Post: | United Kingdom Commercial Secretary to the Treasury |
Insignia: | Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom (HM Government) (2022).svg |
Insigniacaption: | Royal Arms as used by Her Majesty's Government |
Department: | HM Treasury |
Appointer: | The Monarch |
Appointer Qualified: | (on the advice of the Prime Minister) |
Inaugural: | The Lord Sassoon |
Formation: | 11 May 2010 |
Abolished: | 13 June 2017 |
Website: | HM Treasury |
The Commercial Secretary to the Treasury is a United Kingdom Government ministerial post in HM Treasury which usually ranks at Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State level - though during Baroness Neville-Rolfe’s tenure, it was of Minister of State level.[1] On the resignation of Lord O'Neill of Gatley in September 2016, the office ceased to be in use for three months, but Lord Young of Cookham was named to serve as Treasury spokesman in the House of Lords.[2] The Baroness Neville-Rolfe was appointed as Commercial Secretary on 21 December 2016;[3] her appointment ended in June 2017.[4]
Colour key (for political parties):
Portrait | Name | Term of office | Political party | Prime Minister | Chancellor | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
James Sassoon The Lord Sassoon | May 2010 | 3 January 2013 | Conservative | Cameron | Osborne | |||
Paul Deighton The Lord Deighton | 3 January 2013 | 14 May 2015 | Conservative | |||||
Jim O'Neill The Lord O'Neill of Gatley | 14 May 2015 | 23 September 2016 | Conservative | Cameron | ||||
May (I) | Hammond | |||||||
Lucy Neville-Rolfe The Baroness Neville-Rolfe | 21 December 2016 | 13 June 2017 | Conservative | |||||
May (II) |