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Not to be confused with Minister for Civil Society.

The minister for sport and civil society was a junior minister in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport of the United Kingdom government, with responsibility for sport and Civil Society in England. In 2020, the role merged with that of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Arts, Heritage and Tourism to become Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Sport, Tourism, Heritage and Civil Society.

The post covered sport as well as tourism and heritage. The sports minister has at various times previously reported to the Department of National Heritage, the Department of Education and Science and the Department of the Environment.

Sport is a devolved matter in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland resting with the corresponding ministers in the Scottish Government, Welsh Government and the Northern Ireland Executive, although when the Northern Ireland Assembly was suspended, responsibility went to the Northern Ireland Office.

Under Margaret Thatcher the office was known as Under-Secretary of State for Sport.

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Ministers for Sport

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Name Portrait Term of office Political party Prime Minister
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Sport
Denis Howell 20 October 1964 13 October 1969 Labour Wilson
Minister of State for Sport
Denis Howell 13 October 1969 24 June 1970 Labour Wilson
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Sport
Eldon Griffiths 24 June 1970 4 March 1974 Conservative Heath
Minister of State for Sport
Denis Howell 7 March 1974 3 May 1979 Labour Wilson
Callaghan
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Sport
Hector Monro 4 May 1979 13 September 1981 Conservative Thatcher I
Neil Macfarlane 14 September 1981 2 September 1985 Thatcher I
Thatcher II
Richard Tracey 7 September 1985 13 June 1987 Thatcher II
Colin Moynihan 22 June 1987 26 July 1990 Thatcher III
Robert Atkins 26 July 1990 14 April 1992 Thatcher III
Major I
Robert Key 14 April 1992 26 May 1993 Major II
Iain Sproat 26 May 1993 1 May 1997
Tony Banks 2 May 1997 20 October 1999 Labour Blair I
Kate Hoey 20 October 1999 7 June 2001
Minister of State for Sport
Richard Caborn 11 June 2001 17 June 2005 Labour Blair II
Minister of State for Sport and Tourism
Richard Caborn 17 June 2005 28 June 2007 Labour Blair III
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Sport
Gerry Sutcliffe 29 June 2007 6 May 2010 Labour Brown
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Sport and the Olympics
Hugh Robertson 14 May 2010 6 September 2012 Conservative Cameron I
Minister of State for Sport and Olympic Legacy Tourism
Hugh Robertson 6 September 2012 7 October 2013 Conservative Cameron I
Minister of State for Sport and Tourism
Helen Grant 7 October 2013 12 May 2015 Conservative Cameron I
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Sport, Heritage, and Tourism
Tracey Crouch 12 May 2015 15 June 2017 Conservative Cameron II
May I
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Sport, Civil Society and Loneliness
Tracey Crouch 15 June 2017 1 November 2018 Conservative May II
Mims Davies 5 November 2018 25 July 2019 Conservative
Minister of State for Sport, Media and Creative Industries
Nigel Adams 24 July 2019 13 February 2020 Conservative Johnson I
Johnson II
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Sport, Tourism, Heritage and Civil Society
Nigel Huddleston 13 February 2020 7 September 2022 Conservative Johnson II
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Sport, Arts and Ceremonials
Stuart Andrew 20 September 2022 27 October 2022 Conservative Truss
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Sport, Tourism and Civil Society
Stuart Andrew 27 October 2022 7 February 2023 Conservative Sunak
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Sport, Gambling and Civil Society
Stuart Andrew 7 February 2023 5 July 2024 Conservative Sunak

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