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List of current members of the British Privy Council

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This is a list of the members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, along with the roles they fulfil and the date when they were sworn of the council. As of July 2025, there are 742 members on the council.[1] The prefix The Rt Hon. is omitted here, because every counsellor bears it, as is the postnominal PC, as every counsellor who is also a peer uses it.

The council is composed mostly of politicians (both members of the UK government and parliament, and members of the devolved governments and legislatures) and civil servants, both serving and retired (since membership is for life). Among those politicians generally sworn of the council are ministers of the Crown, the few most senior figures of the Loyal Opposition, the UK parliamentary leader of the third-largest party, the first ministers of the devolved governments (including, in the case of Northern Ireland, the deputy first minister), and the speakers or presiding officers of the UK parliament and the devolved legislatures. Besides these, the council includes a few members of the Royal family (usually the consort and heir apparent only), more than two hundred senior UK judges (the Supreme Court justices, the senior judges of England and Wales, as well as the senators of the College of Justice of the Inner House in Scotland) and a few clergy (the three most senior Church of England bishops, namely the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Archbishop of York and the Bishop of London).

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Notes

  1. [N 1]
    Members may be appointed "by order" or "by command". In the former case, two orders are recorded: one for the appointment and one reflecting the person has taken the oath (or affirmation). Members appointed by command are appointed at the meetings at which they are sworn, generating an order only for the oath. Where there is one date listed and it is preceded by "App.", the person has been appointed by order but not sworn. Where only one date is shown, from October 2000 forward it means the person was appointed by command. Full dates before October 2000 are gleaned from Leigh Rayment's list of Privy Counsellors 1969–present[usurped], and bare years from the Privy Council's list of current members. It is not clear whether these are dates of appointment or oath.
  2. [N 2]
    Braverman resigned her position on 19 October before being reappointed by the new Prime Minister a week later
  3. [N 3]
    Reported roles and dates conflict.
  4. [N 4]
    Called "Minister for Transport" until 1981.
  5. [N 5]
    Rodgers was Minister for Transport while still a Labour MP. He was later part of the "Gang of Four" Labour MPs who split off to form the Social Democrat Party, which later merged with the Liberal Party.
  6. [N 6]
    Minister of State for Climate (September to October 2022)

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