The Minister of State for Rail is a mid-level ministerial position in the Department for Transport of the Government of the United Kingdom. The minister is deputy to the Secretary of State for Transport.
| United Kingdom Minister of State for Rail | |
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| Department for Transport | |
| Style | Minister |
| Reports to | Secretary of State for Transport |
| Nominator | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom |
| Appointer | The King (on advice of the Prime Minister) |
| Term length | At His Majesty's pleasure |
| First holder | Lynda Chalker |
Ministers of State for Transport
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Portrait | Term of office | Political party | P.M. | Transp.Sec. | |||
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| Lynda Chalker | .JPG)
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18 October 1983 | 10 January 1986 | Conservative | Thatcher | |||
| David Mitchell | 
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23 January 1986 | 25 July 1988 | |||||
| Michael Portillo | _(cropped).jpg)
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25 July 1988 | 4 May 1990 | |||||
| Roger Freeman | 
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4 May 1990 | 20 July 1994 | |||||
| Ivon Moore-Brabazon, 3rd Baron Brabazon of Tara | 
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23 July 1990 | 14 April 1992 | |||||
| The Earl of Caithness | 
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14 April 1992 | 11 January 1994 | Major | Rifkind MacGregor Mawhinney Young | |||
| John Watts |
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20 July 1994 | 2 May 1997 | |||||
| Gavin Strang (in Cabinet) |
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2 May 1997 | 18 June 1998 | Labour | Blair | Prescott (DPM, SSETR) | ||
| John Reid (attended Cabinet) |
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27 July 1998 | 17 May 1999 | |||||
| Helen Liddell | 
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17 May 1999 | 29 July 1999 | |||||
| Gus Macdonald, Baron Macdonald of Tradeston (attended Cabinet) |
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29 July 1999 | 8 June 2001 | |||||
| John Spellar (attended Cabinet) |
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8 June 2001 | 12 June 2003 | Byers (SSTLR) | ||||
| Darling | ||||||||
| Kim Howells | .jpg)
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12 June 2003 | 10 September 2004 | |||||
| Tony McNulty | 
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10 September 2004 | 9 May 2005 | |||||
| Stephen Ladyman | 
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9 May 2005[1] | 28 June 2007 | |||||
| Alexander | ||||||||
| Rosie Winterton | 
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28 June 2007 | 3 October 2008 | Brown | Kelly | |||
| Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis | 
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3 October 2008 | 5 June 2009 | Hoon | ||||
| Sadiq Khan (attended Cabinet when his responsibilities were on the agenda) |
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9 June 2009[2][3] | 11 May 2010 | Adonis | ||||
| Theresa Villiers | 
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12 May 2010 | 4 September 2012 | Conservative | Cameron | Hammond | ||
| Simon Burns | 
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5 September 2012 | 5 October 2013 | McLoughlin | ||||
| The Baroness Kramer | .jpg)
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5 October 2013 | 8 May 2015 | Liberal Democrats | ||||
| John Hayes | 
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15 July 2014 | 11 May 2015 | Conservative | ||||
| Robert Goodwill | 
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11 May 2015 | 16 July 2016 | |||||
| John Hayes | 
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16 July 2016 | 9 January 2018 | May | Grayling | |||
| Jo Johnson | .jpg)
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9 January 2018 | 9 November 2018 | |||||
| Jesse Norman | 
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12 November 2018 | 23 May 2019 | |||||
| Michael Ellis | 
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23 May 2019 | 24 July 2019 | |||||
| George Freeman | 
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26 July 2019 | 13 February 2020 | Johnson | Shapps | |||
| Chris Heaton-Harris | 
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25 July 2019 | 19 December 2021 | |||||
| Andrew Stephenson | 
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13 February 2020 | 7 July 2022 | |||||
| Wendy Morton[a] | 
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19 December 2021 | 6 September 2022 | |||||
| Trudy Harrison[b] | 
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7 July 2022 | 7 September 2022 | |||||
| Kevin Foster | 
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7 September 2022 | 26 October 2022 | Truss | Trevelyan | |||
| Lucy Frazer | 
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8 September 2022 | 26 October 2022 | |||||
| Minister of State for Decarbonisation and Technology | ||||||||
| Jesse Norman |
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26 October 2022 | 13 November 2023 | Sunak | Harper | |||
| Minister of State for Rail and HS2 | ||||||||
| Huw Merriman | 
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27 October 2022 | 5 July 2024 | |||||
| Minister of State for Rail | ||||||||
| Peter Hendy, Baron Hendy of Richmond Hill |
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8 July 2024 | Incumbent | Labour | Starmer | Haigh | ||
References
edit- ^ National Archive: Department for Transport biography of Stephen Ladyman
- ^ "Sadiq Khan, Former MP, Tooting, profile", www.theyworkforyou.com, TheyWorkForYou, retrieved 21 May 2017
- ^ Banerjee, Subhajit (7 June 2009). "Minister appointment on Twitter". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 11 June 2009. Retrieved 7 June 2011.
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