Chancellor of the Exchequer

Lead minister of His Majesty's Treasury

For the historic position in Ireland, see Chancellor of the Exchequer of Ireland. For the 1983 simulation game, see Chancellor of the Exchequer (video game).

Not to be confused with Lord Chancellor, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Chancellor of the High Court, or Chief Baron of the Exchequer.

United Kingdom
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Second Lord of the Treasury

Royal Arms of His Majesty's Government

Incumbent
Rachel Reeves

since 5 July 2024

His Majesty's Treasury
Style| The Chancellor
(informal)
The Right Honourable
(within the UK and Commonwealth)
Type| Minister of the Crown
Status| Great Office of State
Member of|

* Cabinet
* Privy Council
* National Security Council

Reports to| First Lord of the Treasury
(Prime Minister of the United Kingdom)
Residence| 11 Downing Street
Seat| Westminster
Nominator| First Lord of the Treasury
Appointer| The Monarch
(on the advice of the Prime Minister)
Term length| At His Majesty's pleasure
Formation| c. 1221
First holder| Eustace of Fauconberg
(in the Kingdom of England only)
Deputy| Chief Secretary to the Treasury
Salary| £163,891 per annum (2024)[1]
(including £91,346 MP salary)[2]
Website| Official website

The chancellor of the exchequer, often abbreviated to chancellor,[3] is a senior minister of the Crown within the Government of the United Kingdom, and the head of His Majesty's Treasury. As one of the four Great Offices of State, the chancellor is a high-ranking member of the British Cabinet.

Responsible for all economic and financial matters, the role is equivalent to that of a finance minister in other countries. The chancellor is now always second lord of the Treasury as one of at least six lords commissioners of the Treasury, responsible for executing the office of the Treasurer of the Exchequer - the others are the prime minister and Commons government whips. In the 18th and early 19th centuries, it was common for the prime minister also to serve as Chancellor of the Exchequer if he sat in the Commons; the last Chancellor who was simultaneously prime minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer was Stanley Baldwin in 1923. Formerly, in cases when the chancellorship was vacant, the lord chief justice of the King's Bench would act as chancellor pro tempore.[4] The last lord chief justice to serve in this way was Lord Denman in 1834.

The chancellor is the third-oldest major state office in English and British history, and in recent times has come to be the most powerful office in British politics after the prime minister. It originally carried responsibility for the Exchequer, the medieval English institution for the collection and auditing of royal revenues. The earliest surviving records which are the results of the exchequer's audit date from 1129 to 1130 under King Henry I and show continuity from previous years.[5] The chancellor has oversight of fiscal policy, therefore of taxation and public spending across government departments. It previously controlled monetary policy as well until 1997, when the Bank of England was granted independent control of its interest rates.

Since 1718, all chancellors of the exchequer, except at times the lord chief justice as interim holders, have been members of the House of Commons, with Lord Stanhope being the last chancellor from the House of Lords.

The office holder works alongside the other Treasury ministers and the permanent secretary to the Treasury. The corresponding shadow minister is the shadow chancellor of the Exchequer, and the chancellor is also scrutinised by the Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesperson and the Treasury Select Committee.[6]

The current chancellor is Rachel Reeves.

## Second Lord of the Treasury

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The holder of the office of chancellor of the exchequer is ex officio second lord of the Treasury as a member of the commission exercising the ancient office of treasurer of the exchequer.[7] As second lord, her official residence is 11 Downing Street in London, next door to the residence of the first lord of the Treasury (a title that has for many years been held by the prime minister), who resides in 10 Downing Street. While in the past both houses were private residences, today they serve as interlinked offices, with the occupant living in an apartment made from attic rooms previously resided in by servants.

Since 1827, the chancellor has always simultaneously held the office of second lord of the Treasury when that person has not also been the prime minister.

## Roles and responsibilities

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A previous chancellor, Robert Lowe, described the office in the following terms in the House of Commons, on 11 April 1870: "The Chancellor of the Exchequer is a man whose duties make him more or less of a taxing machine. He is entrusted with a certain amount of misery which it is his duty to distribute as fairly as he can."[citation needed]

### Fiscal policy

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The chancellor has considerable control over other departments as it is the Treasury that sets Departmental Expenditure Limits. The amount of power this gives to an individual chancellor depends on their personal forcefulness, their status within their party and their relationship with the prime minister. Gordon Brown, who became chancellor when Labour came into Government in 1997, had a large personal power base in the party. Perhaps as a result, Tony Blair chose to keep him in the same position throughout his ten years as prime minister; making Brown an unusually dominant figure and the longest-serving chancellor since the Reform Act 1832.[8] This has strengthened a pre-existing trend towards the chancellor occupying a clear second position among government ministers, elevated above their traditional peers, the foreign secretary and home secretary.

One part of the chancellor's key roles involves the framing of the annual year budget. As of 2017, the first is the Autumn Budget, also known as Budget Day which forecasts government spending in the next financial year and also announces new financial measures. The second is a Spring Statement, also known as a "mini-Budget". Britain's tax year has retained the old Julian end of year: 24 March (Old Style) / 5 April (New Style, i.e. Gregorian). From 1993, the Budget was in spring, preceded by an annual autumn statement. This was then called Pre-Budget Report. The Autumn Statement usually took place in November or December. The 1997, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2012 and 2016 budgets were all delivered on a Wednesday, summarised in a speech to the House of Commons.

The budget is a state secret until the chancellor reveals it in the speech given to Parliament. Hugh Dalton, on his way to giving the budget speech in 1947, inadvertently blurted out key details to a newspaper reporter, and they appeared in print before he made his speech. Dalton was forced to resign.[9]

### Monetary policy

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Although the Bank of England is responsible for setting interest rates, the chancellor also plays an important part in the monetary policy structure. They set the inflation target which the Bank must set interest rates to meet. Under the Bank of England Act 1998 the chancellor has the power of appointment of four out of nine members of the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee – the so-called 'external' members. They also have a high level of influence over the appointment of the Bank's Governor and Deputy Governors, and has the right of consultation over the appointment of the two remaining MPC members from within the Bank.[10] The Act also provides that the Government has the power to give instructions to the Bank on interest rates for a limited period in extreme circumstances. This power has never been officially used.

### Ministerial arrangements

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At HM Treasury the chancellor is supported by a political team of four junior ministers and by permanent civil servants. The most important junior minister is the chief secretary to the Treasury, a member of the Cabinet, to whom the negotiations with other government departments on the details of government spending are delegated, followed by the paymaster general, the financial secretary to the Treasury and the economic secretary to the Treasury. Whilst not continuously in use, there can also be appointed a commercial secretary to the Treasury and an exchequer secretary to the Treasury. Two other officials are given the title of a secretary to the Treasury, although neither is a government minister in the Treasury: the parliamentary secretary to the Treasury is the Government Chief Whip in the House of Commons; the permanent secretary to the Treasury is not a minister but the senior civil servant in the Treasury.

The chancellor is obliged to be a member of the Privy Council, and thus is styled the Right Honourable (Rt. Hon.). Because the House of Lords is excluded from financial matters by tradition confirmed by the Parliament Acts, the office is effectively limited to members of the House of Commons; apart from the occasions when the lord chief justice of the King's Bench has acted as interim Chancellor. The last peer to hold the office was Henry Booth, 2nd Baron Delamer (created Earl of Warrington shortly after leaving office) from 9 April 1689 to 18 March 1690. The chancellor holds the formerly independent office of Master of the Mint as a subsidiary office.[11]

## Perquisites of the office

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### Official residence

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The chancellor of the Exchequer has no official London residence as such but since 1828 in their role as Second Lord of the Treasury they live in the second lord's official residence, No. 11 Downing Street.[12] In 1997, the then first and second Lords, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown respectively, swapped apartments, as the chancellor's larger apartment in No. 11 better accommodated Blair's substantial family (besides himself and his wife, he had three children under 18 upon taking office, and a fourth was born in 2000); meanwhile, Brown was then unmarried and had no children.

### Dorneywood

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Main article: Dorneywood

Dorneywood is the summer residence that is traditionally made available to the chancellor, though it is the prime minister who ultimately decides who may use it. Gordon Brown, on becoming chancellor in 1997, refused to use it and the house, which is set in 215 acres (87 ha)[13] of parkland, was allocated to Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott. In 2007, it reverted to the then-chancellor, Alistair Darling.[14]

### Budget box

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Budget box or Gladstone box, c. 1860

The chancellor traditionally carries their budget speech to the House of Commons in a particular red despatch box. The so-called 'Budget Box' is identical to the cases used by all other government ministers (known as ministerial boxes or "despatch boxes") to transport their official papers, but is better known because the chancellor traditionally displays the box, containing the budget speech, to the press before leaving 11 Downing Street for the House of Commons.

The original budget box was first used by William Ewart Gladstone in 1853 and continued in use until 1965 when James Callaghan was the first chancellor to break with tradition when he used a newer box. Prior to Gladstone, a generic red despatch box of varying design and specification was used. The practice is said to have begun in the late 16th century, when Queen Elizabeth I's representative Francis Throckmorton presented the Spanish Ambassador, Bernardino de Mendoza, with a specially constructed red briefcase filled with black puddings.[15]

In July 1997, Gordon Brown became the second chancellor to use a new box for the Budget. Made by industrial trainees at Babcock Rosyth Defence Ltd ship and submarine dockyard in Fife, the new box is made of yellow pine, with a brass handle and lock, covered in scarlet leather and embossed with the Royal cypher and crest and the chancellor's title. In his first Budget, in March 2008, Alistair Darling reverted to using the original budget box and his successor, George Osborne, continued this tradition for his first budget, before announcing that it would be retired due to its fragile condition.[16] The key to the original budget box has been lost.[17]

### Budget tipple

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By tradition, the chancellor has been allowed to drink whatever they wish while making the annual budget speech to Parliament. This includes alcohol, which is otherwise banned under parliamentary rules.

Previous chancellors have opted for whisky (Kenneth Clarke), gin and tonic (Geoffrey Howe), brandy and water (Benjamin Disraeli and John Major), spritzer (Nigel Lawson) and sherry and beaten egg (William Gladstone).[18]

The chancellors after Clarke, Philip Hammond, George Osborne, Alistair Darling and Gordon Brown,[19] opted for water. In fact Darling drank what was named "Standard Water" in reference to, and support of, the London Evening Standard newspaper's campaign to have plain tap water available in restaurants at no charge to customers.[20]

### Robe of office

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The chancellor, as Master of the Mint, has a robe of office,[21] similar to that of the lord chancellor (as seen in several of the portraits depicted below). In recent times, it has only regularly been worn at coronations, but some chancellors (at least until the 1990s) have also worn it when attending the Trial of the Pyx as Master of the Mint. According to George Osborne, the robe (dating from Gladstone's time in office, and worn by the likes of Lloyd George and Churchill)[22] 'went missing' during Gordon Brown's time as chancellor.[23]

## List of chancellors of the exchequer

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### England (c. 1221 – c. 1558)

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This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (January 2011)

|

Chancellor of the Exchequer  | Term of office  | Monarch
(Reign)

|
|

| Eustace of Fauconberg
Bishop of London | c. 1221 | —  | Henry III

(1216–1272)
| John Maunsell
Secretary of State | c. 1234 | —
| Ralph de Leicester | before 1248
| Edward of Westminster | 1248  | —
| Albric de Fiscamp | before 1263
| John Chishull
Lord Chancellor[1221 1] | 1263  | 1265
| Walter Giffard
Bishop of Bath and Wells | 1265  | 1266
| Godfrey Giffard
Lord Chancellor | 1266  | 1268
| John Chishull
Lord Chancellor | 1268  | 1269
| Richard of Middleton
Archdeacon of Northumberland | 1269  | 1272†
| Roger de la Leye | before 1283
Geoffrey de Neuband | Edward I

(1272–1307)
| Philip de Willoughby | 1283  | 1305
| John Benstead
Secretary of State | 1305  | 1306
| John Sandale
Bishop of Winchester | c. July
1307  | 1308  | Edward II

(1307–1327)
| John of Markenfield | 1309  | 1312
| John Hotham
Bishop of Ely | 1312  | 1316
| Hervey de Stanton | 1316  | c. 1323
| Walter Stapledon
Lord High Treasurer | 1323  | c. 1324
| Hervey de Stanton
Chief Justice of the Common Pleas | 1324  | c. January
1327
| Adam de Harvington | c. January
1327  | 1330  | Edward III

(1327–1377)
[1221 2]
| Robert Wodehouse | 1330  | 1331
| Robert de Stratford
Bishop of Chichester | 1331  | 1334
| John Hildesle | c. 1338 | —
| William de Everdon | 1341  | —
| William Askeby
Archdeacon of Northampton | 1363  | —
| Robert de Ashton | 1375  | c. June
1377
| Sir Walter Barnham | c. June
1377  | c. September
1399  | Richard II

(1377–1399)
| Henry Somer
MP for Middlesex | 1410  | 1437  | Henry IV

(1399–1413)
Henry V

(1413–1422)
​ | Henry VI

(1422–1461)
[1221 3]
| John Somerset | 1441  | 1447
| Thomas Browne
MP for Dover | 1440?  | 1450?
| Thomas Witham | 1454  | —
| Thomas Thwaites | c. March
1461  | —  | Edward IV

(1461–1470)
| Thomas Witham | 1465  | 1469
​ | Richard Fowler | 1469  | c. April
1471
| Henry VI

(1470–1471)
| Thomas Thwaites
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster | c. April
1471  | c. April
1483  | Edward IV

(1471–1483)
| William Catesby
Speaker of the House of Commons | c. April
1483  | c. 1484 | Edward V

(1483)
[1221 4]
Richard III

(1483–1485)
| Thomas Lovell
Speaker of the House of Commons[1221 5] | c. August
1485  | 1524  | Henry VII

(1485–1509)
​ | Henry VIII

(1509–1547)
[1221 6]
| John Bourchier
2nd Baron Berners | 1524  | 1533?
| Thomas Cromwell
1st Earl of Essex
Secretary of State | 12 April
1533  | 10 June
1540
​ | John Baker
MP for Kent | 1545  | c. November
1558
Edward VI

(1547–1553)
[1221 7]
Mary I

(1553–1558)

^† Died in office.

1. ^ Served until 1264.
2. ^ Lord Lancaster served as Regent of England during the minority of Edward III.
3. ^ The Regency government led by the Regency Council governed England during the minority of Henry VI.
4. ^ The Duke of Gloucester served as Regent of England during the reign of Edward V.
5. ^ Served until 1488.
6. ^ Margaret Beaufort served as Regent of England during the minority of Henry VIII.
7. ^ The Duke of Somerset and Duke of Northumberland served as Regent of England successively during the reign of Edward VI.

### England (c. 1558 – 1708)

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Chancellor of the Exchequer[a] | Term of office  | Monarch
(Reign)

|
|

| Richard Sackville[24]
MP for Sussex | February
1559  | 21 April
1566† | Elizabeth I

(1558–1603)
| Walter Mildmay[24]
MP for Northamptonshire | 1566  | 31 May
1589†
| John Fortescue[24]

MP for Buckinghamshire[1558 1] →Middlesex[1558 2]

| 1589  | 1603
| George Home
1st Earl of Dunbar[24] | 24 May
1603  | April
1606  | James I

(1603–1625)
| Julius Caesar[24]
MP for Middlesex | 11 April
1606  | 1614
| Fulke Greville[24]
MP for Warwickshire[1558 3] | 15 October
1614  | 1621
| Richard Weston[24]
MP for 7 constituencies successively | 29 January
1621  | 15 July
1628
Charles I

(1625–1649)
| Edward Barrett
1st Lord Barrett of Newburgh[24] | 14 August
1628  | 1629
| Francis Cottington
1st Baron Cottington[24] | 18 April
1629  | 6 January
1642
| John Colepeper[24]
MP for Kent | 6 January
1642  | 22 February
1643
| Edward Hyde[24] | February
1643  | 1646
Vacancy during the Interregnum (1649–1660)
Chancellor of the Exchequer[a] | Term of office  | Ministry  | Monarch
(Reign)
| Edward Hyde
1st Baron Hyde[24] | 1660  | 13 May
1661  | Clarendon | Charles II

(1660–1685)
| Anthony Ashley Cooper
1st Baron Ashley[24] | 13 May
1661  | 22 November
1672
Cabal
| John Duncombe[24]
MP for Bury St Edmunds | 22 November
1672  | 2 May
1676
Danby I
​ | John Ernle[24]
MP for 4 constituencies successively | 2 May
1676  | 9 April
1689
| Privy Council
​ | Chits
| James II

(1685–1688)
​ | William III

Mary II

(1689–1694)
| Henry Booth
2nd Baron Delamer[24] | 9 April
1689  | 18 March
1690  | Carmarthen–Halifax
| Richard Hampden[24]
MP for Buckinghamshire | 18 March
1690  | 10 May
1694  | Carmarthen
| Charles Montagu[24]

MP for Maldon → Westminster[1558 4]

| 10 May
1694  | 31 May
1699  | Whig Junto I
William III

(1694–1702)
| John Smith[24]
MP for Andover | 31 May
1699  | 23 March
1701  | Pembroke
​ | Henry Boyle[24]

MP for Cambridge University → Westminster[1558 5]

| 27 March
1701  | 22 April
1708
| Godolphin–Marlborough
(Tory–Whig) | Anne

(1702–1714)

1. ^ Served until 1589 during the 9th Parliament of Queen Elizabeth I.
2. ^ Served from 1601 prior to the Golden Speech.
3. ^ Served during the 3rd Parliament of King James I in 1621.
4. ^ Elected to a new constituency in the 1695 general election.
5. ^ Elected to a new constituency in the 1705 general election.

### Great Britain (1708–1817)

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Chancellor of the Exchequer[a] | Term of office  | Party  | Ministry  | Monarch
(Reign)

|
|
|
|

|  | John Smith[24]
MP for Andover | 22 April
1708  | 11 August
1710  | Whig | Godolphin–Marlborough
(Tory–Whig) | Anne

(1702–1714)
|  | Robert Harley[24]
MP for Radnor | 11 August
1710  | 4 June
1711  | Tory | Oxford–Bolingbroke
|  | Robert Benson[24]
MP for York | 4 June
1711  | 21 August
1713  | Tory
|  | William Wyndham[24]
MP for Somerset | 21 August
1713  | 13 October
1714  | Tory
| George I

(1714–1727)
[1708 1]
|  | Richard Onslow[24]
MP for Surrey | 13 October
1714  | 12 October
1715  | Whig | Townshend
|  | Robert Walpole[24]
MP for King's Lynn | 12 October
1715  | 15 April
1717  | Whig
|  | James Stanhope
1st Earl Stanhope[24] | 15 April
1717  | 20 March
1718  | Whig | Stanhope–Sunderland I
|  | John Aislabie[24]
MP for Ripon | 20 March
1718  | 23 January
1721  | Whig | Stanhope–Sunderland II
|  | John Pratt[24]
Lord Chief Justice (interim) | 2 February
1721 | 3 April
1721 | Whig
|  | Robert Walpole
1st Earl of Orford[24]
MP for King's Lynn[1708 2] | 3 April
1721  | 12 February
1742  | Whig | Walpole–Townshend
| George II

(1727–1760)
| Walpole
|  | Samuel Sandys[24]
MP for Worcester | 12 February
1742  | 12 December
1743  | Whig | Carteret
​ |  | Henry Pelham[24]
MP for Sussex | 12 December
1743  | 8 March
1754† | Whig
| Broad Bottom
(I & II)
|  | William Lee[24]
Lord Chief Justice (interim) | 8 March
1754 | 6 April
1754 | Whig | Newcastle I
|  | Henry Bilson-Legge[24]
MP for Orford | 6 April
1754  | 25 November
1755  | Whig
|  | George Lyttelton[24]
MP for Okehampton | 25 November
1755  | 16 November
1756  | Whig
|  | Henry Bilson-Legge[24]
MP for Orford | 16 November
1756  | 13 April
1757  | Whig | Pitt–Devonshire
|  | William Murray
1st Earl of Mansfield[24]
Lord Chief Justice (interim)  | 13 April
1757 | 2 July
1757 | Whig
1757 Caretaker
|  | Henry Bilson-Legge[24]

MP for Orford → Hampshire[1708 3]

| 2 July
1757  | 19 March
1761  | Whig | Pitt–Newcastle
| George III

(1760–1820)
[1708 4]
|  | William Barrington
2nd Viscount Barrington[24]
MP for Plymouth | 19 March
1761  | 29 May
1762  | Whig
|  | Francis Dashwood[24]
MP for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis | 29 May
1762  | 16 April
1763  | Tory | Bute
(Tory–Whig)
|  | George Grenville[24]
MP for Buckingham | 16 April
1763  | 16 July
1765  | Whig | Grenville
(Whig–Tory)
|  | William Dowdeswell[24]
MP for Worcestershire | 16 July
1765  | 2 August
1766  | Whig | Rockingham I
|  | Charles Townshend[24]
MP for Harwich | 2 August
1766  | 4 September
1767† | Whig | Chatham
(Whig–Tory)
​ |  | Frederick North
Lord North[24]
MP for Banbury | 11 September
1767  | 27 March
1782  | Tory
| Grafton
North
|  | Lord John Cavendish[24]
MP for York | 27 March
1782  | 10 July
1782  | Whig | Rockingham II
|  | William Pitt the Younger[24]
MP for Appleby | 10 July
1782  | 31 March
1783  | Whig | Shelburne
(Whig–Tory)
|  | Lord John Cavendish[24]
MP for York | 2 April
1783  | 19 December
1783  | Whig | Fox–North
|  | William Pitt the Younger[24]

MP for Appleby → Cambridge University[1708 5]

| 19 December
1783  | 14 March
1801  | Tory | Pitt I
|  | Henry Addington[24]
MP for Devizes | 14 March
1801  | 10 May
1804  | Tory | Addington
|  | William Pitt the Younger[24]
MP for Cambridge University | 10 May
1804  | 23 January
1806† | Tory | Pitt II
|  | Edward Law
1st Baron Ellenborough[24]
Lord Chief Justice (interim)  | 23 January
1806 | 5 February
1806 | Tory | All the Talents
(Whig–Tory)
|  | Lord Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice[24]
MP for Cambridge University | 5 February
1806  | 26 March
1807  | Whig
|  | Spencer Perceval[24]
MP for Northampton | 26 March
1807  | 11 May
1812† | Tory | Portland II
Perceval
|  | Nicholas Vansittart[25]

MP for East Grinstead → Harwich[1708 6]

| 9 June
1812  | 12 July
1817  | Tory | Liverpool

1. ^ Lord Parker served as Regent of Great Britain from 1 August to 18 September 1714.
2. ^ Elevated to the Peerage of Great Britain on 6 February 1742.
3. ^ Elected to a new constituency in the Hampshire by-election.
4. ^ The Prince of Wales served as prince regent from 5 February 1811.
5. ^ Elected to a new constituency in the 1784 general election.
6. ^ Elected to a new constituency in the 1812 general election.

### United Kingdom (1817–present)

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Although the Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland had been united by the Acts of Union 1800, the Exchequers of the two Kingdoms were not consolidated until 1817 under the Consolidated Fund Act 1816 (56 Geo. 3. c. 98).[26][27] For the holders of the Irish office before this date, see Chancellor of the Exchequer of Ireland.

Chancellor of the Exchequer[a] | Term of office  | Party  | Ministry  | Monarch
(Reign)

|
|
|
|

|  | Nicholas Vansittart[24]
MP for Harwich | 12 July 1817  | 31 January 1823  | Tory | Liverpool | George III

(1760–1820)
[1817 1]
| George IV

(1820–1830)
|  | Frederick John Robinson[28]
MP for Ripon | 31 January 1823  | 27 April 1827  | Tory
|  | George Canning[29]
MP for Seaford | 27 April 1827  | 8 August 1827† | Tory | Canning
(Canningite–Whig)
|  | Charles Abbott
1st Baron Tenterden
Lord Chief Justice (interim) | 8 August 1827 | 5 September 1827 | Tory | Goderich
|  | John Charles Herries[30]
MP for Harwich | 5 September 1827  | 26 January 1828  | Tory
|  | Henry Goulburn[24]
MP for Armagh | 26 January 1828  | 22 November 1830  | Tory | Wellington–Peel
| William IV

(1830–1837)
|  | John Spencer
Viscount Althorp[24]

MP for Northamptonshire →
South Northamptonshire[1817 2]

| 22 November 1830  | 14 November 1834  | Whig | Grey
Melbourne I
|  | Thomas Denman
1st Baron Denman
Lord Chief Justice (interim) | 14 November 1834 | 15 December 1834 | Whig | Wellington Caretaker
|  | Robert Peel[24]
MP for Tamworth | 15 December 1834  | 8 April 1835  | Conservative | Peel I
|  | Thomas Spring Rice[24]
MP for Cambridge | 18 April 1835  | 26 August 1839  | Whig | Melbourne II
| Victoria

(1837–1901)
|  | Francis Baring[24]
MP for Portsmouth | 26 August 1839  | 30 August 1841  | Whig
|  | Henry Goulburn[24]
MP for Cambridge University | 3 September 1841  | 27 June 1846  | Conservative | Peel II
|  | Charles Wood[24]
MP for Halifax | 6 July 1846  | 21 February 1852  | Whig | Russell I
|  | Benjamin Disraeli[24]
MP for Buckinghamshire | 27 February 1852  | 17 December 1852  | Conservative | Who? Who?
|  | William Ewart Gladstone[24]
MP for Oxford University | 28 December 1852  | 28 February 1855  | Peelite | Aberdeen
(Peelite–Whig)
|  | George Cornewall Lewis[24]
MP for Radnor | 28 February 1855  | 21 February 1858  | Whig | Palmerston I
|  | Benjamin Disraeli[24]
MP for Buckinghamshire | 26 February 1858  | 11 June 1859  | Conservative | Derby–Disraeli II
|  | William Ewart Gladstone[24]

MP for Oxford University →
South Lancashire[1817 3]

| 18 June 1859  | 26 June 1866  | Liberal | Palmerston II
Russell II
|  | Benjamin Disraeli[24]
MP for Buckinghamshire | 6 July 1866  | 29 February 1868  | Conservative | Derby–Disraeli III
|  | George Ward Hunt[24]
MP for North Northamptonshire | 29 February 1868  | 1 December 1868  | Conservative
|  | Robert Lowe[24]
MP for London University | 9 December 1868  | 11 August 1873  | Liberal | Gladstone I
|  | William Ewart Gladstone[24]
MP for Greenwich | 11 August 1873  | 17 February 1874  | Liberal
|  | Stafford Northcote[24]
MP for North Devonshire | 21 February 1874  | 21 April 1880  | Conservative | Disraeli II
|  | William Ewart Gladstone[24]
MP for Midlothian | 28 April 1880  | 16 December 1882  | Liberal | Gladstone II
|  | Hugh Childers[24]
MP for Pontefract | 16 December 1882  | 9 June 1885  | Liberal
|  | Michael Hicks Beach[24]
MP for Bristol West | 24 June 1885  | 28 January 1886  | Conservative | Salisbury I
|  | William Harcourt[24]
MP for Derby | 6 February 1886  | 20 July 1886  | Liberal | Gladstone III
|  | Lord Randolph Churchill[24]
MP for Paddington South | 3 August 1886  | 22 December 1886  | Conservative | Salisbury II
|  | George Goschen[24]
MP for St George Hanover Square | 14 January 1887  | 11 August 1892  | Liberal Unionist
|  | William Harcourt[24]
MP for Derby | 18 August 1892  | 21 June 1895  | Liberal | Gladstone IV
Rosebery
|  | Michael Hicks Beach[24]
MP for Bristol West | 29 June 1895  | 11 August 1902  | Conservative | Salisbury
(III & IV)
(Con.–Lib.U.)
| Edward VII

(1901–1910)
|  | Charles Ritchie[24]
MP for Croydon | 11 August 1902  | 9 October 1903  | Conservative | Balfour
|  | Austen Chamberlain[24]
MP for East Worcestershire | 9 October 1903  | 4 December 1905  | Liberal Unionist
|  | Herbert Henry Asquith[24]
MP for East Fife | 10 December 1905  | 16 April 1908  | Liberal | Campbell-Bannerman
|  | David Lloyd George[31]
MP for Caernarvon Boroughs | 16 April 1908  | 25 May 1915  | Liberal | Asquith
(I–III)
| George V

(1910–1936)
|  | Reginald McKenna[24]
MP for North Monmouthshire | 25 May 1915  | 10 December 1916  | Liberal | Asquith Coalition
(Lib.–Con.–et al.)
|  | Bonar Law[24]

MP for Bootle →
Glasgow Central[1817 4]

| 10 December 1916  | 10 January 1919  | Conservative | Lloyd George
(I & II)
|  | Austen Chamberlain[24]
MP for Birmingham West | 10 January 1919  | 1 April 1921  | Conservative
|  | Robert Horne[24]
MP for Glasgow Hillhead | 1 April 1921  | 19 October 1922  | Conservative
|  | Stanley Baldwin[24]
MP for Bewdley | 27 October 1922  | 27 August 1923  | Conservative | Law
​ | Baldwin I
|  | Neville Chamberlain[24]
MP for Birmingham Ladywood | 27 August 1923  | 22 January 1924  | Conservative
|  | Philip Snowden[24]
MP for Colne Valley | 22 January 1924  | 3 November 1924  | Labour | MacDonald I
|  | Winston Churchill[24]
MP for Epping

Chancellorship

| 6 November 1924  | 4 June 1929  | Conservative | Baldwin II
|  | Philip Snowden[24]
MP for Colne Valley | 7 June 1929  | 5 November 1931  | Labour | MacDonald II
| National Labour | National I
(N.Lab.–Con.–et al.)
|  | Neville Chamberlain[24]
MP for Birmingham Edgbaston | 5 November 1931  | 28 May 1937  | Conservative | National II
​ | National III
(Con.–N.Lab.–et al.)
| Edward VIII

(1936)
​ | George VI

(1936–1952)
|  | John Simon[24]
MP for Spen Valley | 28 May 1937  | 12 May 1940  | Liberal National | National IV
Chamberlain War
|  | Kingsley Wood[24]
MP for Woolwich West | 12 May 1940  | 21 September 1943† | Conservative | Churchill War
(All parties)
​ |  | John Anderson[24]
MP for Combined Scottish Universities | 24 September 1943  | 26 July 1945  | Independent
(National)
| Churchill Caretaker
(Con.–Lib.N.)
|  | Hugh Dalton[24]
MP for Bishop Auckland | 27 July 1945  | 13 November 1947  | Labour | Attlee
(I & II)
|  | Stafford Cripps[24]

MP for Bristol East →
Bristol South East[1817 5]

| 13 November 1947  | 19 October 1950  | Labour
|  | Hugh Gaitskell[24]
MP for Leeds South | 19 October 1950  | 26 October 1951  | Labour
|  | Richard Austen Butler[24]
MP for Saffron Walden | 26 October 1951  | 20 December 1955  | Conservative | Churchill III
| Elizabeth II

(1952–2022)
| Eden
|  | Harold Macmillan[24]
MP for Bromley | 20 December 1955  | 13 January 1957  | Conservative
|  | Peter Thorneycroft[24]
MP for Monmouth | 13 January 1957  | 6 January 1958  | Conservative | Macmillan
(I & II)
|  | Derick Heathcoat-Amory[24]
MP for Tiverton | 6 January 1958  | 27 July 1960  | Conservative
|  | Selwyn Lloyd[24]
MP for Wirral | 27 July 1960  | 13 July 1962 | Conservative
​ |  | Reginald Maudling[32]
MP for Barnet | 16 July 1962  | 16 October 1964  | Conservative
| Douglas-Home
|  | James Callaghan[33]
MP for Cardiff South East | 17 October 1964  | 29 November 1967  | Labour | Wilson
(I & II)
|  | Roy Jenkins[34]
MP for Birmingham Stechford | 29 November 1967  | 19 June 1970  | Labour
|  | Iain Macleod[24]
MP for Enfield West | 20 June 1970  | 20 July 1970† | Conservative | Heath
|  | Anthony Barber[24]
MP for Altrincham and Sale | 25 July 1970  | 4 March 1974  | Conservative
|  | Denis Healey[24]
MP for Leeds East | 5 March 1974  | 4 May 1979  | Labour | Wilson
(III & IV)
Callaghan
|  | Geoffrey Howe[24]
MP for East Surrey | 4 May 1979  | 11 June 1983  | Conservative | Thatcher I
|  | Nigel Lawson[24]
MP for Blaby | 11 June 1983  | 26 October 1989  | Conservative | Thatcher II
​ | Thatcher III
|  | John Major[24]
MP for Huntingdon | 26 October 1989  | 28 November 1990  | Conservative
|  | Norman Lamont[24]
MP for Kingston-upon-Thames | 28 November 1990  | 27 May 1993  | Conservative | Major I
​ | Major II
|  | Kenneth Clarke[24]
MP for Rushcliffe | 27 May 1993  | 2 May 1997  | Conservative
|  | Gordon Brown[24]

MP for Dunfermline East →
Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath[1817 6]

Chancellorship

| 2 May 1997  | 27 June 2007  | Labour | Blair
(I, II & III)
|  | Alistair Darling[35]
MP for Edinburgh South West | 28 June 2007  | 11 May 2010  | Labour | Brown
|  | George Osborne[36]
MP for Tatton

Chancellorship

| 11 May 2010  | 13 July 2016  | Conservative | Cameron–Clegg
(Con.–L.D.)
Cameron II
|  | Philip Hammond[37]
MP for Runnymede and Weybridge | 13 July 2016  | 24 July 2019  | Conservative | May I
May II
|  | Sajid Javid[38][39]
MP for Bromsgrove | 24 July 2019  | 13 February 2020 | Conservative | Johnson I
​ | Johnson II
|  | Rishi Sunak[40]
MP for Richmond (Yorks)

Chancellorship

| 13 February 2020  | 5 July 2022 | Conservative
|  | Nadhim Zahawi[41]
MP for Stratford-on-Avon | 5 July 2022  | 6 September 2022  | Conservative
‍ |  | Kwasi Kwarteng[42]
MP for Spelthorne | 6 September 2022  | 14 October 2022 | Conservative | Truss
| Charles III

(2022–present)
|  | Jeremy Hunt[43][44]
MP for South West Surrey

Chancellorship

| 14 October 2022  | 5 July 2024  | Conservative
​ | Sunak
|  | Rachel Reeves
MP for Leeds West and Pudsey

Chancellorship

| 5 July 2024  | Incumbent  | Labour | Starmer

1. ^ The Prince of Wales served as prince regent from 5 February 1811.
2. ^ Elected to a new constituency in the 1832 general election.
3. ^ Elected to a new constituency in the 1865 general election.
4. ^ Elected to a new constituency in the 1918 general election.
5. ^ Elected to a new constituency in the 1950 general election.
6. ^ Elected to a new constituency in the 2005 general election.

## Timeline

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### 1817–present

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## See also

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* Politics portal
* United Kingdom portal

* Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
* List of lord high treasurers of England and Great Britain

## Notes

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1. ^ a b c d Including constituencies for elected MPs.

## References

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2. ^ "Pay and expenses for MPs". parliament.uk. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
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37. ^ "Philip Hammond appointed chancellor". BBC News. 13 July 2016. Retrieved 7 July 2017.
38. ^ "Sajid Javid confirmed as chancellor". The Guardian. 24 July 2019. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
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40. ^ "Who is Rishi Sunak? Meet Sajid Javid's replacement as Chancellor". Evening Standard. 13 February 2020. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
41. ^ "Nadhim Zahawi made chancellor after Rishi Sunak resigns - as Steve Barclay replaces Sajid Javid as health secretary". Sky News. 5 July 2022. Retrieved 5 July 2022.
42. ^ "Kwasi Kwarteng is the UK's new chancellor". POLITICO. 6 September 2022. Retrieved 28 September 2022.
43. ^ "Jeremy Hunt made chancellor after Liz Truss sacks Kwasi Kwarteng". Sky News. 14 October 2022. Retrieved 14 October 2022.
44. ^ Giles, Chris (25 October 2022). "Jeremy Hunt to remain as Chancellor". BBC News. Retrieved 25 October 2022.

## Further reading

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* Barber, Stephen. "'Westminster's wingman'? Shadow chancellor as a strategic and coveted political role." British Politics 11.2 (2016): 184–204.
* Baxter, Stephen B. The Development of the Treasury, 1660–1702 (1957) online
* Browning, Peter. The Treasury and Economic Policy: 1964–1985 (Longman, 1986).
* Dell, Edmund. The Chancellors: A History of the Chancellors of the Exchequer, 1945–90 (HarperCollins, 1997) 619pp; 17 chapters covering the terms of each chancellor.
* Holt, Richard. Second Amongst Equals: Chancellors of the Exchequer and the British Economy (Profile Books, 2001).
* Jenkins, Roy. The Chancellors (1998); 497pp; covers entire career as well as term in office of 19 chancellors from 1886 to 1947.
* Kynaston, David. The chancellor of the exchequer (T. Dalton, 1980).
* Peden, G. C. The Treasury and British Public Policy, 1906–1959 (Oxford UP, 2000). online
* Seldon, Anthony. The Impossible Office? The History of the British Prime Minister (2021) excerpt major scholarly history. Covers the relations with Prime Minister in Chapter 9.
* Vincent, Nicholas C. "The Origins of the Chancellorship of the Exchequer." English Historical Review 108.426 (1993): 105–121. in JSTOR
* Woodward, Nicholas. The management of the British economy, 1945–2001 (Manchester University Press, 2004).

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Henry IV
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* Thomas Thwaites (1461–?)
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Edward V
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* William Catesby (April–June 1483)

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* William Catesby (June 1483–1484)

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Chancellors of the exchequer under the House of Tudor (1485–1603)

Henry VII
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* Thomas Lovell (1485–1509)

Henry VIII
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* Thomas Lovell (1509–1524)
* 2nd Baron Berners (1524–1533)
* Thomas Cromwell (1533–1540)
* John Baker (1545–1547)

Edward VI
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* John Baker (1545–July 1553)

Lady Jane Grey
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* John Baker (July 1553)

Mary I
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* John Baker (July 1553–1558)

Elizabeth I
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James I
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* Sir George Home of Spot (1603–1606)
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* 1st Baron Weston (1625–1628)
* 1st Lord Barrett of Newburgh (1628–1629)
* 1st Baron Cottington (1629–1642)
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Charles II
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* 1st Baron Ashley (1661–1672)
* John Duncombe (1672–1676)
* John Ernle (1676–1685)

James II
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* John Ernle (1685–1688)

William & Mary
(1689–1694)|

* John Ernle (1688–1689)
* 2nd Baron Delamer (1689–1690)
* Richard Hampden (1690–1694)

William III
(1694–1702)|

* Sir Charles Montagu (1694–1699)
* John Smith (1699–1701)
* Henry Boyle (1701–1702)

Anne
(1702–1714)|

* 1st Baron Carleton (1702–1708)
* John Smith (1708–1710)
* Robert Harley (1710–1711)
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Government Whips*|

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Civil Service|

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public bodies|

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Topics|

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