Ministerial role

Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice

Organisations: Ministry of Justice
Current role holder: 皇冠体育app Rt Hon Shabana Mahmood MP

Responsibilities

  • Oversight of all portfolios, policy, and Ministry of Justice strategy
  • Oversight of cross-cutting emergency issues, responses supported by other ministers according to portfolio
  • Oversight of international business and future relations with the EU
  • MoJ support for the Union.
  • Resourcing of the department
  • Functions of the Lord Chancellor
  • Judicial policy including pay, pensions and diversity (these and other operational decisions affecting the judiciary are reserved to the Lord Chancellor)
  • Corporate services

Current role holder

皇冠体育app Rt Hon Shabana Mahmood MP

Shabana Mahmood was appointed Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice on 5 July 2024. She was elected as the MP for Birmingham Ladywood in July 2024.

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Previous holders of this role

  1. 皇冠体育app Rt Hon Alex Chalk KC

    2023 to 2024

  2. 皇冠体育app Rt Hon Dominic Raab

    2022 to 2023

  3. 皇冠体育app Rt Hon Brandon Lewis CBE

    2022 to 2022

  4. 皇冠体育app Rt Hon Dominic Raab

    2021 to 2022

  5. 皇冠体育app Rt Hon Robert Buckland KC

    2019 to 2021

  6. 皇冠体育app Rt Hon David Gauke

    2018 to 2019

  7. 皇冠体育app Rt Hon David Lidington CBE

    2017 to 2018

  8. 皇冠体育app Rt Hon Elizabeth Truss

    2016 to 2017

  9. 皇冠体育app Rt Hon Michael Gove

    2015 to 2016

  10. 皇冠体育app Rt Hon Chris Grayling

    2012 to 2015

  11. 皇冠体育app Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke KC

    2010 to 2012