose (1971–1982)	[10][11]
					Sir Edward Youde (1982–1986)

Secretaries for District Administration, 1983–1989[]

No.	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Governor	Ref
1		David Akers-Jones 鍾逸傑	1 February 1983	10 February 1985	Sir Edward Youde (1982–1986)	[11]
2		Donald Liao 廖本懷	11 February 1985	31 August 1989		[12][13]
					Sir David Wilson (1987–1992)

Secretaries for Home Affairs, 1989–1997[]

No.	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Governor	Ref
1		Donald Liao 廖本懷	1 September 1989	30 November 1991	Sir David Wilson (1987–1992)	[13]
2		Peter Tsao 曹廣榮	1 December 1989	6 November 1991		[14]
3		Michael Suen 孫明揚	7 November 1991	30 June 1997		[15]
					Chris Patten (1992–1997)

Secretaries for Home Affairs, since 1997[]

Political party:   Nonpartisan   Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB)

No.	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Duration	Chief Executive	Term	Ref
1		Michael Suen Ming-yeung 孫明揚	8 July 1997	3 August 1997	26 days	Tung Chee-hwa (1997–2005)	1
2		David Lan Hong-tsung 藍鴻震	4 September 1997	6 July 2000	2 years, 306 days
3		Lam Woon-kwong 林煥光	10 July 2000	30 June 2002	1 year, 356 days
							2
4		Patrick Ho Chi-ping 何志平	1 July 2002	30 June 2007	5 years, 0 days
						Donald Tsang (2005–2012)	2
5		Tsang Tak-sing 曾德成	1 July 2007	21 July 2015	8 years, 20 days		3
						Leung Chun-ying (2012–2017)	4
6		Lau Kong-wah 劉江華	21 July 2015	22 April 2020	4 years, 276 days
						Carrie Lam (2017–present)	5
7		Caspar Tsui Ying-wai 徐英偉	22 April 2020	Incumbent	1 year, 277 days

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External links[]

• Government of HKSAR
• Organisation chart of Hong Kong Government