United Kingdom Minister for the Constitution and European Union Relations | |
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Cabinet Office | |
Style | The Right Honourable (within the UK and Commonwealth) |
Type | Minister of the Crown |
Status | Minister of State |
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Seat | Westminster |
Nominator | Prime Minister |
Appointer | The Monarch (on the advice of the Prime Minister) |
Term length | At His Majesty's pleasure |
Salary | £115,824 per annum (2022) [1] (including £86,584 MP salary) [2] |
The office of the Minister for the Constitution and European Union Relations, previously known as Minister of State without Portfolio and sometimes the Constitution Minister, is a ministerial role in the Government of the United Kingdom. [3] The current postholder since 8 July 2024 is Nick Thomas-Symonds, who also serves as Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office.
Name | Portrait | Term of office | Party | Ministry | |||
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Parliamentary Secretary for Political and Constitutional Reform | |||||||
Mark Harper | ![]() | 11 May 2010 | 4 September 2012 | Conservative | Cameron–Clegg | ||
Chloe Smith | ![]() | 4 September 2012 | 6 October 2013 | Conservative | |||
Minister of State for Cities and Constitution | |||||||
Greg Clark | ![]() | 7 October 2013 | 15 July 2014 | Conservative | Cameron–Clegg | ||
Parliamentary Secretary for the Constitution | |||||||
Sam Gyimah | ![]() | 15 July 2014 | 12 May 2015 | Conservative | Cameron–Clegg | ||
John Penrose | ![]() | 12 May 2015 | 17 July 2016 | Conservative | Cameron (II) | ||
Chris Skidmore | ![]() | 17 July 2016 | 8 January 2018 | Conservative | May (I) | ||
May (II) | |||||||
Chloe Smith | ![]() | 8 January 2018 | 13 February 2020 | Conservative | |||
Johnson (I) | |||||||
Johnson (II) | |||||||
Minister of State for the Constitution and Devolution | |||||||
Chloe Smith | ![]() | 13 February 2020 | 16 September 2021 | Conservative | Johnson (II) | ||
Minister of State without Portfolio | |||||||
Nigel Adams | ![]() | 16 September 2021 | 5 September 2022 | Conservative | Johnson (II) | ||
Sir Gavin Williamson | ![]() | 25 October 2022 | 8 November 2022 | Conservative | Sunak | ||
Esther McVey | ![]() | 13 November 2023 | 5 July 2024 | Conservative | |||
Minister for the Constitution and European Union Relations | |||||||
Nick Thomas-Symonds | ![]() | 8 July 2024 | Incumbent | Labour | Starmer |
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