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




