Ministerial role

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

Organisations: Cabinet Office and Cabinet Office Board
Current role holder: 皇冠体育app Rt Hon Pat McFadden MP

Responsibilities

皇冠体育app Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster administers the estates and rents of the Duchy of Lancaster, and is a member of the Cabinet. After the Prime Minister, they are the most senior minister in the Cabinet Office.

He is responsible for:

  • Missions - supporting delivery of Government鈥檚 priorities
  • Oversight of all Cabinet Office policy
  • National security, resilience, and civil contingencies, including:
    • COBR
    • Resilience policy
    • Cyber security
    • State threats
    • National Security and Investment Act
  • Propriety and ethics
  • Public appointments
  • Major events policy

Current role holder

皇冠体育app Rt Hon Pat McFadden MP

Pat McFadden was appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster on 5 July 2024. He was elected as the MP for Wolverhampton South East in May 2005.

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Previous holders of this role

  1. 皇冠体育app Rt Hon Oliver Dowden CBE MP

    2022 to 2024

  2. 皇冠体育app Rt Hon Nadhim Zahawi

    2022 to 2022

  3. 皇冠体育app Rt Hon Kit Malthouse MP

    2022 to 2022

  4. 皇冠体育app Rt Hon Steve Barclay MP

    2021 to 2022

  5. 皇冠体育app Rt Hon Michael Gove

    2019 to 2021

  6. 皇冠体育app Rt Hon David Lidington CBE

    2018 to 2019

  7. 皇冠体育app Rt Hon Sir Patrick McLoughlin

    2016 to 2018

  8. 皇冠体育app Rt Hon Oliver Letwin

    2014 to 2016