United Kingdom Minister of State without Portfolio | |
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Cabinet Office | |
Style |
The Right Honourable (within the UK and Commonwealth) |
Type | Minister of the Crown |
Status | Minister of State |
Member of |
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Reports to | |
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 Minister of State without Portfolio, sometimes previously known as constitution minister, is a ministerial role in the Government of the United Kingdom. The officeholder currently supports the office of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster with public appointments and government communications. [3] The post is currently held by Esther McVey since November 2023.
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 | Incumbent | Conservative |