Minister_without_portfolio_(United_Kingdom)

United Kingdom
Minister without Portfolio
United Kingdom; Minister without Portfolio
	Royal Arms as used by His Majesty's Government
	Flag of the United Kingdom
	Incumbent; Richard Holden; since 13 November 2023
	Cabinet Office
Style	The Right Honourable
Reports to	The Prime Minister
Nominator	The Prime Minister
Appointer	The British Monarch; on the advice of the Prime Minister
Term length	No fixed term
Salary	£159,038 per annum (2022); (including £86,584 MP salary)
Website	GOV.UK

Minister without portfolio (United Kingdom)

Member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom

In the United Kingdom, the minister without portfolio is often a cabinet position, and is sometimes used to enable the chairman of the governing party, contemporarily either the chairman of the Conservative Party or the chair of the Labour Party to attend cabinet meetings (if so, they hold the title of "Party chairman"). The sinecure positions of Lord Privy Seal, Paymaster General, and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster which have few responsibilities and have a higher rank in the order of precedence than minister without portfolio can also be used to similar effect. The office is currently held by Richard Holden.

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The corresponding shadow minister is the Shadow Minister without Portfolio.

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	Tenure	Political party
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland	January 1805 – February 1806	Whig	William Pitt the Younger
William Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam	October 1806 – March 1807	Whig	William Grenville (Ministry of All the Talents)
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland	4 – 30 October 1809	Tory	Spencer Perceval
Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby	November 1809 – June 1812	Tory (Pittite)
John Pratt, 2nd Earl Camden (created 1st Marquess Camden, August 1812)	8 April – December 1812	Tory
	8 April – December 1812		Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool
Henry Phipps, 1st Earl of Mulgrave	January 1819 – May 1820		Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne	April – July 1827	Whig	George Canning
William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland	July – September 1827	Tory (Canningite)	George Canning
George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle	22 November 1830 – 5 June 1834	Whig	Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington	3 September 1841 – July 1846	Conservative	Robert Peel
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne	28 December 1852 – 21 February 1858	Whig	George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (until February 1855)
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne	28 December 1852 – 21 February 1858		Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Lord John Russell	February 1853 – June 1854		George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen
Spencer Horatio Walpole	May 1867 – February 1868	Conservative	Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby
Michael Hicks Beach	7 March 1887 – 20 February 1888	Conservative	Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

	Concurrent office(s)	Tenure	Political party
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne		25 May 1915 – December 1916	Liberal Unionist	H. H. Asquith (Coalition)
Arthur Henderson	Member of the War Cabinet	10 December 1916 – 12 August 1917	Labour	David Lloyd George (Coalition)
Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner		10 December 1916 – 18 April 1918	Conservative
Jan Smuts		22 June 1917 – 10 January 1919	South African Party
Edward Carson		17 July 1917 – 21 January 1918	Ulster Unionist Party (Irish Unionist)
George Barnes	Member of the War Cabinet (until October 1919)	13 August 1917 – 27 January 1920	Labour
Austen Chamberlain	Member of the War Cabinet	18 April 1918 – 10 January 1919	Conservative
Eric Campbell Geddes	Member of the War Cabinet	10 January – 31 October 1919
Laming Worthington-Evans	Member of the War Cabinet (until October 1919)	10 January 1919 – 13 February 1921
Christopher Addison		1 April – 14 July 1921	Liberal
Anthony Eden	Minister for League of Nations affairs	7 June – 22 December 1935	Conservative	Stanley Baldwin (Coalition)
Eustace Percy		7 June 1935 – 31 March 1936	Conservative	Stanley Baldwin (Coalition)
Leslie Burgin	Minister of Supply-designate	21 April – 14 July 1939	National Liberal Party	Neville Chamberlain (Coalition)
Maurice Hankey	Member of the War Cabinet	September 1939 – 10 May 1940	no party	Neville Chamberlain (Coalition)
Arthur Greenwood	Member of the War Cabinet	11 May 1940 – 22 February 1942	Labour	Winston Churchill (Coalition)
William Jowitt		30 December 1942 – 8 October 1944	Labour	Winston Churchill (Coalition)

	Concurrent office(s)		Tenure	Political party
A. V. Alexander			4 October – 20 December 1946	Labour Co-operative	Clement Attlee
Arthur Greenwood			17 April – 29 September 1947	Labour	Clement Attlee
Geoffrey FitzClarence, 5th Earl of Munster			18 October 1954 – 1957	Conservative	Winston Churchill
Geoffrey FitzClarence, 5th Earl of Munster			18 October 1954 – 1957		Anthony Eden
Stormont Mancroft, 2nd Baron Mancroft			11 June 1957 – 1958		Harold Macmillan
Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn, 11th Earl of Dundee			23 October 1958 – 1961	Unionist
Percy Mills, 1st Baron Mills		Deputy Leader of the House of Lords	9 October 1961 – 13 July 1962	Conservative
Bill Deedes			13 July 1962 – 16 October 1964
Bill Deedes			13 July 1962 – 16 October 1964		Alec Douglas-Home
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington		Leader of the House of Lords	20 October 1963 – 16 October 1964		Alec Douglas-Home
Eric Fletcher			19 October 1964 – 6 April 1966	Labour	Harold Wilson
Arthur Champion, Baron Champion		Deputy Leader of the House of Lords	21 October 1964 – 7 January 1967
Douglas Houghton			6 April 1966 – 7 January 1967
Edward Shackleton, Baron Shackleton		Deputy Leader of the House of Lords	7 January 1967 – 16 January 1968
Patrick Gordon Walker			7 January – 21 August 1967
George Thomson			17 October 1968 – 6 October 1969
Peter Shore			6 October 1969 – 19 June 1970
Niall Macpherson, 1st Baron Drumalbyn			15 October 1970 – 1974	Unionist	Edward Heath
Morys Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare			8 January – March 1974	Conservative	Edward Heath
David Young, Baron Young of Graffham	advising on unemployment		11 September 1984 – 3 September 1985		Margaret Thatcher
Jeremy Hanley	Chairman of the Conservative Party		20 July 1994 – 5 July 1995		John Major
Brian Mawhinney	Chairman of the Conservative Party		5 July 1995 – 2 May 1997		John Major
Peter Mandelson^[3]	called the "Dome Secretary"^[4]		5 May 1997 – 26 July 1998	Labour	Tony Blair

Minister		Concurrent office(s)	Term of office		Political party
	Charles Clarke^[5]	Labour Party Chair	8 June 2001	24 October 2002	Labour	Tony Blair
	John Reid^[6]		24 October 2002	4 April 2003
	Ian McCartney^[7]		4 April 2003	5 May 2006
	Hazel Blears^[8]		5 May 2006	28 June 2007
no appointment			28 June 2007	12 May 2010		Gordon Brown
	Sayeeda Warsi, Baroness Warsi^[9]^[10]	Co-Chairman of the Conservative Party	12 May 2010	6 September 2012	Conservative	David Cameron (Coalition)
	Grant Shapps^[11]	Co-Chairman of the Conservative Party	6 September 2012	8 May 2015
	Kenneth Clarke^[12]	Trade envoy	6 September 2012	14 July 2014
	John Hayes^[13]	Senior Parliamentary Adviser to the Prime Minister (Cabinet Office)	28 March 2013	15 July 2014
	Robert Halfon^[14]	Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party	8 May 2015	17 July 2016		David Cameron
no appointment			17 July 2016	8 January 2018		Theresa May
	Brandon Lewis^[15]	Chairman of the Conservative Party	8 January 2018	24 July 2019		Theresa May
	James Cleverly^[16]		24 July 2019	13 February 2020		Boris Johnson
	Amanda Milling^[17]		13 February 2020	15 September 2021
	Oliver Dowden^[18]		15 September 2021	24 June 2022
no appointment			24 June 2022	7 July 2022
	Andrew Stephenson	Chairman of the Conservative Party	7 July 2022	6 September 2022
	Sir Jake Berry		6 September 2022	25 October 2022		Liz Truss
	Nadhim Zahawi		25 October 2022	29 January 2023		Rishi Sunak
	Greg Hands		7 February 2023	13 November 2023
	Richard Holden		13 November 2023	Incumbent

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United Kingdom Minister without Portfolio
Royal Arms as used by His Majesty's Government
Flag of the United Kingdom
Incumbent Richard Holden since 13 November 2023
Cabinet Office
Style	The Right Honourable
Reports to	The Prime Minister
Nominator	The Prime Minister
Appointer	The British Monarch on the advice of the Prime Minister
Term length	No fixed term
Salary	£159,038 per annum (2022)^[1] (including £86,584 MP salary)^[2]
Website	GOV.UK