United Kingdom Minister of State for Rail and HS2 | |
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Incumbent Peter Hendy since 8 July 2024 | |
Department for Transport | |
Style | Minister |
Reports to | Secretary of State for Transport |
Nominator | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom |
Appointer | The King (on advice of the Prime Minister) |
Term length | At His Majesty's pleasure |
First holder | Lynda Chalker |
The Minister of State for Rail is a mid-level ministerial position in the Department for Transport of the Government of the United Kingdom. The minister is deputy to the Secretary of State for Transport.
Name (Cabinet status) |
Portrait | Term of office | Political party | P.M. | Transp.Sec. | |||
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Lynda Chalker | 18 October 1983 | 10 January 1986 | Conservative | Thatcher | ||||
David Mitchell | 23 January 1986 | 25 July 1988 | ||||||
Michael Portillo | 25 July 1988 | 4 May 1990 | ||||||
Roger Freeman | 4 May 1990 | 20 July 1994 | ||||||
The Lord Brabazon of Tara | 23 July 1990 | 14 April 1992 | ||||||
The Earl of Caithness | 14 April 1992 | 11 January 1994 | Major | Rifkind MacGregor Mawhinney Young | ||||
John Watts | 20 July 1994 | 2 May 1997 | ||||||
Gavin Strang (in Cabinet) |
2 May 1997 | 18 June 1998 | Labour | Blair | Prescott (DPM, SSETR) | |||
John Reid (attended Cabinet) |
27 July 1998 | 17 May 1999 | ||||||
Helen Liddell | 17 May 1999 | 29 July 1999 | ||||||
The Lord Macdonald of Tradeston (attended Cabinet) |
29 July 1999 | 8 June 2001 | ||||||
John Spellar (attended Cabinet) |
8 June 2001 | 12 June 2003 | Byers (SSTLR) | |||||
Darling | ||||||||
Kim Howells | 12 June 2003 | 10 September 2004 | ||||||
Tony McNulty | 10 September 2004 | 9 May 2005 | ||||||
Stephen Ladyman | 9 May 2005[1] | 28 June 2007 | ||||||
Alexander | ||||||||
Rosie Winterton | 28 June 2007 | 3 October 2008 | Brown | Kelly | ||||
The Lord Adonis | 3 October 2008 | 5 June 2009 | Hoon | |||||
Sadiq Khan (attended Cabinet when his responsibilities were on the agenda) |
9 June 2009[2][3] | 11 May 2010 | Adonis | |||||
Theresa Villiers | 12 May 2010 | 4 September 2012 | Conservative | Cameron | Hammond | |||
Simon Burns | 5 September 2012 | 5 October 2013 | McLoughlin | |||||
The Baroness Kramer | 5 October 2013 | 8 May 2015 | Liberal Democrats | |||||
John Hayes | 15 July 2014 | 11 May 2015 | Conservative | |||||
Robert Goodwill | 11 May 2015 | 16 July 2016 | ||||||
John Hayes | 16 July 2016 | 9 January 2018 | May | Grayling | ||||
Jo Johnson | 9 January 2018 | 9 November 2018 | ||||||
Jesse Norman | 12 November 2018 | 23 May 2019 | ||||||
Michael Ellis | 23 May 2019 | 24 July 2019 | ||||||
George Freeman | 26 July 2019 | 13 February 2020 | Johnson | Shapps | ||||
Chris Heaton-Harris | 25 July 2019 | 19 December 2021 | ||||||
Andrew Stephenson | 13 February 2020 | 7 July 2022 | ||||||
Wendy Morton[a] | 19 December 2021 | 6 September 2022 | ||||||
Trudy Harrison[b] | 7 July 2022 | 7 September 2022 | ||||||
Kevin Foster | 7 September 2022 | 26 October 2022 | Truss | Trevelyan | ||||
Lucy Frazer | 8 September 2022 | 26 October 2022 | ||||||
Minister of State for Decarbonisation and Technology | ||||||||
Jesse Norman | 26 October 2022 | 13 November 2023 | Sunak | Harper | ||||
Minister of State for Rail and HS2 | ||||||||
Huw Merriman | 27 October 2022 | 5 July 2024 | ||||||
Minister of State for Rail | ||||||||
Peter Hendy | 8 July 2024 | Incumbent | Labour | Starmer | Haigh |
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