This article lists past and present Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State serving the Home Secretary of the United Kingdom at the Home Office.

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 Edward Finch-Hatton (c.1697 – 16 May 1771) of Kirby Hall, near Rockingham, Northamptonshire, was a British diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons for 41 years from 1727 to 1768. Early life Finch was born Hon. Edward Finch, 5 ...

*August 1801: Sir George Shee, Bt *August 1803:

Reginald Pole-Carew Reginald Pole Carew (28 July 1753 – 3 January 1835) was a British politician. Rt. Hon. Reginald Pole-Carew was born the son of Reginald Pole and Anne Buller of Stoke Damerel, Plymouth, Devon. He was educated at Winchester College and Unive ...

*July 1804:

John Henry Smyth John Henry Smyth MP (20 March 1780 – 20 October 1822) was a Whig member of Parliament for Cambridge University from 9 June 1812 until his death. Personal life and education Smyth was educated at Eton College and then Trinity College, Cam ...

*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 Sir George Russell Clerk (pronounced ''Clark''; – 25 July 1889) was a British civil servant in British India. Life Clerk was born at Worting House in Mortimer West End, Hampshire,''1851 England Census'' the son of John Clerk of Glouces ...

*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 Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook, (born Gathorne Hardy; 1 October 1814 – 30 October 1906) was a prominent British statesman, Conservative politician and key ally of Benjamin Disraeli. He held cabinet office in every Conservati ...

*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 George John Shaw Lefevre, 1st Baron Eversley (12 June 1831 – 19 April 1928) was a British Liberal Party politician. In a ministerial career that spanned thirty years, he was twice First Commissioner of Works and also served as Postmaster Gene ...

*March 1871:

Henry Winterbotham Henry Selfe Page Winterbotham (2 March 1837 – 13 December 1873) was an English lawyer and Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1867 to 1873. Winterbotham was the son of Lindsey Winterbotham, a banker, of Stroud and h ...

*February 1874: Sir Henry Selwin-Ibbetson, Bt *April 1878: Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bt *April 1880: Arthur Peel *January 1881:

Leonard Courtney Leonard Henry Courtney, 1st Baron Courtney of Penwith (6 July 183211 May 1918) was a radical British politician, and an academic, who became famous after being advocate of proportional representation in Parliament and acting as an opponent of ...

*August 1881:

The Earl of Rosebery Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, 1st Earl of Midlothian, (7 May 1847 – 21 May 1929) was a British Liberal Party politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from March 1894 to June 1895. Between the death ...

*June 1883:

J. T. Hibbert Sir John Tomlinson Hibbert (5 January 1824 – 7 November 1908), known as J. T. Hibbert, was a British barrister and Liberal politician. Background and education The eldest son of Elijah Hibbert and Betty Hilton, he was educated at Shrews ...

*December 1884:

Henry Fowler Henry Fowler may refer to: * Henry the Fowler (861–936), Duke of Saxony and King of the Germans * Henry Fowler (hymn writer) (1779–1838), English hymn writer * Henry Fowler (Maryland and Wisconsin) (1799–?), American farmer and politician * ...

*June 1885: Charles Stuart-Wortley *February 1886: Henry Broadhurst *August 1886: Charles Stuart-Wortley *August 1892:

Herbert Gladstone Herbert John Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone, (7 January 1854 – 6 March 1930) was a British Liberal politician. The youngest son of William Ewart Gladstone, he was Home Secretary from 1905 to 1910 and Governor-General of the Union of S ...

*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 Cecil Bisshopp Harmsworth, 1st Baron Harmsworth LLD (23 September 1869 – 13 August 1948), was a British businessman and Liberal politician. He served as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department in 1915 and as Under-Secretary of State ...

*May 1915: William Brace *January 1919: Sir Hamar Greenwood *April 1919: John Baird *October 1922:

George Frederick Stanley Sir George Frederick Stanley (14 October 1872 – 1 July 1938) was a British soldier and Conservative Party politician who served as a member of the UK Parliament for Preston and later, Willesden East. He also served the Governor of Madras from ...

*March 1923:

Godfrey Locker-Lampson Godfrey Lampson Tennyson Locker-Lampson (19 June 1875 – 1 May 1946) was a British Conservative politician, poet and essayist. Birth and education The elder son of the poet Frederick Locker and his second wife Hannah Jane Lampson, daughter of S ...

*January 1924: Rhys Davies *November 1924:

*December 1925:

Douglas Hacking Douglas Hewitt Hacking, 1st Baron Hacking (4 August 1884 – 29 July 1950) was a British Conservative politician. Early life and military career Educated at Giggleswick School and Manchester University, he was commissioned in the East Lancas ...

*November 1927: Sir Vivian Henderson *June 1929:

Alfred Short Alfred Short (1882 – 24 August 1938, London) was a British trades unionist and Labour Party (UK), Labour politician, Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for Wednesbury (UK Parliament constituency), Wednesbury from ...

*September 1931: Oliver Stanley *February 1933:

*June 1935: Harry Crookshank *June 1934:

Euan Wallace David Euan Wallace, MC PC (20 April 1892 – 9 February 1941) was a British Conservative politician who was an ally of Neville Chamberlain and briefly served as Minister of Transport during World War II. Early life Wallace was born on 20 A ...

*November 1935: Geoffrey Lloyd *June 1939:

Osbert Peake Osbert Peake, 1st Viscount Ingleby, PC (30 December 1897 – 11 October 1966) was a British Conservative Party politician. He served as Minister of National Insurance and then as Minister of Pensions and National Insurance from 1951 to 1955. ...

(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 Irene Mervyn Parnicott Pike, Baroness Pike, (16 September 1918 – 11 January 2004) was a British Conservative politician. The name by which she came to be known, Mervyn, had been the name of her father's best friend, who was to have been he ...

(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 David Hedley Ennals, Baron Ennals, (19 August 1922 – 17 June 1995) was a British Labour Party politician and campaigner for human rights. He served as Secretary of State for Social Services from 1976 to 1979. Early life and military career ...

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

Merlyn Rees Merlyn Merlyn-Rees, Baron Merlyn-Rees, (né Merlyn Rees; 18 December 1920 – 5 January 2006) was a British Labour Party politician and Member of Parliament from 1963 until 1992. He served as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (1974–197 ...

(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 Charles Frederick Wardle (born 23 August 1939) is a retired British businessman and politician who was the Conservative Member of Parliament for Bexhill and Battle from 1983 until 2001. In April 2001 for the last four weeks of his Parliamenta ...

*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 Sir George Edward Howarth (born 29 June 1949) is a British Labour Party politician who serves as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Knowsley. He also served the seat's predecessors since being elected in a by-election in 1986, firstly as the ...

(jointly) (to July 1999) *May 1997: Mike O'Brien (jointly) (to June 2001) *July 1998:

Kate Hoey Catharine Letitia Hoey, Baroness Hoey (born 21 June 1946), better known as Kate Hoey, is a Northern Irish politician and life peer who served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Home Affairs from 1998 to 1999 and Minister for Sport from 1999 ...

(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 Andrew Murray Burnham (born 7 January 1970) is a British politician who has served as Mayor of Greater Manchester since 2017. He served in Gordon Brown's Cabinet as Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 2007 to 2008, Culture Secretary from 2008 ...

(jointly) (to May 2006) *

Joan Ryan Joan Ryan may refer to: * Joan Ryan (actress), American actress and singer * Joan Ryan (politician) Joan Marie Ryan (born 8 September 1955) is a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Enfield North from 1997 to 2010 and ...

- 5 May 2006 – 29 June 2007 * Meg Hillier - 28 June 2007 – 12 May 2010 * Victoria Atkins (Safeguarding) - from 9 November 2017 * Kevin Foster (Future Borders and Immigration) - * Chris Philp (Immigration Compliance and the Courts, joint with Ministry of Justice) -

Parliamentary secretaries, 1940–1945

*May 1940: William Mabane (to June 1942) *October 1940: Ellen Wilkinson (to May 1945)

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

Parliamentary secretaries, 1940–1945

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