Home Secretary
United Kingdom Secretary of State for the Home Department |
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Style | The Right Honourable (Formal prefix) Home Secretary Madam Secretary[citation needed] |
Member of | British Cabinet Privy Council National Security Council |
Reports to | The Prime Minister |
Seat | Westminster, London |
Appointer | The British Monarch on advice of the Prime Minister |
Term length | No fixed term |
Inaugural holder | William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne |
Formation | 27 March 1782 |
Website | www |
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Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, often informally referred to as the Home Secretary, is a senior official as one of the Great Offices of State within Her Majesty's Government and head of the Home Office. The office is a British Cabinet level position.
The Home Secretary is responsible for the internal affairs of England and Wales, and for immigration and citizenship for the United Kingdom. The remit of the Home Office also includes policing in England and Wales and matters of national security, as the Security Service, MI5, is directly accountable to the Home Secretary. Formerly, the Home Secretary was the minister responsible for prisons and probation in England and Wales; however, in 2005 those responsibilities were transferred to the newly created Ministry of Justice under the Lord Chancellor.
The current Home Secretary is The Rt Hon. Theresa May, MP, appointed on 12 May 2010 by Queen Elizabeth II on the advice of the Prime Minister, David Cameron, to serve in the Conservative-Liberal Democratic coalition government. May was reappointed by Cameron on 8 May 2015 to serve as Home Secretary in the Conservative government.
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List of Home Secretaries[edit]
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Home Secretaries of Great Britain, 1782–1801[edit]
Name | Portrait | Term of office | Political party | Prime Minister | |||
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The Earl of Shelburne | 27 March 1782 | 10 July 1782 | Whig | The Marquess of Rockingham | |||
Thomas Townsend | 10 July 1782 | 2 April 1783 | Whig | The Earl of Shelburne | |||
Lord North | 2 April 1783 | 19 December 1783 | Tory | The Duke of Portland (Fox-North Coalition) |
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The Earl Temple | 19 December 1783 | 23 December 1783 | Whig | William Pitt the Younger | |||
The Lord Sydney | 23 December 1783 | 5 June 1789 | Whig | ||||
The Lord Grenville | 5 June 1789 | 8 June 1791 | Tory | ||||
Henry Dundas | 8 June 1791 | 11 July 1794 | Tory | ||||
The Duke of Portland | 11 July 1794 | 30 July 1801 | Tory |
Under the Acts of Union 1800, the Kingdom of Great Britain merged into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland on 1 January 1801.
Home Secretaries of the United Kingdom, 1801–1922[edit]
Under the Irish Free State Constitution Act 1922, the Irish Free State seceded from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, which was renamed the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, with the Royal and Parliamentary styles formally altered by the Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927.
Home Secretaries of the United Kingdom, 1922–present[edit]
See also[edit]
- Cabinet (government)
- Departments of the United Kingdom Government
- Ministry of Justice
- List of British ministries
- Great Offices of State
- Shadow Home Secretary
References[edit]
- List of Home Secretaries from UKpolitics
External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Home Secretaries of the United Kingdom. |
- Home Office website
- Electronic list of ministerial responsibilities
- Her Majesty's Government (Cabinet Ministers)
- Ministry of Justice
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