The Minister for Sport and Civil Society was 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. In 2020, the role merged with that of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Arts, Heritage and Tourism to become Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Sport, Tourism, Heritage and Civil Society.

The post covered 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.

Under Margaret Thatcher the office was known as Under-Secretary of State for Sport.

Current responsibilities

Ministers for Sport

Name Portrait Term of office Political party Prime Minister
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
Tony Banks 1997 1999 Labour Blair I
Kate Hoey 1999 2001 Labour
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
Tracey Crouch May 2015 2018 Conservative Cameron II
May I
May II
Mims Davies 2018 2019 Conservative
Nigel Adams 2019 2020 Conservative Johnson I
Johnson II
Nigel Huddleston
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Sport, Tourism and Heritage		 2020 Incumbent Conservative

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