Minister for Security
| Minister for Security | |
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Arms of Her Majesty's Government
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| Home Office | |
| Appointer | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom |
| Inaugural holder | Admiral Lord West |
| Formation | 12 May 2010 |
| Final holder | James Brokenshire |
| Abolished | 8 February 2014 |
| Website | www.homeoffice.gov.uk |
The Minister for Security was a junior ministerial position in the Home Office. The post was created by Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown on 3 June 2009 by splitting the now-defunct post of the Minister for Security, Counter-Terrorism, Crime and Policing between this post (then called Minister for Security and Counter-Terrorism) and the new post of Minister for Crime and Policing. The final postholder was James Brokenshire MP,[1] has a permanent seat on the National Security Council (NSC).[2]
The previous Security Minister, Lady Neville-Jones, resigned in May 2011 to be replaced as Minister of State at the Home Office by Lady Browning, while her brief at the Home Office for Security was taken on by James Brokenshire but only as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State.[3]
Following the resignation on 8 February 2014 of the Minister of State for Immigration, Mark Harper, the position was merged with that of Minister for Security. James Brokenshire assumed the enlarged role of Minister for Security and Immigration.
Ministers
| Name (Portfolio) |
Portrait | Term of office | Political party | P.M. | Home Sec. | |||
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| Beverley Hughes (Citizenship, Immigration and Counter Terrorism)[4] |
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29 May 2002 | 1 April 2004 | Labour | Blair | Blunkett | ||
| Hazel Blears (Crime Reduction, Policing, Community Safety and Counter-Terrorism)[5] |
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13 June 2003 | 6 May 2005 | Labour | ||||
| Hazel Blears (Policing, Security and Community Safety)[5] |
6 May 2005 | 5 May 2006 | Clarke | |||||
| Tony McNulty (Security, Counter-Terrorism, Crime and Policing) |
60px | 5 May 2006 | 3 October 2008 | Labour | Reid | |||
| Brown | Smith | |||||||
| Vernon Coaker (Policing, Crime and Security)[6] |
60px | 3 October 2008 | 3 June 2009 | Labour | ||||
| David Hanson (Security, Counter-Terrorism, Crime and Policing) |
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10 June 2009 | 11 May 2010 | Labour | Johnson | |||
| Admiral Lord West (Security and Counter-Terrorism) |
60px | 28 June 2007 | 12 May 2010 | Labour | ||||
| Lady Neville-Jones (Security and Counter-Terrorism)[7][8] |
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12 May 2010 | 9 May 2011 | Conservative | Cameron | May | ||
| James Brokenshire[1] (Crime and Security, Security and Immigration)[3] |
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9 May 2011 | 8 February 2014 | Conservative | ||||
References
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- ↑ http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/about-us/our-organisation/ministers/pauline-neville-jones/
- ↑ Page 40
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