Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department

This article lists past and present Under-Secretaries of State serving the Home Secretary of the United Kingdom.

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: Hon. John Townshend
• June 1789: Scrope Bernard
• July 1794: The Hon. Thomas Brodrick
• March 1796: Charles Greville
• March 1798: William Wickham
• February 1801: Edward Finch Hatton
• August 1801: Sir George Shee, Bt
• August 1803: Reginald Pole-Carew
• July 1804: John Henry Smyth
• February 1806: Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn
• November 1807: Hon. Charles 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
• November 1830: Hon. George Lamb
• January 1834: Viscount Howick
• July 1834: Edward Stanley
• January 1835: William Gregson
• April 1835: Fox Maule
• June 1841: Lord Seymour
• September 1841: John Manners-Sutton
• July 1846: Sir William Somerville, Bt
• July 1847: Sir Denis Le Marchant, Bt
• May 1848: Sir George Cornewall Lewis, Bt
• July 1850: Edward Pleydell-Bouverie
• February 1852: Sir William Jolliffe, Bt
• 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: The Earl Belmore
• August 1867: Sir James Fergusson, Bt
• August 1868: Sir Michael Hicks Beach, Bt
• December 1868: Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen
• January 1871: George Shaw-Lefevre
• March 1871: Henry Winterbotham
• February 1874: Sir Henry Selwin-Ibbetson, Bt
• April 1878: Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bt
• April 1880: Arthur Peel
• January 1881: Leonard Courtney
• August 1881: The 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 John 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: The 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, Bt (to Dec 1955)
• November 1952: The Lord Lloyd (to October 1954)
• October 1954: The Lord 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: The 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: The Lord 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: The Lord Belstead
• April 1982: The Lord Elton (to September 1984)
• January 1983: David Mellor (to September 1986)
• March 1984: The Lord Glenarthur (to September 1986)
• September 1986: The Hon. Douglas Hogg
• July 1989: Peter Lloyd
• April 1992: Charles Wardle
• July 1994: Nicholas Baker
• October 1995: Timothy Kirkhope (to May 1997)
• November 1995: The Hon. Tom Sackville (jointly) (to May 1997)
• May 1997: Lord 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: Lord Bassam (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: Lord 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)

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Parliamentary secretaries, 1940–1945

• May 1940: William Mabane (to June 1942)
• October 1940: Ellen Wilkinson (to May 1945)

Ministers for Home Affairs (1960–)

• October 1960: Dennis Vosper
• June 1961: David Renton
• July 1962: Earl Jellicoe
• October 1963: Lord Derwent
• October 1964: Alice Bacon
• August 1967: Lord Stonham
• October 1969: Shirley Williams
• June 1970: Richard Sharples (jointly) (to April 1972)
• June 1970: Lord Windlesham (jointly) (to March 1972)
• April 1972: Mark Carlisle (jointly) (to March 1974)
• April 1972: Viscount Colville (jointly) (to March 1974)
• March 1974: Lord Harris (jointly) (to January 1979)
• March 1974: Alex Lyon (jointly) (to April 1976)
• April 1976: Brynmor John (jointly) (to May 1979)
• January 1979: Lord Boston (jointly) (to May 1979)
• May 1979: Leon Brittan (jointly) (to January 1981)
• May 1979: Timothy Raison (jointly) (to January 1983)
• January 1981: Patrick Mayhew (jointly) (to June 1983)
• January 1983: David Waddington (jointly) (to June 1987)
• September 1984: The Lord Elton (jointly) (to March 1985)
• September 1984: Giles Shaw (jointly) (to September 1986)
• September 1986: David Mellor (jointly) (to June 1987)
• September 1986: The Earl of Caithness (jointly) (to January 1988)
• June 1987: John Patten (jointly) (to April 1992)
• January 1988: The Earl Ferrers (jointly) (to July 1994)
• October 1989: David Mellor (jointly) (to June 1990)
• July 1990: Angela Rumbold (jointly) (to April 1992)
• April 1992: Michael Jack (jointly) (to May 1993)
• April 1992: Peter Lloyd (jointly) (to July 1994)
• May 1993: David Maclean (jointly) (to May 1997)
• July 1994: Michael Forsyth (jointly) (to July 1995)
• July 1994: The Baroness Blatch (jointly) (to May 1997)
• July 1995: Ann Widdecombe (jointly) (to May 1997)
• May 1997: Alun Michael (jointly) (to October 1998)
• May 1997: Joyce Quin (jointly) (to July 1998)
• July 1998: Lord Williams of Mostyn (jointly) (to July 1999)
• October 1998: Paul Boateng (jointly) (to June 2001)
• July 1999: Charles Clarke (jointly) (to June 2001)
• July 1999: Barbara Roche (jointly) (to June 2001)
• June 2001: John Denham (jointly) (to May 2003)
• June 2001: Keith Bradley (jointly) (to May 2002)
• June 2001: Lord Rooker (jointly) (to May 2002)
• May 2002: Lord Falconer (jointly) (to June 2003)
• May 2002: Hilary Benn (jointly) (to May 2003)
• May 2002: Beverley Hughes (jointly) (to April 2004)
• June 2003: Hazel Blears (jointly) (to May 2006)
• June 2003: Baroness Scotland (jointly) (to April 2005)
• April 2004: Des Browne (jointly) (to May 2005)
• May 2005: Tony McNulty (jointly) (to May 2006)
• May 2006: Liam Byrne (jointly) (to October 2008)
• May 2006: Tony McNulty (jointly) (to October 2008)
• October 2008: Phil Woolas (jointly) (to May 2010)
• May 2010: Damian Green (jointly) (to September 2012)
• September 2012: Mark Harper (jointly) (to February 2014)
• February 2014: James Brokenshire (jointly) (to Present)

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Permanent under-secretaries, 1782–present

• March 1782: J. Bell
• April 1782: Evan Nepean
• December 1791: J. King
• February 1806: J. Beckett
• June 1817: Henry Hobhouse
• July 1827: Samuel March Phillipps
• 1840: H. Waddington
• 1867: (Sir) Adolphus Frederick Octavius Liddell
• June 1885: Sir H. Maine
• July 1885: Sir Godfrey Lushington
• 1895: Sir Kenelm Digby
• 1903: Sir Mackenzie Dalzell Chalmers
• 1908: Sir Edward Troup
• 1922: Sir John Anderson
• 1932: Sir Russell Scott
• 1938: Sir Alexander Maxwell
• 1948: Sir Frank Newsam
• 1957: Sir Charles Cunningham
• 1966: Sir Philip Allen
• 1972: Sir Arthur Peterson
• 1977: (Sir) Robert Armstrong
• 1979: Sir Brian Cubbon
• 1988: Sir Clive Whitmore
• 1994: Sir Richard Wilson
• 1997: Sir David Omand
• 2001: Sir John Gieve
• 2005: Sir David Normington
• 2011: Dame Helen Ghosh
• 2013: Mark Sedwill