Minister of State for Transport

The Minister of State for Rail is a mid-level ministerial position in the Department for Transport of the Government of the United Kingdom. The minister is deputy to the Secretary of State for Transport.

United Kingdom Minister of State for Rail
Royal Arms of His Majesty's Government
Incumbent The Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill since 8 July 2024
Department for Transport
Style	Minister
Reports to	Secretary of State for Transport
Nominator	Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Appointer	The King (on advice of the Prime Minister)
Term length	At His Majesty's pleasure
First holder	Lynda Chalker

Ministers of State for Transport

Name (Cabinet status)		Portrait	Term of office		Political party	P.M.		Transp.Sec.
	Lynda Chalker		18 October 1983	10 January 1986	Conservative		Thatcher	Ridley Moore Channon Parkinson
	David Mitchell		23 January 1986	25 July 1988
	Michael Portillo		25 July 1988	4 May 1990
	Roger Freeman		4 May 1990	20 July 1994
	Ivon Moore-Brabazon, 3rd Baron Brabazon of Tara		23 July 1990	14 April 1992
	The Earl of Caithness		14 April 1992	11 January 1994			Major	Rifkind MacGregor Mawhinney Young
	John Watts		20 July 1994	2 May 1997
	Gavin Strang (in Cabinet)		2 May 1997	18 June 1998	Labour		Blair	Prescott (DPM, SSETR)
	John Reid (attended Cabinet)		27 July 1998	17 May 1999
	Helen Liddell		17 May 1999	29 July 1999
	Gus Macdonald, Baron Macdonald of Tradeston (attended Cabinet)		29 July 1999	8 June 2001
	John Spellar (attended Cabinet)		8 June 2001	12 June 2003				Byers (SSTLR)
								Darling
	Kim Howells		12 June 2003	10 September 2004
	Tony McNulty		10 September 2004	9 May 2005
	Stephen Ladyman		9 May 2005[1]	28 June 2007
								Alexander
	Rosie Winterton		28 June 2007	3 October 2008			Brown	Kelly
	Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis		3 October 2008	5 June 2009				Hoon
	Sadiq Khan (attended Cabinet when his responsibilities were on the agenda)		9 June 2009[2][3]	11 May 2010				Adonis
	Theresa Villiers		12 May 2010	4 September 2012	Conservative		Cameron	Hammond Greening
	Simon Burns		5 September 2012	5 October 2013				McLoughlin
	The Baroness Kramer		5 October 2013	8 May 2015	Liberal Democrats
	John Hayes		15 July 2014	11 May 2015	Conservative
	Robert Goodwill		11 May 2015	16 July 2016
	John Hayes		16 July 2016	9 January 2018			May	Grayling
	Jo Johnson		9 January 2018	9 November 2018
	Jesse Norman		12 November 2018	23 May 2019
	Michael Ellis		23 May 2019	24 July 2019
	George Freeman		26 July 2019	13 February 2020			Johnson	Shapps
	Chris Heaton-Harris		25 July 2019	19 December 2021
	Andrew Stephenson		13 February 2020	7 July 2022
	Wendy Morton[a]		19 December 2021	6 September 2022
	Trudy Harrison[b]		7 July 2022	7 September 2022
	Kevin Foster		7 September 2022	26 October 2022			Truss	Trevelyan
	Lucy Frazer		8 September 2022	26 October 2022
	Minister of State for Decarbonisation and Technology
	Jesse Norman		26 October 2022	13 November 2023			Sunak	Harper
Minister of State for Rail and HS2
	Huw Merriman		27 October 2022	5 July 2024
Minister of State for Rail
	Peter Hendy, Baron Hendy of Richmond Hill		8 July 2024	Incumbent	Labour		Starmer	Haigh