Gordon Brown's 1st Cabinet

Gordon Brown's new Cabinet

• Prime minister: Gordon Brown
• Chancellor: Alistair Darling
• Justice: Jack Straw
• Chief Whip: Geoff Hoon
• Commons leader: Harriet Harman
• Culture: James Purnell
• Defence and Scotland: Des Browne
• Int Development: Douglas Alexander
• Cabinet office minister/Duchy of Lancaster: Ed Miliband
• Schools and children: Ed Balls
• Innovation, universities and skills: John Denham
• Environment: Hilary Benn
• Foreign Secretary: David Miliband
• Health: Alan Johnson
• Home Secretary: Jacqui Smith
• Business and enterprise: John Hutton
• Lords leader: Baroness Ashton
• Communities: Hazel Blears
• Northern Ireland: Shaun Woodward
• Transport: Ruth Kelly
• Chief secretary to the Treasury: Andy Burnham
• Wales/Work and Pensions: Peter Hain
• Attorney General (attending Cabinet when necessary): Baroness Scotland
• Children and youth justice (attending Cabinet when necessary): Beverley Hughes
• Lords chief whip (attending Cabinet when necessary): Lord Grocott
• Housing minister (attending Cabinet when needed): Yvette Cooper
• Attorney General (attending Cabinet when necessary): Baroness Scotland
• Olympics minister (attending Cabinet when needed): Tessa Jowell
• Africa, Asia and UN (attending Cabinet when necessary): Lord Malloch Brown