Minister for Sport and Civil Society
The minister for sport and civil society was a junior minister in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport of the United Kingdom government, with responsibility for sport and Civil Society in England. In 2020, the role merged with that of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Arts, Heritage and Tourism to become Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Sport, Tourism, Heritage and Civil Society.
The post covered sport as well as tourism and heritage. The sports minister has at various times previously reported to the Department of National Heritage, the Department of Education and Science and the Department of the Environment.
Sport is a devolved matter in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland resting with the corresponding ministers in the Scottish Government, Welsh Government and the Northern Ireland Executive, although when the Northern Ireland Assembly was suspended, responsibility went to the Northern Ireland Office.
Under Margaret Thatcher the office was known as Under-Secretary of State for Sport.
Current responsibilities
[edit]- Sport
- Gambling
- Horse racing
- Office for Civil Society
- The National Lottery and society lotteries
- Cross-government work on loneliness
Ministers for Sport
[edit]| Name | Portrait | Term of office | Political party | Prime Minister | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Sport | ||||||||||||||
| Denis Howell | 
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20 October 1964 | 13 October 1969 | Labour | Wilson | |||||||||
| Minister of State for Sport | ||||||||||||||
| Denis Howell |
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13 October 1969 | 24 June 1970 | Labour | Wilson | |||||||||
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Sport | ||||||||||||||
| Eldon Griffiths |
|
24 June 1970 | 4 March 1974 | Conservative | Heath | |||||||||
| Minister of State for Sport | ||||||||||||||
| Denis Howell |
|
7 March 1974 | 3 May 1979 | Labour | Wilson | |||||||||
| Callaghan | ||||||||||||||
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Sport | ||||||||||||||
| Hector Monro |
|
4 May 1979 | 13 September 1981 | Conservative | Thatcher I | |||||||||
| Neil Macfarlane | .jpg)
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14 September 1981 | 2 September 1985 | Conservative | Thatcher I | |||||||||
| Thatcher II | ||||||||||||||
| Richard Tracey |
|
7 September 1985 | 13 June 1987 | Conservative | Thatcher II | |||||||||
| Colin Moynihan | 
|
22 June 1987 | 26 July 1990 | Conservative | Thatcher III | |||||||||
| Robert Atkins | _1.jpg)
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26 July 1990 | 14 April 1992 | Conservative | Thatcher III | |||||||||
| Major I | ||||||||||||||
| Robert Key |
|
14 April 1992 | 26 May 1993 | Conservative | Major II | |||||||||
| Iain Sproat |
|
26 May 1993 | 1 May 1997 | Conservative | ||||||||||
| Tony Banks |
|
2 May 1997 | 20 October 1999 | Labour | Blair I | |||||||||
| Kate Hoey | 
|
20 October 1999 | 7 June 2001 | Labour | Blair I | |||||||||
| Minister of State for Sport | ||||||||||||||
| Richard Caborn | 
|
11 June 2001 | 17 June 2005 | Labour | Blair II | |||||||||
| Minister of State for Sport and Tourism | ||||||||||||||
| Richard Caborn |
|
17 June 2005 | 28 June 2007 | Labour | Blair III | |||||||||
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Sport | ||||||||||||||
| Gerry Sutcliffe | 
|
29 June 2007 | 6 May 2010 | Labour | Brown | |||||||||
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Sport and the Olympics | ||||||||||||||
| Hugh Robertson | 
|
14 May 2010 | 7 October 2013 | Conservative | Cameron-Clegg | |||||||||
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Sport | Helen Grant | 
|
2013 | 2015 | Conservative | |||||||||
| Tracey Crouch | 
|
May 2015 | 2018 | Conservative | Cameron II | |||||||||
| May I | ||||||||||||||
| May II | ||||||||||||||
| Mims Davies | 
|
2018 | 2019 | Conservative | ||||||||||
| Nigel Adams | 
|
2019 | 2020 | Conservative | Johnson I | |||||||||
| Johnson II | ||||||||||||||
| Nigel Huddleston Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Sport, Tourism and Heritage |
|
2020 | 2022 | Conservative | ||||||||||
References
[edit]- Past Ministers for Sport (PDF), Department for Culture, Media and Sport