Key moves in the government reshuffle

HM Treasury

  • Chancellor of the Exchequer – The Rt Hon George Osborne MP
  • Chief Secretary to the Treasury – The Rt Hon Danny Alexander MP
  • Exchequer Secretary – David Gauke MP

New

  • Financial Secretary – The Rt Hon Greg Clark MP - Former planning minister Greg Clark appointed financial secretary to the Treasury – and keeps cities ministerial brief; replaces Mark Hoban who has been moved to the Department of Work and Pensions
  • Commercial Secretary – Paul Deighton, an investment banker and chief executive of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Locog) is given a peerage and joins the Treasury team in charge of economic delivery and infrastructure. He is expected to head up the replacement PFI scheme and the government’s new UK Guarantee scheme (replaces Lord Sassoon in January 2013)
  • Economic Secretary – Sajid Javid MP

Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

  • Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, and President of the Board of Trade – The Rt Hon Dr Vincent Cable MP
  • Minister of State (Minister for Universities and Science) – The Rt Hon David Willetts MP

New

  • Minister of State – Michael Fallon MP - replaces Mark Prisk and is likely to take construction brief
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – Matthew Hancock MP (jointly with the Department for Education) - is expected to take the apprentices brief, after John Hayes was moved to DECC

Also

  • Minister of State (Trade and Investment) – Lord Green of Hurstpierpoint (jointly with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office)
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – Jo Swinson MP
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – Lord Marland

Department for Communities and Local Government

  • Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government  – The Rt Hon Eric Pickles MP
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – Baroness Hanham CBE

New

  • Minister of State  (Housing) – Mark Prisk MP; replaces Grant Shapps
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Planning) – Nicholas Boles MP; replaces Greg Clark
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – The Rt Hon Don Foster MP- replaces Andrew Stunnell
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – Brandon Lewis MP; replaces Bob Neill
  • Senior Minister of State (Faith and Communities) – The Rt Hon Baroness Warsi (jointly with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office)

Department for Education

  • Secretary of State for Education – The Rt Hon Michael Gove MP
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – Lord Hill of Oareford CBE

New

  • Minister of State – Rt Hon David Laws MP (jointly with the Cabinet Office)
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – Matthew Hancock MP (jointly with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills)

Also

  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – Edward Timpson MP
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – Elizabeth Truss MP

Department of Energy and Climate Change

  • Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change – The Rt Hon Edward Davey MP
  • Minister of State – Gregory Barker MP

New

  • Minister of State  –  John Hayes MP; replaces Charles Hendry

Cabinet Office

  • Minister for the Cabinet Office, Paymaster General – The Rt Hon Francis Maude MP
  • Minister for Government Policy – The Rt Hon Oliver Letwin MP
  • Parliamentary Secretary – Nick Hurd MP

New

  • Minister of State – The Rt Hon David Laws MP (jointly with the Department for Education)
  • Parliamentary Secretary – Chloe Smith MP

Department for Transport

  • Secretary of State for Transport – The Rt Hon Patrick McLoughlin MP
  • Minister of State – The Rt Hon Simon Burns MP
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – Norman Baker MP
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – Stephen Hammond MP

Department for Culture, Media and Sport

  • Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport; and Minister for Women and Equalities – Maria Miller MP
  • Minister of State – Hugh Robertson MP
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – The Hon Ed Vaizey MP
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Women and Equalities) – Helen Grant MP (jointly with the Ministry of Justice)

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