City Minister

City Minister
City Minister
	Royal Arms as used by His Majesty's Government
	Incumbent; Lucy Rigby; since 6 September 2025
	HM Treasury
Appointer	The British Monarch (on advice of the Prime Minister)
Inaugural holder	The Lord Myners
Formation	3 October 2008
Website	HM Treasury

City Minister is a ministerial position in His Majesty's Treasury. The minister is responsible for the British financial services sector, which is commonly known as "the City". Since 2014, the position is commonly held concurrently with Economic Secretary to the Treasury.

History

The term "City Minister" was first used as a nickname for the position of Financial Services Secretary to the Treasury which was created by Gordon Brown upon coming to office in October 2008.^[2] The only person to have held the office was Lord Myners, who served from October 2008 to May 2010.^[3]^[4]

In May 2010 as part of the ministerial reorganisation by the Cameron Government the position of Financial Services Secretary to the Treasury was abolished. However, the idea of there being a minister specifically responsible for the City was retained and it was decided that the post would be held concurrently with the position of Financial Secretary to the Treasury, held at the time by Mark Hoban.

Following the promotion of Sajid Javid to Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport in April 2014 the portfolio of City Minister was moved from the Financial Secretary to the Treasury to the Economic Secretary to the Treasury.^[5]

Following the 2017 snap general election, City Minister Simon Kirby lost his seat and was succeeded by Steve Barclay.

Following Liz Truss becoming Prime Minister, although Richard Fuller retained his position as Economic Secretary to the Treasury, the City Minister brief was removed from him and returned to the Financial Secretary to the Treasury.^[6]

List of officeholders

Colour key (for political parties):
Conservative Labour

City Minister		Term of office		Political party		Chancellor
As Financial Services Secretary to the Treasury
	Paul Myners, Baron Myners Life peer	3 October 2008	13 May 2010	Labour	Brown	Darling
As Financial Secretary to the Treasury
	Mark Hoban MP for Fareham	13 May 2010	4 September 2012	Conservative	Cameron (Coalition)	Osborne
	Greg Clark MP for Tunbridge Wells	4 September 2012	7 October 2013	Conservative
	Sajid Javid MP for Bromsgrove	7 October 2013	9 April 2014	Conservative
As Economic Secretary to the Treasury
	Andrea Leadsom MP for South Northamptonshire	9 April 2014	11 May 2015	Conservative	Cameron (Coalition)	Osborne
	Harriett Baldwin MP for West Worcestershire	11 May 2015	16 July 2016	Conservative	Cameron (II)	Osborne
	Simon Kirby MP for Brighton Kemptown	16 July 2016	8 June 2017	Conservative	May	Hammond
	Steve Barclay MP for North East Cambridgeshire	14 June 2017	9 January 2018	Conservative
	John Glen MP for Salisbury	9 January 2018	6 July 2022	Conservative
					Johnson	Javid
						Sunak
	Richard Fuller MP for North East Bedfordshire	8 July 2022	6 September 2022	Conservative		Sunak
	Richard Fuller MP for North East Bedfordshire	8 July 2022	6 September 2022	Conservative		Zahawi
As Financial Secretary to the Treasury
	Andrew Griffith MP for Arundel and South Downs	7 September 2022	27 October 2022	Conservative	Truss	Kwarteng
						Kwarteng
						Hunt
As Economic Secretary to the Treasury
	Andrew Griffith Arundel and South Downs	27 October 2022	13 November 2023	Conservative	Sunak	Hunt
	Bim Afolami MP for Hitchin and Harpenden	13 November 2023	5 July 2024	Conservative	Sunak	Hunt
	Tulip Siddiq MP for Hampstead and Highgate	9 July 2024	14 January 2025	Labour	Starmer	Reeves
	Emma Reynolds MP for Wycombe	14 January 2025	5 September 2025	Labour
	Lucy Rigby MP for Northampton North	6 September 2025	Incumbent	Labour

References

^ House of Commons, Treasury Committee. Banking Crisis: Reforming Corporate Governance and Pay in the City, Ninth Report of Session 2008–09. p. 42.
^ "City minister Myners seeks review of how investment banking has 'permeated' society". The Daily Telegraph). 25 January 2010. Retrieved 20 May 2010.
^ "Paul Myners CBE - Financial Services Secretary to the Treasury". HM Treasury. Archived from the original on 7 April 2010. Retrieved 12 May 2010.
^ "Speech by the Financial Services Secretary to the Treasury, Paul Myners to the Association of Foreign Banks". HM Treasury official website (archived by The National Archives). 11 June 2009. Archived from the original on 28 June 2009. Retrieved 20 May 2010.
^ Andrea Leadsom MP appointed new City Minister for HMT, Tech UK, 10 April 2014, retrieved 4 August 2016
^ "Andrew Griffith MP". 21 September 2022. Retrieved 24 August 2023.

[1] House of Commons, Treasury Committee. Banking Crisis: Reforming Corporate Governance and Pay in the City, Ninth Report of Session 2008–09. p. 42.

[2] "City minister Myners seeks review of how investment banking has 'permeated' society". The Daily Telegraph). 25 January 2010. Retrieved 20 May 2010.

[3] "Paul Myners CBE - Financial Services Secretary to the Treasury". HM Treasury. Archived from the original on 7 April 2010. Retrieved 12 May 2010.

[4] "Speech by the Financial Services Secretary to the Treasury, Paul Myners to the Association of Foreign Banks". HM Treasury official website (archived by The National Archives). 11 June 2009. Archived from the original on 28 June 2009. Retrieved 20 May 2010.

[5] Andrea Leadsom MP appointed new City Minister for HMT, Tech UK, 10 April 2014, retrieved 4 August 2016

[6] "Andrew Griffith MP". 21 September 2022. Retrieved 24 August 2023.

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HM Treasury
Headquarters: 1, Horse Guards Road
Ministers	First Lord of the Treasury Chancellor of the Exchequer / Second Lord of the Treasury Chief Secretary to the Treasury Paymaster General Financial Secretary to the Treasury Economic Secretary to the Treasury & City Minister Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury Commercial Secretary to the Treasury
Government Whips*	Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury Lords Commissioners of the Treasury
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Non-ministerial departments	Government Actuary's Department National Savings and Investments
Executive agencies	Debt Management Office Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt Government Internal Audit Agency
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Offices in italics are not currently in use * Sinecure offices nominally associated with the Treasury but de facto held by Government Whips

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