Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury

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Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury
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Incumbent
James Murray
since 9 July 2024
His Majesty's Treasury
Reports to First Lord of the Treasury
Chancellor of the Exchequer & Second Lord of the Treasury
Nominator Prime Minister
Appointer The King
(on the advice of the Prime Minister)
Term length At His Majesty's pleasure
Inaugural holder Phillip Oppenheim
Formation23 July 1996
Website Official website

The Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury is a junior ministerial post in His Majesty's 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 the holder does not attend Cabinet.

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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 office again fell out of use in July 2016 when Theresa May became Prime Minister, before she reinstated it following the 2017 general election.

The position was 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

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
PortraitNameTerm of officeParty 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 use1997–2007N/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 use2016–2017N/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 		8 July
2022 		Conservative [13]
Official portrait of Alan Mak crop 2.jpg Alan Mak
MP for Havant 		8 July
2022 		7 September
2022		Conservative Zahawi [14]
Official portrait of Felicity Buchan MP crop 2.jpg Felicity Buchan
MP for Kensington 		8 September
2022		28 October
2022		Conservative Truss Kwarteng [15]
Hunt
Official portrait of James Cartlidge MP crop 2.jpg James Cartlidge
MP for South Suffolk 		28 October
2022		21 April
2023		Conservative Sunak [16]
Official portrait of Gareth Davies MP crop 2.jpg Gareth Davies
MP for Grantham and Stamford 		21 April
2023		4 July
2024		Conservative [17]
Official portrait of James Murray MP crop 2.jpg James Murray
MP for Ealing North 		9 July
2024		IncumbentLabour Starmer Reeves [18]

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