The chief secretary to the Treasury is a ministerial office in the
government of the United Kingdom
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. The office is the second most senior in the
Treasury, after the
chancellor of the Exchequer. The office was created in 1961, to share the burden of representing the Treasury with the chancellor.
The minister is shadowed by the
shadow chief secretary to the Treasury
The Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury is the most junior member of the Shadow Cabinet, and is the deputy to the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury acts as the primary opposition to the equivalent G ...
who sits on the
Official Opposition frontbench.
History and responsibilities
Between 1961 and 2015, the holder of the office of Chief Secretary to the Treasury was of full
cabinet rank. This formally made the HM Treasury the only
department to have more than one ministerial position of cabinet rank. Since 2015, however, the status of the office has been reduced to "also attending Cabinet".
The office holder is responsible for public expenditure, including spending reviews.
List of chief secretaries to the Treasury
See also
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Secretary to the Treasury
In the United Kingdom, there are several Secretaries to the Treasury, who are Treasury ministers nominally acting as secretaries to HM Treasury. The origins of the office are unclear, although it probably originated during Lord Burghley's tenure ...
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Financial Secretary to the Treasury
The financial secretary to the Treasury is a mid-level ministerial post in His Majesty's Treasury. It is nominally the fifth most significant ministerial role within the Treasury after the first lord of the Treasury, the chancellor of the Excheq ...
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Economic Secretary to the Treasury
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Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury
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Paymaster General
His Majesty's Paymaster General or HM Paymaster General is a ministerial position in the Cabinet Office of the United Kingdom. The incumbent Paymaster General is Jeremy Quin MP.
History
The post was created in 1836 by the merger of the posi ...
References
{{Ministers at HM Treasury
Ministerial offices in the United Kingdom
Finance ministers of the United Kingdom
1961 establishments in the United Kingdom
Lists of government ministers of the United Kingdom