Minister of State for Transport

United Kingdom
Minister of State for Rail
Royal Arms of His Majesty's Government
Department for Transport
StyleMinister
Reports toSecretary of State for Transport
NominatorPrime Minister of the United Kingdom
AppointerThe King
(on advice of the Prime Minister)
Term lengthAt His Majesty's pleasure
First holderLynda Chalker

The Minister of State for Rail is a mid-level ministerial position in the Department for Transport of the Government of the United Kingdom. The minister is deputy to the Secretary of State for Transport.

Ministers of State

Name
(Cabinet status) 		Portrait Term of office Political party P.M. Transp.Sec.
Minister of State for Transport
Lynda Chalker 18 October 1983 10 January 1986 Conservative Thatcher

Ridley

Moore

Channon

Parkinson

David Mitchell 23 January 1986 25 July 1988
Michael Portillo 25 July 1988 4 May 1990
Roger Freeman 4 May 1990 20 July 1994
Ivon Moore-Brabazon, 3rd Baron Brabazon of Tara 23 July 1990 14 April 1992
Malcolm Sinclair, 20th Earl of Caithness 14 April 1992 11 January 1994 Major Rifkind

MacGregor

Mawhinney

Young
John Watts 20 July 1994 2 May 1997
Gavin Strang
(in Cabinet) 		2 May 1997 18 June 1998 Labour Blair Prescott
(DPM, SSETR)
John Reid
(attended Cabinet) 		27 July 1998 17 May 1999
Helen Liddell 17 May 1999 29 July 1999
Gus Macdonald, Baron Macdonald of Tradeston
(attended Cabinet) 		29 July 1999 8 June 2001
John Spellar
(attended Cabinet) 		8 June 2001 12 June 2003 Byers
(SSTLR)
Darling
Kim Howells 12 June 2003 10 September 2004
Tony McNulty 10 September 2004 9 May 2005
Stephen Ladyman 9 May 2005[1] 28 June 2007
Alexander
Rosie Winterton 28 June 2007 3 October 2008 Brown Kelly
Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis 3 October 2008 5 June 2009 Hoon
Sadiq Khan
(attended Cabinet when his
responsibilities were on the agenda) 		9 June 2009[2][3] 11 May 2010 Adonis
Theresa Villiers 12 May 2010 4 September 2012 Conservative Cameron Hammond

Greening

Simon Burns 5 September 2012 5 October 2013 McLoughlin
Susan Kramer, Baroness Kramer 5 October 2013 8 May 2015 Liberal Democrats
John Hayes 15 July 2014 11 May 2015 Conservative
Robert Goodwill 11 May 2015 16 July 2016
John Hayes 16 July 2016 9 January 2018 May Grayling
Jo Johnson 9 January 2018 9 November 2018
Jesse Norman 12 November 2018 23 May 2019
Michael Ellis 23 May 2019 24 July 2019
George Freeman 26 July 2019 13 February 2020 Johnson Shapps
Chris Heaton-Harris 25 July 2019 19 December 2021
Andrew Stephenson 13 February 2020 7 July 2022
Wendy Morton[a] 19 December 2021 6 September 2022
Trudy Harrison[b] 7 July 2022 7 September 2022
Kevin Foster 7 September 2022 26 October 2022 Truss Trevelyan
Lucy Frazer 8 September 2022 26 October 2022
Minister of State for Decarbonisation and Technology
Jesse Norman 26 October 2022 13 November 2023 Sunak Harper
Minister of State for Rail and HS2
Huw Merriman 27 October 2022 5 July 2024
Minister of State for Rail
Peter Hendy, Baron Hendy of Richmond Hill 8 July 2024 Incumbent Labour Starmer Haigh

Alexander

References

  1. ^ National Archive: Department for Transport biography of Stephen Ladyman
  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.
  1. ^ Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State until February 2022
  2. ^ Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State until July 2022


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