Financial Secretary to the Treasury is a junior Ministerial post in the UK Treasury. It is the 4th most significant Ministerial role within the Treasury after the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, and the Paymaster General. It is not a Cabinet office, with the exception of Sir William Joynson-Hicks who was briefly in the Cabinet as Financial Secretary in 1923, the reason for this being that the Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin, was also Chancellor of the Exchequer. The new eastern entrance to HM Treasury HM Treasury, in full Her Majestys Treasury, informally The Treasury, is the United Kingdom government department responsible for developing and executing the UK Governments financial and economic policy. ... The Chancellor of the Exchequer is the title held by the British cabinet minister responsible for all financial matters. ... The Chief Secretary to the Treasury is a junior position in the British Cabinet. ... Paymaster-General is a ministerial position in the UK. The portfolio consists of the workings of HM Revenue and Customs, formerly HM Inland Revenue and HM Customs and Excise, and reports to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. ... A cabinet is a body of high-ranking members of government, typically representing the executive branch. ... William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford 23 June 1865-8 June 1932, popularly known as Jix, was a UK Conservative politician, most known for his tenure as Home Secretary during which he gained a reputation for strict authoritarianism. ... Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, KG, PC (3 August 1867–14 December 1947) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on three separate occasions. ... The Chancellor of the Exchequer is the title held by the British cabinet minister responsible for all financial matters. ...

The current incumbent is John Healey, who took up this office in 2005. John Healey (born 13 February 1960) is a politician in the United Kingdom. ...

History

The role of Financial Secretary to the Treasury was created in 1711 and was known as the Junior Secretary to the Treasury to the Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury who held the senior position. The first Junior Secretary to the Treasury is recorded as a T. Harley who was appointed on 11 June 1711. The position has continued un-interrupted to the present day. // Events February 24 - The London premiere of Rinaldo by George Friderich Handel, the first Italian opera written for the London stage. ... In the United Kingdom, there are at least five Secretaries to the Treasury, officials officially acting as secretaries to the Treasury board. ... This article is about various offices in the government of the United Kingdom. ... June 11 is the 162nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (163rd in leap years), with 203 days remaining. ... // Events February 24 - The London premiere of Rinaldo by George Friderich Handel, the first Italian opera written for the London stage. ...

Notable former Financial Secretaries to the Treasury include Lord Frederick Cavendish, Austen Chamberlain, Stanley Baldwin, Enoch Powell, Nigel Lawson, and Norman Lamont. Lord Frederick Charles Cavendish (November 30, 1836 - May 6, 1882), son of William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire, was a English Liberal politician and protégé of the Prime Minister, William Ewart Gladstone, who was appointed to the post of Chief Secretary for Ireland in May 1882. ... The Rt. ... Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, KG, PC (3 August 1867–14 December 1947) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on three separate occasions. ... The Right Honourable John Enoch Powell, MBE (June 16, 1912 – February 8, 1998) was a right-wing British politician and Conservative Party MP between 1950 and February 1974, and an Ulster Unionist MP between October 1974 and 1987. ... Nigel Lawson, Baron Lawson of Blaby, PC (born March 11, 1932), a British politician, was Chancellor of the Exchequer between June 1983 and October 1989. ... Norman Stewart Hughson Lamont, Baron Lamont of Lerwick, PC (born 8 May 1942) was Conservative Member of Parliament for Kingston-upon-Thames, England from 1972 until 1997. ...

Current role

The current responsibilities of the Financial Secretary to the Treasury include Departmental responsibility for the Office for National Statistics, and the Royal Mint. The Financial Secretary to the Treasury had Departmental responsibility for HM Customs & Excise until the merger with the Inland Revenue to form HM Revenue and Customs. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is the government executive agency charged with the collection and publication of statistics related to the economy, population and society of the United Kingdom at national and local levels. ... The Royal Mint is the body permitted to manufacture, or mint, coins in the United Kingdom. ... In the UK, Her Majestys Customs and Excise is a department of the British Government. ... The Inland Revenue was, until April 2005, a department of the British Government responsible for the collection of direct taxation, including income tax, national insurance contributions, capital gains tax, inheritance tax, corporation tax, petroleum revenue tax and stamp duty. ... Her Majestys Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is a non-ministerial department of the British Government primarily responsible for the collection of taxes, some forms of state support, and import controls. ...

The incumbent Financial Secretary to the Treasury is John Healey who has been in the role since 2005, having formerly been the Economic Secretary to the Treasury. John Healey (born 13 February 1960) is a politician in the United Kingdom. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about various offices in the government of the United Kingdom. ...

Financial Secretaries to the Treasury since 1852

see Secretary to the Treasury for earlier incumbents

• George Alexander Hamilton 1852
• James Wilson 1853–1858
• George Alexander Hamilton 1858–1859
• Sir Stafford Northcote 1859
• Samuel Laing 1859–1860
• Frederick Peel 1860–1865
• Hugh Childers 1865–1866
• George Ward Hunt 1866–1868
• George Sclater-Booth 1868
• Acton Smee Ayrton 1868–1869
• James Stansfeld 1869–1871
• William Edward Baxter 1871–1873
• John Dodson 1873–1874
• William Henry Smith 1874–1877
• Frederick Arthur Stanley 1877–1878
• Henry John Selwin-Ibbetson 1878–1880
• Lord Frederick Cavendish 1880–1882
• Leonard Henry Courtney 1882–1885
• John Tomlinson Hibbert 1885
• Sir Henry Thurstan Holland 1885
• Sir Matthew White Ridley 1885–1886
• William Jackson 1886
• Henry Hartley Fowler 1886
• William Jackson 1886–1891
• John Eldon Gorst 1891–1892
• Sir John Tomlinson Hibbert 1892–1895
• Robert William Hanbury 1895–1900
• Austen Chamberlain 1900–1902
• William Fisher 1902–1903
• Arthur Elliot 1903
• Victor Cavendish 1903–1905
• Reginald McKenna 1905–1907
• Walter Runciman 1907–1908
• Sir Charles Hobhouse 1908–1911
• Thomas McKinnon Wood 1911–1912
• Charles Frederick Gurney Masterman 1912–1914
• Edwin Samuel Montagu 1914–1915
• Sir Francis Dyke Acland 1915
• Edwin Samuel Montagu 1915–1916
• Thomas McKinnon Wood 1916
• Sir Hardman Lever 1916–1919 (coalition)
• Stanley Baldwin 1917–1921
• Edward Hilton Young 1921–1922
• John Waller Hills 1922–1923
• Archibald Boyd-Carpenter 1923
• Sir William Joynson-Hicks 1923
• Walter Guinness 1923
• William Graham 1924
• Walter Guinness 1924-25
• Ronald McNeill 1925-27
• Arthur Samuel 1927-29
• Frederick Pethick-Lawrence 1929-31
• Walter Elliot 1931-32
• Leslie Hore-Belisha 1932-34
• Alfred Duff Cooper 1934-35
• William Morrison 1935–1936
• John Colville 1936
• Euan Wallace 1938
• Harry Crookshank 1939-1943
• Ralph Assheton 1943-1944
• Osbert Peake 1944
• William Glenvil Hall 1945–1950
• Douglas Jay 1950–1951
• John Boyd-Carpenter 1951–1954
• Henry Brooke 1954–1957
• Enoch Powell 1957–1958
• Jocelyn Simon 1958–1959
• Edward Boyle 1959–1962
• Anthony Barber 1962–1963
• Alan Green 1963–1964
• Niall MacDermot 1964–1967
• Harold Lever 1967–1969
• Dick Taverne 1969–1970
• Patrick Jenkin 1970–1972
• Terrence Higgins 1972–1974
• John Gilbert 1974
• Robert Sheldon 1974–1979
• Nigel Lawson 1979–1981
• Nicholas Ridley 1981–1983
• John Moore 1983–1986
• Norman Lamont 1986–1989
• Peter Lilley 1989–1990
• Francis Maude 1990–1992
• Stephen Dorrell 1992–1994
• George Young 1994–1995
• Michael Jack 1995–1997
• Dawn Primarolo 1997–1999
• Barbara Roche 1999
• Stephen Timms 1999–2001
• Paul Boateng 2001–2002
• Ruth Kelly 2002–2004
• Stephen Timms 2004–2005
• John Healey 2005–

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See also

• Secretary to the Treasury

In the United Kingdom, there are at least five Secretaries to the Treasury, officials officially acting as secretaries to the Treasury board. ...

External links

• British History Online List of Secretaries to the Treasury
• Treasury Ministerial responsibilities