# Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department

This article lists past and present parliamentary under-secretaries of state serving the home secretary of the United Kingdom at the Home Office.

## 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: John Townshend, 2nd Viscount Sydney
* June 1789: Scrope Bernard
* July 1794: 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 Williams-Wynn
* November 1807: Charles Jenkinson, 3rd Earl of Liverpool
* 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: 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 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: Douglas Hogg
* July 1989: Peter Lloyd
* April 1992: Charles Wardle
* July 1994: Nicholas Baker
* October 1995: Timothy Kirkhope (to May 1997)
* November 1995: 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)
* Joan Ryan - 5 May 2006 – 29 June 2007
* Meg Hillier - 28 June 2007 – 12 May 2010

## Parliamentary secretaries, 1940–1945

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