| George Foulkes | 5 May 1997 | 11 June 2001 |
| Christopher John Mullin | February 2001 | June 2001 |
| Hilary James Wedgwood Benn | 11 June 2001 | 15 May 2003 |
| Gareth Richard Thomas | 13 June 2003 | |
| Shahid Malik | 27 June 2007 | 4 October 2008 |
| Ivan Lewis | 2008 | 2009 |
| Lynne Choona Featherstone | 5 September 2012 | 4 November 2014 |
| Dr Lindsay Patricia Granshaw, Baroness Northover | 4 November 2014 | 7 May 2015 |
| James Stephen Wharton | 17 July 2016 | 12 June 2017 |
| Elizabeth Grace Sugg, Baroness Sugg | 23 April 2019 | 2 September 2020 |
| Frank Zacharias Robin Goldsmith | 27 July 2019 | 7 September 2019 |
| James Philip Duddridge | 14 February 2020 | 16 September 2021 |