United Kingdom Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
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Incumbent The Lord Sharpe of Epsom since 26 October 2022
Home Office
Type	Minister of the Crown
Status	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
Member of	His Majesty's Government
Reports to	Home Secretary
Seat	Westminster
Nominator	Prime Minister
Appointer	The Monarch (on the advice of the Prime Minister)
Term length	At His Majesty's pleasure
Formation	6 May 1979
First holder	Tim Raison
Salary	£115,824 per annum (2022) [1] (including £86,584 MP salary) [2]
Website	Official Website

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
• August 1801: Sir George Shee, Bt
• August 1803: Reginald Pole-Carew
• July 1804: John Henry Smyth
• 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
• 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
• 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
• March 1871: Henry Winterbotham
• February 1874: Sir Henry Selwin-Ibbetson, Bt
• April 1878: Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bt
• April 1880: Arthur Peel
• January 1881: Leonard Courtney
• August 1881: The Earl of Rosebery
• June 1883: J. T. Hibbert
• December 1884: Henry Fowler
• June 1885: Charles Stuart-Wortley
• February 1886: Henry Broadhurst
• August 1886: Charles Stuart-Wortley
• August 1892: Herbert Gladstone
• 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
• May 1915: William Brace
• January 1919: Sir Hamar Greenwood
• April 1919: John Baird
• October 1922: George Frederick Stanley
• March 1923: Godfrey Locker-Lampson
• January 1924: Rhys Davies
• November 1924: Godfrey Locker-Lampson
• December 1925: Douglas Hacking
• November 1927: Sir Vivian Henderson
• June 1929: Alfred Short
• September 1931: Oliver Stanley
• February 1933: Douglas Hacking
• June 1935: Harry Crookshank
• June 1934: Euan Wallace
• November 1935: Geoffrey Lloyd
• June 1939: Osbert Peake (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 (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 (jointly) (to November 1968)
• April 1968: Elystan Morgan (jointly) (to June 1970)
• November 1968: Merlyn Rees (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
• 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 (jointly) (to July 1999)
• May 1997: Mike O'Brien (jointly) (to June 2001)
• July 1998: Kate Hoey (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 (jointly) (to May 2006)
• Joan Ryan - 5 May 2006 – 29 June 2007
• Meg Hillier - 28 June 2007 – 12 May 2010

Parliamentary secretaries, 1940–1945

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

See also

• List of permanent under secretaries of state of the Home Office
• Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
• Undersecretary

Notes