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His Majesty's principal secretaries of state, or secretaries of state, are senior ministers of the Crown in the Government of the United Kingdom. Secretaries of state head most major government departments and make up the majority of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.
The Secretary of State is the President’s chief foreign affairs adviser and carries out U.S. foreign policies through the State Department and the Foreign Service. The web page lists the main duties and responsibilities of the Secretary, such as negotiating treaties, issuing passports, and protecting U.S. interests abroad.
The title typically held by Cabinet Ministers in charge of Government Departments. While most departments are run by a Secretary of State there can be some exceptions, for example, the Chancellor of the Exchequer heads HM Treasury. List of HM Government; Related glossary term: Cabinet
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- Responsibilities
- The Rt Hon James Cleverly MP
- Previous holders of this role
Organisations: Home Office
Current role holder: The Rt Hon James Cleverly MP
The Secretary of State has overall responsibility for all Home Office business, including:
•overarching responsibility for the departmental portfolio and oversight of the ministerial team
•Cabinet
•National Security Council (NSC)
•public appointments
•oversight of the Security Service
James Cleverly was appointed Secretary of State for the Home Department on 13 November 2023.
He was previously Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs between 6 September 2022 and 13 November 2023.
He was Secretary of State for Education from July 2022 to September 2022.
Before that, James was Minister of State for Europe and North America in the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) from February to July 2022. He was also Minister for Middle East, North Africa and North America from September 2020 to February 2022. James was first appointed as a joint Minister of State for Middle East and North Africa in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office and the Department for International Development on 13 February 2020.
James was Minister without Portfolio from July 2019 to February 2020, and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Exiting the European Union from April 2019 to July 2019. He was first elected as the Conservative MP for Braintree in May 2015.
Follow James on Twitter: @JamesCleverly.
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The primary duty of this office was carrying on the monarch's official correspondence, but in varying degrees the holder also advised the Crown, and by the early fourteenth century, the position was in effect the third most powerful office of state in England, ranking after the Lord Chancellor.
Contents of this chapter: Introduction. The Secretary of State’s Mandate to NHS England. The general duties on the Secretary of State in Part 1 of the NHS Act. The Public Sector Equality Duty. The Secretary of State’s powers and duties to make Regulations. The Secretary of State’s power to issue Directions.
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May 21, 2019 · What do cabinet ministers do? Secretaries of state are responsible for leading departments, approving key decisions, developing policy objectives and monitoring their progress. As Caroline Spelman, former secretary of state for the environment put it, “the secretary of state carries all the responsibility. It is no good blaming other people ...
