Paymaster General

{{Short description|UK government ministerial position}} {{distinguish|text=Paymaster of the Forces}} {{distinguish|text=Paymaster-General of the United States Army}} {{Use British English|date=April 2026}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2026}} {{Infobox Political post | post = {{small|United Kingdom}} His Majesty's Paymaster General | insignia = Coat of arms of the United Kingdom (2022, lesser arms).svg | insigniasize = 140px | insigniacaption = Royal Arms of His Majesty's Government | department = Cabinet Office | image = Nick Thomas Symonds official portrait 7 Jul 2024 (cropped 2).jpg | incumbent = Nick Thomas-Symonds | incumbentsince = 8 July 2024 | style = ''Paymaster General'' (informal) The Right Honourable (formal; within the UK and Commonwealth) | appointer = The King (on the advice of the Prime Minister) | inaugural = Henry Parnell | formation = 27 April 1836 | website = {{URL|https://www.gov.uk/government/ministers/paymaster-general|Official website}} }} {{PoliticsUK}} '''His Majesty's Paymaster General''' or '''HM Paymaster General''' is a ministerial position in the Cabinet Office of the United Kingdom. The position is currently held by Nick Thomas-Symonds of the Labour Party, who also serves as Minister for the Constitution and European Union Relations and Minister for the Cabinet Office

==History== [[File:36 Whitehall (geograph 5346102).jpg|thumb|260px|left|Until 1939 the Office of the Paymaster General was at 36 Whitehall (an extension of Horse Guards formerly occupied by the Paymaster to the Forces).<ref name=Roper1998>{{cite book |last=Roper |first=Michael |title=The Records of the War Office and Related Departments, 1660-1964 |publisher=Public Record Office |location=Kew, UK |date=1998}}</ref>]] The post was created in 1836 by the merger of the positions of the offices of the Paymaster of the Forces (1661–1836), the Treasurer of the Navy (1546–1835), the Paymaster and Treasurer of Chelsea Hospital (responsible for Army pensions) (1681–1835) and the Treasurer of the Ordnance (1670–1835).

Initially, the Paymaster General only had responsibilities in relation to the armed services but in 1848 two more offices were merged into that of Paymaster General: the Paymaster of Exchequer Bills (1723–1848) and the Paymaster of the Civil Service (1834–1848), the latter followed by its Irish counterpart in 1861. They thus became 'the principal paying agent of the government and the banker for all government departments except the revenue departments and the National Debt Office'.<ref name="NA">{{OGL-attribution|version=3.0|{{cite web |title=Records of the Paymaster General's Office and predecessors |url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C229 |website=The National Archives |access-date=10 December 2018}}}}</ref>

From 1848 to 1868, the post was held concurrently with that of Vice-President of the Board of Trade.

The longest-serving holder of the post was Dawn Primarolo, whose portfolio covered HM Customs and Excise and the Inland Revenue (which during her tenure became merged as HM Revenue and Customs) and who served from 1999 to 2007.

==Role== Today, the Paymaster General is usually a minister without portfolio available for any duties which the government of the day may designate. The post may be combined with another office, or may be left unfilled.

Though the Paymaster General was titular head of the Paymaster General's Office, their executive functions were delegated to the Assistant Paymaster General, a permanent civil servant who (though acting in the name of the Paymaster General) was answerable to the Chancellor of the Exchequer.<ref name="NA" />

===Office of HM Paymaster General=== The Paymaster General was formerly in nominal charge (and at one time in actual charge) of the '''Office of HM Paymaster General'''<ref>{{cite web |last1=Gater |first1=G.H. |last2=Wheeler |first2=E.P. |title=Office of the Paymaster-General |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol16/pt1/pp17-27 |website=British History Online |publisher=London County Council |location=London |date=1935 |pages=17–27 |access-date=28 February 2017}}</ref> ('''OPG'''), which held accounts at the Bank of England on behalf of government departments and selected other public bodies. Funds which were made available from the Consolidated Fund were then channelled into OPG accounts, from where they were used by the relevant body. OPG operated a full range of accounts and banking transaction services, including cheque and credit, BACS and CHAPS services for its customers via an electronic banking system. Integration of OPG accounts held with commercial banks was provided by the private company '''Xafinity Paymaster''' which is now part of the Equiniti group.

However, in 2008, the government announced that the Office of the Paymaster General would be incorporated into a new body, the '''Government Banking Service''',<ref>{{cite web |archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20100407190524/http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/press_48_08.htm |archive-date=7 April 2010 |df=dmy-all |url=http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/press_48_08.htm |url-status=dead |title=Press Release: Angela Eagle launches the Government Banking Service |publisher=HM Treasury |date=22 May 2008}}</ref> which also provides banking operations for HM Revenue & Customs and National Savings and Investments. Following the Bank of England's decision to withdraw from providing retail banking services,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.insolvency.gov.uk/insolvencyprofessionandlegislation/ipb/Important%20changes%20to%20banking%20arrangements%20for%20the%20ISA.doc |title=Important changes to banking arrangements for the Insolvency Services Account |website=insolvency.gov.uk |publisher=The Insolvency Service |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101030173317/http://www.insolvency.gov.uk/insolvencyprofessionandlegislation/ipb/Important%20changes%20to%20banking%20arrangements%20for%20the%20ISA.doc |archive-date=30 October 2010 |df=dmy-all}}</ref> retail banking and payment services for the GBS are provided by a range of financial institutions including Barclays, Citibank, NatWest, and Worldpay,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/government-banking-service-gbs |title=Government Banking |publisher=gov.uk}}</ref> although the Bank of England still plays a role in managing the government's higher level accounts.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dwp.gov.uk/docs/government-banking-service.pdf |title=Government Banking Service |publisher=Department for Work and Pensions}}</ref>

==List of paymasters general==

===19th century=== *Sir Henry Parnell, 4th Baronet 1836–1841 *Edward Stanley 1841 *Sir Edward Knatchbull, 9th Baronet 1841–1845 *Bingham Baring 1845–1846 *Thomas Babington Macaulay 1846–1848 *Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville 1848–1852 *Edward Stanley, 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley 1852 *Charles Abbot, 2nd Baron Colchester 1852 *Edward Stanley, 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley 1853–1855 *Edward Pleydell-Bouverie 1855 *Robert Lowe 1855–1858 *Richard Hely-Hutchinson, 4th Earl of Donoughmore 1858–1859 *Algernon Percy, Lord Lovaine 1859 *James Wilson 1859 *William Cowper 1859–1860 *William Hutt 1860–1865 *George Goschen 1865–1866 *William Monsell 1866 *Stephen Cave 1866–1868 *Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Earl of Dufferin 1868–1872 *Hugh Childers 1872–1873 *William Adam 1873–1874 *Stephen Cave 1874–1880 *David Plunket 1880 *George Glyn, 2nd Baron Wolverton 1880–1885 *Frederick Lygon, 6th Earl Beauchamp 1885–1886 *Thomas Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 5th Baron Thurlow 1886 *Frederick Lygon, 6th Earl Beauchamp 1886–1887 *Adelbert Brownlow-Cust, 3rd Earl Brownlow 1887–1889 *Victor Child Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey 1889–1890 *Robert Windsor-Clive, 14th Baron Windsor 1890–1892 *Charles Seale-Hayne 1892–1895 *John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun 1895–1899 *Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough 1899–1902

===20th century=== *Savile Crossley 1902–1905 *Richard Causton (1st Baron Southwark after 13 July 1910) 1905–1910 *Ivor Guest, 1st Baron Ashby St Ledgers 1910–1912 *Edward Strachey, 1st Baron Strachie 1912–1915 *Thomas Legh, 2nd Baron Newton 1915–1916 *Arthur Henderson 1916 *Joseph Compton-Rickett 1916–1919 *Tudor Walters 1919–1922 *''Office vacant'' 1922–1923 *Neville Chamberlain 1923 *William Joynson-Hicks 1923 *Archibald Boyd-Carpenter 1923–1924 *Harry Gosling 1924 *''Office vacant'' 1924–1925 *George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 5th Duke of Sutherland 1925–1928 *Richard Onslow, 5th Earl of Onslow 1928–1929 *Sydney Arnold 1929–1931 *''Office vacant'' 1931 *Tudor Walters 1931 *Ernest Lamb, 1st Baron Rochester 1931–1935 *Robert Hutchison, 1st Baron Hutchison of Montrose 1935–1938 *Geoffrey FitzClarence, 5th Earl of Munster 1938–1939 *Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton 1939 *''Office vacant'' 1939–1940 *Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount Cranborne 1940 *''Office vacant'' 1940–1941 *Maurice Hankey 1941–1942 *William Jowitt 1942 *Frederick Lindemann, 1st Baron Cherwell 1942–1945 *''Office vacant'' 1945–1946 *Arthur Greenwood 9 July 1946 Lab *Hilary Marquand 5 March 1947 Lab *Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison 2 July 1948 also Leader of the House of Lords Lab *Gordon Macdonald, 1st Baron Macdonald of Gwaenysgor 1 April 1949 Lab

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" ! colspan=3 | Paymaster General ! colspan=2 | Term of office ! Concurrent office(s) ! Political party ! colspan=2 | Prime Minister

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | Frederick Lindemann {{Small|1st Viscount Cherwell}} | 30 October 1951 | 11 November 1953 | | rowspan=8 | Conservative | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | rowspan=2 | Winston Churchill {{Small|(III)}}

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | George Douglas-Hamilton {{Small|10th Earl of Selkirk}} | 11 November 1953 | 20 October 1955 | | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | |- | colspan=3 | ''Office vacant'' | 20 October 1955 | 18 October 1956 | | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | rowspan=2 | Anthony Eden {{Small|(Eden)}}

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | Walter Monckton {{Small|MP for Bristol West}} | 18 October 1956 | 16 January 1957 | | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 100x100px | Reginald Maudling {{Small|MP for Barnet}} | 16 January 1957 | 14 October 1959 | | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | Harold Macmillan {{Small|(I)}}

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | Percy Mills {{Small|1st Viscount Mills}} | 14 October 1959 | 9 October 1961 | | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | rowspan=2 | Harold Macmillan {{Small|(II)}}

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | Henry Brooke {{Small|MP for Hampstead}} | 9 October 1961 | 13 July 1962 | Chief Secretary to the Treasury | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | John Boyd-Carpenter {{Small|MP for Kingston-upon-Thames}} | 13 July 1962 | 19 October 1964 | Chief Secretary to the Treasury | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | Alec Douglas-Home {{Small|(Douglas-Home)}}

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | George Wigg {{Small|MP for Dudley}} | 19 October 1964 | 12 November 1967 | | rowspan=5 | Labour | style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | Harold Wilson {{Small|(I & II)}} |- | colspan=3 | ''Office vacant'' | 12 November 1967 | 6 April 1968 | | style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | rowspan=4 | Harold Wilson {{Small|(II)}}

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | Edward Shackleton {{Small|Baron Shackleton}} | 6 April 1968 | 1 November 1968 | | style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | Judith Hart {{Small|MP for Clydesdale}} | 1 November 1968 | 6 October 1969 | | style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | Harold Lever {{Small|MP for Manchester Cheetham}} | 6 October 1969 | 23 June 1970 | | style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | David Eccles {{Small|1st Viscount Eccles}} | 23 June 1970 | 2 December 1973 | Minister for the Arts | rowspan=2 | Conservative | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | rowspan=2 | Edward Heath {{Small|(Heath)}}

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | Maurice Macmillan {{Small|MP for Farnham}} | 2 December 1973 | 4 March 1974 | | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | Edmund Dell {{Small|MP for Birkenhead}} | 4 March 1974 | 10 September 1976 | | rowspan=2 | Labour | style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | Harold Wilson {{Small|(III & IV)}}

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | Shirley Williams {{Small|MP for Hitchin}} | 10 September 1976 | 4 May 1979 | Secretary of State for Education and Science | style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | James Callaghan {{Small|(Callaghan)}}

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | Angus Maude {{Small|MP for Stratford-on-Avon}} | 4 May 1979 | 5 January 1981 | | rowspan=14 | Conservative | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | rowspan=3 | Margaret Thatcher {{Small|(I)}}

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | Francis Pym {{Small|MP for Cambridgeshire}} | 5 January 1981 | 14 September 1981 | Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster {{Small|(5 January 1981 – 14 September 1981)}}

Leader of the House of Commons {{Small|(5 January 1981 – 5 April 1982)}} | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | Cecil Parkinson {{Small|MP for South Hertfordshire}} | 14 September 1981 | 11 June 1983 | Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster {{Small|(6 April 1982 – 11 June 1983)}} | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | |- | colspan=3 | ''Office vacant'' | 11 June 1983 | 11 September 1984 | | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | rowspan=3 | Margaret Thatcher {{Small|(II)}}

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 100x100px | John Gummer {{Small|MP for Suffolk Coastal}} | 11 September 1984 | 1 September 1985 | | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 100x100px | Kenneth Clarke {{Small|MP for Rushcliffe}} | 2 September 1985 | 13 July 1987 | Minister of State for Employment | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | Peter Brooke {{Small|MP for City of London and Westminster South}} | 13 July 1987 | 24 July 1989 | | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | rowspan=2 | Margaret Thatcher {{Small|(III)}}

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | Malcolm Sinclair {{Small|20th Earl of Caithness}} | 25 July 1989 | 14 July 1990 | | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | Richard Ryder {{Small|MP for Mid Norfolk}} | 14 July 1990 | 28 November 1990 | | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | rowspan=2 | John Major {{Small|(I)}}

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | John Ganzoni {{Small|2nd Baron Belstead}} | 28 November 1990 | 11 April 1992 | Minister of State for Northern Ireland | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 100x100px | John Cope {{Small|MP for Northavon}} | 14 April 1992 | 20 July 1994 | | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | rowspan=4 | John Major {{Small|(lI)}}

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | David Heathcoat-Amory {{Small|MP for Wells}} | 20 July 1994 | 20 July 1996 | | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | David Willetts {{Small|MP for Havant}} | 20 July 1996 | 21 November 1996 | | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 120x120px | Michael Bates {{Small|MP for Langbaurgh}} | 21 November 1996 | 2 May 1997 | Lord Commissioner of the Treasury {{Small|(17 October 1995 – 11 December 1996)}} | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | Geoffrey Robinson {{Small|MP for Coventry North West}} | 2 May 1997 | 23 December 1998 | | Labour | style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | Tony Blair {{Small|(I)}} |}

===21st century=== {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" ! colspan=3 | Paymaster General ! colspan=2 | Term of office ! Concurrent office(s) ! Political party ! colspan=2 | Prime Minister

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | Dawn Primarolo {{Small|MP for Bristol South}} | 4 January 1999 | 28 June 2007 | | rowspan=2 | Labour | style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | Tony Blair {{Small|(I, II, III)}}

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | frameless|109x109px | Tessa Jowell {{Small|MP for Dulwich and West Norwood}} | 28 June 2007 | 11 May 2010 | Minister for the Olympics Minister for the Cabinet Office {{Small|''(from 5 June 2009)''}} Minister for London {{Small|''(until 3 October 2008; from 5 June 2009)''}} | style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | Gordon Brown {{Small|(Brown)}}

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 94x94px | Francis Maude {{Small|MP for Horsham}} | 12 May 2010 | 11 May 2015 | rowspan=3 | Minister for the Cabinet Office | rowspan=12 | Conservative | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | David Cameron {{Small|(I)}}

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 112x112px | Matt Hancock {{Small|MP for West Suffolk}} | 11 May 2015 | 14 July 2016 | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | David Cameron {{Small|(II)}}

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | Ben Gummer {{Small|MP for Ipswich}} | 14 July 2016 | 13 June 2017 | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | Theresa May {{Small|(I)}}

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | Mel Stride {{Small|MP for Central Devon}} | 13 June 2017 | 23 May 2019 | rowspan=2 | Financial Secretary to the Treasury | rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | rowspan=2 | Theresa May {{Small|(II)}}

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | Jesse Norman {{Small|MP for Hereford and South Herefordshire}} | 23 May 2019 | 24 July 2019

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | Oliver Dowden {{Small|MP for Hertsmere}} | 24 July 2019 | 13 February 2020 | Minister for the Cabinet Office | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | Boris Johnson {{Small|(I & II)}}

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 100x100px | Penny Mordaunt {{Small|MP for Portsmouth North}} | 13 February 2020 | 16 September 2021 | | rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | rowspan=2 | Boris Johnson {{Small|(II)}}

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | alt=|100x100px | Michael Ellis {{Small|MP for Northampton North}} | 16 September 2021 | 6 September 2022 | Minister for the Cabinet Office {{Small|''(from 8 February 2022)''}}

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | alt=|99x99px | Edward Argar {{Small|MP for Charnwood}} | 6 September 2022 | 14 October 2022 | rowspan=5 | Minister for the Cabinet Office | rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | rowspan=2 | Liz Truss {{Small|(Truss)}}

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | alt=|99x99px | Chris Philp {{Small|MP for Croydon South}} | 14 October 2022 | 25 October 2022

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | alt=|100x100px | Jeremy Quin {{Small|MP for Horsham}} | 25 October 2022 | 13 November 2023 | rowspan="2" style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | rowspan=2 | Rishi Sunak {{Small|(Sunak)}}

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | alt=|100x100px | John Glen {{Small|MP for Salisbury}} | 13 November 2023 | 5 July 2024

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | alt=|99x99px | Nick Thomas-Symonds {{Small|MP for Torfaen}} | 8 July 2024 | | Labour | style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | Keir Starmer {{Small|(Starmer)}}

== List of shadow paymasters general == {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" ! colspan=3 | Shadow Paymaster general ! colspan=2 | Term of office ! Party ! Shadow Cabinet

|- style="height:1em" ! style="background-color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 75x75px | Richard Ottaway | 1 June 2000 | 1 June 2001 | Conservative | Hague

|- style="height:1em" ! style="background-color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 88x88px | Stephen O'Brien | 1 June 2002 | 1 June 2003 | Conservative | Duncan Smith

|- style="height:1em" ! style="background-color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 80x80px | Andrew Tyrie | 1 June 2004 | 1 June 2005 | Conservative | rowspan="2" | Howard

|- style="height:1em" ! rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | rowspan=2 | 80x80px | rowspan=2 | Mark Francois | rowspan=2 | 10 May 2005 | rowspan=2 | 3 July 2007 | rowspan=2 | Conservative |- | Cameron

|- style="height:1em" ! style="background-color:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | 80x80px | Jack Dromey | 14 May 2021 | 4 December 2021 | Labour | rowspan="3" | Starmer

|- style="height:1em" ! style="background-color:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | 80x80px | Fleur Anderson | 4 December 2021 | 4 September 2023 | Labour

|- style="height:1em" ! style="background-color:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | 80x80px | Jonathan Ashworth | 4 September 2023 | 5 July 2024 | Labour

|- style="height:1em" ! style="background-color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 75x75px | John Glen | 8 July 2024 | 8 November 2024 | Conservative | Sunak

|- style="height:1em" ! style="background-color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 75x75px | Richard Holden | 8 November 2024 | 22 July 2025 | Conservative | Badenoch |}

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20080614152903/http://www.opg.gov.uk/ Office of the Paymaster General] – archived version, as of June 2008. Since then the OPG website redirects to the new GBS site: *[http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/gbs/index.htm Government Banking Service]

Category:Paymasters general of the United Kingdom Category:Ministerial offices in the United Kingdom Category:1836 establishments in the United Kingdom