Who's who in the Labour Government

THE CABINET

Prime Minister - Tony Blair, 44, *pounds 100,000 salary

Deputy Prime Minister, Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions - John Prescott, 58, pounds 60,000

Chancellor of the Exchequer - Gordon Brown, 47, pounds 60,000

Foreign Secretary - Robin Cook, 51, pounds 60,000

Lord Chancellor - The Lord Irvine of Lairg, 56, pounds 135,406

Home Secretary - Jack Straw, 50, pounds 60,000

Education and Employment Secretary - David Blunkett, 49, pounds 60,000

President of the Board of Trade - Margaret Beckett, 54, pounds 60,000

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food - Dr Jack Cunningham, 57, pounds 60,000

Secretary of State for Scotland - Donald Dewar, 59, pounds 60,000

Secretary of State for Defence - George Robertson, 51, pounds 60,000

Secretary of State for Health - Frank Dobson, 57, pounds 60,000

President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons - Ann Taylor, 49, pounds 60,000

Secretary of State for National Heritage - Chris Smith, 45, pounds 60,000

Secretary of State for Social Security - Harriet Harman, 46, pounds 60,000

Secretary of State for Northern Ireland - Marjorie Mowlam, 47, pounds 60,000

Secretary of State for Wales - Ron Davies, 50, pounds 60,000

Secretary of State for International Development - Clare Short, 51, pounds 60,000

Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords - The Lord Richard, 64, pounds 77,963

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - David Clark, 57, pounds 60,000

Minister of Transport - Gavin Strang, 53, pounds 60,000

Chief Secretary to the Treasury - Alistair Darling, 43, pounds 60,000

DEPARTMENTS OF STATE AND MINISTERS

AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food - Jack Cunningham

Minister of State - Jeff Rooker, 55, pounds 31,125.

Parliamentary Secretaries - Elliot Morley, 44, pounds 23,623.

Lord Donoughue, 63, pounds 23,623.

Agenda: Lifting the ban on beef exports - meeting on Monday in Brussels; setting up independent Food Standards Agency; stopping quota- hopping over fish.

DEFENCE

Secretary of State - George Robertson

Minister for Defence Procurement - Dr John Reid, 49, pounds 31,125

Minister for the Armed Forces - Dr John Gilbert, 70, pounds 31,125.

Parliamentary Under-Secretary - John Spellar, 49, pounds 23,623.

Agenda: Strategic defence, security, and spending review. Retention of Trident, although nuclear weapons to be included in multilateral negotiations "when satisfied with verified progress towards our goal of global elimination".

EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT

Secretary of State - David Blunkett

Minister for Employment and Disability Rights - Andrew Smith, 46, pounds 31,125.

Minister for School Standards - Stephen Byers, 44, pounds 31,125.

Minister for Education and Employment - Baroness Blackstone, 54, pounds 31,125.

Parliamentary Under-Secretaries:

Standards - Estelle Morris, 44, pounds 23,623.

Life-long learning - Dr Kim Howells, 50, pounds 23,623.

Welfare to work - Alan Howarth, 52, pounds 23,623.

Agenda: Two of Labour's five election pledges have to be fulfilled: the promise to cut class sizes to 30 or under for 5-, 6- and 7-year-olds, linked to the abolition of the assisted places scheme, and getting 250,000 under-25s off benefit and into work. Other priorities include implementation of Social Chapter and Sir Ron Dearing's review of higher education to be released in June or July.

ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS

Secretary of State - John Prescott

Minister for the Environment - Michael Meacher, 57, pounds 31,125

Ministers of State:

Local Government - Hilary Armstrong, 51, pounds 31,125.

Regions, regeneration and planning - Dick Caborn, 53, pounds 31,125

Parliamentary Under-Secretaries:

London and construction - Nick Raynsford, 52, pounds 23,623

Transport in London - Glenda Jackson, 60, pounds 23,623

Not yet designated - Angela Eagle, 36, pounds 23,623

Roads - Baroness Hayman, pounds 23,623.

Agenda: To promote use of public transport, and curb the car culture. To introduce a new rail authority to ensure more effective regulation of the railways. New public/private partnership to improve London Underground. Review of vehicle excise duty, and partnership with car industry to promote low-emission vehicles. Environmental objectives include tax penalties for pollution and creation of new green taskforce of unemployed to clean up environment and wildlife sites.

FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE

Foreign Secretary - Robin Cook.

Minister for Europe - Doug Henderson, 47, pounds 31,125.

Foreign Office Minister of State - Derek Fatchett, 51, pounds 31,125

Foreign Office Minister of State - Tony Lloyd, 47, pounds 31,125

Parliamentary Under-Secretary - The Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean, pounds 23,623.

Agenda: Rapid completion of single market in Europe. High priority is enlargement of the union, reform of CAP, retention of veto on key national interest issues in Europe, and signing of social chapter. Press for reform of UN, including resolution of funding crisis.

HEALTH

Secretary of State - Frank Dobson.

Ministers of State:

Minister for Public Health - Tessa Jowell, 49, pounds 31,125

Health Minister of State - Alan Milburn, 39, pounds 31,125

Health Minister of State - Baroness Jay of Paddington, 57, pounds 31,125.

Parliamentary Under-Secretary - Paul Boateng, 45, pounds 23,623.

Agenda: Abolition of the internal market, with first pounds 100m saved to take 100,000 off waiting lists. No wait for cancer surgery. Annual real-terms increase in NHS spending. Action on mixed-sex wards. Ban on tobacco advertising. Independent food standards agency.

HOME OFFICE

Home Secretary - Jack Straw.

Ministers of State:

Criminal policy - Alun Michael, 53, pounds 31,125

Prisons, probation, Europe - Joyce Quin, 52, pounds 31,125

Parliamentary Under-Secretaries:

Deregulation, drugs, elections - George Howarth, 47, pounds 23,623.

Immigration and nationality - Mike O'Brien, 42, pounds 23,623.

Constitutional issues - The Lord Williams of Mostyn, 56, pounds 23,623.

Agenda: The Home Office will be implementing a fast-track punishment for persistent young offenders by halving the time from arrest to sentencing. The Labour manifesto also includes a pledge to introduce parental responsibility orders, to make parents children face up to child's misbehaviour, community safety orders for bad neighbours and child protection orders for youngsters left out too late at night. Also the Labour Party has promised a free vote on the ban of handguns.

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Secretary of State - Clare Short

Parliamentary Under-Secretary - George Foulkes, 55, pounds 23,623.

Agenda: Defining department's sphere of influence in relation to DTI. Restructuring aid programme.

CABINET OFFICE

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - David Clark

Minister without Portfolio - Peter Mandelson, 43, pounds 31,125

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State:

Office of public service - Peter Kilfoyle, 50, pounds 23,623.

Agenda: Ensure government and administration is run efficiently. Better co-ordination of government policy through new role given to Peter Mandelson. Cleaning up Parliament and politics and working with Nolan Committee.

LAW OFFICERS

Attorney General - John Morris QC, 66.

Solicitor General - Charles Falconer QC, 45,

Lord Advocate (Scotland) - Andrew Hardie QC (to be made a Lord), 51, pounds 78,072

Solicitor General for Scotland - Colin Boyd QC, 43, pounds 66,811

Agenda: Reform of Crown Prosecution Service.

LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT

Lord Chancellor - Lord Irvine of Lairg

Parliamentary Secretary - Geoff Hoon, 44, pounds 23,623.

Agenda: Bill of Rights, to incorporate European Convention on Human Rights. Review of civil justice and legal aid.

NATIONAL HERITAGE

Secretary of State for National Heritage - Chris Smith.

Minister for Film and Tourism - Tom Clarke, 56, pounds 31,125

Parliamentary Under-Secretaries:

Arts - Mark Fisher, 52, pounds 23,623

Sports - Tony Banks, 54, pounds 23,623

Agenda: Review of allocation of lottery funds. Review of millennium projects. Establishment of a National Endowment for Science and the Arts to sponsor young talent.

NORTHERN IRELAND OFFICE

Secretary of State for Northern Ireland - Mo Mowlam

Ministers of State

Security, police, criminal justice, prisons, economic development - Adam Ingram, 50, pounds 31,125

Political development, finance, personnel, information - Paul Murphy, 48, pounds 31,125.

Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of State

Education, Training and Employment, Health, Community Relations - Tony Worthington, 56, pounds 23,623.

Environment, Agriculture - Lord Dubs, 65, pounds 23,623

Agenda: The new team will continue to try and get the peace process back on track. They have to prepare for Mo Mowlam's first major appearance, which will be at the all party talks at Stormont on 3 June. Another priority is to stop the marching season, which starts at the end of May, erupting into violence.

PRIVY COUNCIL OFFICE

President of the Council and Leader of the Commons - Ann Taylor

Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the Lords - Lord Richard

SCOTTISH OFFICE

Secretary of State for Scotland - Donald Dewar

Ministers of State:

Home affairs and devolution - Henry McLeish, 48, pounds 31,125

Education and industry- Brian Wilson, 48, pounds 31,125.

Parliamentary Under-Secretaries

Agriculture, environment and fisheries - Lord Sewell, pounds 23,623.

Health and arts - Sam Galbraith, 51, pounds 23,623

Local government and transport - Malcolm Chisholm, 48, pounds 23,623.

Agenda: To set up the machinery for a referendum on devolution in Scotland before the autumn of this year. The parliament will have law-making powers, defined and limited financial powers to vary revenue.

SOCIAL SECURITY

Secretary of State for Social Security and Minister for Women - Harriet Harman

Minister of State for social security and welfare reform - Frank Field, 54, pounds 31,125

Parliamentary Under-Secretaries: Keith Bradley, 46, pounds 23,623

Baroness Hollis of Heigham, 55, pounds 23,623.

John Denham, 43, pounds 23,623

Agenda: Implementing the `welfare to work' programme. Creation of Special Employment Zones to co-ordinate benefits, training and job-hunting. Review how to pay for long-term care of the elderly. The DSS also have to crack down further on tax avoidance, which costs an estimated pounds 2bn a year.

TRADE AND INDUSTRY

President of the Board of Trade - Margaret Beckett

Ministers of State:

Trade - Lord Clinton-Davis, 68, pounds 31,125.

Competitiveness - Ian McCartney, 46, pounds 31,125

Industry, energy, science and technology - John Battle, 46, pounds 31,125.

Parliamentary Under-Secretaries:

Consumer affairs - Nigel Griffiths, 41, pounds 23,623

Small firms and regional policy - Barbara Roche, 43, pounds 23,623

Minister for trade and competiveness in Europe Sir David Simon

Agenda: Implementation of the various parts of the social chapter. Setting up the minimum wage councils.

TREASURY

Chancellor of the Exchequer - Gordon Brown

Chief Secretary to the Treasury - Alistair Darling

Paymaster General (private finance) - Geoffrey Robinson, 58, pounds 31,125.

Financial Secretary - Dawn Primarolo, 43, pounds 31,125

Economic Secretary - Helen Liddell, 46, pounds 31,125.

Agenda: The incoming government will hold its first budget within two months of coming into power. They have pledged they will be announcing the windfall levy for the welfare to work programme and cut VAT on fuel to 5 per cent. The Treasury also has to appoint two new committees, firstly a Monetary Policy Committee to advise the newly independent Bank of England, and a Council of Economic Advisers to advise the Treasury itself on economic matters. The treasury is also committed to boosting growth in order to raise investment.

WELSH OFFICE

Secretary of State for Wales - Ron Davies

Parliamentary Under-Secretaries: Win Griffiths, 54, pounds 23,623.

Peter Hain, 47, pounds 23,623

Agenda: The Labour manifesto commits the government to a referendum on Welsh devolution "no later than the autumn of 1997". The Welsh assembly will provide democratic control of the existing Welsh Office functions. Its aim is that the assembly will replace a tier of quangos with the directly elected body.

WHIPS

Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury and Chief Whip - Nick Brown, 46, pounds 36,613.

Treasurer of Her Majesty's Household, Deputy Chief Whip - George Mudie

Comptroller of Her Majesty's Household - Thomas McAvoy

Vice Chamberlain of Her Majesty's Household - Janet Anderson

Lord Commissioners - Robert Ainsworth

Graham Allen

James Dowd

John McFall

Jon Owen Jones

Assistant whips - Clive Betts

David Clelland

Kevin Hughes

David Jamieson

Jane Kennedy

Greg Pope

Bridget Prentice

Captain of the Gentlemen at Arms -

Lords Chief Whip - The Lord Carter.

*Mr Blair has indicated that he will not take the full salary to which he is entitled.

t All Cabinet ministers and ministers of state get their MP's salary of pounds 43,860 on top of their ministerial salary. This does not, of course, apply to members of the House of Lords who get no extra salary.