Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport

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United Kingdom
Secretary of State
for Culture, Media and Sport
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Incumbent
Lisa Nandy
since 5 July 2024
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
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TypeMinister of the Crown
StatusSecretary of State
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Reports toThe Prime Minister
SeatWestminster
NominatorThe Prime Minister
AppointerThe Monarch
(on the advice of the Prime Minister)
Term lengthAt His Majesty's Pleasure
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  • 11 April 1992: (as Secretary of State for National Heritage)
  • 7 February 2023: (as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport)
First holderDavid Mellor (as Secretary of State for National Heritage)
Salary£159,038 per annum (2022)[1]
(including £86,584 MP salary)[2]
WebsiteDepartment for Culture, Media and Sport

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The secretary of state for culture, media and sport, also referred to as the culture secretary, is a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom, with overall responsibility for strategy and policy across the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.[3] The incumbent is a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom. The office has been dubbed "Minister of Fun".[4]Page Template:Hlist/styles.css has no content.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Sidebar/configuration' not found.

Responsibilities

The secretary has overall responsibility for strategy and policy across the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.[3] Responsibilities include:[3]

  • Arts and Culture
  • Broadcasting
  • Creative industries
  • Creative Industries Council
  • Cultural property, heritage and the historic environment
  • Cultural Renewal Taskforce
  • Culture, sports and arts sector recovery from COVID-19
  • Gambling and racing
  • Libraries
  • Media ownership and mergers
  • Museums and galleries
  • The National Lottery
  • Sport
  • Tourism

History

The office was created in 1992 by Prime Minister John Major, as Secretary of State for National Heritage.[5] In his autobiography, Major says that, before the office was created, responsibility for cultural interests was shared among various departments, but important to none of them.[6] For instance, arts and libraries, although a separate department, had no minister in the Cabinet, sport was part of the Department for Education, film was part of the Department of Trade and Industry, broadcasting was part of the Home Office, tourism was part of the Department for Employment and heritage was part of the Department of the Environment.[6] He also wrote that the system tended to favour the interests of the articulate and well-connected London-based arts lobby.[6]

Thus, when he became Prime Minister, Major said that he saw that the only way to give culture and sport the higher profile that he thought that they deserved was to establish a new department, under a minister of Cabinet rank, to bring together all aspects of the arts, sport and heritage.[7]

List of secretaries of state

Secretary of State for National Heritage (1992–1997)

Secretary of State Term of office Party Prime Minister
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:No image.svg David Mellor
MP for Putney 		11 April 1992 22 September 1992 Conservative rowspan=4 style="background-color:Template:Party color" | John Major
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:No image.svg Peter Brooke
MP for Cities of London and Westminster 		25 September 1992 20 July 1994 Conservative
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Stephen dorrell mp -nhs confederation annual conferencepercent2c manchester-11july2011 - crop.jpg Stephen Dorrell
MP for Loughborough 		20 July 1994 5 July 1995 Conservative
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Virginia Bottomley crop (cropped).jpg Virginia Bottomley
MP for South West Surrey 		5 July 1995 2 May 1997 Conservative
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Chris Smith 1997 (cropped).png Chris Smith
MP for Islington South and Finsbury 		2 May 1997 22 July 1997 Labour style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Tony Blair

Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (1997–2010)

Secretary of State Term of office Party Prime Minister
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Chris Smith 1997 (cropped).png Chris Smith
MP for Islington South and Finsbury 		22 July 1997 8 June 2001 Labour rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Tony Blair
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Tessa Jowell, 2000 (cropped).jpg Tessa Jowell
MP for Dulwich and West Norwood 		8 June 2001 27 June 2007 Labour
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:James Purnell.jpg James Purnell
MP for Stalybridge and Hyde 		28 June 2007 24 January 2008 Labour rowspan=3 style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Gordon Brown
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Andy Burnham2.jpg Andy Burnham
MP for Leigh 		24 January 2008 5 June 2009 Labour
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Ben Bradshaw 2.jpg Ben Bradshaw
MP for Exeter 		5 June 2009 11 May 2010 Labour

Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport (2010–2012)

Secretary of State Term of office Party Prime Minister
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Jeremy Hunt Official.jpg Jeremy Hunt
MP for South West Surrey 		12 May 2010 4 September 2012 Conservative style="background-color:Template:Party color" | David Cameron

Secretaries of State for Culture, Media and Sport (2012–2017)

Secretary of State Term of office Party Prime Minister
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Maria Miller Official.jpg Maria Miller
MP for Basingstoke 		4 September 2012 9 April 2014 Conservative rowspan=3 style="background-color:Template:Party color" | David Cameron
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Sajid Javid (cropped).jpg Sajid Javid
MP for Bromsgrove 		9 April 2014 11 May 2015 Conservative
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:JFA Whittingdale public photo.jpg John Whittingdale
MP for Maldon 		11 May 2015 14 July 2016 Conservative
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Karen Bradley MP 2015.jpg Karen Bradley
MP for Staffordshire Moorlands 		14 July 2016 3 July 2017 Conservative style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Theresa May
In 2017 the DCMS was renamed as the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport in acknowledgement of the increasing responsibility the department had gained for digital affairs.[8] Karen Bradley continued as Secretary of State for the department.

Secretaries of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (2017–2023)

Secretary of State Term of office Party Prime Minister
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Official portrait of Karen Bradley crop 2.jpg Karen Bradley
MP for Staffordshire Moorlands 		3 July 2017 8 January 2018 Conservative rowspan=3 style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Theresa May
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Matt Hancock Official Portrait 2018 (cropped).jpg Matt Hancock
MP for West Suffolk 		8 January 2018 8 July 2018 Conservative
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Jeremy Wright MP.jpg Jeremy Wright
MP for Kenilworth and Southam 		9 July 2018 24 July 2019 Conservative
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Nicky Morgan MP.jpg Nicky Morgan
MP for Loughborough
(until November 2019)
Life peer (since January 2020) 		24 July 2019 13 February 2020 Conservative rowspan=3 style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Boris Johnson
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Official portrait of Rt Hon Oliver Dowden MP crop 2.jpg Oliver Dowden
MP for Hertsmere 		13 February 2020 15 September 2021 Conservative
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Nadine Dorries Official Cabinet Portrait, September 2021 (cropped).jpg Nadine Dorries
MP for Mid Bedfordshire 		15 September 2021 6 September 2022 Conservative
rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Michelle Donelan Official Cabinet Portrait, October 2022 (cropped).jpg Michelle Donelan
MP for Chippenham 		6 September 2022 7 February 2023 Conservative style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Liz Truss
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Rishi Sunak

Secretaries of State for Culture, Media and Sport (2023–present)

Secretary of State Term of office Party Prime Minister
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Lucy Frazer Cabinet Portrait February 2023 (cropped).jpg Lucy Frazer
MP for South East Cambridgeshire 		7 February 2023 5 July 2024 Conservative style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Rishi Sunak
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Lisa Nandy Official Cabinet Portrait, July 2024 (cropped) 2.jpg Lisa Nandy
MP for Wigan 		5 July 2024 Incumbent Labour style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Keir Starmer

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See also

References

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Salaries of Members of His Majesty's Government – Financial Year 2022–23" (PDF). 15 December 2022.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Pay and expenses for MPs". parliament.uk. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
  3. ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Interview: David Mellor – A more mellow fellow? Mellor's not for". The Independent. 22 October 2011. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
  5. ^ The Transfer of Functions (National Heritage) Order 1992.
  6. ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Major, John (1999). John Major: The Autobiography. HarperCollins Publishers. p. 404. ISBN 0-06-019614-9. OCLC 42751073.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Major, John (1999). John Major: The Autobiography. HarperCollins Publishers. p. 405. ISBN 0-06-019614-9. OCLC 42751073.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Change of name for DCMS". GOV.UK. Retrieved 11 November 2017.

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