HM Paymaster General is a ministerial position in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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. The Paymaster General is in charge of the Office of HM Paymaster General (OPG), which held accounts at the Bank of England

Bank of England

The Bank of England is the central bank of the United Kingdom and the model on which most modern central banks have been based. Established in 1694, it is the second oldest central bank in the world...

 on behalf of Government departments and selected other public bodies. Funds which are made available from the Consolidated Fund

Consolidated Fund

Consolidated Fund or the Consolidated Revenue Fund is the term used for the main bank account of the government in many of the countries in the Commonwealth of Nations.-Establishment:...

 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

BACS

Bacs Payment Schemes Limited is a United Kingdom scheme for the electronic processing of financial transactions. BACS direct debits and BACS direct credits are made using the BACS system...

 and CHAPS

CHAPS

The Clearing House Automated Payment System or CHAPS is a British company established in London in 1984, which offers same-day sterling fund transfers...

 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.

In 2008, the government announced that the Office of the Paymaster General would be incorporated into a new body, the Government Banking Service, which also provides banking operations for HM Revenue & Customs and National Savings and Investments

National Savings and Investments

National Savings and Investments , formerly called the Post Office Savings Bank and National Savings, is a state-owned savings bank in the United Kingdom. It is an executive agency of the Chancellor of the Exchequer...

. Following the Bank of England's decision to withdraw from providing retail banking services, retail banking services for the GBS are provided exclusively by the Royal Bank of Scotland

Royal Bank of Scotland

The Royal Bank of Scotland Group is a British banking and insurance holding company in which the UK Government holds an 84% stake. This stake is held and managed through UK Financial Investments Limited, whose voting rights are limited to 75% in order for the bank to retain its listing on the...

 and Citibank

Citibank

Citibank, a major international bank, is the consumer banking arm of financial services giant Citigroup. Citibank was founded in 1812 as the City Bank of New York, later First National City Bank of New York...

, although the Bank of England still plays a role in managing the government's higher level accounts.

When the post is held by a minister in HM Treasury

HM Treasury

HM Treasury, in full Her Majesty's Treasury, informally The Treasury, is the United Kingdom government department responsible for developing and executing the British government's public finance policy and economic policy...

 it ranks third in the Treasury, after the Chancellor of the Exchequer

Chancellor of the Exchequer

The Chancellor of the Exchequer is the title held by the British Cabinet minister who is responsible for all economic and financial matters. Often simply called the Chancellor, the office-holder controls HM Treasury and plays a role akin to the posts of Minister of Finance or Secretary of the...

 and the Chief Secretary to the Treasury

Chief Secretary to the Treasury

The Chief Secretary to the Treasury is the third most senior ministerial position in HM Treasury, after the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer . In recent years, the office holder has usually been given a junior position in the British Cabinet...

. The post was created in 1836 by the merger of the positions of Paymaster of the Forces

Paymaster of the Forces

The Paymaster of the Forces was a position in the British government. The office, which was established 1661 after the Restoration, was responsible for part of the financing of the British Army. The first to hold the office was Sir Stephen Fox. Before his time it had been the custom to appoint...

, Treasurer of the Navy

Treasurer of the Navy

The Treasurer of the Navy was an office in the British government between the mid-16th and early 19th century. The office-holder was responsible for the financial maintenance of the Royal Navy. The office was a political appointment, and frequently was held by up-and-coming young politicians who...

, Paymaster and Treasurer of Chelsea Hospital and Treasurer of the Ordnance

Treasurer of the Ordnance

The Treasurer of the Ordnance was a subordinate of the Master-General of the Ordnance in the United Kingdom, the office being created in 1670. The office was abolished in 1836 and its duties merged with that of several others to form the office of Paymaster-General.-Treasurers of the Ordnance:*25...

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

Vice-President of the Board of Trade

The office of Vice-President of the Board of Trade was a junior ministerial position in the government of the United Kingdom. The office was created in 1786 and abolished in 1867. From 1848 onwards the office was held concurrently with that of Paymaster-General...

.

The longest holder of the post was Dawn Primarolo

Dawn Primarolo

Dawn Primarolo is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Bristol South since 1987. She was Minister of State for Children, Young People and Families at the Department for Children, Schools and Families from June 2009 to May 2010 and is now a Deputy Speaker of...

, whose portfolio consisted of the workings of HM Revenue and Customs, formerly Inland Revenue

Inland Revenue

The Inland Revenue was, until April 2005, a department of the British Government responsible for the collection of direct taxation, including income tax, national insurance contributions, capital gains tax, inheritance tax, corporation tax, petroleum revenue tax and stamp duty...

 and HM Customs and Excise, bureaucratically separate from the Treasury. The former Labour Paymaster General was Tessa Jowell

Tessa Jowell

Tessa Jowell is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Dulwich and West Norwood since 1992. Formerly a member of both the Blair and Brown Cabinets, she is currently the Shadow Minister for the Olympics and Shadow Minister for London.-Early life:Tessa Jane...

, who was also previously responsible for the 2012 Olympics. The incumbent Paymaster General is Francis Maude

Francis Maude

Francis Anthony Aylmer Maude is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he currently serves as the Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General, and as a Member of Parliament representing the constituency of Horsham...

, who is also the Minister for the Cabinet Office

Minister for the Cabinet Office

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.

List of Paymasters General

• Sir Henry Parnell, Bt
  Henry Brook Parnell, 1st Baron Congleton
  Henry Brook Parnell, 1st Baron Congleton PC , known as Sir Henry Parnell, Bt, from 1812 to 1841, was an Irish writer and Whig politician. He was a member of the Whig administrations headed by Lord Grey and Lord Melbourne of the 1830s and also published works on financial and penal questions as well...
  
   1836-1841
• Edward John Stanley 1841
• Sir Edward Knatchbull, Bt 1841-1845
• William Bingham Baring
  William Bingham Baring, 2nd Baron Ashburton
  Bingham Baring, 2nd Baron Ashburton PC, FRS, DL was a British businessman and a Whig politician who later became a Tory.-Background and education:...
  
   1845-1846
• Thomas Babington Macaulay 1846-1848
• The Earl Granville 1848-1852
• The Lord Stanley of Alderley 1852
• The Lord Colchester 1852
• The Lord Stanley of Alderley 1853-1855
• Edward Pleydell Bouverie 1855
• Robert Lowe
  Robert Lowe, 1st Viscount Sherbrooke
  Robert Lowe, 1st Viscount Sherbrooke PC , British and Australian statesman, was a pivotal but often forgotten figure who shaped British politics in the latter half of the 19th century. He held office under William Ewart Gladstone as Chancellor of the Exchequer between 1868 and 1873 and as Home...
  
   1855-1858
• The Earl of Donoughmore 1858-1859
• Lord Lovaine 1859
• James Wilson
  James Wilson (UK politician)
  James Wilson was a Scottish businessman, economist and Liberal politician. He founded The Economist and the Standard Chartered Bank.-Early life:...
  
   1859
• William Francis Cowper
  William Cowper-Temple, 1st Baron Mount Temple
  William Francis Cowper-Temple, 1st Baron Mount Temple PC , known as William Cowper before 1869 and as William Cowper-Temple between 1869 and 1880, was a British Liberal Party politician and statesman....
  
   1859-1860
• Sir William Hutt
  William Hutt (British MP)
  Sir William Hutt KCB, PC was a British Liberal politician who was heavily involved in the colonization of New Zealand and South Australia.-Background and education:...
  
   1860-1865
• George Joachim Goschen 1865-1866
• William Monsell 1866
• Sir Stephen Cave
  Stephen Cave
  Sir Stephen Cave GCB, PC, FSA, DL, JP was a British lawyer, writer and Conservative politician. He notably served as Paymaster-General between 1866 and 1868 and again between 1874 and 1880 and as Judge Advocate General between 1874 and 1875.-Background and education:Born at Clifton, Cave was the...
  
   1866-1868
• The Earl of Dufferin
  Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
  Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, KP, GCB, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, PC was a British public servant and prominent member of Victorian society...
  
   1868-1872
• Hugh Childers
  Hugh Childers
  Hugh Culling Eardley Childers was a British and Australian Liberal statesman of the nineteenth century. He is perhaps best known for his reform efforts at the Admiralty and the War Office...
  
   1872-1873
• William Adam
  William Patrick Adam
  William Patrick Adam, CIE, DL was a British colonial administrator and Liberal politician. He was twice First Commissioner of Works under William Ewart Gladstone and also served briefly as Governor of Madras between 1880 and 1881.-Background and education:Adam was the son of Admiral Sir Charles...
  
   1873-1874
• Sir Stephen Cave
  Stephen Cave
  Sir Stephen Cave GCB, PC, FSA, DL, JP was a British lawyer, writer and Conservative politician. He notably served as Paymaster-General between 1866 and 1868 and again between 1874 and 1880 and as Judge Advocate General between 1874 and 1875.-Background and education:Born at Clifton, Cave was the...
  
   1874-1880
• David Plunket
  David Plunket, 1st Baron Rathmore
  David Robert Plunket, 1st Baron Rathmore PC, QC was an Irish lawyer and Conservative politician.-Background and education:...
  
   1880
• The Lord Wolverton
  George Glyn, 2nd Baron Wolverton
  George Grenfell Glyn, 2nd Baron Wolverton PC , was a British Liberal politician. He held office in three of the Liberal administrations of William Ewart Gladstone.-Background:...
  
   1880-1885
• The Earl Beauchamp
  Frederick Lygon, 6th Earl Beauchamp
  Frederick Lygon, 6th Earl Beauchamp PC , styled The Honourable Frederick Lygon between 1853 and 1866, was a British Conservative politician.-Background and education:...
  
   1885-1886
• The Lord Thurlow
  Thomas Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 5th Baron Thurlow
  Thomas John Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 5th Baron Thurlow, PC, DL , was a British Liberal politician who served as Paymaster-General in 1886.-Family:...
  
   1886
• The Earl Beauchamp
  Frederick Lygon, 6th Earl Beauchamp
  Frederick Lygon, 6th Earl Beauchamp PC , styled The Honourable Frederick Lygon between 1853 and 1866, was a British Conservative politician.-Background and education:...
  
   1886-1887
• The Earl Brownlow 1887-1889
• The Earl of Jersey
  Victor Child-Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey
  Victor Albert George Child Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey GCB, GCMG, PC, DL, JP , was a British banker, Conservative politician and colonial administrator...
  
   1889-1890
• The Lord Windsor
  Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth
  Robert George Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth GBE, CB, PC , known as The Lord Windsor between 1869 and 1905, was a British nobleman and Conservative politician.-Background:...
  
   1890-1892
• Charles Seale-Hayne
  Charles Seale-Hayne
  Charles Hayne Seale-Hayne PC was a British businessman and Liberal politician. He served as Paymaster-General between 1892 and 1895 in the Liberal administrations of William Ewart Gladstone and the Earl of Rosebery....
  
   1892-1895
• The Earl of Hopetoun
  John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow
  John Adrian Louis Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow KT, GCMG, GCVO, PC , also known as Viscount Aithrie before 1873 and as The 7th Earl of Hopetoun between 1873 and 1902, was a Scottish aristocrat, politician and colonial administrator. He is best known for his brief and controversial tenure as the...
  
   1895-1899
• The Duke of Marlborough
  Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough
  Charles Richard John Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough KG, PC , styled Earl of Sunderland until 1883 and Marquess of Blandford between 1883 and 1892, was a British soldier and Conservative politician...
  
   1899-1902
• Sir Savile Crossley, Bt
  Savile Crossley, 1st Baron Somerleyton
  Savile Brinton Crossley, 1st Baron Somerleyton GCVO, PC , known as Sir Savile Crossley, Bt, from 1872 to 1916, was a British Liberal Unionist politician who served as Paymaster General from 1902 to 1905.-Background:...
  
   1902-1905
• Richard Causton
  Richard Causton, 1st Baron Southwark
  Richard Knight Causton, 1st Baron Southwark PC, DL was an English stationer and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1880 and 1910...
  
   (1st Baron Southwark after 13 July 1910) 1905-1910
• The Lord Ashby St. Ledgers 1910-1912
• The Lord Strachie
  Edward Strachey, 1st Baron Strachie
  Edward Strachey, 1st Baron Strachie PC , known as Sir Edward Strachey, Bt, between 1901 and 1911, was a British Liberal politician. He was a member of the Liberal administrations of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and H. H...
  
   1912-1915
• The Lord Newton 1915-1916
• Arthur Henderson
  Arthur Henderson
  Arthur Henderson was a British iron moulder and Labour politician. He was the 1934 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and he served three short terms as the Leader of the Labour Party from 1908–1910, 1914–1917 and 1931-1932....
  
   1916
• Sir Joseph Compton-Rickett
  Joseph Compton-Rickett
  Sir Joseph Compton-Rickett was a Liberal Party politician in England. He was Member of Parliament for Scarborough from 1895 to 1906, for Osgoldcross from 1906 to 1918, and for the Pontefract constituency that largely replaced it from 1918 until his death the following year...
  
   1916-1919
• Sir Tudor Walters 1919-1922
• Office vacant 1922-1923
• Neville Chamberlain
  Neville Chamberlain
  Arthur Neville Chamberlain FRS was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940. Chamberlain is best known for his appeasement foreign policy, and in particular for his signing of the Munich Agreement in 1938, conceding the...
  
   1923
• Sir William Joynson-Hicks, Bt
  William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford
  William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford PC, PC , DL , known as Sir William Joynson-Hicks, Bt, from 1919 to 1929 and popularly known as Jix, was an English solicitor and Conservative Party politician, best known as a long-serving and controversial Home Secretary from 1924 to 1929, during which...
  
   1923
• Archibald Boyd-Carpenter 1923-1924
• Harry Gosling
  Harry Gosling
  Harry Gosling CH was a British Labour Party politician and trade union leader.-Early life:Gosling was born in 1861 at 57 York Street, Lambeth, London, on the southern bank of the River Thames. He was the second son of William Gosling, master lighterman, and his wife Sarah Louisa née Rowe, a...
  
   1924
• Office vacant 1924-1925
• The Duke of Sutherland
  George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 5th Duke of Sutherland
  George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 5th Duke of Sutherland PC, KT , styled Earl Gower until 1892 and Marquess of Stafford between 1892 and 1913, was a British courtier, patron of the film industry and Conservative politician...
  
   1925-1928
• The Earl of Onslow
  Richard Onslow, 5th Earl of Onslow
  Richard William Alan Onslow, 5th Earl Onslow GBE, PC , styled Viscount Cranley until 1911, was a British peer, diplomat, parliamentary secretary and government minister.-Background and education:...
  
   1928-1929
• The Lord Arnold
  Sydney Arnold, 1st Baron Arnold
  Sydney Arnold, 1st Baron Arnold was a British Liberal Party politician who later joined the Labour Party and served as a government minister....
  
   1929-1931
• Office vacant 1931
• Sir Tudor Walters 1931
• The Lord Rochester
  Ernest Lamb, 1st Baron Rochester
  Ernest Henry Lamb, 1st Baron Rochester, CMG was a British Liberal and National Labour politician who served as Paymaster-General from 1931 to 1935 in the National Government of Ramsay Macdonald....
  
   1931-1935
• The Lord Hutchison
  Robert Hutchison, 1st Baron Hutchison of Montrose
  Major-General Robert Hutchison, 1st Baron Hutchison of Montrose KCMG, CB, DSO, PC was a Scottish soldier and Liberal politician.-Background:Hutchison was the son of Alexander Hutchison, of Braehead, Kirkcaldy, Fife...
  
   1935-1938
• The Earl of Munster
  Geoffrey FitzClarence, 5th Earl of Munster
  Sir Geoffrey William Richard Hugh FitzClarence, 5th Earl of Munster KBE PC , was a British peer and Conservative politician....
  
   1938-1939
• The Earl Winterton
  Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton
  Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton PC , known as Viscount Turnour until 1907, was an Irish peer and British politician in the first half of the twentieth century who achieved the rare distinction of serving as both Baby of the House and Father of the House at the opposite ends of his career in the...
  
   1939
• Office vacant 1939-1940
• Viscount Cranborne
  Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury
  Robert Arthur James Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury, KG, PC , known as Viscount Cranborne from 1903 to 1947, was a British Conservative politician.-Background:...
  
   1940
• Office vacant 1940-1941
• The Lord Hankey
  Maurice Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey
  Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, PC was a British civil servant who gained prominence as the first Cabinet Secretary and who later made the rare transition from the civil service to ministerial office.-Life and career:The third son of R. A...
  
   1941-1942
• Sir William Jowitt 1942
• The Lord Cherwell
  Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  Frederick Alexander Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell FRS PC CH was an English physicist who was an influential scientific adviser to the British government, particularly Winston Churchill...
  
   1942-1945
• Professor F. A. Lindemann 1945-1946
• Arthur Greenwood
  Arthur Greenwood
  Arthur Greenwood CH was a prominent member of the Labour Party from the 1920s until the late 1940s. He rose to prominence within the party as secretary of its research department from 1920 and served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health in the short-lived Labour government of 1924...
  
   1946-1947
• Hilary Marquand
  Hilary Marquand
  Hilary Adair Marquand was a British Labour Party politician.He was educated at Cardiff High School and at University College, Cardiff where he studied history and economics...
  
   1947-1948
• The Viscount Addison
  Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison
  Sir Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison KG, PC was a British medical doctor and politician. By turns a liberal and a socialist, he served as Minister of Munitions during the first World War, and was later Minister of Health under David Lloyd George and Leader of the House of Lords under...
  
   1948-1949
• The Lord Macdonald of Gwaenysgor
  Gordon Macdonald, 1st Baron Macdonald of Gwaenysgor
  Gordon Macdonald, PC, 1st Baron Macdonald of Gwaenysgor, was a British Labour Party politician and Newfoundland's final British governor as well as the last chairman of the Commission of Government serving from 1946 until the colony joined Confederation in 1949 and became a province of Canada...
  
   1949-1951
• The Lord Cherwell
  Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  Frederick Alexander Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell FRS PC CH was an English physicist who was an influential scientific adviser to the British government, particularly Winston Churchill...
  
   1951-1953
• The Earl of Selkirk
  George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk
  Group Captain George "Geordie" Nigel Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk, KT, GCMG, GBE, AFC, AE, PC, QC , was a Scottish nobleman and Conservative politician.-Early life:...
  
   1953-1955
• Office vacant 1955-1956
• Sir Walter Monckton 1956-1957
• Reginald Maudling
  Reginald Maudling
  Reginald Maudling was a British politician who held several Cabinet posts, including Chancellor of the Exchequer. He had been spoken of as a prospective Conservative leader since 1955, and was twice seriously considered for the post; he was Edward Heath's chief rival in 1965...
  
   1957-1959
• The Lord Mills 1959-1961
• Henry Brooke 1961-1962
• John Boyd-Carpenter 1962-1964
• George Wigg
  George Wigg
  George Edward Cecil Wigg, Baron Wigg PC was a British politician who only served in relatively junior offices but had a great deal of influence behind the scenes, especially with Harold Wilson. Wigg served in the British Army for almost all his career up to his election as Member of Parliament...
  
   1964-1967
• Office vacant 1967-1968
• The Lord Shackleton
  Edward Shackleton, Baron Shackleton
  Edward Arthur Alexander Shackleton, Baron Shackleton, KG AC OBE PC FRS , was a British geographer and Labour Party politician....
  
   1968
• Judith Hart
  Judith Hart
  Judith Hart, Baroness Hart of South Lanark DBE PC was a British Labour Party politician...
  
   1968-1969
• Harold Lever
  Harold Lever, Baron Lever of Manchester
  Harold Lever, Baron Lever of Manchester, PC was a barrister and Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom....
  
   1969-1970
• The Viscount Eccles 1970-1973
• Maurice Macmillan 1973-1974
• Edmund Dell
  Edmund Dell
  Edmund Emanuel Dell was a British politician and businessman.Dell was born in London, the son of a Jewish manufacturer. In World War II he served in the Rifle Corps and the Royal Artillery, leaving as a first lieutenant...
  
   1974-1976
• Shirley Williams 1976-1979
• Angus Maude
  Angus Maude
  Angus Edmund Upton Maude, Baron Maude of Stratford-upon-Avon PC , was a Conservative Party politician and British cabinet member from 1979 until 1981. He was the father of Conservative MP Francis Maude....
  
   1979-1981
• Francis Pym
  Francis Pym
  -Bibliography:****- External links :...
  
   1981
• Cecil Parkinson
  Cecil Parkinson
  Cecil Parkinson, Baron Parkinson, PC , is a British Conservative politician and former Cabinet Minister.-Early life:...
  
   1981-1983
• Office vacant 1983-1984
• John Selwyn Gummer 1984-1985
• Kenneth Clarke
  Kenneth Clarke
  Kenneth Harry "Ken" Clarke, QC, MP is a British Conservative politician, currently Member of Parliament for Rushcliffe, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice. He was first elected to Parliament in 1970; and appointed a minister in Edward Heath's government, in 1972, and is one of...
  
   1985-1987
• Peter Brooke
  Peter Brooke
  Peter Leonard Brooke, Baron Brooke of Sutton Mandeville, CH, PC , is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he served in the Cabinet under Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major, and was a Member of Parliament representing the Cities of London and Westminster from...
  
   1987-1989
• The Earl of Caithness 1989-1990
• Richard Andrew Ryder 1990
• The Lord Belstead 1990-1992
• Sir John Cope 1992-1994
• David Heathcoat-Amory
  David Heathcoat-Amory
  David Philip Heathcoat-Amory is a British politician, accountant and farmer. He was the Conservative Member of Parliament for Wells from 1983 until he lost his seat in the 2010 general election.-Education and professional life:...
  
   1994-1996
• David Willetts
  David Willetts
  David Linsay Willetts is a British Conservative Party politician and the Minister of State for Universities and Science. He is the Member of Parliament representing the constituency of Havant in Hampshire.-Education:...
  
   1996
• Michael Bates 1996-1997
• Geoffrey Robinson
  Geoffrey Robinson
  Geoffrey Robinson is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Coventry North West since 1976. He was Paymaster General from May 1997 to January 1999, resigning after it was revealed that he had lent his government colleague Peter Mandelson £373,000 to buy a house...
  
   1997-1999
• Dawn Primarolo
  Dawn Primarolo
  Dawn Primarolo is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Bristol South since 1987. She was Minister of State for Children, Young People and Families at the Department for Children, Schools and Families from June 2009 to May 2010 and is now a Deputy Speaker of...
  
   1999-2007
• Tessa Jowell
  Tessa Jowell
  Tessa Jowell is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Dulwich and West Norwood since 1992. Formerly a member of both the Blair and Brown Cabinets, she is currently the Shadow Minister for the Olympics and Shadow Minister for London.-Early life:Tessa Jane...
  
   2007-2010
• Francis Maude
  Francis Maude
  Francis Anthony Aylmer Maude is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he currently serves as the Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General, and as a Member of Parliament representing the constituency of Horsham...
  
  2010-present

External links

• Office of the Paymaster General - archived version, as of June 2008. Since then the OPG website redirects to the new GBS site:
• Government Banking Service