Minister for Sport and Civil Society

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The Minister for Sport and Civil Society was a junior minister in the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport of the United Kingdom government, with responsibility for sport and Civil Society in England. In 2020, the role merged with that of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Arts, Heritage and Tourism to become Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Sport, Tourism, Heritage and Civil Society.

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The post covered sport as well as tourism and heritage. The sports minister has at various times previously reported to the Department of National Heritage, the Department of Education and Science and the Department of the Environment.

Sport is a devolved matter in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland resting with the corresponding ministers in the Scottish Government, Welsh Government and the Northern Ireland Executive, although when the Northern Ireland Assembly was suspended, responsibility went to the Northern Ireland Office.

Under Margaret Thatcher the office was known as Under-Secretary of State for Sport.

Current responsibilities

Ministers for Sport

NamePortraitTerm of officePolitical partyPrime Minister
Denis Howell 19641970 Labour Wilson
Eldon Griffiths 19701974 Conservative Heath
Denis Howell 19741979 Labour Wilson
Callaghan
Hector Monro 19791981 Conservative Thatcher I
Neil Macfarlane Neil Macfarlane (3x4 crop).jpg 19811985 Conservative Thatcher I
Thatcher II
Richard Tracey 19851987 Conservative Thatcher II
Colin Moynihan Official portrait of Lord Moynihan crop 2.jpg 19871990 Conservative Thatcher II
Robert Atkins Sir Robert Atkins (Martin Rulsch) 1.jpg 19901992 Conservative Major I
Robert Key 19921993 Conservative Major II
Iain Sproat 19931997 Conservative
Tony Banks 19971999 Labour Blair I
Kate Hoey Official portrait of Baroness Hoey crop 1.jpg 19992001 Labour
Richard Caborn Richard Caborn.jpg 20012007 Labour Blair II
Blair III
Gerry Sutcliffe Gerry Sutcliffe.jpg 20072010 Labour Brown
Hugh Robertson Hugh Robertson Official.jpg 20102013 Conservative Cameron-Clegg
Helen Grant Official portrait of Mrs Helen Grant MP crop 2.jpg 20132015 Conservative
Tracey Crouch Official portrait of Tracey Crouch MP crop 2.jpg May 20152018 Conservative Cameron II
May I
May II
Mims Davies Mims Davies.jpg 20182019 Conservative
Nigel Adams Official portrait of Nigel Adams MP crop 2.jpg 20192020 Conservative Johnson I
Johnson II
Nigel Huddleston
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Sport, Tourism and Heritage
Official portrait of Nigel Huddleston MP crop 2.jpg 2020Incumbent Conservative

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