Following The Queen’s approval of the ministerial appointments and resignations announced today (7 October 2013), the government is made up as follows:

Her Majesty’s Government – 7 October 2013

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Appointments

Ministerial appointments of 7 October 2013 (in the order in which they were announced):

• Alistair Carmichael appointed as Secretary of State for Scotland
• Don Foster appointed as Comptroller of HM Household (Liberal Democrat Chief Whip)
• Greg Hands confirmed as Treasurer of HM Household (Deputy Chief Whip)
• Esther McVey appointed as Minister of State (Employment) at Department for Work & Pensions
• Greg Clark appointed as Minister of State (Cities and Constitution) at Cabinet Office
• Mike Penning appointed as Minister of State at Department for Work & Pensions
• Sajid Javid appointed as Financial Secretary to the Treasury
• Nicky Morgan appointed as Economic Secretary at HM Treasury
• Andrew Robathan appointed as Minister of State at Northern Ireland Office
• Matt Hancock appointed as Minister of State for Skills & Enterprise jointly at Department for Business, Innovation & Skills and Department for Education
• Helen Grant appointed as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Sport and Equalities) at Department for Culture, Media & Sport
• Baroness Kramer appointed as Minister of State at Department for Transport
• Hugh Robertson appointed as Minister of State at Foreign & Commonwealth Office
• Norman Baker appointed as Minister of State at Home Office
• Shailesh Vara appointed as Parliamentary Under Secretary at Ministry of Justice
• George Eustice appointed as Parliamentary Under Secretary at Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Robert Goodwill appointed as Parliamentary Under Secretary at Department for Transport
• Baroness Stowell appointed as Parliamentary Under Secretary at Department for Communities and Local Government
• Dan Rogerson appointed as Parliamentary Under Secretary at Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Stephen Williams appointed as Parliamentary Under Secretary at Department for Communities and Local Government
• Jane Ellison appointed as Parliamentary Under Secretary at Department of Health
• Anna Soubry appointed as Parliamentary Under Secretary at Ministry of Defence
• Kris Hopkins appointed as Parliamentary Under Secretary at Department for Communities and Local Government
• Karen Bradley and Sam Gymiah appointed as Whips (Lord Commissioners)
• Amber Rudd, Claire Perry, Gavin Barwell and John Penrose appointed as Assistant Whips
• Baroness Jolly appointed as a Whip in the House of Lords
• Desmond Swayne appointed as Vice Chamberlain of HM Household (Senior Whip)
• Gavin Williamson to be new Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister
• Lord Bates appointed as a Lords Whip (Lord in Waiting)

An updated list of ministers will be published on the ministers page in due course.