Minister without portfolio (United Kingdom)

United Kingdom; Minister without Portfolio
	Royal Arms as used by Her Majesty's Government
	Flag of the United Kingdom
	Incumbent; Amanda Milling; since 13 February 2020
	Cabinet Office
Style	The Right Honourable
Reports to	The Prime Minister
Nominator	The Prime Minister
Appointer	The British Monarch; on the advice of the Prime Minister
Term length	No fixed term
Website	GOV.UK

In the United Kingdom, the Minister without portfolio is often a cabinet position, and is sometimes used to enable people such as the Chairman of the Conservative Party or the Chair of the Labour Party to attend cabinet meetings (if so, they hold the title of "Party chairman"). The sinecure positions of Lord Privy Seal and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster which have few responsibilities and have a higher rank in the Order of Precedence than Minister without Portfolio can also be used for similar effect.

List of office holders

18th century

The Lord Somers, as part of the Townshend ministry
Henry Seymour Conway, as part of the Chatham ministry and Grafton ministry

19th century

	Tenure	Political party
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland	January 1805 – February 1806	Whig	William Pitt the Younger
William Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam	October 1806 – March 1807	Whig	William Grenville (Ministry of All the Talents)
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland	4 – 30 October 1809	Tory	Spencer Perceval
Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby	November 1809 – June 1812	Tory (Pittite)
John Pratt, 2nd Earl Camden (created 1st Marquess Camden, August 1812)	8 April – December 1812	Tory
	8 April – December 1812		Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool
Henry Phipps, 1st Earl of Mulgrave	January 1819 – May 1820		Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne	April – July 1827	Whig	George Canning
William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland	July – September 1827	Tory (Canningite)	George Canning
George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle	22 November 1830 – 5 June 1834	Whig	Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington	3 September 1841 – July 1846	Conservative	Robert Peel
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne	28 December 1852 – 21 February 1858	Whig	George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (until February 1855)
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne	28 December 1852 – 21 February 1858		Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Lord John Russell	February 1853 – June 1854		George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen
Spencer Horatio Walpole	May 1867 – February 1868	Conservative	Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby
Michael Hicks Beach	7 March 1887 – 20 February 1888	Conservative	Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

Edwardian and wartime

Name		Concurrent office(s)	Tenure	Political party
	Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne		25 May 1915 – December 1916	Liberal Unionist	H. H. Asquith (Coalition)
	Arthur Henderson	Member of the War Cabinet	10 December 1916 – 12 August 1917	Labour	David Lloyd George (Coalition)
	Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner		10 December 1916 – 18 April 1918	Conservative
	Jan Smuts		22 June 1917 – 10 January 1919	South African Party
	Edward Carson		17 July 1917 – 21 January 1918	Ulster Unionist Party (Irish Unionist)
	George Barnes	Member of the War Cabinet (until October 1919)	13 August 1917 – 27 January 1920	Labour
	Austen Chamberlain	Member of the War Cabinet	18 April 1918 – 10 January 1919	Conservative
	Eric Campbell Geddes	Member of the War Cabinet	10 January – 31 October 1919
	Laming Worthington-Evans	Member of the War Cabinet (until October 1919)	10 January 1919 – 13 February 1921
	Christopher Addison		1 April – 14 July 1921	Liberal
	Anthony Eden	Minister for League of Nations affairs	7 June – 22 December 1935	Conservative	Stanley Baldwin (Coalition)
	Eustace Percy		7 June 1935 – 31 March 1936	Conservative	Stanley Baldwin (Coalition)
	Leslie Burgin	Minister of Supply-designate	21 April – 14 July 1939	National Liberal Party	Neville Chamberlain (Coalition)
Maurice Hankey		Member of the War Cabinet	September 1939 – 10 May 1940	no party	Neville Chamberlain (Coalition)
	Arthur Greenwood	Member of the War Cabinet	11 May 1940 – 22 February 1942	Labour	Winston Churchill (Coalition)
	William Jowitt		30 December 1942 – 8 October 1944	Labour	Winston Churchill (Coalition)

Post-war

	Concurrent office(s)		Tenure	Political party
A. V. Alexander			4 October – 20 December 1946	Labour Co-operative	Clement Attlee
Arthur Greenwood			17 April – 29 September 1947	Labour	Clement Attlee
Geoffrey FitzClarence, 5th Earl of Munster			18 October 1954 – 1957	Conservative	Winston Churchill
Geoffrey FitzClarence, 5th Earl of Munster			18 October 1954 – 1957		Anthony Eden
Stormont Mancroft, 2nd Baron Mancroft			11 June 1957 – 1958		Harold Macmillan
Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn, 11th Earl of Dundee			23 October 1958 – 1961	Unionist
Percy Mills, 1st Baron Mills		Deputy Leader of the House of Lords	9 October 1961 – 13 July 1962	Conservative
Bill Deedes			13 July 1962 – 16 October 1964
Bill Deedes			13 July 1962 – 16 October 1964		Alec Douglas-Home
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington		Leader of the House of Lords	20 October 1963 – 16 October 1964		Alec Douglas-Home
Eric Fletcher			19 October 1964 – 6 April 1966	Labour	Harold Wilson
Arthur Champion, Baron Champion		Deputy Leader of the House of Lords	21 October 1964 – 7 January 1967
Douglas Houghton			6 April 1966 – 7 January 1967
Edward Shackleton, Baron Shackleton		Deputy Leader of the House of Lords	7 January 1967 – 16 January 1968
Patrick Gordon Walker			7 January – 21 August 1967
George Thomson			17 October 1968 – 6 October 1969
Peter Shore			6 October 1969 – 19 June 1970
Niall Macpherson, 1st Baron Drumalbyn			15 October 1970 – 1974	Unionist	Edward Heath
Morys Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare			8 January – March 1974	Conservative	Edward Heath
David Young, Baron Young of Graffham	advising on unemployment		11 September 1984 – 3 September 1985		Margaret Thatcher
Jeremy Hanley	Chairman of the Conservative Party		20 July 1994 – 5 July 1995		John Major
Brian Mawhinney	Chairman of the Conservative Party		5 July 1995 – 2 May 1997		John Major
Peter Mandelson	called the "Dome Secretary"		2 May 1997 – 27 July 1998	Labour	Tony Blair

21st century

Name		Concurrent office(s)	Tenure	Political party
	Charles Clarke	Labour Party Chair	9 June 2001 – October 2002	Labour	Tony Blair
	John Reid		24 October 2002 – April 2003
	Ian McCartney		4 April 2003 – May 2006
	Hazel Blears		5 May 2006 – June 2007
no appointment			28 June 2007 – May 2010		Gordon Brown
	Sayeeda Warsi, Baroness Warsi	Co-Chairman of the Conservative Party	12 May 2010 – 4 September 2012	Conservative	David Cameron (Coalition)
	Grant Shapps	Co-Chairman of the Conservative Party	4 September 2012 – May 2015
	Kenneth Clarke	Trade envoy	4 September 2012 – 15 July 2014
	John Hayes	Senior Parliamentary Adviser to the Prime Minister (Cabinet Office)	28 March 2013 – July 2014
	Robert Halfon	Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party	11 May 2015 – 17 July 2016		David Cameron
no appointment			17 July 2016 – 8 January 2018		Theresa May
	Brandon Lewis	Chairman of the Conservative Party	8 January 2018 – 24 July 2019		Theresa May
	James Cleverly		24 July 2019 – 13 February 2020		Boris Johnson
	Amanda Milling		13 February 2020 – present		Boris Johnson

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