Minister for London

Minister for London
Minister for London
	Royal Arms as used by His Majesty's Government
	Incumbent; Paul Scully; since 13 February 2020
	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Appointer	The British Monarch; on advice of the Prime Minister
Inaugural holder	John Gummer
Formation	1994

The Minister for London is a United Kingdom Government ministerial post in the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities. The officeholder is responsible for policy relating to London including informing Members of Parliament in the House of Commons on the activities of the Greater London Authority. The role is currently held by Paul Scully, who was appointed on 13 February 2020.

History

London had been under the authority of the London County Council and then the Greater London Council, but Margaret Thatcher abolished the GLC in 1986 after clashes with its leader, Ken Livingstone. Most of the municipal powers were then devolved to the 32 individual boroughs. Under John Major, however, the need for more centralised organisation was addressed by a series of moves. John Gummer was appointed Minister of London concurrently with his tenure as Secretary of State for Environment, and in 1994 the Government Office for London was established.[1] After Tony Blair entered office, the Labour government set up an elected Mayor of London.[1] This office, along with a reconstituted Greater London Authority, worked with the Minister and the Government Office.

The post was scrapped by David Cameron after he came to office in 2010.[2] In 2016 however, the post was revived by Theresa May and was assigned to Gavin Barwell.

List of ministers for London

Colour key (for political parties):
Conservative Labour

Portrait	Name	Term of office		Concurrently held office	Political party
	John Gummer MP for Suffolk Coastal	1994	2 May 1997	– Secretary of State for the Environment	Conservative	John Major
	Nick Raynsford MP for Greenwich and Woolwich	2 May 1997	29 July 1999	– Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Construction	Labour	Tony Blair
	Keith Hill MP for Streatham	29 July 1999	7 June 2001	– Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport	Labour
	Nick Raynsford MP for Greenwich and Woolwich	7 June 2001	12 March 2003	– Minister of State for Local and Regional Government[lower-alpha 1]	Labour
	Tony McNulty MP for Harrow East	12 March 2003	13 June 2003 [3]	– Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport	Labour
	Keith Hill MP for Streatham	13 June 2003	6 May 2005 [4]	– Minister of State for Housing and Planning	Labour
	Jim Fitzpatrick MP for Poplar and Canning Town	6 May 2005	28 June 2007	– Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development	Labour
	Tessa Jowell MP for Dulwich and West Norwood	28 June 2007	3 October 2008	– Minister for the Olympics – Paymaster General	Labour	Gordon Brown
	Tony McNulty MP for Harrow East	3 October 2008	5 June 2009	– Minister of State for Employment and Welfare Reform	Labour
	Tessa Jowell MP for Dulwich and West Norwood	5 June 2009	11 May 2010	– Paymaster General – Minister for the Olympics – Minister for the Cabinet Office	Labour
Office not in use		11 May 2010	17 July 2016			David Cameron (I·II)
	Gavin Barwell MP for Croydon Central	17 July 2016	9 June 2017	– Minister of State for Housing and Planning	Conservative	Theresa May
	Greg Hands MP for Chelsea and Fulham	13 June 2017	9 January 2018	– Minister of State for Trade and Investment	Conservative
	Jo Johnson MP for Orpington	9 January 2018	9 November 2018	– Minister of State for Transport	Conservative
	Nick Hurd MP for Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner	14 November 2018	18 December 2019	– Minister for Policing and the Fire Service	Conservative
	Chris Philp MP for Croydon South	18 December 2019	13 February 2020	– Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Justice	Conservative	Boris Johnson
	Paul Scully MP for Sutton and Cheam	13 February 2020	Incumbent	– Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Small Business, Consumers and Labour Markets (until 8 July) – Minister of State for Local Government, Faith and Communities (from 8 July)	Conservative
						Liz Truss
						Rishi Sunak

Shadow Minister

The position of Shadow Minister for London was retained by Labour under the leadership of Ed Miliband, and was held by Sadiq Khan throughout Miliband's leadership. However, since Khan's nomination as Labour's candidate for Mayor of London and Jeremy Corbyn's leadership, the office has remained vacant.

Notes

Local Government (2001–02)

References

Ben Pimlott (2002). Governing London. Nirmala Rao. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-924492-8.
Mulholland, Hélène (4 June 2010). "Minister for London post abolished by David Cameron". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 June 2010.
"Press release: Association of London Government looking forward to working with new Minister for London". 12 March 2003. Archived from the original on 27 November 2007.

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[3] Local Government (2001–02)

[Pimlott-1] Ben Pimlott (2002). Governing London. Nirmala Rao. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-924492-8.

[2] Mulholland, Hélène (4 June 2010). "Minister for London post abolished by David Cameron". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 June 2010.

[4] "Press release: Association of London Government looking forward to working with new Minister for London". 12 March 2003. Archived from the original on 27 November 2007.