| Post: | Secretary of State for Territorial Policy |
| Native Name: | Secretario de Estado de Política Territorial |
| Flag: | Logotipo de la Secretaría de Estado de Política Territorial.png |
| Flagsize: | 300px |
| Insignia: | Escudo de España (mazonado).svg |
| Insigniasize: | 100px |
| Insigniacaption: | Coat of Arms used by the Government |
| Incumbent: | Miryam Álvarez Páez |
| Incumbentsince: | July 21, 2021 |
| Acting: | yes |
| Style: | The Most Excellent (formal) Mr. Secretary of State for Territorial Policy (informal) |
| Department: | Ministry of Territorial Policy and Public Function Secretariat of State for Territorial Policy |
| Reports To: | Territorial Policy Minister |
| Nominator: | Territorial Policy Minister |
| Appointer: | Monarch |
| First: | José Francisco Peña Díez |
| Salary: | € 113,145.95 per year[1] |
| Precursor: | Minister for Territorial Administration |
| Formation: | February 20, 1987 |
| Website: | seat.mpr.gob.es |
The Secretary of State for Territorial Administrations, currently named Secretary of State for Territorial Policy is the highest official of the Ministry of Territorial Policy responsible for the development of the Government's policy about Spain's territorial organization as well as responsible for the relations between the central government and the regional and local authorities.
It's also responsible for the supervision of the decentralized departments of the central government in the regions and impulse and coordination of the Conference of Presidents (the main forum of collaboration between the Prime Minister and the regional leaders), as well as the Presidency of the Council of Official Languages in the General Administration of the State.[2]
Directly from the Secretary of State depends the Secretary General for Territorial Coordination.
The need to create a department focused on the coordination of the different state administrations appeared after the approval of the Constitution, which established a decentralized state composed of different autonomous communities. Given this, the Ministry of Territorial Administration was created in 1979 and was in force until the end of 1986.
In 1987, the Ministry of Public Administrations was created, which assumed the powers over the civil servants and the territorial organization, creating a Secretariat of State focused on the relations of the different administrations called the Secretary of State for Territorial Administrations.[3]
In 2000, the Secretariat of State changed its name to Secretariat of State for the Territorial Organization of the State and changed its name again in 2004 to Secretariat of State of Territorial Cooperation until 2011 when PM Rajoy in an effort to reduce the deficit of the State, reduced the governmental apparatus integrating this Secretariat of State in the Secretariat of State for Public Administrations (in charge of the civil servants and now also of the relations between administrations) and the Ministry of Public Administrations also merged with the Ministry of the Treasury.
In 2016, with the economical improvement, the Secretariats of State of Public Function and Territorial Administration were separated again and the latest was integrated with its Ministry in the Ministry of the Presidency.
Since 2018, the Ministry for Territorial Administrations recovered its independence and was renamed Ministry for Territorial Policy and Public Function (taking the competencies over the civil servants from the Ministry of the Treasury). Briefly, from 2020 to 2021 the Secretariat of State assumed all the competences about civil service.
Under the Secretary of State are the following officials:[2]
| No. | Image | Name | Term of office | Ministers serving under: | Prime Minister appointed by: | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Began | Ended | Days of service | |||||
| 1º | José Francisco Peña Díez | 28 February 1987 | 11 May 1996 | Joaquín Almunia Amann Juan Manuel Eguiagaray Jerónimo Saavedra Joan Lerma i Blasco | Felipe González | ||
| 2º | Jorge Fernández Díaz | 11 May 1996 | 23 January 1999 | Mariano Rajoy | José María Aznar | ||
| 3º | Francisco Camps | 23 January 1999 | 1 April 2000 | Ángel Acebes Paniagua | |||
| 4º | Gabriel Elorriaga Pisarik | 6 May 2000 | 20 April 2004 | Ángel Acebes Paniagua Jesús Posada Javier Arenas Julia García-Valdecasas | |||
| 5º | José Luis Méndez Romeu | 20 April 2004 | 14 May 2005 | Jordi Sevilla | José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero | ||
| 6º | Ana Isabel Leiva Díaz | 14 May 2005 | 14 July 2007 | ||||
| 7º | Fernando Puig de la Bellacasa | 14 July 2007 | 25 April 2009 | Elena Salgado | |||
| 8º | Gaspar Zarrías | 25 April 2009 | 24 December 2011 | Manuel Chaves González | |||
| 9º | Antonio Beteta | 24 December 2011 | 12 November 2016 | Cristóbal Montoro | Mariano Rajoy | ||
| 10º | Roberto Bermúdez de Castro Mur | 19 November 2016 | 19 June 2018 | Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría | |||
| 11º | Ignacio Sánchez Amor | 23 June 2018 | 29 June 2019 | Meritxell Batet | Pedro Sánchez | ||
| Miryam Álvarez Páez Acting | 29 June 2019 | 30 January 2020 | Luis Planas | ||||
| 12º | Francisco Hernández Spínola | 30 January 2020 | 3 February 2021 | Carolina Darias | |||
| - | Miryam Álvarez Páez Acting | 3 February 2021 | 24 February 2021 | Miquel Iceta | |||
| 13º | Víctor Francos Díaz | 24 February 2021 | 21 July 2021 | ||||
| - | Miryam Álvarez Páez Acting | 21 July 2021 | Incumbent | Isabel Rodríguez García | |||