Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department

This article lists past and present parliamentary under-secretaries of state serving the home secretary of the United Kingdom at the Home Office.

Non-permanent and parliamentary under-secretaries, 1782–present

April 1782: Evan Nepean
April 1782: Thomas Orde
July 1782: Henry Strachey
April 1783: George North
February 1784: John Townshend, 2nd Viscount Sydney
June 1789: Scrope Bernard
July 1794: Thomas Brodrick
March 1796: Charles Greville
March 1798: William Wickham
February 1801: Edward Finch Hatton
August 1801: Sir George Shee, 1st Baronet
August 1803: Reginald Pole Carew
July 1804: John Henry Smyth
February 1806: Charles Williams-Wynn
November 1807: Charles Jenkinson, 3rd Earl of Liverpool
February 1810: Henry Goulburn
August 1812: John Hiley Addington
April 1818: Henry Clive
January 1822: George Robert Dawson
April 1827: Spencer Perceval
July 1827: Thomas Spring Rice
January 1828: William Yates Peel
August 1830: Sir George Clerk, 6th Baronet
November 1830: George Lamb
January 1834: Henry Grey, Viscount Howick
July 1834: Edward Stanley
January 1835: William Gregson
April 1835: Fox Maule
June 1841: Edward Seymour, Baron Seymour
September 1841: John Manners-Sutton
July 1846: Sir William Somerville, 5th Baronet
July 1847: Sir Denis Le Marchant, 1st Baronet
May 1848: Sir George Cornewall Lewis, 2nd Baronet
July 1850: Edward Pleydell-Bouverie
February 1852: Sir William Jolliffe, 1st Baronet
December 1852: Henry Fitzroy
February 1855: William Cowper
August 1855: William Nathaniel Massey
February 1858: Gathorne Hardy
June 1859: George Clive
November 1862: Henry Bruce
April 1864: Thomas Baring
May 1866: Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen
July 1866: Somerset Lowry-Corry, 4th Earl Belmore
August 1867: Sir James Fergusson, 6th Baronet
August 1868: Sir Michael Hicks Beach, 9th Baronet
December 1868: Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen
January 1871: George Shaw-Lefevre
March 1871: Henry Winterbotham
February 1874: Sir Henry Selwin-Ibbetson, 7th Baronet
April 1878: Sir Matthew White Ridley, 5th Baronet
April 1880: Arthur Peel
January 1881: Leonard Courtney
August 1881: Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
June 1883: J. T. Hibbert
December 1884: Henry Fowler
June 1885: Charles Stuart-Wortley
February 1886: Henry Broadhurst
August 1886: Charles Stuart-Wortley
August 1892: Herbert Gladstone
March 1894: George W. E. Russell
June 1895: Jesse Collings
August 1902: Thomas Cochrane
December 1905: Herbert Samuel
July 1909: Charles Masterman
February 1912: Ellis Ellis-Griffith
February 1915: Cecil Harmsworth
May 1915: William Brace
January 1919: Sir Hamar Greenwood
April 1919: John Baird
October 1922: George Frederick Stanley
March 1923: Godfrey Locker-Lampson
January 1924: Rhys Davies
November 1924: Godfrey Locker-Lampson
December 1925: Douglas Hacking
November 1927: Sir Vivian Henderson
June 1929: Alfred Short
September 1931: Oliver Stanley
February 1933: Douglas Hacking
June 1935: Harry Crookshank
June 1934: Euan Wallace
November 1935: Geoffrey Lloyd
June 1939: Osbert Peake
October 1944: Geoffrey FitzClarence, 5th Earl of Munster
August 1945: George Oliver
October 1947: Kenneth Younger
March 1950: Geoffrey de Freitas
November 1951: David Llewellyn
February 1952: Sir Hugh Lucas-Tooth, 1st Baronet
November 1952: Alexander Lloyd, 2nd Baron Lloyd
October 1954: Stormont Mancroft, 2nd Baron Mancroft
January 1957: Patricia Hornsby-Smith
January 1957: Jocelyn Simon
January 1958: David Renton
October 1959: Dennis Vosper
February 1961: Henry Bathurst, 8th Earl Bathurst
June 1961: Charles Fletcher-Cooke
July 1962: Christopher Montague Woodhouse
March 1963: Mervyn Pike
October 1964: Victor Collins, Baron Stonham
October 1964: George Thomas
April 1966: Maurice Foley
April 1966: Dick Taverne
January 1967: David Ennals
April 1968: Elystan Morgan
November 1968: Merlyn Rees
June 1970: Mark Carlisle
April 1972: David Lane
March 1974: Shirley Summerskill
May 1979: John Ganzoni, 2nd Baron Belstead
April 1982: Rodney Elton, 2nd Baron Elton
January 1983: David Mellor
March 1984: Simon Arthur, 4th Baron Glenarthur
September 1986: Douglas Hogg
July 1989: Peter Lloyd
April 1992: Charles Wardle
July 1994: Nicholas Baker
October 1995: Timothy Kirkhope
November 1995: Tom Sackville
May 1997: Gareth Williams, Baron Williams of Mostyn
May 1997: George Howarth
May 1997: Mike O'Brien
July 1998: Kate Hoey
July 1999: Steve Bassam, Baron Bassam of Brighton
June 2001: Beverley Hughes
June 2001: Bob Ainsworth
June 2001: Angela Eagle
May 2002: Geoffrey Filkin, Baron Filkin
June 2002: Michael Wills
May 2003: Paul Goggins
June 2003: Caroline Flint
June 2003: Fiona Mactaggart
May 2005: Andy Burnham
Joan Ryan - 5 May 2006 – 29 June 2007
Meg Hillier - 28 June 2007 – 12 May 2010

Parliamentary secretaries, 1940–1945

May 1940: William Mabane
October 1940: Ellen Wilkinson