Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department

This article lists past and present parliamentary under-secretaries 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: John Townshend, 2nd Viscount Sydney June 1789: Scrope Bernard July 1794: Thomas Brodrick March 1796: Charles Greville March 1798: William Wickham February 1801: Edward Finch-Hatton August 1801: Sir George Shee, 1st Baronet August 1803: Reginald Pole Carew July 1804: John Henry Smyth February 1806: Charles Williams-Wynn November 1807: Charles Cecil Cope 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, 6th Baronet November 1830: George Lamb January 1834: Henry Grey, Viscount Howick July 1834: Edward Stanley January 1835: William Gregson April 1835: Fox Maule June 1841: Edward Seymour, Baron Seymour September 1841: John Manners-Sutton July 1846: Sir William Somerville, 5th Baronet July 1847: Sir Denis Le Marchant, 1st Baronet May 1848: Sir George Cornewall Lewis, 2nd Baronet July 1850: Edward Pleydell-Bouverie February 1852: Sir William Jolliffe, 1st Baronet 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: Somerset Lowry-Corry, 4th Earl Belmore August 1867: Sir James Fergusson, 6th Baronet August 1868: Sir Michael Hicks Beach, 9th Baronet December 1868: Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen January 1871: George Shaw-Lefevre March 1871: Henry Winterbotham February 1874: Sir Henry Selwin-Ibbetson, 7th Baronet April 1878: Sir Matthew White Ridley, 5th Baronet April 1880: Arthur Peel January 1881: Leonard Courtney August 1881: Archibald Primrose, 5th 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: Geoffrey FitzClarence, 5th 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, 1st Baronet (to Dec 1955) November 1952: Alexander Lloyd, 2nd Baron Lloyd (to October 1954) October 1954: Stormont Mancroft, 2nd Baron 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: Henry Bathurst, 8th 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: Victor Collins, Baron 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: John Ganzoni, 2nd Baron Belstead April 1982: Rodney Elton, 2nd Baron Elton (to September 1984) January 1983: David Mellor (to September 1986) March 1984: Simon Arthur, 4th Baron Glenarthur (to September 1986) September 1986: Douglas Hogg July 1989: Peter Lloyd April 1992: Charles Wardle July 1994: Nicholas Baker October 1995: Timothy Kirkhope (to May 1997) November 1995: Tom Sackville (jointly) (to May 1997) May 1997: Gareth Williams, Baron 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: Steve Bassam, Baron Bassam of Brighton (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: Geoffrey Filkin, Baron 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) 5 May 2006: Joan Ryan (to 29 June 2007) 28 June 2007: Meg Hillier (to 12 May 2010) 22 July 2026: Ray Collins, Baron Collins of Highbury

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

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