Secretary of State for Culture
| Secretary of State for Culture | |
|---|---|
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| Culture, Media, and Sport Office | |
| Style | Culture Secretary (informal) The Right Honourable (within the Empire) |
| Type | Minister of the Crown |
| Status | Secretary of State |
| Member of | Cabinet |
| Reports to | Prime Minister |
| Seat | 100 Parliament Street |
| Nominator | Prime Minister |
| Appointer | The King (on the advice of the prime minister) |
| Term length | At His Majesty's pleasure |
The Secretary of State for Culture, more commonly referred to as the Culture Secretary, is a senior Minister of the Crown responsible for the administration of cultural and media activities within the Empire of Great Britain. They are appointed by the Sovereign on the advice of the Prime Minister and sit ex-officio as a Member of the Cabinet. The Culture Secretary can be a Member of Parliament, but this is not always the case.
The position of Culture Secretary has traditionally been considered a non-essential office in times of downturns regarding activity: many of its responsibilities have been absorbed and then devolved from the authority of the Home Office, whom it shares close ties with regarding its legislative and departmental agendas. Furthermore, the name of the position has also changed depending on the focus of the administration a Culture Secretary has been appointed to undertake.
Secretaries of State for Culture
| Portrait | Culture Secretary | Term of Office | Name of Portfolios (Other portfolios held during tenure) |
Party | Government | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start | End | Duration | ||||||
|
Llywellyn Lleyton MP for Preseli Pembrokeshire |
21 November 2023 | 3 January 2024 | 44 days | Secretary of State for Culture & Development | Independent | Douglas Premiership (Douglas I) | |
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Owain Carew-Grey[1] (De Facto) MP for Ville Marie--(etc.) |
10 January 2024 | 12 February 2024 | 34 days | Minister of State for Culture & Development | Heron | Douglas Premiership (Douglas II) | |
|
Frederick Mountbatten-Urquhart[1] (De Facto) MP for New Forest East |
5 May 2024 | 1 July 2024 | 58 days | Minister of State for Culture, Development and Justice (Minister of State for Military Reform) |
Heron | Knightstone Premiership (Knightstone II) | |
|
Noa de Carteret MP for St Albans-Welyn-Hatfield |
1 July 2024 | 14 August 2024 | 45 days | Secretary of State for Culture, Media, and Sport | Unionist | Wilton Premiership Warwick Premiership | |
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Llywellyn Evans-Jones The Baron St Brides MP for Preseli Pembrokeshire |
27 August 2024 | 8 October 2024 | 43 days | Secretary of State for Culture, Media, and Sport (Deputy Prime Minister) |
Heron | 1st Sidmouth Premiership | |
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Thomas Carew The Viscount Sidmouth MP for East Devon |
13 November 2024 | Present | 38 days | Secretary of State for Culture and Education (Deputy Prime Minister - until 5 December 2024) (Prime Minister - from 6 December 2024) |
Unionist | 3rd Somerset Premiership 2nd Sidmouth Premiership | |
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Both Carew-Grey and, later, Mountbatten-Urquhart, were never technically appointed as Secretaries of State for Culture by their respective PMs. However, under the jurisdiction of the Home Secretary, they administered the agenda of the Culture Office, effectively making them Head of the Department.