| Post: | Minister of State for Security |
| Insignia: | Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom (HM Government) (2022).svg |
| Insigniasize: | 140px |
| Insigniacaption: | Royal Arms of His Majesty's Government |
| Flag: | Flag of the United Kingdom.svg |
| Flagsize: | 110px |
| Flagcaption: | Flag of the United Kingdom |
| Department: | Home Office |
| Incumbent: | Dan Jarvis |
| Incumbentsince: | 6 July 2024 |
| Style: | Security Minister The Right Honourable |
| Type: | Minister of the Crown |
| Status: | Minister of State |
| Seat: | Westminster |
| Nominator: | Prime Minister |
| Appointer: | The Monarch |
| Termlength: | At His Majesty's pleasure |
| Formation: |
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| Salary: | £115,824 per annum [1] (including £86,584 MP salary)[2] |
| First: | Beverley Hughes |
| Website: | gov.uk |
The minister of state for security is a senior ministerial position in the government of the United Kingdom, falling under the Home Office. The post was created by then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown on 3 June 2009 by splitting the now-defunct post of the minister for security, counter-terrorism, crime and policing between this post (then called Minister for Security and Counter-Terrorism) and the new post of Minister for Crime and Policing.
The current incumbent is Dan Jarvis who was appointed by Keir Starmer in July 2024. Jarvis had previous shadowed the role before the 2024 General Election.
In a cabinet reshuffle on 15 September 2021, the ministerial title changed to Minister of State for Security and Borders.[3]
The post is generally seen as one of the most senior Minister of State positions, and as such its holder is often invited to attend cabinet meetings.
The office is shadowed by the Shadow Minister for Security who sits on the Official Opposition frontbench.[4]
| Name | Portrait | Term of office | Political party | PM | Home Sec. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minister of State for Citizenship, Immigration and Counter Terrorism | |||||||||
| Beverley Hughes[5] | 29 May 2002 | 1 April 2004 | Labour | Blair | Blunkett | ||||
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Policing, Security and Community Safety | |||||||||
| Hazel Blears[6] | 13 June 2003 | 5 May 2006 | Labour | Blair | |||||
| Minister of State for Security, Counter-Terrorism, Crime and Policing | |||||||||
| Tony McNulty | 5 May 2006 | 3 October 2008 | Labour | ||||||
| Minister of State for Policing, Crime and Security | |||||||||
| Vernon Coaker[7] | 3 October 2008 | 3 June 2009 | Labour | Brown | Smith | ||||
| Minister of State for Security, Counter-Terrorism, Crime and Policing | |||||||||
| David Hanson | 10 June 2009 | 11 May 2010 | Labour | Brown | Johnson | ||||
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Security and Counter-Terrorism | |||||||||
| Admiral The Lord West of Spithead | 28 June 2007 | 12 May 2010 | Labour | Brown | |||||
| Minister of State for Security and Counter-Terrorism | |||||||||
| The Baroness Neville-Jones[8] [9] | 12 May 2010 | 9 May 2011 | Conservative | Cameron | May | ||||
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Crime and Security | |||||||||
| James Brokenshire[10] | 9 May 2011 | 8 February 2014 | Conservative | Cameron | May | ||||
| Minister of State for Security and Immigration | |||||||||
| James Brokenshire[11] | 8 February 2014 | 14 July 2016 | Conservative | Cameron | May | ||||
| Minister of State for Security | |||||||||
| John Hayes | 8 May 2015 | 15 July 2016 | Conservative | Cameron | May | ||||
| Minister of State for Security and Economic Crime | |||||||||
| Ben Wallace | 17 July 2016 | 24 July 2019 | Conservative | May | |||||
| Minister of State for Security and Deputy for Brexit | |||||||||
| Brandon Lewis | 24 July 2019 | 13 February 2020 | Conservative | Johnson | Patel | ||||
| Minister of State for Security | |||||||||
| 13 February 2020 | 7 July 2021 | Conservative | Johnson | Patel | |||||
| Minister of State for Security and Borders | |||||||||
| Damian Hinds | 13 August 2021 | 7 July 2022 | Conservative | Johnson | Patel | ||||
| Minister of State for Security | |||||||||
| Stephen McPartland | 7 July 2022 | 6 September 2022 | Conservative | Johnson | Patel | ||||
| Tom Tugendhat | 6 September 2022 | 5 July 2024 | Conservative | ||||||
| Dan Jarvis | 6 July 2024 | Incumbent | Labour | Starmer | Cooper | ||||