Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice is a junior position in the Ministry of Justice in the British Government. The present incumbent is Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede.

United Kingdom Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice
Royal Arms of His Majesty's Government
Incumbent The Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede since 9 July 2024
Ministry of Justice
Style	Minister
Nominator	Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Appointer	The Monarch on advice of the Prime Minister
Term length	At His Majesty's pleasure
Website	Official website

Role

The Government website sets out the current Minister's responsibilities in the Ministry of Justice as:^[1]

• Crown Dependencies
• Overseas Territories
• Family Justice and Marriage and Divorce
• All Lords Business (except PPP)^{[clarification needed]}
• Private International Law
• International Criminal Justice
• Constitution
• Devolution and the Union
• EU Retained Law policy.
• Human Rights
• International
• Judicial Review

The Ministry of Justice is the government department responsible for overseeing the Crown Dependencies with the Secretary of State for Justice (Lord Chancellor) being the privy counsellor responsible for the Dependencies.^[2] However the day to day duties are handled by the Under-Secretary of State for Justice, who is a less senior minister in the Ministry of Justice.^[3]

List of officeholders

Minister			Term of office		Party
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice
		Maria Eagle[4]	2 July 2007	9 June 2009	Labour
		The Lord Hunt of Kings Heath[5]	2 July 2007	5 October 2008
		Bridget Prentice[6]	2 July 2007	11 May 2010
		The Baroness Ashton of Upholland[7]	8 May 2007	27 June 2007
		Shahid Malik[8]	4 October 2008	15 May 2009
		The Lord Bach[9]	5 October 2008	11 May 2010
		Claire Ward[10]	15 May 2009	11 May 2010
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Courts and Legal Aid[11]
		Jonathan Djanogly[12][11]	11 May 2010	4 September 2012	Conservative
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Courts and Victims[13]
		Helen Grant[13]	4 September 2012	7 October 2013	Conservative
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Courts and Legal Aid[11]
		Shailesh Vara[11]	7 October 2013	17 July 2016	Conservative
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Civil Liberties and Human Rights[14]
		Dominic Raab	12 May 2015	16 July 2016	Conservative
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Family Justice
		Caroline Dinenage	8 May 2015	16 July 2016	Conservative
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Victims, Youth and Family Justice
		Phillip Lee	17 July 2016	12 June 2018	Conservative
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice
		Lucy Frazer	9 January 2018	9 May 2019	Conservative
		Paul Maynard	9 May 2019	26 July 2019
		Edward Argar	14 June 2018	10 September 2019
		Wendy Morton	26 July 2019	13 February 2020
		Alex Chalk	14 February 2020	16 September 2021
		The Lord Wolfson of Tredegar	22 December 2020	13 April 2022
		James Cartlidge	16 September 2021	7 July 2022
		The Lord Bellamy	7 July 2022	5 July 2024
		The Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede	9 July 2024	Incumbent	Labour