Editing Chancellor of the Exchequer (section)

===Ministerial arrangements===
At [[HM Treasury]] the chancellor is supported by a political team of four junior ministers and by permanent [[Civil Service (United Kingdom)|civil servants]]. The most important junior minister is the [[chief secretary to the Treasury]], a member of the Cabinet, to whom the negotiations with other government departments on the details of government spending are delegated, followed by the [[paymaster general]], the [[Financial Secretary to the Treasury|financial secretary to the Treasury]] and the [[Economic Secretary to the Treasury|economic secretary to the Treasury]]. Whilst not continuously in use, there can also be appointed a [[Commercial Secretary to the Treasury|commercial secretary to the Treasury]] and an [[Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury|exchequer secretary to the Treasury]]. Two other officials are given the title of a [[secretary to the Treasury]], although neither is a government minister in the Treasury: the [[Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury|parliamentary secretary to the Treasury]] is the Government [[Chief Whip]] in the [[British House of Commons|House of Commons]]; the [[Permanent Secretary to the Treasury|permanent secretary to the Treasury]] is not a [[minister (government)|minister]] but the senior civil servant in the Treasury.

The chancellor is obliged to be a member of the [[Privy Council of the United Kingdom|Privy Council]], and thus is [[style (manner of address)|styled]] the [[Right Honourable]] (Rt. Hon.). Because the [[House of Lords]] is excluded from financial matters by tradition confirmed by the [[Parliament Acts]], the office is effectively limited to members of the House of Commons; apart from the occasions when the [[Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench|lord chief justice of the King's Bench]] has acted as interim Chancellor. The last peer to hold the office was [[Henry Booth, 2nd Baron Delamer]] (created Earl of Warrington shortly after leaving office) from 9 April 1689 to 18 March 1690. The chancellor holds the formerly independent office of [[Master of the Mint]] as a subsidiary office.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Owen |first=James |date=19 December 2012 |title=Sir Isaac Newton – did you know? |url=http://blog.royalmint.com/sir-isaac-newton-did-you-know-this-about-him/ |access-date=6 June 2017 |publisher=The Royal Mint |archive-date=1 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170601112601/http://blog.royalmint.com/sir-isaac-newton-did-you-know-this-about-him/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>