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Leader of the House of Lords

Member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom

Field	Value
post	United Kingdom
Leader
body	the House of Lords
insignia	House of Lords logo 2020.svg
insigniasize	240px
department	Office of the Leader of the House
image	File:The Baroness Smith of Basildon 2024 (cropped).jpg
incumbent	Angela Smith, Baroness Smith of Basildon
incumbentsince	5 July 2024
type	House Leader
nominator	Prime Minister
appointer	Prime Minister

Leader

The leader of the House of Lords is a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom who is responsible for arranging government business in the House of Lords. ("Government" here means the controlling faction of the parliament, headed by the Prime Minister.) The post is also the leader of the governing party in the House of Lords who acts as the government party chairperson in the house. The role is always held in combination with a formal Cabinet position, usually one of the sinecure offices of Lord President of the Council, Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal or Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Unless the Leader is also a departmental minister, being Leader constitutes the bulk of their government responsibilities, but it has never been an independent salaried office. The Office of the Leader of the House of Lords is a ministerial department.

Though the leader of the House is a member of the cabinet and remains a partisan figure, the leader also has responsibilities to the House as a whole. In contrast to the House of Commons, where proceedings are controlled by the speaker, proceedings in the Lords are controlled by peers themselves, under the rules set out in the Standing Orders. The leader of the House has the responsibility of reminding the House of these rules and facilitating the Lords' self-regulation, though any member may draw attention to breaches of order or failure to observe customs. The Leader is often called upon to advise on procedures and points of order and is required to determine the order of speakers on Supplementary Questions, subject to the wishes of the House. However, like the Lord Speaker, the Leader of the House has no power to rule on points of order or to intervene during an inappropriate speech.

Until the election of the first Lord Speaker on 4 July 2006, the Leader of the House had responsibility for making preliminary decisions on requests for Private Notice Questions and for waiving the sub judice rule in certain cases. Those functions were transferred to the Lord Speaker.

History

The title seems to have come into use some time after 1800, as a formal way of referring to the peer who managed government business in the upper House, irrespective of which salaried position they held in the cabinet. However, it may have been used as early as 1689, applied to George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, when he was Speaker of the House of Lords during the Convention Parliament of that year.

The role developed during the first quarter of the eighteenth century, at the same time as the role of Prime Minister and the system of Cabinet government. In the wake of the English Civil War, the Glorious Revolution and the succession of the Hanoverians to the throne, Britain evolved a system of government where ministers were sustained in office by their ability to carry legislation through Parliament. It was therefore necessary for a member of the government to take responsibility for steering government legislation through each House.

The Earl of Sunderland initiated aspects of the role during the Whig Junto under Queen Anne. Sunderland and the other Whigs were dismissed from office in reaction to their co-ordination of government matters, which was taken as a threat to the power of the monarch. Sunderland returned to power under George I, as Lord Privy Seal. The first documentary evidence of the existence of the role comes from 1717, when Sunderland became Secretary of State for the Northern Department: in the form of lists of peers invited to the office of the Northern Secretary immediately before sessions of Parliament.

When the Prime Minister sat in the House of Lords, which was common until the beginning of the twentieth century, he usually held the position of Leader of the House of Lords. When the Prime Minister sat in the Commons, the position of Leader of the Lords was often held by the Foreign Secretary or Colonial Secretary. In some coalition governments, it was held by the party leader who was not Prime Minister.

Since the end of the Marquess of Salisbury's last government, in 1902, the position clearly exists in its own right as a member of the cabinet. Since 1966 it has only been combined with sinecure positions and the holder has not been a departmental minister though some have held additional responsibilities such as Quintin Hogg, 2nd Viscount Hailsham also being designated "Minister for Science" or Margaret Baroness Jay also being "Minister for Women". The first female Leader of the Lords was Janet Young, Baroness Young in 1981–1983. Lord Peart, The Viscount Whitelaw and Lord Wakeham served as Leader of the Lords having previously been Leader of the House of Commons.

Families

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury served as Leader of the House of Lords from 1885 to 1886, from 1886 to 1892 and from 1895 to 1902. His son James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury served as Leader from 1925 to 1929. His son in turn, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury served as Leader first from 1942 to 1945 as Viscount Cranborne by means of a writ of acceleration, and as the Marquess of Salisbury from 1951 to 1957. His grandson, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury, served as Leader from 1994 to 1997, as Viscount Cranborne, again by means of a writ of acceleration.
Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham served as Leader of the House of Lords from 1931 to 1935. His son Quintin Hogg, 2nd Viscount Hailsham served as Leader from 1960 to 1963.

Responsibilities

Management and delivery of the Government's legislative programme (through the House of Lords) and facilitating the passage of individual bills.
Leading the House (in the Chamber and as a key member of domestic committees to do with procedure, conduct, and the internal governance of the House).
Issues connected to the House of Lords and its governance.
Speaking for the Government in the Chamber on a range of issues, including repeating in the House of Lords statements made to the Commons by the Prime Minister.
Ceremonial and other duties as the Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal.

List

Because the post is a parliamentary one and not a ministerial office in its own right, it is not always included in official lists of government offices, especially for earlier periods. This can make it difficult to determine who the Leader of the House of Lords was in a particular ministry.

Leader	Term of office	Other ministerial offices held as Leader of the House of Lords	Political party	Prime Minister
	[[File:Charles Spencer 3rd Earl of Sunderland.jpg	75px]]	Charles Spencer
3rd Earl of Sunderland	April
1717	March
1718
	[[File:James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt.jpg	75px]]	James Stanhope
1st Earl Stanhope
Viscount Stanhope until April 1718	March
1718	5 February
1721
Whigs (British political party)}}"		[[File:Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt (2).jpg	75px]]	Charles Townshend
2nd Viscount Townshend	February
1721	May
1730
	[[File:William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington (1683-1756), Attributed to Godfrey Kneller.jpg	75px]]	William Stanhope
1st Earl of Harrington
Lord Harrington until 1742	May
1730	February
1742
Whigs (British political party)}}"		[[File:John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville by William Hoare.jpg	75px]]	John Carteret
2nd Earl Granville
Baron Carteret until 1744	12 February
1742	24 November
1744
Whigs (British political party)}}"		Henry Pelham (from 27 August 1743)
	[[File:William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington (1683-1756), Attributed to Godfrey Kneller.jpg	75px]]	William Stanhope
1st Earl of Harrington	November
1744	October
1746
Whigs (British political party)}}"		[[File:Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield by Allan Ramsay.jpg	75px]]	Philip Dormer Stanhope
4th Earl of Chesterfield	October
1746	February
1748
Whigs (British political party)}}"		[[File:1stDukeOfNewcastleOld.jpg	75px]]	Thomas Pelham-Holles
1st Duke of Newcastle	February
1748	16 November
1756
Whigs (British political party)}}"		Himself
Whigs (British political party)}}"		[[File:4th Duke of Devonshire after Hudson.jpg	75px]]	William Cavendish
4th Duke of Devonshire	16 November
1756	25 June
1757
Whigs (British political party)}}"		[[File:1stDukeOfNewcastleOld.jpg	75px]]	Thomas Pelham-Holles
1st Duke of Newcastle	2 July
1757	26 May
1762
	[[File:Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont by William Hoare lowres color.jpg	75px]]	Charles Wyndham
2nd Earl of Egremont	May
1762	21 August
1763
Whigs (British political party)}}"		George Grenville (from 16 April 1763)
	[[File:2ndEarlofHalifaxByJoshuaReynoldsNSArtGallery.jpg	75px]]	George Montagu Dunk
2nd Earl of Halifax	August
1763	July
1765
Whigs (British political party)}}"		[[File:2nd Marquess of Rockingham cropped.jpg	75px]]	Charles Watson-Wentworth
2nd Marquess of Rockingham	13 July
1765	30 July
1766
Whigs (British political party)}}"		[[File:Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton.jpg	75px]]	Augustus FitzRoy
3rd Duke of Grafton	1766	28 January
1770
Whigs (British political party)}}"		Himself (from 14 October 1768)
	[[File:PORTRAIT OF THOMAS THYNNE, 1ST MARQUESS OF BATH.webp	75px]]	Thomas Thynne
3rd Viscount Weymouth	January
1770	December
1770
	[[File:4thEarlRochford.jpg	75px]]	William Nassau de Zuylestein
4th Earl of Rochford	December
1770	November
1775
	[[File:Sir Joshua Reynolds - Portrait of Henry Howard.jpg	75px]]	Henry Howard
12th Earl of Suffolk	November
1775	6 March
1779
	[[File:PORTRAIT OF THOMAS THYNNE, 1ST MARQUESS OF BATH.webp	75px]]	Thomas Thynne
3rd Viscount Weymouth	March
1779	November
1779
	[[File:Portrait of David Murray 2nd Earl of Mansfield by Sylvester Harding.jpg	75px]]	David Murray
7th Viscount Stormont	November
1779	March
1782
Whigs (British political party)}}"		[[File:William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne by JL Mosnier crop.jpg	75px]]	William Petty
2nd Earl of Shelburne	March
1782	April
1783
Himself (from 4 July 1782)
Whigs (British political party)}}"		[[File:3rd Duke of Portland crop.jpg	75px]]	William Cavendish-Bentinck
3rd Duke of Portland	2 April
1783	December
1783
	[[File:1stMarquessOfBuckingham.jpg	75px]]	George Nugent-Temple-Grenville
3rd Earl Temple	December
1783	December
1783
Whigs (British political party)}}"		[[File:Viscount Sydney by Gilbert Stuart.jpg	75px]]	Thomas Townshend
1st Baron Sydney	December
1783	June
1789
Tories (British political party)}}"		[[File:Francis Osborne cropped.jpg	75px]]	Francis Osborne
5th Duke of Leeds	1789	1790
Tories (British political party)}}"		[[File:1st Baron Grenville-cropped.jpg	75px]]	William Grenville
1st Baron Grenville	November
1790	February
1801
Tories (British political party)}}"		[[File:4thEarlOfBuckinghamshire.jpg	75px]]	Robert Hobart
Baron Hobart	March
1801	October
1801
Tories (British political party)}}"		[[File:2ndEarlOfChichester.jpg	75px]]	Thomas Pelham
Baron Pelham	October
1801	August
1803
Tories (British political party)}}"		[[File:Earl jenkinson.jpg	75px]]	Robert Jenkinson
Baron Hawkesbury	November
1803	February
1806
Tories (British political party)}}"		William Pitt the Younger
Whigs (British political party)}}"		[[File:1st Baron Grenville-cropped.jpg	75px]]	William Grenville
1st Baron Grenville	11 February
1806	March
1807
Tories (British political party)}}"		[[File:Earl jenkinson.jpg	75px]]	Robert Jenkinson
2nd Earl of Liverpool
Baron Hawkesbury until 1808
Earl of Liverpool from 1808	25 March
1807	April
1827
Tories (British political party)}}"		Spencer Perceval
Tories (British political party)}}"		Himself
Tories (British political party)}}"		[[File:Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon by Sir Thomas Lawrence cropped.jpg	75px]]	F. J. Robinson
1st Viscount Goderich	30 April
1827	January
1828
Tories (British political party)}}"		Himself
Tories (British political party)}}"		[[File:Sir Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington.jpg	75px]]	Arthur Wellesley
1st Duke of Wellington	January
1828	November
1830
Whigs (British political party)}}"		[[File:Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey by Sir Thomas Lawrence copy.jpg	75px]]	Charles Grey
2nd Earl Grey	22 November
1830	9 July
1834
Whigs (British political party)}}"		[[File:William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, painted by John Partridge.jpg	75px]]	William Lamb
2nd Viscount Melbourne	16 July
1834	14 November
1834
Tories (British political party)}}" rowspan=2		[[File:Sir Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington.jpg	75px]]	Arthur Wellesley
1st Duke of Wellington	17 November
1834	8 April
1835
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		Robert Peel
Whigs (British political party)}}"		[[File:William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, painted by John Partridge.jpg	75px]]	William Lamb
2nd Viscount Melbourne	18 April
1835	30 August
1841
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Sir Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington.jpg	75px]]	Arthur Wellesley
1st Duke of Wellington	3 September
1841	27 June
1846
Whigs (British political party)}}"		[[File:Lord Henry Petty.jpg	75px]]	Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice
3rd Marquess of Lansdowne	6 July
1846	21 February
1852
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby-1865.jpg	75px]]	Edward Smith-Stanley
14th Earl of Derby	23 February
1852	17 December
1852
Peelite}}"		[[File:Earlofaberdeen.jpg	75px]]	George Hamilton-Gordon
4th Earl of Aberdeen	19 December
1852	30 January
1855
Whigs (British political party)}}"		[[File:Second Earl Granville.jpg	75px]]	Granville Leveson-Gower
2nd Earl Granville	8 February
1855	21 February
1858
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby-1865.jpg	75px]]	Edward Smith-Stanley
14th Earl of Derby	21 February
1858	11 June
1859
Liberal Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Second Earl Granville.jpg	75px]]	Granville Leveson-Gower
2nd Earl Granville	18 June
1859	29 October
1865
Liberal Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Lord john russell.jpg	75px]]	John Russell
1st Earl Russell	29 October
1865	26 June
1866
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby-1865.jpg	75px]]	Edward Smith-Stanley
14th Earl of Derby	28 June
1866	25 February
1868
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		[[File:JH Harris 3rd Earl of Malmesbury by JG Middleton crop.jpg	75px]]	James Harris
3rd Earl of Malmesbury	27 February
1868	1 December
1868
Liberal Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Second Earl Granville.jpg	75px]]	Granville Leveson-Gower
2nd Earl Granville	9 December
1868	17 February
1874
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond, 6th Duke of Lennox, and 1st Duke of Gordon.jpg	75px]]	Charles Gordon-Lennox
6th Duke of Richmond	21 February
1874	21 August
1876
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Disraeli.jpg	75px]]	Benjamin Disraeli
1st Earl of Beaconsfield	21 August
1876	21 April
1880
Liberal Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Second Earl Granville.jpg	75px]]	Granville Leveson-Gower
2nd Earl Granville	28 April
1880	9 June
1885
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Robert-Gascoyne-Cecil-3rd-Marquess-of-Salisbury.jpg	75px]]	Robert Gascoyne-Cecil
3rd Marquess of Salisbury	23 June
1885	28 January
1886
Liberal Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Second Earl Granville.jpg	75px]]	Granville Leveson-Gower
2nd Earl Granville	6 February
1886	20 July
1886
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Robert-Gascoyne-Cecil-3rd-Marquess-of-Salisbury.jpg	75px]]	Robert Gascoyne-Cecil
2nd Marquess of Salisbury	25 July
1886	11 August
1892
Liberal Party (UK)}}"		[[File:1st Earl of Kimberley 1897 (cropped).jpg	75px]]	John Wodehouse
1st Earl of Kimberley	18 August
1892	5 March
1894
Liberal Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Archibald-Philip-Primrose-5th-Earl-of-Rosebery (cropped).jpg	75px]]	Archibald Primrose
5th Earl of Rosebery	5 March
1894	21 June
1895
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Robert-Gascoyne-Cecil-3rd-Marquess-of-Salisbury.jpg	75px]]	Robert Gascoyne-Cecil
3rd Marquess of Salisbury	25 June
1895	11 July
1902
Liberal Unionist Party}}"		[[File:Picture of Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire.jpg	75px]]	Spencer Cavendish
8th Duke of Devonshire	12 July
1902	13 October
1903
Liberal Unionist Party}}"		[[File:Marquess of Lansdowne crop.jpg	75px]]	Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice
5th Marquess of Lansdowne	13 October
1903	4 December
1905
Liberal Party (UK)}}"		[[File:George Robinson 1st Marquess of Ripon.jpg	75px]]	George Robinson
1st Marquess of Ripon	10 December
1905	14 April
1908
Liberal Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Portrait of Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe.jpg	75px]]	Robert Crewe-Milnes
1st Marquess of Crewe
Earl of Crewe until 1911
Marquess of Crewe from 1911	14 April
1908	10 December
1916
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		[[File:George Curzon2.jpg	75px]]	George Curzon
1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Earl Curzon of Kedleston until 1921
Marquess Curzon of Kedleston from 1921	10 December
1916	22 January
1924
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		Bonar Law
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		Stanley Baldwin
Labour Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Portrait of Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane.jpg	75px]]	Richard Haldane
1st Viscount Haldane	22 January
1924	3 November
1924
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		[[File:George Curzon2.jpg	75px]]	George Curzon
1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston	3 November
1924	20 March
1925
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		[[File:James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury.jpg	75px]]	James Gascoyne-Cecil
4th Marquess of Salisbury	27 April
1925	4 June
1929
Labour Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Lord Parmoor - 19221128.jpg	75px]]	Charles Cripps
1st Baron Parmoor	7 June
1929	24 August
1931
Liberal Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Rufus Isaacs.jpg	75px]]	Rufus Isaacs
1st Marquess of Reading	24 August
1931	5 November
1931
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Hailsham1.JPG	75px]]	Douglas Hogg
1st Viscount Hailsham	5 November
1931	7 June
1935
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Charles (Charlie) Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry.jpg	75px]]	Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart
7th Marquess of Londonderry	7 June
1935	22 November
1935
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Lord Halifax 1937.jpg	75px]]	Edward Wood
1st Viscount Halifax	22 November
1935	21 February
1938
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		Neville Chamberlain
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Stanhope7.JPG	75px]]	James Stanhope
7th Earl Stanhope	21 February
1938	14 May
1940
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Thomas Inskip.jpg	75px]]	Thomas Inskip
1st Viscount Caldecote	14 May
1940	3 October
1940
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Lord Halifax 1937.jpg	75px]]	Edward Wood
1st Viscount Halifax	3 October
1940	22 December
1940
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Lord Lloyd.JPG	75px]]	George Lloyd
1st Baron Lloyd	22 December
1940	4 February
1941
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Walter Guinness, Lord Moyne.jpg	75px]]	Walter Guinness
1st Baron Moyne	8 February
1941	21 February
1942
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Robert Gascoyne-Cecil 1947.jpg	75px]]	Robert Gascoyne-Cecil
Viscount Cranborne	21 February
1942	26 July
1945
Labour Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison.jpg	75px]]	Christopher Addison
1st Viscount Addison	3 August
1945	26 October
1951
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Robert Gascoyne-Cecil 1947.jpg	75px]]	Robert Gascoyne-Cecil
5th Marquess of Salisbury	28 October
1951	29 March
1957
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		Anthony Eden
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Alec Douglas-Home (c1963).jpg	75px]]	Alec Douglas-Home
14th Earl of Home	29 March
1957	27 July
1960
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Lord Hailsham 1959.jpg	75px]]	Quintin Hogg
2nd Viscount Hailsham	27 July
1960	20 October
1963
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Peter Carington 1984.jpg	75px]]	Peter Carington
6th Baron Carrington	20 October
1963	16 October
1964
Labour Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Lord Longford 4 Allan Warren.jpg	75px]]	Frank Pakenham
7th Earl of Longford	18 October
1964	16 January
1968
Labour Party (UK)}}"			Edward Shackleton
Baron Shackleton	16 January
1968	19 June
1970
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		[[File:George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe.jpg	75px]]	George Jellicoe
2nd Earl Jellicoe	20 June
1970	23 May
1973
Conservative Party (UK)}}"			David Hennessy
3rd Baron Windlesham	5 June
1973	4 March
1974
Labour Party (UK)}}"			Malcolm Shepherd
2nd Baron Shepherd	7 March
1974	10 September
1976
Labour Party (UK)}}"		James Callaghan
Labour Party (UK)}}"			Fred Peart
Baron Peart	10 September
1976	4 May
1979
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Christopher Soames.jpg	75px]]	Christopher Soames
Baron Soames	5 May
1979	14 September
1981
Conservative Party (UK)}}"			Janet Young
Baroness Young	14 September
1981	11 June
1983
Conservative Party (UK)}}"			William Whitelaw
1st Viscount Whitelaw	11 June
1983	10 January
1988
Conservative Party (UK)}}"			John Ganzoni
2nd Baron Belstead	10 January
1988	28 November
1990
Conservative Party (UK)}}"			David Waddington
Baron Waddington	28 November
1990	11 April
1992
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Official portrait of Lord Wakeham crop 2.jpg	75px]]	John Wakeham
Baron Wakeham	11 April
1992	20 July
1994
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Robert Gascoyne-Cecil 2013.JPG	75px]]	Robert Gascoyne-Cecil
Viscount Cranborne	20 July
1994	2 May
1997
Labour Party (UK)}}"			Ivor Richard
Baron Richard	2 May
1997	27 July
1998
Labour Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Official portrait of Baroness Jay of Paddington crop 2, 2019.jpg	75px]]	Margaret Jay
Baroness Jay of Paddington	27 July
1998	8 June
2001
Labour Party (UK)}}"			Gareth Williams
Baron Williams of Mostyn	8 June
2001	20 September
2003
Labour Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Baroness Valerie Ann Amos.jpg	75px]]	Valerie Amos
Baroness Amos	6 October
2003	27 June
2007
Labour Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Official portrait of Baroness Ashton of Upholland crop 2, 2024.jpg	75px]]	Catherine Ashton
Baroness Ashton of Upholland	28 June
2007	2 October
2008
Labour Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Official portrait of Baroness Royall of Blaisdon crop 2, 2024.jpg	75px]]	Janet Royall
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon	2 October
2008	11 May
2010
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Official_portrait_of_Lord_Strathclyde_crop_2,_2023.jpg	75px]]	Thomas Galbraith
2nd Baron Strathclyde	12 May
2010	7 January
2013
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Jonathan Hill 2015.jpg	75px]]	Jonathan Hill
Baron Hill of Oareford	7 January
2013	[15 July
2014](2014-british-cabinet-reshuffle)
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Official portrait of Baroness Stowell of Beeston crop 2, 2022.jpg	75px]]	Tina Stowell
Baroness Stowell of Beeston	[15 July
2014](2014-british-cabinet-reshuffle)	14 July
2016
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Official portrait of Baroness Evans of Bowes Park crop 2, 2023.jpg	75px]]	Natalie Evans
Baroness Evans of Bowes Park	14 July
2016	6 September
2022
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		Boris Johnson
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Official portrait of Lord True crop 2.jpg	75px]]	Nicholas True
Baron True	6 September
2022	5 July
2024
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		Rishi Sunak
Labour Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Official portrait of Baroness Smith of Basildon 2020 crop 2.jpg	75px]]	Angela Smith
Baroness Smith of Basildon	5 July
2024	Incumbent

Deputy Leaders

The following peers have served as Deputy Leaders of the House of Lords since 1963:

Leader	Term start	Term end	Other ministerial offices held as Deputy Leader of the House of Lords	Political party	Prime Minister
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		John Hare, 1st Viscount Blakenham	October 1963	October 1964	– Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster	Conservative
Labour Party (UK)}}"		Arthur Champion, Baron Champion	21 October 1964	7 January 1967	– Minister without portfolio	Labour
Labour Party (UK)}}"		Edward Shackleton, Baron Shackleton	7 January 1967	16 January 1968	– Minister without portfolio
Labour Party (UK)}}"		Malcolm Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd	February 1968	June 1970	– Minister of State for Commonwealth Affairs (1968)
– Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1968–70)
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		Morys Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare	1970	1974	– Minister of State for Health and Social Security	Conservative
Labour Party (UK)}}"		Frank Beswick, Baron Beswick	February 1974	December 1975	– Minister of State for Industry	Labour
Labour Party (UK)}}"
Goronwy Roberts, Baron Goronwy-Roberts	December 1975	May 1979	– Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
James Callaghan
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		Robert Shirley, 13th Earl Ferrers	November 1979	May 1983	– Minister of State for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food	Conservative
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		John Ganzoni, 2nd Baron Belstead	June 1983	January 1988	– Minister of State for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (1983–87)
– Minister of State for Environment (1987–88)
Conservative Party (UK)}}"
Robert Shirley, 13th Earl Ferrers	January 1988	May 1997	– Minister of State for Home Affairs (1988–94)
– Minister of State for Consumer Affairs (1994–95)
– Minister of State for Environment and Countryside (1995–97)
John Major
Labour Party (UK)}}"		Margaret Jay, Baroness Jay of Paddington	2 May 1997	27 July 1998	– Minister of State for Health	Labour
Labour Party (UK)}}"		Gareth Williams, Baron Williams of Mostyn	October 1998	June 2001	– Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Home Affairs (1997–98)
– Minister of State for Prisons (1998–99)
– Attorney General for England and Wales (1999–2001)
– Attorney General for Northern Ireland (1999–2001)
Labour Party (UK)}}"		Elizabeth Symons, Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean	8 June 2001	6 June 2005	– Minister of State for Trade and Investment (2001–03)
– Minister of State for the Middle East (2001–05)
Labour Party (UK)}}"
Jeff Rooker, Baron Rooker	6 June 2005	5 October 2008	– Minister of State for Children in Northern Ireland (2005–06)
– Minister of State for Sustainable Food, Farming and Animal Health (2006–08)
Gordon Brown
Labour Party (UK)}}"		Philip Hunt, Baron Hunt of Kings Heath	5 October 2008	11 May 2010	– Minister of State for Sustainable Development, Climate Change Adaptation and Air Quality
Liberal Democrats (UK)}}"		Tom McNally, Baron McNally	13 May 2010	15 October 2013	– Minister of State for Justice	Liberal Democrat
Liberal Democrats (UK)}}"		Jim Wallace, Baron Wallace of Tankerness	15 October 2013	8 May 2015	– Advocate General for Scotland
Conservative Party (UK)}}"
Frederick Curzon, 7th Earl Howe	12 May 2015	5 July 2024	– Minister of State for Defence (2015–19)	Conservative
Theresa May
Boris Johnson
Liz Truss
Rishi Sunak
Labour Party (UK)}}"		Ray Collins, Baron Collins of Highbury	9 July 2024	Incumbent	– Lord-in-waiting	Labour

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