Ministers who have held ministerial office for 20 years or more
This note gives names and details of those individuals, in either House, who have spent twenty years or more in total in ministerial positions.
The list only includes individuals who have served at least part of their time as a Minister since 1900. The list is ordered by the total cumulative amount of service as a Minister.
The position of a government minister is not a Parliamentary position. Ministers are not formally required to sit in either House, though it has long been a convention that they do so.
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