Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs

   

The Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs is a United Kingdom cabinet position. It was created in 2003, and will eventually supersede the office of Lord Chancellor, with the Lord Chancellor's Department already renamed the Department for Constitutional Affairs.

The only holder of this office so far is Baron Falconer of Thoroton, who holds the office alongside holding the office of Lord Chancellor.

The office was formally created through the approval, by way of the Order-in-Council procedure, of The Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs Order 2003 (SI 2003 No. 1887). Through the order references to the Lord Chancellor and the Lord Chancellor's Department were thereby construed to either refer to or stand transferred to the Secretary. Functions were also transferred from the First Secretary of State who is also the Deputy Prime Minister.

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