Pat McFadden

The Right Honourable Pat McFadden MP
Official portrait, 2024
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Incumbent
Assumed office 5 July 2024
Prime Minister	Keir Starmer
Preceded by	Oliver Dowden
Labour Party National Campaign Coordinator
In office 4 September 2023 – 5 July 2024
Deputy	Ellie Reeves
Leader	Keir Starmer
Preceded by	Shabana Mahmood
Ministerial Offices 2006–2010 Minister of State for Business, Innovation and Skills In office 9 June 2009 – 11 May 2010 Prime Minister Gordon Brown Preceded by The Baroness Vadera Succeeded by Mark Prisk Minister of State for Employment Relations In office 28 June 2007 – 5 June 2009 Prime Minister Gordon Brown Preceded by Jim Fitzpatrick Succeeded by The Lord Young Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office In office 5 May 2006 – 28 June 2007 Prime Minister Tony Blair Preceded by Jim Murphy Succeeded by Gillian Merron
Shadow portfolios 2010–2024 Shadow Cabinet portfolios 2023–2024 Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 2021–2023 Chief Secretary to the Treasury May 2010– October 2010 Business, Innovation and Skills Junior Shadow portfolios 2020–2021 Economic Secretary to the Treasury 2014–2016 Minister for Europe
Member of Parliament for Wolverhampton South East
Incumbent
Assumed office 5 May 2005
Preceded by	Dennis Turner
Majority	9,188 (27.5%)
Political Secretary to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
In office 2002–2005
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Preceded by	Robert Hill
Succeeded by	John McTernan
Personal details
Born	Patrick Bosco McFadden (1965-03-26) 26 March 1965 (age 59) Paisley, Scotland, UK
Political party	Labour
Alma mater	University of Edinburgh
Website	Official website

Patrick Bosco McFadden (born 26 March 1965) is a British politician who has served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster since July 2024. A member of the Labour Party, he has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Wolverhampton South East since 2005. McFadden has previously held various junior ministerial positions and shadow portfolios in his parliamentary career between 2005 and 2024.

McFadden attended the Cabinet of Prime Minister Gordon Brown as Minister of State for Business, Innovation and Skills from 2009 to 2010, deputy to Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills Peter Mandelson (when Mandelson was Secretary from the Lords). He was Minister of State for Employment Relations and Postal Affairs from 2007 to 2009, and Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office from 2006 to 2007. Prior to his election to Parliament in 2005, he served as Political Secretary to the Prime Minister during the second Blair ministry.

In opposition, he served as Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills in the first Shadow Cabinet of Harriet Harman from May to October 2010. Having failed to be elected in the 2010 Shadow Cabinet election, he was appointed Shadow Minister for Europe by Ed Miliband in 2014 and re-appointed by Jeremy Corbyn in 2015. McFadden was sacked from the front bench by Corbyn in 2016, and remained on the back benches until he was appointed Shadow Economic Secretary to the Treasury in 2020 by Sir Keir Starmer. He was promoted to the shadow cabinet in 2021 as Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury and became Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in 2023.

McFadden returned to the government following Labour's victory in the 2024 general election, and was appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster by Starmer in his ministry.