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Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport

{{Short description|Member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2019}}

{{Use British English|date=November 2018}}

{{Infobox official post

| post = {{small|United Kingdom}}
Secretary of State
for Culture, Media and Sport

| insignia = Coat of arms of the United Kingdom (2022, lesser arms).svg

| insigniacaption = Royal Arms of His Majesty's Government

| alt =

| image = Lisa Nandy Official Cabinet Portrait, July 2024 (cropped).jpg

| incumbent = Lisa Nandy

| incumbentsince = 5 July 2024

| department = Department for Culture, Media and Sport

|| style = Culture Secretary
{{small|(informal)}}
The Right Honourable
{{small|(within the UK and Commonwealth)}}

| type = Minister of the Crown

| status = Secretary of State

| member_of = {{ubl|Cabinet|Privy Council}}

| reports_to = The Prime Minister

| seat = Westminster

| nominator = The Prime Minister

| appointer = The Monarch

| appointer_qualified = {{small|(on the advice of the Prime Minister)}}

| termlength = At His Majesty's Pleasure

| formation = * 11 April 1992:
{{small|(as Secretary of State for National Heritage)}}

  • 7 February 2023:
    {{small|(as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport)}}

| first = David Mellor
{{small|(as Secretary of State for National Heritage)}}

| salary = £159,038 per annum {{small|(2022)}}{{Cite web |title=Salaries of Members of His Majesty's Government – Financial Year 2022–23 |url=https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1124173/2022-12-07-Ministerial-Salaries-22-23-table.pdf |date=15 December 2022}}
(including £86,584 MP salary){{Cite web |title=Pay and expenses for MPs |url=https://www.parliament.uk/about/mps-and-lords/members/pay-mps/ |access-date=15 December 2022 |website=parliament.uk}}

| website = {{URL|www.culture.gov.uk|Department for Culture, Media and Sport}}

}}

The secretary of state for culture, media and sport, also referred to as the culture secretary, is a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom, with overall responsibility for strategy and policy across the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.{{Cite web|title=Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport - GOV.UK|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/ministers/secretary-of-state-for-digital-culture-media-and-sport|access-date=2020-12-21|website=www.gov.uk|language=en}} The incumbent is a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom. The office has been dubbed "Minister of Fun".{{Cite web|date=2011-10-22|title=Interview: David Mellor - A more mellow fellow? Mellor's not for|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/interview-david-mellor-a-more-mellow-fellow-mellor-s-not-for-turning-1074453.html|access-date=2020-12-21|website=The Independent|language=en}}{{PoliticsUK}}

Responsibilities

The secretary has overall responsibility for strategy and policy across the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Responsibilities include:

  • Arts and Culture
  • Broadcasting
  • Creative industries
  • Creative Industries Council
  • Cultural property, heritage and the historic environment
  • Cultural Renewal Taskforce
  • Culture, sports and arts sector recovery from COVID-19
  • Gambling and racing
  • Libraries
  • Media ownership and mergers
  • Museums and galleries
  • The National Lottery
  • Sport
  • Tourism

History

The office was created in 1992 by Prime Minister John Major, as Secretary of State for National Heritage.[https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/1311/made The Transfer of Functions (National Heritage) Order 1992]. In his autobiography, Major says that, before the office was created, responsibility for cultural interests was shared among various departments, but important to none of them.{{Cite book|last=Major|first=John|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42751073|title=John Major: The Autobiography|publisher=HarperCollins Publishers|year=1999|isbn=0-06-019614-9|pages=404|oclc=42751073}} For instance, arts and libraries, although a separate department, had no minister in the Cabinet, sport was part of the Department for Education, film was part of the Department of Trade and Industry, broadcasting was part of the Home Office, tourism was part of the Department for Employment and heritage was part of the Department of the Environment. He also wrote that the system tended to favour the interests of the articulate and well-connected London-based arts lobby.

Thus, when he became Prime Minister, Major said that he saw that the only way to give culture and sport the higher profile that he thought that they deserved was to establish a new department, under a minister of Cabinet rank, to bring together all aspects of the arts, sport and heritage.{{Cite book|last=Major|first=John|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42751073|title=John Major: The Autobiography|publisher=HarperCollins Publishers|year=1999|isbn=0-06-019614-9|pages=405|oclc=42751073}}

List of secretaries of state

=Secretary of State for National Heritage (1992–1997)=

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! colspan=2 | Term of office

! Party

! colspan=2 | Prime Minister

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! style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| 75px

| David Mellor
{{Small|MP for Putney}}

| 11 April 1992

| 22 September 1992

| Conservative

| rowspan=4 style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| rowspan=4|John Major

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! style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| 75px

| Peter Brooke
{{Small|MP for Cities of London and Westminster}}

| 25 September 1992

| 20 July 1994

| Conservative

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! style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| 75px

| Stephen Dorrell
{{Small|MP for Loughborough}}

| 20 July 1994

| 5 July 1995

| Conservative

style="height:1em"

! style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| 75px

| Virginia Bottomley
{{Small|MP for South West Surrey}}

| 5 July 1995

| 2 May 1997

| Conservative

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! style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| 75px

| Chris Smith
{{Small|MP for Islington South and Finsbury}}

| 2 May 1997

| 22 July 1997

| Labour

| style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| Tony Blair

=Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (1997–2010)=

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! colspan=3 | Secretary of State

! colspan=2 | Term of office

! Party

! colspan=2 | Prime Minister

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! style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| 75px

| Chris Smith
{{Small|MP for Islington South and Finsbury}}

| 22 July 1997

| 8 June 2001

| Labour

| rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| rowspan=2 | Tony Blair

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! style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| 75px

| Tessa Jowell
{{Small|MP for Dulwich and West Norwood}}

| 8 June 2001

| 27 June 2007

| Labour

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! style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| 75px

| James Purnell
{{Small|MP for Stalybridge and Hyde}}

| 28 June 2007

| 24 January 2008

| Labour

| rowspan=3 style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| rowspan=3|Gordon Brown

style="height:1em"

! style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| 75px

| Andy Burnham
{{Small|MP for Leigh}}

| 24 January 2008

| 5 June 2009

| Labour

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! style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| 75px

| Ben Bradshaw
{{Small|MP for Exeter}}

| 5 June 2009

| 11 May 2010

| Labour

=Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport (2010 - 2012)=

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! colspan=3 | Secretary of State

! colspan=2 | Term of office

! Party

! colspan=2 | Prime Minister

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! style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| 75px

| Jeremy Hunt
{{Small|MP for South West Surrey}}

| 12 May 2010

| 4 September 2012

| Conservative

| style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| David Cameron

=Secretaries of State for Culture, Media and Sport (2012–2017)=

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"

! colspan=3 | Secretary of State

! colspan=2 | Term of office

! Party

! colspan=2 | Prime Minister

style="height:1em"

! style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| 75px

| Maria Miller
{{Small|MP for Basingstoke}}

| 4 September 2012

| 9 April 2014

| Conservative

| rowspan=3 style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| rowspan="3" |David Cameron

style="height:1em"

! style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| 75px

| Sajid Javid
{{Small|MP for Bromsgrove}}

| 9 April 2014

| 11 May 2015

| Conservative

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! style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| 75px

| John Whittingdale
{{Small|MP for Maldon}}

| 11 May 2015

| 14 July 2016

| Conservative

style="height:1em"

! style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| 75px

| Karen Bradley
{{Small|MP for Staffordshire Moorlands}}

| 14 July 2016

| 3 July 2017

| Conservative

| style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

|Theresa May

colspan=8 style="width:10px" | In 2017 the DCMS was renamed to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport in acknowledgement of the increasing responsibility the department had gained for Digital affairs.{{Cite web |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/change-of-name-for-dcms |title=Change of name for DCMS |website=GOV.UK |access-date=11 November 2017}} Karen Bradley continued as Secretary of State for the department.

=Secretaries of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (2017–2023)=

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! colspan=3 | Secretary of State

! colspan=2 | Term of office

! Party

! colspan=2 | Prime Minister

style="height:1em"

! style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| 75px

| Karen Bradley
{{Small|MP for Staffordshire Moorlands}}

| 3 July 2017

| 8 January 2018

| Conservative

| rowspan=3 style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| rowspan=3 | Theresa May

style="height:1em"

! style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| 75px

| Matt Hancock
{{Small|MP for West Suffolk}}

| 8 January 2018

| 8 July 2018

| Conservative

style="height:1em"

! style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| 75px

| Jeremy Wright
{{Small|MP for Kenilworth and Southam}}

| 9 July 2018

| 24 July 2019

| Conservative

style="height:1em"

! style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| 75px

| Nicky Morgan
{{Small|MP for Loughborough
(until November 2019)
Life peer (since January 2020)}}

| 24 July 2019

| 13 February 2020

| Conservative

| rowspan=3 style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| rowspan=3 | Boris Johnson

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! style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| 75px

| Oliver Dowden
{{Small|MP for Hertsmere}}

| 13 February 2020

| 15 September 2021

| Conservative

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! style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| 75px

| Nadine Dorries
{{Small|MP for Mid Bedfordshire}}

| 15 September 2021

| 6 September 2022

| Conservative

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! rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| rowspan=2 | 75px

| rowspan=2 | Michelle Donelan
{{Small|MP for Chippenham}}

| rowspan=2 | 6 September 2022

| rowspan=2 | 7 February 2023

| rowspan=2 | Conservative

| style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| Liz Truss

style="height:1em"

| style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| Rishi Sunak

=Secretaries of State for Culture, Media and Sport (2023–present)=

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! colspan=3 | Secretary of State

! colspan=2 | Term of office

! Party

! colspan=2 | Prime Minister

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! style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| 75px

| Lucy Frazer
{{Small|MP for South East Cambridgeshire}}

| 7 February 2023

| 5 July 2024

| Conservative

| style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| Rishi Sunak

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! style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| 75px

| Lisa Nandy
{{Small|MP for Wigan}}

| 5 July 2024

| Incumbent

| Labour

| style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| Keir Starmer

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See also

References

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{{Secretary of State for Culture|state=new york}}

{{Department for Culture, Media and Sport}}

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