Minister of State for Transport

Minister of State for Transport
Minister of State for Transport
	Royal Arms of Her Majesty's Government
	Incumbent; Chris Heaton-Harris MP; since 25 July 2019
	Department for Transport
Style	Minister
Nominator	Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Appointer	The Monarch; on advice of the Prime Minister
Term length	At Her Majesty's pleasure

The Minister of State for Transport is a junior ministerial position in the Department for Transport of the Government of the United Kingdom who deputises for the Secretary of State for Transport. There is also a list of Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport, which is junior to Minister of State.

Ministers of State for Transport

Name (Cabinet status)		Term of office		Political party	P.M.		Transp.Sec.
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Lynda Chalker	18 October 1983	10 January 1986	Conservative	rowspan=7 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Thatcher	Ridley Moore Channon Parkinson
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	David Mitchell	23 January 1986	25 July 1988
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Michael Portillo	25 July 1988	4 May 1990
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Roger Freeman	4 May 1990	20 July 1994
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	The Lord Brabazon of Tara	23 July 1990	14 April 1992
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	The Earl of Caithness	14 April 1992	11 January 1994		Major	Rifkind MacGregor Mawhinney Young
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	John Watts	20 July 1994	2 May 1997		Major	Rifkind MacGregor Mawhinney Young
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Gavin Strang (in Cabinet)	2 May 1997	18 June 1998	Labour	rowspan=10 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Blair	Prescott (DPM, SSETR)
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	John Reid (attended Cabinet)	27 July 1998	17 May 1999
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Helen Liddell	17 May 1999	29 July 1999
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	The Lord Macdonald of Tradeston (attended Cabinet)	29 July 1999	8 June 2001
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	John Spellar (attended Cabinet)	8 June 2001	12 June 2003		Byers (SSTLR)
height=15 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	John Spellar (attended Cabinet)	8 June 2001	12 June 2003		Darling
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Kim Howells	12 June 2003	10 September 2004
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Tony McNulty	10 September 2004	9 May 2005
height=15 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Stephen Ladyman	9 May 2005^[1]	27 July 2007
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Stephen Ladyman	9 May 2005^[1]	27 July 2007		Alexander
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Rosie Winterton	28 July 2007	3 October 2008		rowspan=3 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Brown	Kelly
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	The Lord Adonis	3 October 2008	5 June 2009		Hoon
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Sadiq Khan (attended Cabinet when his responsibilities were on the agenda)	9 June 2009^[2]^[3]	11 May 2010		Adonis
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Theresa Villiers	12 May 2010	4 September 2012	Conservative	rowspan=11 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Cameron	Greening
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Simon Burns	5 September 2012	5 October 2013	Conservative	McLoughlin
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democrats (UK)/meta/color" \|	The Baroness Kramer	5 October 2013	8 May 2015	Liberal Democrats
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	John Hayes	15 July 2014	11 May 2015	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Robert Goodwill	11 May 2015	16 July 2016
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	John Hayes	16 July 2016	9 January 2018		May	Grayling
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Jo Johnson	9 January 2018	9 November 2018
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Jesse Norman	12 November 2018	23 May 2019
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Michael Ellis	23 May 2019	24 July 2019
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	George Freeman	26 July 2019	13 February 2019		Johnson	Shapps
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Chris Heaton-Harris	25 July 2019	Incumbent		Johnson	Shapps

Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of State for Transport

2006–2008: Tom Harris
2008–2009: Paul Clark
2007–2009: Jim Fitzpatrick
2009–2010: Chris Mole
2010–2013: Norman Baker
2013–2015: Robert Goodwill
2010–2012: Mike Penning
2012–2014: Stephen Hammond
2014–2016: Claire Perry
2016–2018: Paul Maynard
2015–2017: Andrew Jones
2015–2017: The Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
2016–2018: Paul Maynard
2017–2017: The Lord Callanan
2017–2018: Jesse Norman
2017–2019: The Baroness Sugg
2018–2019: Andrew Jones
2018–2020: Nusrat Ghani
2019–2020: Paul Maynard
2020: Kelly Tolhurst
2019–present: The Baroness Vere of Norbiton
2020–present: Rachel Maclean
2020–present: Robert Courts

References

^ 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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[1] National Archive: Department for Transport biography of Stephen Ladyman

[theyworkforyou-2] "Sadiq Khan, Former MP, Tooting, profile", www.theyworkforyou.com, TheyWorkForYou, retrieved 21 May 2017

[3] 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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