Minister for London

United Kingdom Minister for London
Incumbent Vacant since 5 July 2024
Department for Business and Trade
Status	Minister of the Crown
Reports to	The Prime Minister
Seat	Westminster
Appointer	The King (on advice of the Prime Minister)
Term length	At His Majesty's Pleasure
Inaugural holder	John Gummer
Formation	1994

The Minister for London is a United Kingdom Government ministerial post in His Majesty's Government. The officeholder is responsible for policy relating to London including informing Members of Parliament in the House of Commons on the activities of the Greater London Authority. The role is currently vacant as of 5 July 2024.

History

London had been under the authority of the London County Council and then the Greater London Council, but Margaret Thatcher abolished the GLC in 1986 after clashes with its leader, Ken Livingstone. Most of the municipal powers were then devolved to the 32 individual boroughs. Under John Major, however, the need for more centralised organisation was addressed by a series of moves. John Gummer was appointed Minister of London concurrently with his tenure as Secretary of State for Environment, and in 1994 the Government Office for London was established.^[1] After Tony Blair entered office, the Labour government set up an elected Mayor of London.^[1] This office, along with a reconstituted Greater London Authority, worked with the Minister and the Government Office.

The post was scrapped by David Cameron after he came to office in 2010.^[2] In 2016 however, the post was revived by Theresa May and was assigned to Gavin Barwell.

List of ministers for London

Colour key (for political parties):
  Conservative   Labour

Portrait		Name	Term of office		Concurrently held office	Political party	Prime Minister
		John Gummer MP for Suffolk Coastal	1994	2 May 1997	– Secretary of State for the Environment	Conservative		John Major
		Nick Raynsford MP for Greenwich and Woolwich	2 May 1997	29 July 1999	– Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Construction	Labour		Tony Blair
		Keith Hill MP for Streatham	29 July 1999	7 June 2001	– Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport	Labour
		Nick Raynsford MP for Greenwich and Woolwich	7 June 2001	12 March 2003	– Minister of State for Local and Regional Government[a]	Labour
		Tony McNulty MP for Harrow East	12 March 2003	13 June 2003 [3]	– Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport	Labour
		Keith Hill MP for Streatham	13 June 2003	6 May 2005 [4]	– Minister of State for Housing and Planning	Labour
		Jim Fitzpatrick MP for Poplar and Canning Town	6 May 2005	28 June 2007	– Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development	Labour
		Tessa Jowell MP for Dulwich and West Norwood	28 June 2007	3 October 2008	– Minister for the Olympics – Paymaster General	Labour		Gordon Brown
		Tony McNulty MP for Harrow East	3 October 2008	5 June 2009	– Minister of State for Employment and Welfare Reform	Labour
		Tessa Jowell MP for Dulwich and West Norwood	5 June 2009	11 May 2010	– Paymaster General – Minister for the Olympics – Minister for the Cabinet Office	Labour
Office not in use			11 May 2010	17 July 2016				David Cameron (I·II)
		Gavin Barwell MP for Croydon Central	17 July 2016	9 June 2017	– Minister of State for Housing and Planning	Conservative		Theresa May
		Greg Hands MP for Chelsea and Fulham	13 June 2017	9 January 2018	– Minister of State for Trade Policy	Conservative
		Jo Johnson MP for Orpington	9 January 2018	9 November 2018	– Minister of State for Transport	Conservative
		Nick Hurd MP for Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner	14 November 2018	18 December 2019	– Minister for Policing and the Fire Service	Conservative
								Boris Johnson
		Chris Philp MP for Croydon South	18 December 2019	13 February 2020	– Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Justice (until 25 July 2019) – Minister of State for Northern Ireland (from 25 July 2019)	Conservative
		Paul Scully MP for Sutton and Cheam	13 February 2020	13 November 2023	– Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Small Business, Consumers and Labour Markets (until 8 July 2022) – Minister of State for Local Government and Building Safety (8 July 2022 to 27 October 2022) – Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Tech and the Digital Economy (from 27 October 2022)	Conservative
								Liz Truss
								Rishi Sunak
		Greg Hands MP for Chelsea and Fulham	13 November 2023	5 July 2024	– Minister of State for Trade Policy	Conservative

Shadow Minister

The position of Shadow Minister for London was retained by Labour under the leadership of Ed Miliband, and was held by Sadiq Khan throughout Miliband's leadership. However, since Khan's nomination as Labour's candidate for Mayor of London and Jeremy Corbyn's leadership, the office has remained vacant.

See also

• Regional minister

Notes

1. Local Government (2001–02)

References

1. Ben Pimlott (2002). Governing London. Nirmala Rao. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-924492-8.
2. Mulholland, Hélène (4 June 2010). "Minister for London post abolished by David Cameron". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 June 2010.
3. "Press release: Association of London Government looking forward to working with new Minister for London". 12 March 2003. Archived from the original on 27 November 2007.
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