Minister of State for Security

The minister of state for security is a senior ministerial position in the government of the United Kingdom, falling under the Home Office. The post was created by then-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.

United Kingdom Minister of State for Security
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Incumbent Dan Jarvis since 6 July 2024
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Style	Security Minister (informal) The Right Honourable (within the UK and Commonwealth)
Type	Minister of the Crown
Status	Minister of State
Member of	Cabinet (attending) Privy Council National Security Council
Reports to	Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Home Secretary
Seat	Westminster
Nominator	Prime Minister
Appointer	The Monarch (on the advice of the Prime Minister)
Term length	At His Majesty's pleasure
Formation	29 May 2002 as Minister of State for Citizenship, Immigration and Counter Terrorism 7 July 2022 as Minister of State for Security
First holder	Beverley Hughes as Minister of State for Citizenship, Immigration and Counter Terrorism
Salary	£115,824 per annum (2022)[1] (including £86,584 MP salary)[2]
Website	gov.uk

The current incumbent is Dan Jarvis who was appointed by Keir Starmer in July 2024. Jarvis had previous shadowed the role before the 2024 General Election.

In a cabinet reshuffle on 15 September 2021, the ministerial title changed to Minister of State for Security and Borders.^[3]

The post is generally seen as one of the most senior Minister of State positions, and as such its holder is often invited to attend cabinet meetings.

The office is shadowed by the Shadow Minister for Security who sits on the Official Opposition frontbench.^[4]

Ministers

Name		Portrait	Term of office		Political party	PM		Home Sec.
Minister of State for Citizenship, Immigration and Counter Terrorism
	Beverley Hughes[5]		29 May 2002	1 April 2004	Labour		Blair	Blunkett
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Policing, Security and Community Safety
	Hazel Blears[6]		13 June 2003	5 May 2006	Labour		Blair	Blunkett Clarke
Minister of State for Security, Counter-Terrorism, Crime and Policing
	Tony McNulty		5 May 2006	3 October 2008	Labour		Blair Brown	Reid Smith
Minister of State for Policing, Crime and Security
	Vernon Coaker[7]		3 October 2008	3 June 2009	Labour		Brown	Smith
Minister of State for Security, Counter-Terrorism, Crime and Policing
	David Hanson		10 June 2009	11 May 2010	Labour		Brown	Johnson
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Security and Counter-Terrorism
	Admiral The Lord West of Spithead		28 June 2007	12 May 2010	Labour		Brown	Smith Johnson
Minister of State for Security and Counter-Terrorism
	The Baroness Neville-Jones[8][9]		12 May 2010	9 May 2011	Conservative		Cameron	May
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Crime and Security
	James Brokenshire[10]		9 May 2011	8 February 2014	Conservative		Cameron	May
Minister of State for Security and Immigration
	James Brokenshire[11]		8 February 2014	14 July 2016	Conservative		Cameron	May
Minister of State for Security
	John Hayes		8 May 2015	15 July 2016	Conservative		Cameron	May
Minister of State for Security and Economic Crime
	Ben Wallace		17 July 2016	24 July 2019	Conservative		May	Rudd Javid
Minister of State for Security and Deputy for Brexit
	Brandon Lewis[a]		24 July 2019	13 February 2020	Conservative		Johnson	Patel
Minister of State for Security
	James Brokenshire		13 February 2020	7 July 2021	Conservative		Johnson	Patel
Minister of State for Security and Borders
	Damian Hinds		13 August 2021	7 July 2022	Conservative		Johnson	Patel
Minister of State for Security
	Stephen McPartland		7 July 2022	6 September 2022	Conservative		Johnson	Patel
	Tom Tugendhat[a]		6 September 2022	5 July 2024	Conservative		Truss Sunak	Braverman Shapps Braverman Cleverly
	Dan Jarvis		6 July 2024	Incumbent	Labour		Starmer	Cooper

Notes

1. Also attending Cabinet.

References

1. "Salaries of Members of His Majesty's Government – Financial Year 2022–23" (PDF). 15 December 2022.
2. "Pay and expenses for MPs". parliament.uk. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
3. "Ministerial appointments: September 2021". GOV.UK. 16 September 2021. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
4. Belger, Tom (2023-09-05). "Labour reshuffle: Starmer unveils six new shadow ministers of state". LabourList. Retrieved 2023-09-06.
5. "Baroness Hughes of Stretford - Parliamentary Career". Archived from the original on 2010-12-27.
6. "Hazel Blears - Parliamentary Career". Archived from the original on 2011-12-21.
7. "Vernon Coaker - Parliamentary Career". Archived from the original on 2011-10-11.
8. "Home Office". 19 January 2024.
9. Page 40 Archived 2012-04-02 at the Wayback Machine
10. Johnson, Wesley (12 May 2011). "James Brokenshire takes on security role". Independent. Archived from the original on 2022-05-15. Retrieved 12 May 2011.
11. Home Office: Our Ministers