Editing Secretary to the Treasury

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In the United Kingdom, there are several '''Secretaries to the Treasury''', who are Treasury ministers nominally acting as secretaries to [[HM Treasury]]. The origins of the office are unclear, although it probably originated during [[William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley|Lord Burghley's]] tenure as [[Lord Treasurer]] in the 16th century. The number of secretaries was expanded to two by 1714 at the latest. The Treasury ministers together discharge all the former functions of the Lord Treasurer, which are nowadays nominally vested in the [[Lords Commissioners of the Treasury]]. Of the Commissioners, only the [[Second Lord of the Treasury]], who is also the [[Chancellor of the Exchequer]], is a Treasury minister (the others are the Prime Minister and the government [[Whip (politics)|whips]]).

The Chancellor is the senior Treasury minister, followed by the [[Chief Secretary to the Treasury]], who also attends Cabinet and has particular responsibilities for public expenditure. In order of seniority, the junior Treasury ministers are: the [[Financial Secretary to the Treasury]], the [[Economic Secretary to the Treasury]], the [[Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury]], and the [[Commercial Secretary to the Treasury]] (currently not in use).

One of the present-day secretaries, the [[Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury]], formerly known as the ''Patronage Secretary'', is not a Treasury minister but the government whip in the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]]. The office can be seen as a [[sinecure]], allowing the Chief Whip to draw a government salary, attend Cabinet, and use a Downing Street residence.

==Current Secretaries to the Treasury==
*[[Chief Secretary to the Treasury]] — [[Darren Jones]]
*[[Financial Secretary to the Treasury]] — [[Spencer Livermore, Baron Livermore|The Lord Livermore]]
*[[Economic Secretary to the Treasury]] — ([[City Minister]]) — [[Emma Reynolds]]
*[[Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury]] — [[James Murray (London politician)|James Murray]]
*[[Commercial Secretary to the Treasury]] — ''Office not in use'' 
*[[Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury]] (Chief Whip) — [[Alan Campbell (politician)|Sir Alan Campbell]]

==Secretaries to the Treasury==
===1660–1830===
*June 1660: [[Philip Warwick|Sir Philip Warwick]]
*May 1667: [[Sir George Downing, 1st Baronet|Sir George Downing, Bt]]
*October 1671: [[Robert Howard (playwright)|Sir Robert Howard]]
*July 1673: [[Charles Bertie (senior)|Charles Bertie]]
*March 1679: [[Henry Guy (politician)|Henry Guy]]
*April 1689: [[William Jephson (died 1691)|William Jephson]]
*June 1691: [[Henry Guy (politician)|Henry Guy]]
*March 1695: [[William Lowndes (British politician)|William Lowndes]]
{|class="wikitable"
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!Year!!Senior Secretary!!Junior Secretary
|-
|11 June 1711
|rowspan=5|[[William Lowndes (British politician)|William Lowndes]] || [[Thomas Harley (of Kinsham)|Thomas Harley]]
|-
|November 1714
|John Taylor
|-
|12 October 1715
|[[Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole|Horatio Walpole]]
|-
|April 1717
|[[Charles Stanhope (1673–1760)|Charles Stanhope]]
|-
|April 1721
|rowspan=2|[[Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole|Horatio Walpole]]
|-
|January 1724
|rowspan=7|[[John Scrope (MP)|John Scrope]]
|-
|24 June 1730
|[[Edward Walpole]]
|-
|1 June 1739
|[[Stephen Fox-Strangways, 1st Earl of Ilchester|Stephen Fox]]
|-
|30 April 1741
|[[Henry Bilson Legge|Henry Legge]]
|-
|15 July 1742
|[[Henry Furnese (MP, died 1756)|Henry Furnese]]
|-
|30 November 1742
|[[John Jeffreys (1706–1766)|John Jeffreys]]
|-
|1 May 1746
|[[James West (antiquary)|James West]]
|-
|9 April 1752
|[[James West (antiquary)|James West]] || [[Nicholas Hardinge]]
|-
|18 November 1756
|rowspan=2|[[Nicholas Hardinge]] || [[Samuel Martin (Secretary to the Treasury)|Samuel Martin]]
|-
|5 July 1757
|[[James West (antiquary)|James West]]
|-
|9 April 1758
|rowspan=2|[[James West (antiquary)|James West]] || &nbsp;
|-
|31 May 1758
|[[Samuel Martin (Secretary to the Treasury)|Samuel Martin]]
|-
|29 May 1762
|[[Samuel Martin (Secretary to the Treasury)|Samuel Martin]] || [[Jeremiah Dyson]]
|-
|18 April 1763
|[[Jeremiah Dyson]] || [[Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool|Charles Jenkinson]]
|-
|24 August 1763
|[[Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool|Charles Jenkinson]] || [[Thomas Whateley]]
|-
|30 September 1765
|[[William Mellish (banker)|William Mellish]] || [[Charles Lowndes]]
|-
|18 August 1766
|rowspan=2|[[Grey Cooper|Sir Grey Cooper, Bt]] || [[Thomas Bradshaw (MP)|Thomas Bradshaw]]
|-
|16 October 1770
|[[John Robinson (Treasury)|John Robinson]]
|-
|29 March 1782
|rowspan=2|[[Sir Henry Strachey, 1st Baronet|Henry Strachey]] || Edward Chamberlain<ref>Died before being called to the Board</ref>
|-
|6 April 1782
|[[Richard Burke (Treasury)|Richard Burke]]
|-
|15 July 1782
|[[Thomas Orde-Powlett, 1st Baron Bolton|Thomas Orde]] || [[George Rose (Treasurer of the Navy)|George Rose]]
|-
|5 April 1783
| [[Richard Burke (Treasury)|Richard Burke]] || [[Richard Brinsley Sheridan]]
|-
|27 December 1783
|rowspan=2|[[George Rose (Treasurer of the Navy)|George Rose]] || [[Thomas Steele (British politician)|Thomas Steele]]
|-
|26 February 1791
|rowspan=2| [[Charles Long, 1st Baron Farnborough|Charles Long]]
|-
|24 March 1801
|rowspan=2| [[John Hiley Addington]]
|-
|9 April 1801
|[[Nicholas Vansittart]]
|-
|8 July 1802
|[[Nicholas Vansittart]] || [[John Sargent (1750–1831)|John Sargent]]
|-
|21 May 1804
|[[William Huskisson]] || [[William Sturges Bourne]]
|-
|10 February 1806
|rowspan=2|[[Nicholas Vansittart]] || [[John King (Treasury)|John King]]
|-
|2 September 1806
|[[William Henry Fremantle]]
|-
|1 April 1807
|[[Henry Wellesley, 1st Baron Cowley|Hon. Henry Wellesley]] || rowspan=2| [[William Huskisson]]
|-
|5 April 1809
|rowspan=3|[[Charles Arbuthnot]]
|-
|8 December 1809
|[[Richard Wharton (barrister)|Richard Wharton]]
|-
|7 January 1814
|[[Stephen Rumbold Lushington]]
|-
|7 February 1823
|[[Stephen Rumbold Lushington]] || [[John Charles Herries]]
|-
|19 April 1827
|rowspan=2|[[Joseph Planta (politician)|Joseph Planta]] || [[Thomas Frankland Lewis]]
|-
|28 January 1828
|[[George Robert Dawson]]
|}

===1830–present===
*[[Chief Secretary to the Treasury]] (established 1961)
*[[Financial Secretary to the Treasury]] (established 1830)
*[[Economic Secretary to the Treasury]] (established 1947)
*[[Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury]] (established 1996)
*[[City Minister|Financial Services Secretary to the Treasury]] (established 2008, not in use since 2010)
*[[Commercial Secretary to the Treasury]] (established 2010, not in use since 2017)

==See also==
*[[Lord High Treasurer]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}
*http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=16741

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