Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (original) (raw)

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Member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom

United Kingdom Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
Royal Arms of His Majesty's Government
IncumbentLisa Nandysince 5 July 2024
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Style	Culture Secretary(informal)The Right Honourable(within the UK and Commonwealth)
Type	Minister of the Crown
Status	Secretary of State
Member of	Cabinet Privy Council
Reports to	The Prime Minister
Seat	Westminster
Nominator	The Prime Minister
Appointer	The Monarch(on the advice of the Prime Minister)
Term length	At His Majesty's Pleasure
Formation	11 April 1992:(as Secretary of State for National Heritage) 7 February 2023:(as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport)
First holder	David Mellor(as Secretary of State for National Heritage)
Salary	£159,038 per annum (2022)[1](including £86,584 MP salary)[2]
Website	Department for Culture, Media and Sport

The secretary of state for culture, media and sport, also referred to as the culture secretary, is a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom, with overall responsibility for strategy and policy across the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.[3] The incumbent is a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom. The office has been dubbed "Minister of Fun".[4]

The secretary has overall responsibility for strategy and policy across the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.[3] Responsibilities include:[3]

Arts and Culture
Broadcasting
Creative industries
Creative Industries Council
Cultural property, heritage and the historic environment
Cultural Renewal Taskforce
Culture, sports and arts sector recovery from COVID-19
Gambling and racing
Libraries
Media ownership and mergers
Museums and galleries
The National Lottery
Sport
Tourism

The office was created in 1992 by Prime Minister John Major, as Secretary of State for National Heritage.[5] In his autobiography, Major says that, before the office was created, responsibility for cultural interests was shared among various departments, but important to none of them.[6] For instance, arts and libraries, although a separate department, had no minister in the Cabinet, sport was part of the Department for Education, film was part of the Department of Trade and Industry, broadcasting was part of the Home Office, tourism was part of the Department for Employment and heritage was part of the Department of the Environment.[6] He also wrote that the system tended to favour the interests of the articulate and well-connected London-based arts lobby.[6]

Thus, when he became Prime Minister, Major said that he saw that the only way to give culture and sport the higher profile that he thought that they deserved was to establish a new department, under a minister of Cabinet rank, to bring together all aspects of the arts, sport and heritage.[7]

List of secretaries of state

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Secretary of State for National Heritage (1992–1997)

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| Secretary of State | Term of office | Party | Prime Minister | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------- | ----------------- | ------------ | | --------------------------------------------- | | | | **David Mellor**MP for Putney | 11 April 1992 | 22 September 1992 | Conservative | | John Major | | | | Peter BrookeMP for Cities of London and Westminster | 25 September 1992 | 20 July 1994 | Conservative | | | | | | **Stephen Dorrell**MP for Loughborough | 20 July 1994 | 5 July 1995 | Conservative | | | | | | **Virginia Bottomley**MP for South West Surrey | 5 July 1995 | 2 May 1997 | Conservative | | | | | | Chris SmithMP for Islington South and Finsbury | 2 May 1997 | 22 July 1997 | Labour | | Tony Blair |

| Secretary of State | Term of office | Party | Prime Minister | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------- | ------------ | | ------------------------------------------------------ | | | | **Maria Miller**MP for Basingstoke | 4 September 2012 | 9 April 2014 | Conservative | | David Cameron | | | | **Sajid Javid**MP for Bromsgrove | 9 April 2014 | 11 May 2015 | Conservative | | | | | | **John Whittingdale**MP for Maldon | 11 May 2015 | 14 July 2016 | Conservative | | | | | | **Karen Bradley**MP for Staffordshire Moorlands | 14 July 2016 | 3 July 2017 | Conservative | | Theresa May | | In 2017 the DCMS was renamed to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport in acknowledgement of the increasing responsibility the department had gained for Digital affairs.[8] Karen Bradley continued as Secretary of State for the department. | | | | | | |

Secretaries of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (2017–2023)

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| Secretary of State | Term of office | Party | Prime Minister | | | | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------ | | ------------------------------------------------------ | | | | **Karen Bradley**MP for Staffordshire Moorlands | 3 July 2017 | 8 January 2018 | Conservative | | Theresa May | | | | **Matt Hancock**MP for West Suffolk | 8 January 2018 | 8 July 2018 | Conservative | | | | | | **Jeremy Wright**MP for Kenilworth and Southam | 9 July 2018 | 24 July 2019 | Conservative | | | | | | **Nicky Morgan**MP for Loughborough (until November 2019)Life peer (since January 2020) | 24 July 2019 | 13 February 2020 | Conservative | | Boris Johnson | | | | **Oliver Dowden**MP for Hertsmere | 13 February 2020 | 15 September 2021 | Conservative | | | | | | **Nadine Dorries**MP for Mid Bedfordshire | 15 September 2021 | 6 September 2022 | Conservative | | | | | | **Michelle Donelan**MP for Chippenham | 6 September 2022 | 7 February 2023 | Conservative | | Liz Truss | | | Rishi Sunak | | | | | | |