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Cabinet

Secretaries of State per Government

How many different people ran each department under each government. A minister who serves across an election counts for both, because they were a minister of both. Departments are grouped by lineage, so a renamed department keeps one count rather than restarting. The Cabinet Office is left out: it holds four Secretary-of-State-rank posts at once, which inflates its count without saying anything about churn.

2024
  • 7Education3
  • 8Business & Trade3
  • 13Culture, Media & Sport2
  • 1Environment & Rural Affairs4
  • 9Work & Pensions3
  • 2Health & Social Care4
  • 10HM Treasury3
  • 3Justice4
  • 4Foreign Office4
  • 5Housing & Communities4
  • 6Defence4
  • 11Home Office3
  • 12Transport3

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Source: Institute for Government ministers database

Coverage: UK