House of Commons - Procedure

Select Committee on Procedure Second Report

ANNEX

Appointment and discharge of Chairmen of Ways and Means, 1832-2002, Deputy Chairmen of Ways and Means (1902-2002), and Second Deputy Chairmen of Ways and Means (1971-2002)

The following table lists the names of Chairmen, Deputy Chairmen and Second Deputy Chairmen of Ways and Means since 1832, together with the dates (if known) of their appointment and discharge, and the Speakers under which they served.

Before 1910 the appointment of Chairman of Ways and Means was always made in the Committee of Ways and Means, the Committee of Supply or other Committees of the whole House (although, if opposed, the motion had to be taken in the House itself). The full minutes of proceedings of meetings in Committee were not recorded in the House of Commons Journal until 1900, and thus the precise dates of appointment of Chairmen before this date cannot be determined with absolute certainty. In most cases the date given has been that on which the Chairman makes his first report from the Committee to the House. In a number of instances, Committees of Ways and Means and of Supply appear to have met at the commencement of a Parliament before the appointment of a permanent Chairman; in the interim, Government Whips or junior Ministers appear to have undertaken the duty of reporting from the Committee until a chairman was appointed.

Where the information is available, details are given of the member of the Government moving the motion for appointment.

Dates in bold indicate occasions where appointments have been taken up at the start of a Parliament or have lapsed on Dissolution. Additional information is drawn from the current or previous editions of Erskine May and from the Dictionary of National Biography (DNB). Abbreviations are used as follows:

CWH — Committee of the whole House

Supply — Committee of Supply

W&M — Committee of Ways and Means

CWM — Chairman of Ways and Means

1st DCWM — First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means

2nd DCWM — Second Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means

Date appointed	Motion for appointment	Name	Party	Date of discharge	Discharge [additional notes]	Speaker	Former party
[1826]		Sir Alexander Cray Grant	Tory	23.04.1831	Dissolution	Manners-Sutton	Tory
24.06.1831	[first report from Supply] [first Member appointed to Committee of Privileges, 21.06.1831]	Ralph Bernal	Whig	03.12.1832	Dissolution	Manners-Sutton	Tory
13.02.1833	[first report from Supply]	Ralph Bernal	Whig	29.12.1834	Dissolution	Manners-Sutton	Tory
02.03.1835	[first report from Supply]	Ralph Bernal	Whig	17.07.1837	Dissolution	Abercromby	Whig
23.11.1837	[first report from Supply]	Ralph Bernal	Whig	23.06.1841	Dissolution	Abercromby [-15.05.1839] Shaw-Lefevre [27.05.1839-]	Whig Whig
Sep 1841	[first report from Supply] Treasury Secretary (Sir T Fremantle) reports resolutions on Address from Supply 07.09.1841	Thomas Greene	Con	23.07.1847	Dissolution	Shaw-Lefevre	Whig
29.11.1847	[first report from Supply]	Ralph Bernal	Lib	01.07.1852	Dissolution	Shaw-Lefevre	Lib
17.11.1852	[first report from Supply]	Col. John Wilson Patten	Con	05.04.1853	resigns (May, 9th edn., 429); [Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1867; cr. 1st Baron Winmarleigh 1874]	Shaw-Lefevre	Lib
18.04.1853	[first report from W&M]	Edward Pleydell-Bouverie	Lib	30.03.1855	resigned seat	Shaw-Lefevre	Lib
16.04.1855	[first report from Supply]	Henry FitzRoy	Con	21.03.1857	Dissolution [takes Chair upon absence of Speaker, 07.05.55 & 04-08.06.1855]	Shaw-Lefevre	Lib
11.05.1857	[first report from CWH]	Henry FitzRoy	Con	23.04.1859	Dissolution	Denison	Lib
30.06.1859	[first report from Supply]	William George Massey	Lib	18.07.1864	?Resigned [last report]	Denison	Lib
10.02.1865	[first report from Supply] Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (H B Brand) reports from Committees in early February 1865	John George Dodson	Lib	06.07.1865	Dissolution [Addressed House on private bill procedure, 18.02.68 (DNB)]
08.02.1866	[first report from Supply]	John George Dodson	Lib	11.11.1868	Dissolution	Denison	Lib
17.02.1869	[first report from CWH]	John George Dodson	Lib	08.04.1872	Resigned (May, 9th edn., 429)	Denison [-07.02.1872] Brand [09.02.1872-]	Lib Lib
09.04.1872	[first report from W&M]	John Bonham Carter	Lib	26.01.1874	Dissolution	Brand	Lib
21.03.1874	[first report from Supply] [Sir Henry Selwin-Ibbetson declined office (DNB)] Secretary to the Treasury (W H Smith) reports from CWH, March 1874	Henry Cecil Raikes	Con	24.03.1880	Dissolution	Brand	Lib
27.05.1880	[first report from Supply] [George Stansfeld (Lib) declined office: DNB] Parliamentary Secretary of Local Government Board (J T Hibbert) reports from CWH 21.05.1880; 1st Commissioner of Works (G J Shaw-Lefevre) reports from CWH 24.05.1880	Dr Lyon Playfair	Lib	01.03.1883	Resigned (May, 9th edn., 429) [suspended 16 Irish Members 01.07.1882; appointed Vice-President. of the Council 1886; cr. 1st Baron Playfair of St Andrews 1892]	Brand	Lib
02.03 1883	Motion proposed in Supply by Minister for War (Marquis of Hartington); H C Raikes rose to speak; Speaker immediately resumed chair and question then put to the House. (May, 9th edn., 428; CJ (1883-84) 63)	Sir Arthur Otway	Lib	18.11.1885	Dissolution	Brand [-25.02.1884] Peel [26.02.1884-]	Lib Lib
19.02.1886	[first report from Supply]	Leonard Henry Courtney	Lib	26.06.1886	Dissolution	Peel	Lib
06.09.1886	[first report from Supply] [reports from Cttees on Local Govt Prov Orders, 30.08.86] 1st Secretary to the Treasury (W L Jackson) reports from CWH, 20 & 21.08.1886	Leonard Henry Courtney	Lib	28.06.1892	Dissolution	Peel	Lib
04.08.1892	No Chairman appointed in very short Session			18.08.1892	Prorogation	Peel	Lib
20.02.1893	[first report from Supply] George Stansfeld given leave to confer with Lords over originating House for Private Bills, 02.02.1893	John Mellor	Lib	08.07.1895	Dissolution	Peel [-09.04.1895] Gully [10.04.1895-]	Lib Lib
20.08.1895	[first report from Supply]	James William Lowther	Con	25.09.1900	Dissolution	Gully	Lib
11.12.1900	Moved in Supply [First Lord of the Treasury and Leader of the House (A J Balfour)]	James William Lowther	Con	07.06.1905	elected Speaker	Gully [resigned 07.06.1905]	Lib
14.02.1902	Moved in Supply [First Lord of the Treasury and Leader (A J Balfour)]; debate arising, Speaker resumed Chair and motion made in House	Arthur Jeffreys [DCWM]	Con	05.06.1906	[last report from Supply] [appointed Parliamentary Secretary to Local Govt Board, 27.06.1905]	Gully [resigned 07.06.1905]	Lib
21.06.1905	Moved in Supply [Prime Minister (A J Balfour)]	Sir John Grant Lawson [CWM]	Con	08.01.1906	Dissolution	Lowther [formerly CWM] [08.06.1905-]	Con
23.06.1905	Moved in CWH [Prime Minister (A J Balfour)]	Laurence Hardy [DCWM]	Con	08.01.1906	Dissolution	Lowther	Con
27.02.1906	Moved in Supply [Chancellor of the Exchequer]	Alfred Emmott [CWM]	Lib	10.01.1910	Dissolution	Lowther	Con
28.02.1906	Moved in Supply [Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Sir H Fowler)]	James Caldwell [DCWM]	Lib	10.01.1910	Dissolution	Lowther	Con
21.02.1910	Moved in House [Prime Minister]	Alfred Emmott [CWM]	Lib Lib	28.11.1910	Dissolution	Lowther	Con
28.02.1910	Moved in Supply [Prime Minister]	John Henry Whitley [DCWM]	Lib	28.11.1910	Dissolution	Lowther	Con
06.02.1911	Moved in House [Prime Minister]	Alfred Emmott [CWM] John Henry Whitley [DCWM]	Lib Lib	25.10.1911 25.10.1911	Resigned (peerage) Appointed CWM	Lowther	Con
25.10.1911 26.10.1911	Moved in House [Prime Minister]	John Henry Whitley [CWM] Donald Maclean [DCWM]	Lib Lib	25.11.1918 25.11.1918	Dissolution Dissolution	Lowther	Con
11.02.1919 11.02.1919	Moved in House [Leader (A Bonar Law)]	John Henry Whitley [CWM] Sir Edwin Cornwell [DCWM]	Lib Lib	27.04.1921 26.10.1922	Elected Speaker Dissolution	Lowther [resigned]	Con
28.04.1921	Moved in Supply [Lord Privy Seal (A Chamberlain)]; debate arising, Speaker resumed Chair and motion made in House	James Fitzalan Hope [CWM]	Con	26.10.1922	Dissolution	Whitley [formerly CWM]	Lib
23.11.1922 23.11.1922	Moved in House [Prime Minister]	James Fitzalan Hope [CWM] Capt E A FitzRoy [DCWM]	Con Con	16.11.1923	Dissolution	Whitley	Lib
15.01.1924	Motion for Hope [CWM] and FitzRoy [DCWM] made by Prime Minister (S Baldwin); withdrawn as Opposition signified intention to divide House
12.02.1924 25.02.1924	Moved in House [Prime Minister]	Robert Young [CWM] Major Cyril Entwistle [DCWM]	Lab Lib	09.10.1924 09.10.1924	Dissolution Dissolution	Whitley	Lib
02.12.1924 02.12.1924	Moved in House [Prime Minister]	James Fitzalan Hope [CWM] Capt E A FitzRoy [DCWM]	Con Con	10.05.1929 20.06.1928	Dissolution elected Speaker	Whitley [-19.06.1928] FitzRoy [20.06.1928-]	Lib Con
21.06.1924	Moved in House [Prime Minister]	Dennis Herbert [DCWM]	Con	10.05.1929	Dissolution	FitzRoy	Con
02.07.1929 02.07.1929	Moved in House [Prime Minister]	Robert Young [CWM] Rev Herbert Dunnico [DCWM]	Lab Lab	07.10.1931 07.10.1931	Dissolution Dissolution	FitzRoy	Con
10.11.1931 10.11.1931	Moved in House [Prime Minister]	Sir Dennis Herbert [CWM] Capt. Robert Bourne [DCWM]	Con Con	25.10.1935 25.10.1935	Dissolution Dissolution	FitzRoy	Con
03.12.1935 03.12.1935	Moved in House [Prime Minister]	Sir Dennis Herbert [CWM] Capt. Robert Bourne [DCWM]	Con Con	20.01.1943 07.08.1938	Resigned Died in office	FitzRoy	Con
09.11.1938	Moved in House [Prime Minister]	Col. Douglas Clifton-Brown [DCWM]	Con	20.01.1943	Appointed CWM	FitzRoy	Con
20.01.1943 20.01.1943	Moved in House [Deputy Prime Minister (C Attlee)] Previous Question moved (Austin Hopkinson (Ind)) and withdrawn (HC Deb, 5th ser vol. 386 cols. 252-264)	Col. Douglas Clifton-Brown [CWM] Major James Milner [DCWM]	Con Lab	09.03.1943 10.03.1943	Elected Speaker Appointed CWM	FitzRoy [died in office]	Con
10.03.1943 10.03.1943	Moved in House [Foreign Sec (A Eden)]	Major James Milner [CWM] Charles Williams [DCWM]	Lab Con	15.06.1945 15.06.1945	Dissolution Dissolution	Clifton-Brown [formerly CWM]	Con
16.08.1945 16.08.1945	Moved in House [Prime Minister]	Major James Milner [CWM] Hubert Beaumont [DCWM]	Lab Lab	03.02.1950 26.10.1948	Dissolution Resigned	Clifton-Brown	Con
26.11.1947	Moved in House [Prime Minister]	Sir Robert Young [additional DCWM]	Lab	pro tem.		Clifton-Brown	Con
28.10.1948	Moved in House [Prime Minister	Frank Bowles [DCWM]	Lab	03.02.1950	Dissolution	Clifton-Brown	Con
06.03.1950 06.03.1950	Moved in House [Prime Minister]	Major James Milner [CWM] Sir Charles MacAndrew [DCWM]	Lab Con	05.10.1951 05.10.1951	Dissolution Dissolution	Clifton-Brown [resigned]	Con
06.11.1951 06.11.1951	Moved in House [Minister of Health and Leader of the House (Capt. H Crookshank)]	Sir Charles MacAndrew [CWM] Mr Rhys Hopkin Morris [DCWM]	Con Lib	06.05.1955 06.05.1955	Dissolution Dissolution	Morrison	Con
09.06.1955 09.06.1955	Moved in House [Prime Minister]	Sir Charles MacAndrew [CWM] Sir Rhys Hopkin Morris [DCWM]	Con Lib	18.09.1959 22.11.1956	Dissolution Died in office	Morrison	Con
27.11.1956	Moved in House [Leader (R A Butler)]	Sir Gordon Touche [DCWM]	Con	18.09.1959	Dissolution	Morrison [resigned]	Con
06.06.1957	Moved in House [Leader (R A Butler)]	Sir William Anstruther-Gray [additional DCWM]	Con	pro tem.		Morrison	Con
20.10.1959 20.10.1959	Moved in House [Prime Minister]	Sir Gordon Touche [CWM] Sir W Anstruther-Gray [DCWM]	Con Con	29.01.1962 29.01.1962	Resigned Appointed CWM	Hylton-Foster	Con
29.01.1962 29.01.1962	Moved in House [Leader (I Macleod)]; Dr King proposed. amendment to leave out Grimston, defeated 180-52	Sir W Anstruther-Gray [CWM] Sir Robert Grimston [DCWM]	Con Con	25.09.1964 25.09.1964	Dissolution Dissolution	Hylton-Foster	Con
03.11.1964 03.11.1964	Moved in House [Prime Minister]	Dr Horace King [CWM] Sir Samuel Storey [DCWM]	Lab Con	26.10.1965 26.10.1965	Elected Speaker Appointed CWM	Hylton-Foster [died in office]	Con
17.11.1964	Moved in House [Leader (H Bowden)]	Sir Harry Legge-Bourke [additional DCWM]	Con	pro tem.		Hylton-Foster	Con
26.10.1965 26.10.1965	Moved in House [First Secretary of State (G Brown)]	Sir Samuel Storey [CWM] Roderic Bowen [DCWM]	Con Lib	10.03.1966 10.03.1966	Dissolution Dissolution	King [formerly CWM]	Lab
21.04.1966 21.04.1966	Moved in House [Prime Minister]	Sir Eric Fletcher [CWM] Sydney Irving [DCWM]	Lab Lab	25.10.1968 30.10.1968	Resigned Appointed CWM	King	Lab
30.10.1968 30.10.1968	Moved in House [Leader (F Peart)]	Sydney Irving [CWM] Harry Gourlay [DCWM]	Lab Lab	29.04.1970 29.04.1970	Dissolution Dissolution	King	Lab
02.07.1970	Moved in House [Prime Minister]	Sir Robert Grant-Ferris [CWM] Betty Harvie Anderson [DCWM]	Con Con	08.02.1974 24.10.1973	Dissolution Resigned	King [-11.01.1971] Lloyd [12.01.1971-]	Lab Con
22.11.1971	Moved in House [Leader (W Whitelaw)]	Edward Mallalieu [2nd DCWM]	Lab	30.10.1973	Appointed 1st DCWM	Lloyd	Con
02.08.1972	Moved in House [Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (F Pym)]	Sir Ronald Russell [add'l DCWM]	Con	09.08.1972	Order lapsed	Lloyd	Con
30.10.1973	Moved in House [Leader (J Prior)]	Edward Mallalieu [1st DCWM] Oscar Murton [2nd DCWM]	Lab Con	08.02.1974 08.02.1974	Dissolution Dissolution	Lloyd	Con
12.03.1974 12.03.1974	Moved in House [Prime Minister]	George Thomas [CWM] Oscar Murton [1st DCWM] [no 2nd DCWM appointed]	Lab Con	20.09.1974 20.09.1974	Dissolution Dissolution	Lloyd	Con
29.10.1974 29.10.1974 29.10.1974	Moved in House [Prime Minister]	George Thomas [CWM] Oscar Murton [1st DCWM] Sir Myer Galpern [2nd DCWM]	Lab Con Lab	03.02.1976 03.02.1976 03.02.1976	Elected Speaker Appointed CWM Appointed 1st DCWM	Lloyd [resigned]	Con
03.02.1976 03.02.1976 03.02.1976	Moved in House [Prime Minister]	Oscar Murton [CWM] Sir Myer Galpern [1st DCWM] Bryant Godman Irvine [2nd DCWM]	Con Lab Con	07.04.1979 07.04.1979 07.04.1979	Dissolution Dissolution Dissolution	Thomas [formerly CWM]	Lab
15.05.1979 15.05.1979	Moved in House [Prime Minister]	Bernard Weatherill [CWM] Bryant Godman Irvine [1st DCWM]	Con Con	13.05.1983 27.05.1982	Dissolution Resigned	Thomas	Lab
16.05.1979	Moved in House [Leader (N St John-Stevas)]	Richard Crawshaw [2nd DCWM]	Lab	23.02.1981	Resigned [joined SDP]	Thomas	Lab
27.02.1981	Moved in House [Leader (F Pym)]	Ernest Armstrong [2nd DCWM]	Lab	28.05.1982	Appointed 1st DCWM	Thomas	Lab
28.05.1982	Moved in House [Leader (J Biffen)]	Ernest Armstrong [1st DCWM] Paul Dean [2nd DCWM]	Lab Con	13.05.1983 13.05.1983	Dissolution Dissolution	Thomas [resigned]	Lab
22.06.1983	Moved in House [Leader (J Biffen)]	Sir Paul Dean [2nd DCWM]	Con	18.05.1987	Dissolution	Weatherill (formerly CWM)	Con
23.06.1983 23.06.1983	Moved in House [Leader (J Biffen)]	Harold Walker [CWM] Ernest Armstrong [1st DCWM]	Lab Lab	18.05.1987 18.05.1987	Dissolution Dissolution	Weatherill	Con
25.06.1987 25.06.1987	Moved in House [Leader (J Wakeham)]	Harold Walker [CWM] Sir Paul Dean [1st DCWM]	Lab Con	16.03.1992 16.03.1992	Dissolution Dissolution	Weatherill	Con
07.07.1987	Moved in House [Leader (J Wakeham)]	Betty Boothroyd [2nd DCWM]	Lab	16.03.1992	Dissolution	Weatherill [resigned]	Con
06.07.1992 06.07.1992 06.07.1992	Moved in House [Leader (T Newton)]	Michael Morris [CWM] Geoffrey Lofthouse [1st DCWM] Dame Janet Fookes [2nd DCWM]	Con Lab Con	08.04.1997 08.04.1997 08.04.1997	Dissolution Dissolution Dissolution	Boothroyd (formerly 2nd DCWM)	Lab
14.05.1997	Moved in House [Leader (A Taylor)]	Sir Alan Haselhurst [CWM] Michael J Martin [1st DCWM] Michael Lord [2nd DCWM]	Con Lab Con	11.05.2001 23.10.2000 11.05.2001	Dissolution Elected Speaker Dissolution	Boothroyd [-22.10.2000] Martin (formerly 1st DCWM) [23.10.00-]	Lab Lab
02.11.2000	Moved in House [Leader (M Beckett)]	Sylvia Heal [1st DCWM]	Lab	11.05.2001	Dissolution	Martin	Lab
20.06.2001 20.06.2001 20.06.2001	Moved in House [Leader (R Cook)]	Sir Alan Haselhurst [CWM] Sylvia Heal [1st DCWM] Sir Michael Lord [2nd DCWM]	Con Lab Con			Martin	Lab