Complaining to the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman
How to take complaints about services provided by local authorities to the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman.
This note gives names and details of those individuals, in either House, who have spent twenty years or more in total in ministerial positions.
Ministers who have held ministerial office for 20 years or more (93KB PDF)
The list only includes individuals who have served at least part of their time as a Minister since 1900. The list is ordered by the total cumulative amount of service as a Minister.
The position of a government minister is not a Parliamentary position. Ministers are not formally required to sit in either House, though it has long been a convention that they do so.
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Ministers who have held ministerial office for 20 years or more (93KB PDF)
How to take complaints about services provided by local authorities to the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman.
A briefing paper which "maps" (or summarises) the main elements of the United Kingdom's uncodified constitution.
A briefing on the Church Appointments (Repeal of Discriminatory Provision) Bill 2026-27