Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury

United Kingdom Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury
File:Coat of arms of the United Kingdom (2022, lesser arms).svg Royal arms of His Majesty's Government
File:Dan Tomlinson MP.jpg Incumbent Dan Tomlinson since 1 September 2025
His Majesty's Treasury
Reports to	First Lord of the Treasury Chancellor of the Exchequer & Second Lord of the Treasury
Nominator	Prime Minister
Appointer	The King (on the advice of the prime minister)
Term length	At His Majesty's pleasure
Inaugural holder	Phillip Oppenheim
Formation	23 July 1996
Website	Official website

The exchequer secretary to the Treasury is a junior ministerial post in His Majesty's Treasury, ranked below the First Lord of the Treasury, the chancellor of the Exchequer, the chief secretary to the Treasury, the paymaster general and the financial secretary to the Treasury, and alongside the economic secretary to the Treasury. It ranks at parliamentary secretary level and the holder does not attend Cabinet.

The first exchequer secretary was Phillip Oppenheim, who held the post from 23 July 1996 to 2 May 1997, when he lost his seat in the general election that brought Tony Blair to power.

Following a period of abeyance, the office was reinstated upon Gordon Brown's accession as prime minister in June 2007, when Angela Eagle was appointed exchequer secretary. The office again fell out of use in July 2016 when Theresa May became prime minister, before she reinstated it following the 2017 general election.

The position was held by Helen Whately, having been held by Kemi Badenoch from 2020 to 2021.

The minister is shadowed by the shadow exchequer secretary to the Treasury, who sits on the Official Opposition frontbench.

Responsibilities

HM Treasury

• Enterprise and productivity including small business taxation and support to the chancellor of the Exchequer on economic reform
• Competition and better regulation
• Science, innovation and skills policy, including implementation of the 10-year science and innovation strategy and the R&D tax credit
• Regional economic policy
• Urban regeneration and social exclusion including housing, planning and planning gain supplement;
• Environmental issues including taxation of transport, international Climate Change issues including global carbon trading and EU ETS, and Energy Issues
• Taxation of oil
• Excise duties and gambling, including excise fraud and law enforcement
• Public-private partnerships including Private Finance Initiative, and Partnerships UK
• Ministerial responsibility for the Office for National Statistics, the Royal Mint and Departmental Minister for HM Treasury Group
• Support to the Chief Secretary to the Treasury on public spending issues including long-term challenges in the run up to the Comprehensive Spending Review and selected Cabinet Committees
• Assist where necessary on European issues
• Working with the Financial Secretary to the Treasury on the Finance Bill

Responsibility for procurement policy and the former Office of Government Commerce was transferred to the Cabinet Office in 2011.

List of exchequer secretaries

Key

Conservative       Labour

Portrait		Name	Term of office		Party	Prime Minister		Chancellor	Ref.
	File:No image.svg	Phillip Oppenheim MP for Amber Valley	23 July 1996	2 May 1997	Conservative		Major	Clarke
Office not in use			1997–2007		N/A		Blair	Brown
	File:Angela Eagle Ministerial portrait cropped.jpg	Angela Eagle MP for Wallasey	29 June 2007	9 June 2009	Labour		Brown	Darling
	File:Kitty ussher at election count in burnley 2009.JPG	Kitty Ussher MP for Burnley	9 June 2009	17 June 2009	Labour
	File:No image.svg	Sarah McCarthy-Fry MP for Portsmouth North	17 June 2009	11 May 2010	Labour
	File:David Gauke MP 2011 (6481320893) (cropped).jpg	David Gauke MP for South West Hertfordshire	13 May 2010	15 July 2014	Conservative		Cameron (Coalition)	Osborne
	File:Priti Patel Minister.jpg	Priti Patel MP for Witham	15 July 2014	11 May 2015	Conservative
	File:Damian Hinds MP (cropped).png	Damian Hinds MP for East Hampshire	12 May 2015	13 July 2016	Conservative		Cameron (II)
Office not in use			2016–2017		N/A		May (I)	Hammond
	File:Official portrait of Andrew Jones crop 2.jpg	Andrew Jones MP for Harrogate and Knaresborough	15 June 2017	8 January 2018	Conservative		May (II)
	File:Robert Jenrick Official Portrait 2018 (cropped).jpg	Robert Jenrick MP for Newark	9 January 2018	24 July 2019	Conservative
	File:Official portrait of Mr Simon Clarke MP crop 2.jpg	Simon Clarke MP for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland	27 July 2019	13 February 2020	Conservative		Johnson	Javid
	File:Treasury Minister commends energy innovations towards Net Zero (cropped).png	Kemi Badenoch MP for Saffron Walden	13 February 2020	16 September 2021	Conservative			Sunak
	File:Official portrait of Helen Whately MP crop 2.jpg	Helen Whately MP for Faversham and Mid Kent	16 September 2021	8 July 2022	Conservative
	File:Official portrait of Alan Mak crop 2.jpg	Alan Mak MP for Havant	8 July 2022	7 September 2022	Conservative			Zahawi
	File:Official portrait of Felicity Buchan MP crop 2.jpg	Felicity Buchan MP for Kensington	8 September 2022	28 October 2022	Conservative		Truss	Kwarteng
								Hunt
	File:Official portrait of James Cartlidge MP crop 2.jpg	James Cartlidge MP for South Suffolk	28 October 2022	21 April 2023	Conservative		Sunak
	File:Official portrait of Gareth Davies MP crop 2.jpg	Gareth Davies MP for Grantham and Stamford	21 April 2023	4 July 2024	Conservative
	File:James Murray Official Portrait 2024 (cropped).jpg	James Murray MP for Ealing North	9 July 2024	1 September 2025	Labour		Starmer	Reeves
	File:Dan Tomlinson MP.jpg	Dan Tomlinson MP for Chipping Barnet	1 September 2025	Incumbent	Labour

See also

• Secretary to the Treasury