Name Portrait Term of office Political party P.M. F.Sec. Peter Hain 28 July 1999 24 January 2001 Labour Blair Cook Brian Wilson 24 January 2001 11 June 2001 Office vacant 2001–07 The Lord Malloch-Brown 28 June 2007 24 July 2009 Labour Brown Miliband The Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead 13 October 2009 11 May 2010 Henry Bellingham 11 May 2010 5 September 2012 Conservative Cameron Hague Mark Simmonds 5 September 2012 11 August 2014 Hammond James Duddridge 11 August 2014 16 July 2016 Tobias Ellwood 16 July 2016 13 June 2017 May Johnson Rory Stewart 15 June 2017 9 January 2018 Harriett Baldwin 9 January 2018 25 July 2019 Hunt Andrew Stephenson 25 July 2019 13 February 2020 Johnson Raab James Duddridge 13 February 2020 Incumbent