Secretary of State for Transport

The secretary of state for transport, also referred to as the transport secretary, is a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom, with overall responsibility for the policies of the Department for Transport.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The incumbent is a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.

The office holder works alongside the other transport ministers. The corresponding shadow minister is the shadow secretary of state for transport, and the secretary of state is also scrutinised by the Transport Select Committee.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The position of secretary of state for transport is held by Heidi Alexander, who was appointed by Keir Starmer following the resignation of Louise Haigh.

History

The Ministry of Transport absorbed the Ministry of Shipping and was renamed the Ministry of War Transport in 1941, but resumed its previous name at the end of the war.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

The Ministry of Civil Aviation was created by Winston Churchill in 1944 to look at peaceful ways of using aircraft and to find something for the aircraft factories to do after the war.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The new Conservative government in 1951 appointed the same minister to both Transport and Civil Aviation, finally amalgamating the ministries on 1 October 1953.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The Ministry was renamed back to the Ministry of Transport on 14 October 1959, when a separate Ministry of Aviation was formed.

Transport responsibilities were subsumed by the Department for the Environment, headed by the secretary of state for the environment from 15 October 1970 to 10 September 1976.

The Department for Transport was recreated as a separate department by James Callaghan in 1976.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

The super-department Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions was created in 1997 for Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott.

In 2001, the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions was widely considered unwieldy and so was broken up,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> with the Transport functions now combined with Local Government and the Regions in the DTLR (Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions).

List of ministers and secretaries of state

Minister of Transport (1919–1941)

Colour key (for political parties):
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Minister			Term of office		Political party	Prime Minister
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Sir Eric Campbell-Geddes in 1917.jpg	Eric Campbell Geddes	19 May 1919	7 November 1921	Conservative	rowspan=3 style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	David Lloyd George Template:Small
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:William Peel.jpg	William Peel, Viscount Peel	7 November 1921	12 April 1922	Conservative
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Crawford27.JPG	David Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford	12 April 1922	31 October 1922	Conservative
rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Viscount Stonehave.jpg	John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven	31 October 1922	22 January 1924	Conservative	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	Bonar Law
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |						Stanley Baldwin
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:1918 Harry Gosling.jpg	Harry Gosling	24 January 1924	3 November 1924	Labour	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	Ramsay MacDonald
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Wilfrid Ashley - Bain Collection.jpg	Wilfrid Ashley	11 November 1924	4 June 1929	Conservative	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	Stanley Baldwin
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |		Herbert Morrison	7 June 1929	24 August 1931	Labour	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	Ramsay MacDonald
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |		John Pybus	3 September 1931	22 February 1933	Liberal	rowspan=3 style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	Ramsay MacDonald Template:Small
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Oliver Stanley MP.jpg	Hon. Oliver Stanley	22 February 1933	29 June 1934	Conservative
rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Leslie Hore.jpg	Leslie Hore-Belisha	29 June 1934	28 May 1937	National Liberal
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |						Stanley Baldwin Template:Small
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Leslie burgin.jpg	Leslie Burgin	28 May 1937	21 April 1939	National Liberal	rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	Neville Chamberlain Template:Small
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Euan Wallace.jpg	Euan Wallace	21 April 1939	14 May 1940	Conservative	Neville Chamberlain Template:Small
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Lord reith.jpg	John Reith	14 May 1940	3 October 1940	National Independent	rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	Winston Churchill Template:Small
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Lord Brabazon.jpg	John Moore-Brabazon	3 October 1940	1 May 1941	Conservative

Minister of (War) Transport and Minister of Civil Aviation (1941–1953)

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Template:Small Transport			Template:Small Civil Aviation	Term of office		Political party	Prime Minister
rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Lot 11568-23 (24632592182) (Frederick Leathers).jpg	Frederick Leathers, 1st Viscount Leathers Template:Small	—	1 May 1941	26 July 1945	Conservative	rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	Winston Churchill Template:Small
Philip Cunliffe-Lister, Viscount Swinton			8 October 1944	26 July 1945	Conservative
rowspan=4 style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Alfred Barnes MP.jpg	Alfred Barnes	Reginald Fletcher, 1st Baron Winster	3–4 August 1945	4 October 1946	Labour	rowspan=4 style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	Clement Attlee
Harry Nathan, 1st Baron Nathan			4 October 1946	31 May 1948	Labour
Francis Pakenham, Lord Pakenham			31 May 1948	1 June 1951	Labour
David Rees-Williams, 1st Baron Ogmore			1 June 1951	26 October 1951	Labour
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |		Hon. John Maclay		31 October 1951	7 May 1952	National Liberal	rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	Winston Churchill
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Lennox-Boyd.jpg	Alan Lennox-Boyd		7 May 1952	1 October 1953	Conservative

Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation (1953–1959)

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Minister			Term of office		Political party	Prime Minister
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Lennox-Boyd.jpg	Alan Lennox-Boyd	1 October 1953	28 July 1954	Conservative	rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	Winston Churchill
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |		John Boyd-Carpenter	28 July 1954	20 December 1955	Conservative
rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Party color" |		Harold Watkinson	20 December 1955	14 October 1959	Conservative	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	Anthony Eden
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |						Harold Macmillan

Minister of Transport (1959–1970)

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Minister		Term of office		Political party	Prime Minister
rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	Ernest Marples	14 October 1959	16 October 1964	Conservative	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	Harold Macmillan
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |					Alec Douglas-Home
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	Thomas Fraser	16 October 1964	23 December 1965	Labour	rowspan=4 style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	Harold Wilson
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	Barbara Castle	23 December 1965	6 April 1968	Labour
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	Richard Marsh	6 April 1968	6 October 1969	Labour
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	Fred Mulley<ref name="Mulley"/>	6 October 1969	22 June 1970	Labour
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	John Peyton<ref name="Peyton"/>	23 June 1970	14 October 1970	Conservative	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	Edward Heath

Minister within the Department of the Environment (1970–1976)

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Minister		Term of office		Length of Term	Political party	Prime Minister
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	Peter Walker	15 October 1970	5 November 1972	Template:Age in years and months	Conservative	rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	Edward Heath
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	Geoffrey Rippon	5 November 1972	4 March 1974	Template:Age in years and months	Conservative
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	Anthony Crosland	5 March 1974	8 April 1976	Template:Age in years and months	Labour	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	Harold Wilson

The junior ministers responsible for transport within the Department for the Environment:

Minister for Transport Industries (1970–1974)

• John Peyton<ref name="Peyton">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

|CitationClass=web }}</ref> (Conservative, 15 October 1970 – 7 March 1974)

Minister for Transport (1974–1976)

• Fred Mulley<ref name="Mulley">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

|CitationClass=web }}</ref> (Labour, 7 March 1974 – 12 June 1975)

• John Gilbert<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

|CitationClass=web }}</ref> (Labour, 12 June 1975 – 10 September 1976)

Secretary of State for Transport (1976–1979)

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Secretary of State			Term of office		Length of Term	Political party	Prime Minister
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Official portrait of Lord Rodgers of Quarry Bank crop 2.jpg	Bill Rodgers<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	10 September 1976	4 May 1979	Template:Age in years and months	Labour	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	James Callaghan

Minister of Transport (1979–1981)

Not an official member of the cabinet.

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Minister			Term of office		Length of Term	Political party	Prime Minister
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Official portrait of Lord Fowler crop 2.jpg	Norman Fowler<ref name="Fowler"/>	11 May 1979	5 January 1981	Template:Age in years and months	Conservative	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	Margaret Thatcher

Secretary of State for Transport (1981–1997)

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Secretary of State			Term of office		Length of Term	Political party	Prime Minister
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Official portrait of Lord Fowler crop 2.jpg	Norman Fowler<ref name="Fowler">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	5 January 1981	14 September 1981	Template:Age in years and months	Conservative	rowspan=7 style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	Margaret Thatcher
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Official portrait of Lord Howell of Guildford 2020 crop 2.jpg	David Howell<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	14 September 1981	11 June 1983	Template:Age in years and months	Conservative
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Official portrait of Lord King of Bridgwater crop 2.jpg	Tom King<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	11 June 1983	16 October 1983	Template:Age in years and months	Conservative
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Blank.png	Hon. Nicholas Ridley	16 October 1983	21 May 1986	Template:Age in years and months	Conservative
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Mr John Moore M.P. addressing the Annual LSE Society Dinner, 5th June, 1985.jpg	John Moore<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	21 May 1986	13 June 1987	Template:Age in years and months	Conservative
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Blank.png	Paul Channon	13 June 1987	24 July 1989	Template:Age in years and months	Conservative
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Blank.png	Cecil Parkinson<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	24 July 1989	28 November 1990	Template:Age in years and months	Conservative
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Malcolm Rifkind 2011 (cropped).jpg	Malcolm Rifkind<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	28 November 1990	10 April 1992	Template:Age in years and months	Conservative	rowspan=4 style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	John Major
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Official portrait of Lord MacGregor of Pulham Market crop 2.jpg	John MacGregor<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	11 April 1992	20 July 1994	Template:Age in years and months	Conservative
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Blank.png	Brian Mawhinney<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	20 July 1994	5 July 1995	Template:Age in years and months	Conservative
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Official portrait of Lord Young of Cookham, 2020.jpg	Sir George Young, 6th Baronet<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	5 July 1995	2 May 1997	Template:Age in years and months	Conservative

Secretary of State for Environment, Transport and the Regions (1997–2001)

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Secretary of State			Term of office		Length of Term	Political party	Prime Minister
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	John Prescott<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> Template:Small	File:John Prescott on his last day as Deputy Prime Minister, June 2007.jpg	2 May 1997	7 June 2001	Template:Age in years and months	Labour	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	Tony Blair

Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions (2001–2002)

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Secretary of State		Term of office		Length of Term	Political party	Prime Minister
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	Stephen Byers<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> Template:Small	8 June 2001	28 May 2002	Template:Age in years and months	Labour	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	Tony Blair

After Byers' resignation, such a division was made, with the portfolios of Local Government and the Regions transferred to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.

During the lifetime of DTLGR, John Spellar served as Minister of State for Transport with a right to attend Cabinet.

• John Spellar<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

|CitationClass=web }}</ref> (8 June 2001 – 29 May 2002)

Secretary of State for Transport (2002–present)

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Secretary of State			Term of office		Length of Term	Political party	Prime Minister
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Alistair Darling official portrait (cropped).jpg	Alistair Darling<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> Template:Small	29 May 2002	5 May 2006	Template:Age in years and months	Labour	rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	Tony Blair
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Douglas Alexander at the India Economic Summit 2008.jpg	Douglas Alexander<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> Template:Small	5 May 2006	28 June 2007	Template:Age in years and months	Labour
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Ruth Kelly official portrait.jpg	Ruth Kelly<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> Template:Small	28 June 2007	5 October 2008	Template:Age in years and months	Labour	rowspan=3 style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	Gordon Brown
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Geoff Hoon Headshot.jpg	Geoff Hoon<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> Template:Small	5 October 2008	5 June 2009	Template:Age in years and months	Labour
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Lord Adonis.jpg	Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	6 June 2009	6 May 2010	Template:Age in years and months	Labour
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Official portrait of Mr Philip Hammond crop 2.jpg	Philip Hammond<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> Template:Small	12 May 2010	14 October 2011	Template:Age in years and months	Conservative	rowspan=4 style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	David Cameron Template:Small
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Official portrait of Justine Greening crop 2.jpg	Justine Greening<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> Template:Small	14 October 2011	6 September 2012	Template:Age in years and months	Conservative
rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Official portrait of Lord McLoughlin, 2022.jpg	Patrick McLoughlin<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> Template:Small	6 September 2012	14 July 2016	Template:Age in years and months	Conservative
David Cameron Template:Small
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Official portrait of Rt Hon Chris Grayling MP crop 2.jpg	Chris Grayling<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> Template:Small	14 July 2016	24 July 2019	Template:Age in years and days	Conservative	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	Theresa May
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Grant Shapps Official Cabinet Portrait, October 2022 (cropped).jpg	Grant Shapps<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> Template:Small	24 July 2019	6 September 2022	Template:Age in years and months	Conservative	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	Boris Johnson
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Anne-Marie Trevelyan Official Cabinet Portrait, September 2021 (cropped).jpg	Anne-Marie Trevelyan<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> Template:Small	6 September 2022	25 October 2022	Template:Age in weeks weeks	Conservative	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	Liz Truss
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Mark Harper Official Cabinet Portrait, October 2022 (cropped).jpg	Mark Harper<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> Template:Small	25 October 2022	5 July 2024	Template:Age in years and months	Conservative	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	Rishi Sunak
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Louise Haigh Official Cabinet Portrait, July 2024 Crop 1.png	Louise Haigh<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> Template:Small	5 July 2024	29 November 2024	Template:Age in months months	Labour	rowspan="2" style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	Keir Starmer
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Heidi alexander portrait 2024.jpg	Heidi Alexander<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> Template:Small	29 November 2024	Incumbent	Template:Age in years, months and days	Labour

Timeline

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 from: 07/11/1921 till: 12/04/1922 color:Conservative text:"William Peel
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 from: 12/10/2010 till: 14/10/2011 color:Conservative text:"Philip Hammond"
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 from: 14/10/2011 till: 06/09/2012 color:Conservative text:"Justine Greening"
bar:McLoughlin
 from: 06/09/2012 till: 14/07/2016 color:Conservative text:"Patrick McLoughlin"
bar:Grayling
 from: 14/07/2016 till: 24/07/2019 color:Conservative text:"Chris Grayling"
bar:Shapps
 from: 24/07/2019 till: 06/07/2022 color:Conservative text:"Grant Shapps"
bar:Trevelyan
 from: 06/09/2022 till: 25/10/2022 color:Conservative text:"Anne-Marie Trevelyan"
bar:Harper
 from: 25/10/2022 till: 05/07/2024     color:Conservative text:"Mark Harper"
bar:Haigh
 from: 05/07/2024 till: 29/11/2024    color:Labour text:"Louise Haigh"
bar:H.Alexander
 from: 29/11/2024  till: $today     color:Labour text:"Heidi Alexander"

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See also

• Ministry of Civil Aviation Aerodrome Fire Service

External links

• Track record: Transport secretaries