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EDITIONS
Monday, 28 October, 2002, 13:24 GMT
The new government team
BBC News Online provides a full list of Tony Blair's government team as it stands after the reshuffle in October 2002.

Prime Minister is Tony Blair


Law Officers

Lord Goldsmith QC is attorney general

Harriet Harman is solicitor general

Lynda Clark is advocate general for Scotland


Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

John Prescott is deputy prime minister

Christopher Leslie and Tony McNulty are parliamentary under-secretaries

Lord Rooker, previously at the Home Office, is a minister for housing and planning

Nick Raynsford is still local government and regions minister

Barbara Roche is minister for social exclusion and deputy minister for women


Cabinet Office

All the Cabinet Office ministers report to Tony Blair directly

Former Transport Minster Lord MacDonald is minister for the Cabinet Office Douglas Alexander is minister for state


HM Treasury

Chancellor of the Exchequer is Gordon Brown

Paul Boateng became Chief Secretary to the Treasury in May 2002

Dawn Primarolo is paymaster general

Ruth Kelly is financial secretary

John Healey is economic secretary


Leader of the House of Commons

Former Foreign Secretary Robin Cook is leader of the House of Commons

Junior Foreign Office Minister Ben Bradshaw is parliamentary secretary


Lord Chancellor's Department

Lord Irvine of Lairg is Lord Chancellor

Former Health Minister Yvette Cooper, Baroness Scotland of Asthal and Rosie Winterton are parliamentary secretaries


Foreign Office

Jack Straw stays foreign secretary

Mike O'Brien rejoined his former Home Office boss in May 2002 to become a parliamentary under-secretary

Former Defence Minister Baroness Symons remains minister for trade (also DTI)

Denis MacShane was appointed as Europe minister in October 2002

Baroness Amos and former whip Bill Rammell are still junior ministers


Home Office

David Blunkett stays as home secretary

John Denham is minister for police and crime reduction

Beverley Hughes is minister for citizenship and immigration

Lord Falconer of Thoroton is minister for the criminal justice system

Bob Ainsworth and Lord Filkin are parliamentary under-secretaries

Hilary Benn, a former international development minister, is minister for prisons

Michael Wills is parliamentary under secretary for criminal justice system IT


Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Former Leader of the House of Commons Margaret Beckett is in charge as secretary of state

Michael Meacher is environment minister

Former Wales First Minister Alun Michael is minister for rural affairs

Elliot Morley and Lord Whitty are junior ministers


Department for International Development

Clare Short is international development secretary

Sally Keeble is parliamentary under secretary


Department for Work and Pensions

Andrew Smith is the new secretary of state for work and pensions, a promotion from his former cabinet role as chief secretary to the Treasury

Former Agriculture Minister Nick Brown is minister for work

Ian McCartney is minister for pensions

Baroness Hollis of Heigham, Malcolm Wicks and Maria Eagle are parliamentary under secretary


Department for Transport

Alistair Darling, former Work and Pensions Secretary, is secretary of state for transport

Former Defence Minister John Spellar is minister of state

David Jamieson is parliamentary under secretary


Department of Health

Alan Milburn is health secretary

John Hutton is a minister of state, as is Jacqui Smith

Lord Hunt of Kingsheath, David Lammy and Hazel Blears are parliamentary under secretaries


Northern Ireland Office

Paul Murphy became Northern Ireland Secretary in the October 2002 reshuffle after being Welsh Secretary.

Jane Kennedy is a minister of state

Des Browne is a parliamentary secretary; Ian Pearson and Angela Smith are parliamentary under secretaries


Wales Office

Peter Hain joined the cabinet as Wales Secretary in the October 2002 reshuffle

Don Touhig is a parliamentary under secretary


Ministry of Defence

Geoff Hoon stays on as defence secretary

Adam Ingram continues as minister of state

Lord Bach and Dr Lewis Moonie are junior ministers


Scotland Office

Helen Liddell is Scotland secretary

Anne McGuire is a parliamentary secretary


Department of Trade and Industry

Patricia Hewitt is trade and industry secretary

Stephen Timms is minister for e-commerce and competitiveness

Baroness Symons is trade and investment minister, as well as deputy leader of the Lords

Brian Wilson is appointed energy and construction minister

Alan Johnson is employment relations, industry & regions minister

Lord Sainsbury of Turville, Melanie Johnson and Nigel Griffiths are parliamentary under secretaries


Department for Education and Skills

Charles Clarke, former Labour chairman, became education secretary after Estelle Morris' resignation

David Miliband, former director of the Downing Street policy unit, is minister for schools

Margaret Hodge is higher education minister

Stephen Twigg and Ivan Lewis are parliamentary under secretaries Baroness Ashton is parliamentary under secretary for early years and schools standards


Department for Culture, Media & Sport

Tessa Jowell carries on as culture secretary

Richard Caborn is sports minister

Baroness Blackstone is minister for the Arts

Kim Howells is junior minister


House of Lords

Lord Williams of Mostyn is the leader of the House of Lords

Lord Grocott is government chief whip

Lord McIntosh of Haringey is deputy chief whip

Their team of whips is: Lord Davies of Oldham, Lord Bassam of Brighton, Baroness Crawley, Baroness Andrews and Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton.


House of Commons

Hilary Armstrong, local government minister remains chief whip

Former Minister for London Keith Hill stays as deputy chief whip

Commons whips John Heppell and Nick Ainger, Ian Pearson, Jim Fitzpatrick and Phil Woolas

Assistant whips are Jim Murphy, Joan Ryan, Derek Twigg, Fraser Kemp, Angela Smith, Ivor Caplin, Gillian Merron and Dan Norris.


Minister without portfolio and Labour Party chairman

Former Northern Ireland Secretary Dr John Reid took this role in October 2002 and sits in the cabinet


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