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Ministerial role

Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice

Organisations: Ministry of Justice
Current role holder: The Rt Hon Alex Norris MP

Responsibilities

  • Oversight of all justice portfolios, policy, and Ministry of Justice strategy
  • Oversight of cross-cutting emergency  issues, responses  supported by other  ministers according to  portfolio
  • Oversight of international business and future relations with the EU 
  • MOJ support for the Union
  • Resourcing of the department 
  • Functions of the Lord Chancellor 
  • Judicial policy including pay, pensions and  diversity (these and  other operational  decisions affecting the  judiciary are reserved to the Lord Chancellor)

Current role holder

The Rt Hon Alex Norris MP

Alex Norris was appointed Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice on 20 July 2026. He was previously Minister of State at the Home Office between 6 September 2025 and 20 July 2026.

He was previously Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government between 9 July 2024 and 6 September 2025.

He has been the MP for Nottingham North and Kimberley (and its predecessor Nottingham North) since June 2017.

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Previous holders of this role

  1. The Rt Hon David Lammy MP

    2025 to 2026

  2. The Rt Hon Shabana Mahmood MP

    2024 to 2025

  3. The Rt Hon Alex Chalk KC

    2023 to 2024

  4. The Rt Hon Dominic Raab

    2022 to 2023

  5. The Rt Hon Brandon Lewis CBE

    2022 to 2022

  6. The Rt Hon Dominic Raab

    2021 to 2022

  7. The Rt Hon Robert Buckland KC

    2019 to 2021

  8. The Rt Hon David Gauke

    2018 to 2019

  9. The Rt Hon David Lidington CBE

    2017 to 2018

  10. The Rt Hon Elizabeth Truss

    2016 to 2017

  11. The Rt Hon Michael Gove

    2015 to 2016

  12. The Rt Hon Chris Grayling

    2012 to 2015

  13. The Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke KC

    2010 to 2012