Cabinet ministers and frontbenchers
| Position |
Labour |
Conservative |
Liberal Democrats |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prime minister/Party leader | Gordon Brown | David Cameron | Nick Clegg |
| Leader in the Lords | Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | Lord Strathclyde | Lord McNally |
| Leader of the Commons | Harriet Harman | Alan Duncan | David Heath |
| Treasury | Alistair Darling | George Osborne Philip Hammond (shadow chief secretary) |
Vincent Cable Jeremy Browne (spokesman, chief secretary) |
| Foreign Office | David Miliband | William Hague Mark Francois (Europe) |
Edward Davey |
| Ministry of Justice | Jack Straw | Dominic Grieve | David Howarth |
| Home Office | Jacqui Smith | Chris Grayling | Chris Huhne |
| Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform | Lord Mandelson | Kenneth Clarke | John Thurso |
| Cabinet Office | - | Francis Maude | Jenny Willott |
| Department for Children, Schools and Families | Ed Balls | Michael Gove | David Laws Lynne Featherstone (youth and equalities) |
| Department for Communities and Local Government | Hazel Blears | Caroline Spelman Grant Shapps (housing) |
Julia Goldsworthy Sarah Teather (housing) |
| Department for Culture, Media and Sport | Andy Burnham | Jeremy Hunt | Don Foster |
| Ministry of Defence | John Hutton | Liam Fox | Nick Harvey |
| Department of Energy and Climate Change | Ed Miliband | Greg Clark | Simon Hughes |
| Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | Hilary Benn | Nick Herbert | Tim Farron |
| Department of Health | Alan Johnson | Andrew Lansley | Norman Lamb |
| Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills | John Denham | David Willetts | Stephen Williams |
| Department for International Development | Douglas Alexander | Andrew Mitchell | Michael Moore |
| Law Officers | Baroness Scotland of Asthal | - | |
| Northern Ireland Office | Shaun Woodward | Owen Paterson | Alistair Carmichael |
| Scotland Office | Jim Murphy | David Mundell | Alistair Carmichael |
| Department for Transport | Geoff Hoon | Theresa Villiers | Norman Baker |
| Wales Office | Paul Murphy | Cheryl Gillan | Roger Williams |
| Whips Office | Nick Brown | Patrick McLoughlin Baroness Anelay of St Johns (attending shadow cabinet, shadow chief whip in the Lords) |
Paul Burstow |
| Department for Work and Pensions | James Purnell | Theresa May | Steve Webb |
| Also attending | Margaret Beckett (housing minister) Yvette Cooper (chief Secretary to the Treasury ) Lord Malloch-Brown (minister for the Middle East and Africa ) Tony McNulty (employment minister) Lord Drayson (science minister) Liam Byrne (Cabinet Office minister) |
Eric Pickles (party chairman) Oliver Letwin (chairman of the policy review and chairman of the Conservative Research Department) Baroness Neville-Jones (shadow security minister and national security adviser to the leader of the Opposition) Baroness Warsi (shadow minister for community cohesion and social action) |
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| Attending when responsibilities are on the agenda | Minister for the Olympics Tessa Jowell Attorney general Baroness Scotland Europe minister Caroline Flint Children's minister Beverley Hughes |
