Secretary of State for Transport
{{Short description|Member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2024}}
{{Infobox official post
| post = {{small|United Kingdom}}
Secretary of State
for Transport
| insignia = Coat of arms of the United Kingdom (2022, lesser arms).svg
| insigniacaption = Royal Arms of His Majesty's Government
| image = Official portrait of Heidi Alexander MP 2024.jpg
| incumbent = Heidi Alexander
| incumbentsince = 29 November 2024
| department = Department for Transport
| style = Transport 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 = * 19 May 1919:
{{small|(as Minister of Transport)}}
- 29 May 2002:
{{small|(as Secretary of State for Transport)}}
| 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}}
| first = Eric Campbell Geddes
{{small|(as Minister of Transport)}}
| website = {{URL|www.dft.gov.uk}}
| imagecaption = Official cabinet portrait, 2024
}}
{{PoliticsUK}}
The secretary of state for transport, also referred to as the transport secretary, is a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom, with overall responsibility for the policies of the Department for Transport.{{Cite web|title=Secretary of State for Transport|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/ministers/secretary-of-state-for-transport|access-date=30 June 2021|website=gov.uk|language=}} The incumbent is a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.
The office holder works alongside the other transport ministers. The corresponding shadow minister is the shadow secretary of state for transport, and the secretary of state is also scrutinised by the Transport Select Committee.{{Cite web |url=https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/153/transport-committee/news/157642/work-of-the-secretary-of-state-for-transport-scrutinised/ |title=Work of the secretary of state for transport scrutinised |work=UK PARLIAMENT |date=20 September 2021 |access-date=5 March 2022 |quote=This oral evidence session will examine the work and responsibilities of the Secretary of State for Transport and the Department for Transport.}}
The position of secretary of state for transport is held by Heidi Alexander, who was appointed by Keir Starmer following the resignation of Louise Haigh.
History
The Ministry of Transport absorbed the Ministry of Shipping and was renamed the Ministry of War Transport in 1941, but resumed its previous name at the end of the war.{{Cite book |url=https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C874 |title=Records inherited and created by the Ministry of Transport, Shipping Divisions |date=1795–1985 |others=Admiralty, Transport Department, Board of Trade, Mercantile Marine Department, Ministry of Shipping, Ministry of Shipping |language=English}}
The Ministry of Civil Aviation was created by Winston Churchill in 1944 to look at peaceful ways of using aircraft and to find something for the aircraft factories to do after the war.{{Cite web |last= |date=2013-08-15 |title=Churchill and Air Travel |url=https://winstonchurchill.org/publications/finest-hour/finest-hour-118/churchill-and-air-travel/ |access-date=2023-11-14 |website=International Churchill Society |language=en-US}} The new Conservative government in 1951 appointed the same minister to both Transport and Civil Aviation, finally amalgamating the ministries on 1 October 1953.{{Cite web |title=British Police History |url=https://british-police-history.uk/f/mca/ |access-date=2023-11-14 |website=british-police-history.uk}}
The Ministry was renamed back to the Ministry of Transport on 14 October 1959, when a separate Ministry of Aviation was formed.
Transport responsibilities were subsumed by the Department for the Environment, headed by the secretary of state for the environment from 15 October 1970 to 10 September 1976.
The Department for Transport was recreated as a separate department by James Callaghan in 1976.{{Cite news |last=Times |first=Robert B. Semple Jr Special to The New York |date=1976-09-11 |title=Callaghan, in a Surprise Move, Reshuffles His Cabinet |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/09/11/archives/callaghan-in-a-surprise-move-reshuffles-his-cabinet.html |access-date=2023-11-14 |issn=0362-4331}}
The super-department Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions was created in 1997 for Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott.
In 2001, the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions was widely considered unwieldy and so was broken up,{{Cite web |title=Department of the Environment Transport and the Regions: annual report 2001 |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/department-of-the-environment-transport-and-the-regions-annual-report-2001 |access-date=2023-11-14 |website=GOV.UK |language=en}} with the Transport functions now combined with Local Government and the Regions in the DTLR (Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions).
List of ministers and secretaries of state
=Minister of Transport (1919–1941)=
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{{Legend2|{{Party color|National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)}}|National Liberal|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
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! colspan=3 | Minister ! colspan=2 | Term of office ! Political party ! colspan=2 | Prime Minister |
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! style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 60px | 19 May 1919 | 7 November 1921 | rowspan=3 style="background-color:{{Party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" | | rowspan=3 | David Lloyd George |
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! style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 60px | 7 November 1921 | 12 April 1922 |
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! style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 60px | David Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford | 12 April 1922 | 31 October 1922 |
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! rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | rowspan=2 | 60px | rowspan=2 | John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven | rowspan=2 | 31 October 1922 | rowspan=2 | 22 January 1924 | rowspan=2 | Conservative | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | |
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! style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | 60px | 24 January 1924 | 3 November 1924 | Labour | style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | |
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! style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 60px | 11 November 1924 | 4 June 1929 | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | |
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! style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | | 7 June 1929 | 24 August 1931 | Labour | style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | |
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! style="background-color:{{Party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" | | | 3 September 1931 | 22 February 1933 | Liberal | rowspan=3 style="background-color:{{Party color|National Labour Organisation}}" | | rowspan=3 | Ramsay MacDonald |
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! style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 60px | 22 February 1933 | 29 June 1934 |
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! rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)}}" | |rowspan=2|60px | rowspan=2 | Leslie Hore-Belisha | rowspan=2 | 29 June 1934 | rowspan=2 | 28 May 1937 | rowspan=2 | National Liberal |
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| style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | Stanley Baldwin |
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! style="background-color:{{Party color|National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)}}" | | 60px | 28 May 1937 | 21 April 1939 | rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | Neville Chamberlain |
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! style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 60px | 21 April 1939 | 14 May 1940 | Neville Chamberlain |
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! style="background-color:{{Party color|National Independent}}" | | 60px | 14 May 1940 | 3 October 1940 | rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | rowspan=2 | Winston Churchill |
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! style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 60px | 3 October 1940 | 1 May 1941 |
=Minister of (War) Transport and Minister of Civil Aviation (1941–1953)=
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{{Legend2|{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}|Conservative|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
{{Legend2|{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}|Labour|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
{{Legend2|{{Party color|National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)}}|National Liberal|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
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! colspan=3 | {{Small|Minister of}} ! {{Small|Minister of}} ! colspan=2 width=240 | Term of office ! Political party ! colspan=2 | Prime Minister |
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! rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | rowspan=2 | 60px | rowspan=2 width=130 | Frederick Leathers, 1st Viscount Leathers | — | 1 May 1941 | 26 July 1945 | width=100 | Conservative | rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | rowspan=2 | Winston Churchill |
| width=130 | Philip Cunliffe-Lister, Viscount Swinton
| 8 October 1944 | 26 July 1945 |
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! rowspan=4 style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | rowspan=4 | 60px | rowspan=4 | Alfred Barnes | Reginald Fletcher, 1st Baron Winster | 3–4 August 1945 | 4 October 1946 | Labour | rowspan=4 style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | rowspan=4 | Clement Attlee |
| Harry Nathan, 1st Baron Nathan
| 4 October 1946 | 31 May 1948 | Labour |
| Francis Pakenham, Lord Pakenham
| 31 May 1948 | 1 June 1951 | Labour |
| David Rees-Williams, 1st Baron Ogmore
| 1 June 1951 | 26 October 1951 | Labour |
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! style="background-color:{{Party color|National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)}}" | | | colspan=2 | Hon. John Maclay | 31 October 1951 | 7 May 1952 | rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | rowspan=2 | Winston Churchill |
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! style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 60px | colspan=2 | Alan Lennox-Boyd | 7 May 1952 | 1 October 1953 |
=Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation (1953–1959)=
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{{Legend2|{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}|Conservative|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
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! colspan=3 | Minister ! colspan=2 width=240 | Term of office ! Political party ! colspan=2 | Prime Minister |
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! style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 60px | width=260 | Alan Lennox-Boyd | 1 October 1953 | 28 July 1954 | width=100 | Conservative | rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | rowspan=2 | Winston Churchill |
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! style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | | 28 July 1954 | 20 December 1955 |
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! rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | rowspan=2 | | rowspan=2 | Harold Watkinson | rowspan=2 | 20 December 1955 | rowspan=2 | 14 October 1959 | rowspan=2 | Conservative | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | |
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| style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | |
=Minister of Transport (1959–1970)=
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{{Legend2|{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}|Conservative|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
{{Legend2|{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}|Labour|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
! colspan=2 | Minister ! colspan=2 width=240 | Term of office ! Political party ! colspan=2 | Prime Minister |
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! rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | rowspan=2 width=260 | Ernest Marples | rowspan=2 | 14 October 1959 | rowspan=2 | 16 October 1964 | rowspan=2 width=100 | Conservative | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | |
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! style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | 16 October 1964 | 23 December 1965 | Labour | rowspan=4 style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | rowspan=4 | Harold Wilson |
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! style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | 23 December 1965 | 6 April 1968 | Labour |
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! style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | 6 April 1968 | 6 October 1969 | Labour |
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! style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | 6 October 1969 | 22 June 1970 | Labour |
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! style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 23 June 1970 | 14 October 1970 | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | |
=Minister within the Department of the Environment (1970–1976)=
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{{Legend2|{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}|Conservative|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
{{Legend2|{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}|Labour|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
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! colspan=2 | Minister ! colspan=2 width=240 | Term of office !Length of Term ! Political party ! colspan=2 | Prime Minister |
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! style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | width=260 | Peter Walker | 15 October 1970 | 5 November 1972 |{{age in years and months|15 October 1970|5 November 1972}} | width=100 | Conservative | rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | rowspan=2 | Edward Heath |
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! style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 5 November 1972 | 4 March 1974 |{{age in years and months|5 November 1972|4 March 1974}} |
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! style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | 5 March 1974 | 8 April 1976 |{{age in years and months|5 March 1974|8 April 1976}} | Labour | style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | |
The junior ministers responsible for transport within the Department for the Environment:
==Minister for Transport Industries (1970–1974)==
- John Peyton{{Cite web|url=https://members.parliament.uk/member/3162/career |title=Lord Peyton of Yeovil |publisher=UK Parliament |access-date=30 December 2021}} (Conservative, 15 October 1970 – 7 March 1974)
==Minister for Transport (1974–1976)==
- Fred Mulley{{Cite web|url=https://members.parliament.uk/member/2977/career |title=Lord Mulley |publisher=UK Parliament |access-date=30 December 2021}} (Labour, 7 March 1974 – 12 June 1975)
- John Gilbert{{Cite web|url=https://members.parliament.uk/member/843/career |title=Lord Gilbert |publisher=UK Parliament |access-date=30 December 2021}} (Labour, 12 June 1975 – 10 September 1976)
=Secretary of State for Transport (1976–1979)=
Colour key (for political parties):
{{Legend2|{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}|Labour|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
! colspan=3 | Secretary of State ! colspan=2 | Term of office !Length of Term ! Political party ! colspan=2 | Prime Minister |
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! style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | 60px | Bill Rodgers{{Cite web|url=https://members.parliament.uk/member/940/career |title=Lord Rodgers of Quarry Bank |publisher=UK Parliament |access-date=30 December 2021}} | 10 September 1976 | 4 May 1979 |{{age in years and months|10 September 1976|4 May 1979}} | width=100 | Labour | style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | |
=Minister of Transport (1979–1981)=
Not an official member of the cabinet.
Colour key (for political parties):
{{Legend2|{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}|Conservative|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
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! colspan=3 | Minister ! colspan=2 width=240 | Term of office !Length of Term ! Political party ! colspan=2 | Prime Minister |
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! style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 60px | width=195 | Norman Fowler | 11 May 1979 | 5 January 1981 |{{age in years and months|11 May 1979|5 January 1981}} | width=100 | Conservative | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | |
=Secretary of State for Transport (1981–1997)=
Colour key (for political parties):
{{Legend2|{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}|Conservative|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
! colspan=3 | Secretary of State ! colspan=2 width=240 | Term of office !Length of Term ! Political party ! colspan=2 | Prime Minister |
| style="height:1em"
! style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 60px | width=195 | Norman Fowler{{Cite web|url=https://members.parliament.uk/member/315/career |title=Lord Fowler |publisher=UK Parliament |access-date=30 December 2021}} | 5 January 1981 | 14 September 1981 |{{age in years and months|5 January 1981|14 September 1981}} | width=100 | Conservative | rowspan=7 style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | rowspan=7 | Margaret Thatcher |
| style="height:1em"
! style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 60px | David Howell{{Cite web|url=https://members.parliament.uk/member/993/career |title=Lord Howell of Guildford |publisher=UK Parliament |access-date=30 December 2021}} | 14 September 1981 | 11 June 1983 |{{age in years and months|14 September 1981|11 June 1983}} |
| style="height:1em"
! style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 60px | Tom King{{Cite web|url=https://members.parliament.uk/member/254/career |title=Lord King of Bridgwater |publisher=UK Parliament |access-date=30 December 2021}} | 11 June 1983 | 16 October 1983 |{{age in years and months|11 June 1983|16 October 1983}} |
| style="height:1em"
! style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 60px | 16 October 1983 | 21 May 1986 |{{age in years and months|16 October 1983|21 May 1986}} |
| style="height:1em"
! style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 60px | John Moore{{Cite web|url=https://members.parliament.uk/member/1022/career |title=Lord Moore of Lower Marsh |publisher=UK Parliament |access-date=30 December 2021}} | 21 May 1986 | 13 June 1987 |{{age in years and months|21 May 1986|13 June 1987}} |
| style="height:1em"
! style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 60px | 13 June 1987 | 24 July 1989 |{{age in years and months|13 June 1987|24 July 1989}} |
| style="height:1em"
! style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 60px | Cecil Parkinson{{Cite web|url=https://members.parliament.uk/member/931/career |title=Lord Parkinson |publisher=UK Parliament |access-date=30 December 2021}} | 24 July 1989 | 28 November 1990 |{{age in years and months|24 July 1989|28 November 1990}} |
| style="height:1em"
! style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 60px | Malcolm Rifkind{{Cite web|url=https://members.parliament.uk/member/1191/career |title=Sir Malcolm Rifkind |publisher=UK Parliament |access-date=30 December 2021}} | 28 November 1990 | 10 April 1992 |{{age in years and months|24 July 1989|10 April 1992}} | rowspan=4 style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | rowspan=4 | John Major |
| style="height:1em"
! style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 60px | John MacGregor{{Cite web|url=https://members.parliament.uk/member/131/career |title=Lord MacGregor of Pulham Market |publisher=UK Parliament |access-date=30 December 2021}} | 11 April 1992 | 20 July 1994 |{{age in years and months|11 April 1992|20 July 1994}} |
| style="height:1em"
! style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 60px | Brian Mawhinney{{Cite web|url=https://members.parliament.uk/member/121/career |title=Lord Mawhinney |publisher=UK Parliament |access-date=30 December 2021}} | 20 July 1994 | 5 July 1995 |{{age in years and months|20 July 1994|5 July 1995}} |
| style="height:1em"
! style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 60px | Sir George Young, 6th Baronet{{Cite web|url=https://members.parliament.uk/member/57/career |title=Lord Young of Cookham |publisher=UK Parliament |access-date=30 December 2021}} | 5 July 1995 | 2 May 1997 |{{age in years and months|5 July 1995|2 May 1997}} |
=Secretary of State for Environment, Transport and the Regions (1997–2001)=
{{Main|Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions}}
Colour key (for political parties):
{{Legend2|{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}|Labour|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
! colspan=3 | Secretary of State ! colspan=2 width=240 | Term of office !Length of Term ! Political party ! colspan=2 | Prime Minister |
| style="height:1em"
! style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | width=195 | John Prescott{{Cite web|url=https://members.parliament.uk/member/374/career |title=Lord Prescott |publisher=UK Parliament |access-date=30 December 2021}} | 60px {{Small|MP for Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle}} | 2 May 1997 | 7 June 2001 |{{age in years and months|2 May 1997|7 June 2001}} | width=100 | Labour | style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | width=100 | Tony Blair |
=Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions (2001–2002)=
Colour key (for political parties):
{{Legend2|{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}|Labour|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
! colspan=2 | Secretary of State ! colspan=2 width=240 | Term of office !Length of Term ! Political party ! colspan=2 | Prime Minister |
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! style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | width=260 | Stephen Byers{{Cite web|url=https://members.parliament.uk/member/524/career |title=Mr Stephen Byers |publisher=UK Parliament |access-date=30 December 2021}} {{Small|MP for North Tyneside}} | 8 June 2001 | 28 May 2002 |{{age in years and months|8 June 2001|28 May 2002}} | width=100 | Labour | style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | width=100 | Tony Blair |
After Byers' resignation, such a division was made, with the portfolios of Local Government and the Regions transferred to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.
During the lifetime of DTLGR, John Spellar served as Minister of State for Transport with a right to attend Cabinet.
=Secretary of State for Transport (2002–present)=
Colour key (for political parties):
{{Legend2|{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}|Conservative|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
{{Legend2|{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}|Labour|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
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! colspan=3 | Secretary of State ! colspan=2 width=240 | Term of office !Length of Term ! Political party ! colspan=2 | Prime Minister |
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! style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | 80x80px | Alistair Darling{{Cite web|url=https://members.parliament.uk/member/596/career |title=Lord Darling of Roulanish |publisher=UK Parliament |access-date=30 December 2021}} | 29 May 2002 |{{age in years and months|29 May 2002|5 May 2006}} | width=100 | Labour | rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | rowspan=2 | Tony Blair |
| style="height:1em"
! style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | 60px | Douglas Alexander{{Cite web|url=https://members.parliament.uk/member/632/career |title=Mr Douglas Alexander |publisher=UK Parliament |access-date=30 December 2021}} | 28 June 2007 |{{age in years and months|5 May 2006|28 June 2007}} | Labour |
| style="height:1em"
! style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | 78x78px | Ruth Kelly{{Cite web|url=https://members.parliament.uk/member/439/career |title=Ruth Kelly |publisher=UK Parliament |access-date=30 December 2021}} | 28 June 2007 | 5 October 2008 |{{age in years and months|28 June 2007|5 October 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)}}" | | 60px | Geoff Hoon{{Cite web|url=https://members.parliament.uk/member/357/career |title=Mr Geoffrey Hoon |publisher=UK Parliament |access-date=30 December 2021}} | 5 October 2008 | 5 June 2009 |{{age in years and months|5 October 2008|5 June 2009}} | Labour |
| style="height:1em"
! style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | 60px | Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis{{Cite web |title=Lord Adonis |url=https://members.parliament.uk/member/3743/career |access-date=30 December 2021 |publisher=UK Parliament}} | 6 June 2009 | 6 May 2010 |{{age in years and months|6 June 2009|6 May 2010}} | Labour |
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! style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 60px | Chris Grayling{{Cite web|url=https://members.parliament.uk/member/1413/career |title=Chris Grayling |publisher=UK Parliament |access-date=30 December 2021}} | 14 July 2016 | 24 July 2019 |{{age in years and days|14 July 2016|24 July 2019}} | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | |
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! style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 60px | Anne-Marie Trevelyan{{Cite web |title=The Rt Hon Anne-Marie Trevelyan MP |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/people/anne-marie-trevelyan |access-date=2022-10-04 |website=GOV.UK |language=en}} | 6 September 2022 | 25 October 2022 |{{age in weeks|6 September 2022|25 October 2022}} weeks | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | |
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! style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 60px | Mark Harper{{Cite web|url=https://members.parliament.uk/member/1520/career |title=Mark Harper|publisher=UK Parliament |access-date=16 December 2022}} | 25 October 2022 | 5 July 2024 |{{age in years and months|25 October 2022|5 July 2024}} | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | |
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! style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | 60px | Louise Haigh{{Cite web|url=https://members.parliament.uk/member/4473/career |title=Louise Haigh|publisher=UK Parliament |access-date=5 July 2024}} | 5 July 2024 | 29 November 2024 |{{Age in months|5th July 2024|29 November 2024}} months | Labour | rowspan="2" style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | rowspan="2" | Keir Starmer |
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! style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | |File:Heidi alexander portrait 2024.jpg |Heidi Alexander{{Cite web |last=Belger |first=Tom |date=2024-11-29 |title=New Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander unveiled after Louise Haigh resigns |url=https://labourlist.org/2024/11/heidi-alexander-transport-secretary-louise-haigh/ |access-date=2024-11-29 |website=LabourList |language=en-GB}} |29 November 2024 |Incumbent |{{Age in years, months and days|2024|11|29}} |
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See also
References
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External links
- [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7635058.stm Track record: Transport secretaries]
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{{Cabinet positions in the United Kingdom}}
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