List of Prime Ministers of Queen Elizabeth II

 

  Portrait Name  
Took office Left office
Sir Winston Churchill 26 October 1951 7 April 1955
Sir Anthony Eden 7 April 1955 10 January 1957
Harold Macmillan 10 January 1957 19 October 1963
Sir Alec Douglas-Home 19 October 1963 16 October 1964
Harold Wilson 16 October 1964 19 June 1970
Edward Heath 19 June 1970 4 March 1974
Harold Wilson 4 March 1974 5 April 1976
James Callaghan 5 April 1976 4 May 1979
Margaret Thatcher 4 May 1979 28 November 1990
John Major 28 November 1990 2 May 1997
Tony Blair 2 May 1997 27 June 2007
Gordon Brown 27 June 2007 11 May 2010
David Cameron 11 May 2010  

List of Government Departments

 

Ministerial departments

· Attorney General's Office

· Cabinet Office

· Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

· Department for Communities and Local Government

· Department for Culture, Media and Sport

· Department for Education

· Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

· Department for International Development

· Department for Transport

· Department for Work and Pensions

· Department of Energy and Climate Change

· Department of Health

· Foreign and Commonwealth Office

· Her Majesty's Treasury

· Home Office

· Ministry of Defence

· Ministry of Justice

· Northern Ireland Office

· Office of the Advocate General for Scotland

· Office of the Leader of the House of Commons

· Office of the Leader of the House of Lords

· Scotland Office

· UK Export Finance

· Wales Office

Non-ministerial departments

  • Charity Commission for England and Wales
  • Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt
  • Competition and Markets Authority
  • Crown Prosecution Service
  • Food Standards Agency
  • Forestry Commission
  • Government Actuary's Department
  • Her Majesty's Land Registry
  • Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs
  • National Crime Agency
  • Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills
  • Office of Fair Trading
  • Office of Gas and Electricity Markets
  • Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation
  • Office of Rail Regulation
  • Ordnance Survey
  • Public Works Loan Board
  • Serious Fraud Office
  • Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
  • The National Archives
  • Treasury Solicitor's Department
  • UK Statistics Authority
  • UK Trade & Investment
  • Water Services Regulation Authority

 

 

House of Windsor

The house name Windsor was adopted in 1917, during World War I. It was changed from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha because of wartime anti-German sentiment in the United Kingdom.