| Minister for Security |
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Arms of Her Majesty's Government |
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| Appointer | David Cameron |
| Inaugural holder | Admiral Lord West |
| Formation | 12 May 2010 |
| Website | www.homeoffice.gov.uk |
The Minister for Security is a junior ministerial position in the Home Office. The post was created by Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown on 3 June 2009 by splitting the now-defunct post of the Minister for Security, Counter-Terrorism, Crime and Policing between this post (then called Minister for Security and Counter-Terrorism) and the new post of Minister for Crime and Policing. The postholder, currently James Brokenshire MP,[1] has a permanent seat on the National Security Council (NSC).[2]
The previous Security Minister, Lady Neville-Jones, resigned in May 2011 to be replaced as Minister of State at the Home Office by Lady Browning, while her brief at the Home Office for Security was taken on by James Brokenshire but only as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State.[3]
| Name | Portrait | Title | Took office | Left office | Political party | Prime Minister | |
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| Beverley Hughes[4] | Citizenship, Immigration and Counter Terrorism | 2003 | 2004 | Labour | Tony Blair |
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| Hazel Blears[5] | Crime Reduction, Policing, Community Safety and Counter-Terrorism |
2003 | 2005 | ||||
| Hazel Blears[6] | Policing, Security and Community Safety | 2005 | 2006 | ||||
| Tony McNulty | Security, Counter-Terrorism, Crime and Policing | 2006 | 3 October 2008 | ||||
| Gordon Brown | |||||||
| David Hanson | 10 June 2009 | 11 May 2010 | |||||
| Vernon Coaker[7] | Policing, Crime and Security | 3 October 2008 | 3 June 2009 | ||||
| Admiral Lord West | Security and Counter-Terrorism | 3 June 2009 | 12 May 2010 | ||||
| Lady Neville-Jones[8][9] | 12 May 2010 | 9 May 2011 | Conservative | David Cameron | |||
| James Brokenshire[1] | Crime and Security[10] | 9 May 2011 | Present | ||||
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