Key parliamentary contacts

A full list of key government ministers, shadow ministers, advisers and other key contacts will be added to this page once portfolios are confirmed and posts filled.

Conservative - Liberal Democrat coalition government
Labour shadow ministerial team

Conservative - Liberal Democrat coalition government

Prime minister - Rt Hon David Cameron MP (Con)
     Parliamentary private secretary - Desmond Swayne MP (Con)

HM Treasury (HMT)

Chancellor - Rt Hon George Osborne MP (Con)
     Special advisers - Ramesh Chhabra & Poppy Mitchell-Rose

Chief secretary - Rt Hon Danny Alexander MP (Lib Dem)
(Responsible for public expenditure including spending reviews and strategic planning, and welfare reform)
     Special adviser - Will de Peyer

Financial secretary - Mark Hoban MP (Con)
(Responsibilities include financial services policy)
    

Exchequer secretary - David Gauke MP (Con)
(Responsible for strategic oversight of the UK tax system)

Economic secretary - Justine Greening MP (Con)
(Responsibilities include environmental issues, stamp duty land tax, and assists chief secretary on welfare reform)

Commerical secretary - Lord Sassoon (Con)
(Responsibilities include better regulation, competition policy, financial crime, and assists  financial secretary on financial services policy)

Department for Communities and Local Government (CLG)

Communities secretary - Rt Hon Eric Pickles MP (Con)
     Special advisers - Sheridan Westlake & Giles Kennington
     Parliamentary private secretary - Stephen Hammond MP (Con)

Minister for housing and local government - Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP (Con)
(Responsible for housing, local government, climate change and sustainable development)

Minister for decentralisation - Rt Hon Greg Clark MP (Con)
(Responsibilities include planning policy)

Parliamentary secretary - Andrew Stunell MP (Lib Dem)
(Responsibilities include housing and regeneration) 

Parliamentary secretary - Bob Neill MP (Con)
(Responsibilities include local government and planning)

Parliamentary secretary - Baroness Hanham (Con)

Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS)

Business secretary - Rt Hon Vince Cable MP (Lib Dem) 
     Special advisers - Katie Waring & Giles Wilkes

Minister of state - Mark Prisk MP (Con)
(Responsible for business and enterprise)

Parliamentary secretary - Edward Davey MP (Lib Dem)
(Responsibilties include consumer affairs)

Parliamentary secretary - Baroness Wilcox (Con)

Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)

Work and pensions secretary - Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP (Con)
     Special advisers - Susie Squire & Philippa Stroud
     Parliamentary private secretary - Andrew Selous MP (Con)

Minister of state - Rt Hon Chris Grayling MP (Con)
(Reponsible for employment) 

Parlimanetary secretary - Lord Freud (Con)
(Responsible for welfare reform)

Ministry of Justice (MoJ)

Justice secretary - Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke MP (Con)
     Special advisers - Davd Hass, Kathryn Laing
     Parliamentary private secretary - Ben Wallace MP (Con)

Minister of state - Lord McNally (Lib Dem)
(Responsibilities include data protection and data sharing, legislation and legal reform, land registry, and the Law Commission)

Parliamentary secretary - Jonathan Djanogly MP (Con)
(Responsibilities include legal services, courts service, civil law and justice) 

Cabinet Office

Minister of State (policy advice) - Rt Hon Oliver Letwin MP (Con)
     Special adviser - Martha Varney

Labour shadow ministerial team

The outcome of the Labour leadership contest will be announced on 25 September.

Acting Labour party leader - Hariett Harman MP

Treasury

Shadow chancellor - Rt Hon Alistair Darling MP

Shadow chief secretary - Rt Hon Liam Byrne MP

Other shadow spokespeople - Angela Eagle MP
                                            David Hanson MP
                                            Gareth Thomas MP
                                            Rt Hon Stephen Timms MP

Lead shadow spokesperson (Lords) - Lord Eatwell

Communities and Local Government

Shadow communities secretary - Rt Hon John Denham MP

Shadow housing minister - Rt Hon John Healey MP

Shadow junior housing miniser - Ian Austin MP

Lead shadow spokesperson (Lords) - Lord McKenzie

Business, Innovation and Skills

Shadow business secretary - Pat McFadden MP

Shadow spokespeople - Rt Hon David Lammy MP
                                    Kevin Brennan MP
                                    Ian Lucas MP
                                    Rt Hon Stephen Timms MP
                                    Lord Young

Work and Pensions

Shadow work and pensions secretary - Rt Hon Yvette Cooper MP

Shadow spokespeople - Helen Goodman MP
                                   Kerry McCarthy MP

Lead shadow spokesperson (Lords) - Lord McKenzie

Justice

Shadow justice secretary - Rt Hon Jack Straw MP

Shadow spokespeople - Maria Eagle MP
                                   Helen Jones MP
                                   Lord Bach