Minister for Sport and Civil Society

United Kingdom; Minister for Sport
	Royal Arms as used by Her Majesty's Government
	Flag of the United Kingdom
	Incumbent; Nigel Huddleston; since 13 February 2020
	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Style	Sports Minister
Reports to	Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Seat	Westminster
Appointer	Elizabeth II
Term length	No fixed term
Inaugural holder	Denis Howell
Formation	1962
Website	Official website

The Minister for Sport is a junior minister in the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport of the United Kingdom government, with responsibility for sport and Civil Society in England. The office is currently held by Nigel Huddleston.

The post covers sport as well as tourism and heritage. The sports minister has at various times previously reported to the Department of National Heritage, the Department of Education and Science and the Department of the Environment.

Sport is a devolved matter in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland resting with the corresponding ministers in the Scottish Government, Welsh Government and the Northern Ireland Executive, although when the Northern Ireland Assembly was suspended, responsibility went to the Northern Ireland Office.

Current responsibilities

	Term of office		Political party
Denis Howell	1964	1970	Labour	Wilson
Eldon Griffiths	1970	1974	Conservative	Heath
Denis Howell	1974	1979	Labour	Wilson Callaghan
Hector Monro	1979	1981	Conservative	Thatcher I
Neil Macfarlane	1981	1985	Conservative	Thatcher I Thatcher II
Richard Tracey	1985	1987	Conservative	Thatcher II
Colin Moynihan	1987	1990	Conservative	Thatcher II
Robert Atkins	1990	1992	Conservative	Major I
Robert Key	1992	1993	Conservative	Major II
Iain Sproat	1993	1997	Conservative	Major II
Tony Banks	1997	1999	Labour	Blair I
Kate Hoey	1999	2001	Labour	Blair I
The Rt Hon. Richard Caborn	2001	2007	Labour	Blair II Blair III
Gerry Sutcliffe	2007	2010	Labour	Brown
Hugh Robertson	2010	2013	Conservative	Cameron-Clegg
Helen Grant	2013	2015	Conservative	Cameron-Clegg
Tracey Crouch	May 2015	2018	Conservative	Cameron II
				May I
				May II
Mims Davies	2018	2019	Conservative	May II
Nigel Adams	2019	2020	Conservative	Johnson I
Nigel Adams	2019	2020	Conservative	Johnson II
Nigel Huddleston Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Sport, Tourism and Heritage	2020	Incumbent	Conservative	Johnson II

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