| Rt Hon Sir John Charles Walsham Reith | May 1940 | October 1940 |
| Lynda Chalker | 18 October 1983 | 11 January 1986 |
| David Bower Mitchell | 9 January 1986 | 25 July 1988 |
| John Arthur Watts | 1994 | 2 May 1997 |
| Rt Hon Dr Gavin Steel Strang | 3 May 1997 | 27 July 1998 |
| Dr Kim Scott Howells | 13 June 2003 | 9 September 2004 |
| Dr Stephen John Ladyman | 9 May 2005 | |
| Theresa Anne Villiers | 13 May 2010 | 4 September 2012 |
| Norman John Baker | 15 May 2010 | 7 October 2013 |
| Rt Hon Simon Hugh McGuigan Burns | 4 September 2012 | 5 October 2012 |
| Rt Hon Susan Veronica Kramer, Baroness Kramer | 7 October 2013 | 8 May 2015 |
| Rt Hon John Henry Hayes | 15 July 2014 | 11 May 2015 |
| Rt Hon John Henry Hayes | 16 July 2016 | 9 January 2018 |
| Joseph Edmund Johnson | 9 January 2018 | 9 November 2018 |
| Dr Alexander Jesse Norman | 12 November 2018 | 23 May 2019 |
| Michael Tyrone Ellis | 23 May 2019 | 24 July 2019 |
| Christopher Heaton-Harris | 25 July 2019 | 19 December 2021 |
| Wendy Morton | 19 December 2021 | 6 September 2022 |
| Trudy Lynne Harrison | 8 July 2022 | |
| Kevin John Foster | 7 September 2022 | 26 October 2022 |
| Rt Hon Lucy Claire Frazer | 8 September 2022 | 26 October 2022 |
| Rt Hon Dr Alexander Jesse Norman | 26 October 2022 | |
| Huw William Merriman | 27 October 2022 |