Steve Barclay

The Right Honourable Steve Barclay MP
Official portrait, 2023
Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
In office 8 July 2024 – 5 November 2024
Leader	Rishi Sunak
Preceded by	Steve Reed
Succeeded by	Victoria Atkins
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
In office 13 November 2023 – 5 July 2024
Prime Minister	Rishi Sunak
Preceded by	Thérèse Coffey
Succeeded by	Steve Reed
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
In office 25 October 2022 – 13 November 2023
Prime Minister	Rishi Sunak
Preceded by	Thérèse Coffey
Succeeded by	Victoria Atkins
In office 5 July 2022 – 6 September 2022
Prime Minister	Boris Johnson
Preceded by	Sajid Javid
Succeeded by	Thérèse Coffey
Downing Street Chief of Staff
In office 5 February 2022 – 5 July 2022
Prime Minister	Boris Johnson
Preceded by	Dan Rosenfield
Succeeded by	Mark Fullbrook
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
In office 15 September 2021 – 5 July 2022
Prime Minister	Boris Johnson
Preceded by	Michael Gove
Succeeded by	Kit Malthouse
Minister for the Cabinet Office
In office 15 September 2021 – 8 February 2022
Prime Minister	Boris Johnson
Preceded by	Michael Gove
Succeeded by	Michael Ellis
Chief Secretary to the Treasury
In office 13 February 2020 – 15 September 2021
Prime Minister	Boris Johnson
Preceded by	Rishi Sunak
Succeeded by	Simon Clarke
Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union
In office 16 November 2018 – 31 January 2020
Prime Minister	Theresa May Boris Johnson
Preceded by	Dominic Raab
Succeeded by	Office abolished
Junior ministerial offices 2016-2018 Minister of State for Health In office 9 January 2018 – 16 November 2018 Prime Minister Theresa May Preceded by Philip Dunne Succeeded by Stephen Hammond Economic Secretary to the Treasury In office 14 June 2017 – 9 January 2018 Prime Minister Theresa May Preceded by Simon Kirby Succeeded by John Glen Lord Commissioner of the Treasury In office 17 July 2016 – 14 June 2017 Prime Minister Theresa May Preceded by George Hollingbery Succeeded by David Rutley
Member of Parliament for North East Cambridgeshire
Incumbent
Assumed office 6 May 2010
Preceded by	Malcolm Moss
Majority	7,189 (18.4%)
Personal details
Born	Stephen Paul Barclay (1972-05-03) 3 May 1972 (age 52) Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, England
Political party	Conservative
Spouse	Karen Barclay
Children	2
Education	King Edward VII School, Lytham
Alma mater	Peterhouse, Cambridge
Signature
Website	stevebarclay.net
Military service
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Branch/service	British Army
Years of service	1991
Rank	Second lieutenant
Unit	Royal Regiment of Fusiliers

Stephen Paul Barclay (born 3 May 1972)^[1][2] is a British politician who served in various cabinet positions under prime ministers Theresa May, Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak between 2018 and 2024, lastly as the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from 2023 to 2024. A member of the Conservative Party, he has been Member of Parliament (MP) for North East Cambridgeshire since 2010, and was Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from July to November 2024.^[3]

Born in Lancashire and privately educated at King Edward VII School, Lytham, Barclay attended the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and served in the British Army on a gap year commission. He then read history at Peterhouse, Cambridge, before qualifying as a solicitor through the College of Law. He worked in the financial sector while being active in the Conservative Party and unsuccessfully contested Manchester Blackley in 1997 and Lancaster and Wyre in 2001. Elected at the 2010 general election, he served as Lord Commissioner of the Treasury from 2016 to 2017 and Economic Secretary to the Treasury from 2017 to 2018. After the 2018 cabinet reshuffle, he became Minister of State for Health.

Barclay was appointed Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union by Theresa May following the resignation of Dominic Raab in November 2018. He was retained in the position by Boris Johnson and remained in office until the United Kingdom officially left the EU on 31 January 2020. Barclay quickly returned to the Cabinet as Chief Secretary to the Treasury in the February 2020 cabinet reshuffle. He was later promoted to Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office in the 2021 cabinet reshuffle. In February 2022, Barclay also assumed the responsibilities of the Downing Street Chief of Staff, following the resignation of Dan Rosenfield. In July 2022, he became Secretary of State for Health and Social Care following the resignation of Sajid Javid; he was removed from the position by Johnson's successor Liz Truss in September 2022. In October 2022, following Truss's resignation, he was reappointed to the role by new prime minister Rishi Sunak. He was later appointed Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in the November 2023 British cabinet reshuffle.