| Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Category | Shadow Cabinet position | |||
| Inaugural holder | Musafir_85 | |||
| Number of Shadow Work and Pensions Secretaries since September 2013 | 15 | |||
The Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, known in full as the Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, is a member of the opposition's shadow cabinet that shadows the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. The Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary is responsible for holding them to account and has the ability to ask the Work and Pensions Secretary two questions at question times. The current Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary is Alex 3, who was appointed on 15th November 2020.
List of Shadow Work and Pensions Secretaries[]
Musafir_85 was appointed as the first Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary for the Labour Party following the first general election. Since shadow cabinet records began in September 2013, there have been 15 Shadow Work and Pensions Secretaries.
| Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary | Alternative Role | Party | Took office | Left office | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Krollo | Conservative | May 2015 | July 2015 | ||
| That Bearded Man | Labour | July 2015 | August 2015 | ||
| Krollo | Conservative | October 2015 | April 2016 | ||
| DanE1998 | Labour | May 2016 | June 2016 | ||
| McRite | Shadow Secretary of State for Enterprise, Work and Pensions | Labour | June 2016 | August 2016 | |
| TheDefiniteArticle | Shadow Secretary of State for Enterprise, Work and Pensions | Labour | August 2016 | October 2016 | |
| adam9317 | Shadow Secretary of State for Business and Industry, and Work and Pensions | Conservative | November 2016 | January 2017 | |
| fleky6910 | Shadow Secretary of State for Business and Industry, and Work and Pensions | Conservative | February 2017 | December 2017 | |
| RayApparently | Under the remit of the Shadow Chancellor | Labour | December 2017 | February 2018 | |
| Dafios9128 | Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Welfare and Infrastructure | Labour | February 2018 | May 2018 | |
| Aph | Labour | May 2018 | July 2018 | ||
| Saunders16 | Under the remit of the Shadow Chancellor | Labour | November 2018 | June 2019 | |
| Rakas21 | Under the remit of the Shadow Chancellor | Conservative | June 2019 | May 2020 | |
| BosslyGaming | Under the remit of the Shadow Chancellor | Labour | May 2020 | November 2020 | |
| Alex 3 | Conservative | November 2020 | Incumbent | ||