Minister for Sport and Civil Society explained

The Minister for Sport and Civil Society was a junior minister in the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport of the United Kingdom government, with responsibility for sport and Civil Society in England. In 2020, the role merged with that of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Arts, Heritage and Tourism to become Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Sport, Tourism, Heritage and Civil Society.

The post covered sport as well as tourism and heritage. The sports minister has at various times previously reported to the Department of National Heritage, the Department of Education and Science and the Department of the Environment.

Sport is a devolved matter in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland resting with the corresponding ministers in the Scottish Government, Welsh Government and the Northern Ireland Executive, although when the Northern Ireland Assembly was suspended, responsibility went to the Northern Ireland Office.

Under Margaret Thatcher the office was known as Under-Secretary of State for Sport.

Current responsibilities

• Sport
• Gambling
• Horse racing
• Office for Civil Society
• The National Lottery and society lotteries
• Cross-government work on loneliness

Ministers for Sport

Name		Portrait	Term of office		Political party	Prime Minister
	width=200	Denis Howell		width=100	1964	width=100	1970	Labour		width=120	Wilson
	width=200	Eldon Griffiths		width=100	1970	width=100	1974	Conservative		width=120	Heath
	width=200	Denis Howell		width=100	1974	width=100	1979	Labour		width=120	Wilson Callaghan
	width=200	Hector Monro		width=100	1979	width=100	1981	Conservative		width=120	Thatcher I
	width=200	Neil Macfarlane		width=100	1981	width=100	1985	Conservative		width=120	Thatcher I Thatcher II
	width=200	Richard Tracey		width=100	1985	width=100	1987	Conservative		width=120	Thatcher II
	width=200	Colin Moynihan		width=100	1987	width=100	1990	Conservative		width=120	Thatcher II
	width=200	Robert Atkins		width=100	1990	width=100	1992	Conservative		width=120	Major I
	width=200	Robert Key		width=100	1992	width=100	1993	Conservative		Major II
	width=200	Iain Sproat		width=100	1993	width=100	1997	Conservative
	width=200	Tony Banks		width=100	1997	width=100	1999	Labour		Blair I
	width=200	Kate Hoey		width=100	1999	width=100	2001	Labour
	width=200			width=100	2001	width=100	2007	Labour		width=120	Blair II Blair III
	width=200	Gerry Sutcliffe		width=100	2007	width=100	2010	Labour		width=120	Brown
	width=200	Hugh Robertson		width=100	2010	width=100	2013	Conservative		Cameron-Clegg
	width=200	Helen Grant		width=100	2013	width=100	2015	Conservative
	Tracey Crouch		May 2015	2018	Conservative		width=120	Cameron II
							May I
							May II
	Mims Davies		2018	2019	Conservative
	Nigel Adams		2019	2020	Conservative		Johnson I
							Johnson II
	Nigel Huddleston		2020	Incumbent		Conservative

References

• Past Ministers for Sport (PDF), Department for Culture, Media and Sport