In the Government of the United Kingdom , the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Arts , Heritage and Libraries is a ministerial post in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport .
6-514: The post is usually a junior to middle -ranking minister to the more senior Secretary of State , who runs the entire department and is ultimately responsible for the department's brief. The post has been in a variety of ministries, but after 1997 it has been a Minister of State position in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport . From 1992 to 1997, the post was combined with the office of Secretary of State for National Heritage . The title of
12-547: A Secretary of State ) is the lowest of three tiers of government minister in the UK government , immediately junior to a Minister of State , which is itself junior to a Secretary of State. The Ministerial and Other Salaries Act 1975 provides that at any one time there can be no more than 83 paid ministers (not counting the Lord Chancellor , up to 3 law officers, and up to 22 whips). Of these, no more than 50 ministers can be paid
18-610: A post Vaizey initially split between the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), but is now entirely placed in the DCMS. The individuals who have held the office of Minister for the Arts or equivalent existing positions, their terms and under which Prime Minister. Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State The parliamentary under-secretary of state (or just parliamentary secretary , particularly in departments not led by
24-751: Is no upper bound to the number of unpaid ministers sitting in the House of Lords. The position should not be confused with the Permanent Secretary , which is the most senior civil servant in a government department (also known as the Permanent Under-Secretary of State), nor with a Parliamentary Private Secretary (an MP serving as an assistant to a minister entitled to directly relevant expenses but no further pay). Of his tenure as an under-secretary in Macmillan's 1957–1963 Conservative government from
30-459: The post was changed to Minister for Culture in 2005, and to Minister for Culture, Creative Industries and Tourism in 2007. Under that last title, the office was held by Barbara Follett MP, who was appointed on 5 October 2008, until 22 September 2009. Ed Vaizey was appointed by then Prime Minister David Cameron to the position as Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries at Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State level,
36-456: The salary of a minister senior to a Parliamentary Secretary. Thus, if 50 senior ministers are appointed, the maximum number of paid Parliamentary Secretaries is 33. The limit on the number of unpaid Parliamentary Secretaries is given by the House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 , ensuring that no more than 95 government ministers of any kind can sit in the House of Commons at any one time; there
#763236