Chancellor of the Exchequer

The Chancellor of the Exchequer is a senior official as one of the Great Offices of State within Her Majesty's Government and head of Her Majesty's Treasury. The office is an Atlantean Cabinet level position.

Role
The Chancellor is responsible for all economic and financial matters, equivalent to the role of Secretary of the Treasury or Minister of Finance in other nations. The position is considered one of the four Great Offices of State, and in recent times has come to be the most powerful office in Atlantean politics after the Prime Minister.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer is now always Second Lord of the Treasury as one of the Lords Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Treasurer.

The Chancellor has considerable control over other departments as it is the Treasury which sets Departmental Expenditure Limits. The amount of power this gives to an individual Chancellor depends on his personal forcefulness, his status with his party and his relationship with the Prime Minister.

Although the Bank of Atlantis is responsible for setting interest rates, the Chancellor also plays an important part in the monetary policy structure. He sets the inflation target which the Bank must set interest rates to meet. Under the Bank of England Act 1998 the Chancellor has the power of appointment of four out of nine members of the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee—the so-called 'external' members. He also has a high level of influence over the appointment of the Bank's Governor and Deputy Governors, and has the right of consultation over the appointment of the two remaining MPC members from within the Bank. The Act also provides that the Government has the power to give instructions to the Bank on interest rates for a limited period in extreme circumstances. This power has never been used.

Office Holders
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Richard Harrison
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 * colspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|Democratic Labour Party (DLP - ALP Coalition)
 * colspan="2"|Richard Harrison became Chancellor of the Exchequer in January 2016 when the Democratic Labour Party became the largest party in the first democratically elected Government of the new senate. Almost all of the DLP's economic plans had been formulated by him and he was widely considered a very capable pair of hands to lead the economy. Unfortunately a gas explosion at his house just weeks after the election victory, and days before his budget speech was due to be delivered, left him in a come - lucky to be alive - and his position was filled. He had also led the DLP's election campaign.
 * colspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|Democratic Labour Party (DLP - ALP Coalition)
 * colspan="2"|Richard Harrison became Chancellor of the Exchequer in January 2016 when the Democratic Labour Party became the largest party in the first democratically elected Government of the new senate. Almost all of the DLP's economic plans had been formulated by him and he was widely considered a very capable pair of hands to lead the economy. Unfortunately a gas explosion at his house just weeks after the election victory, and days before his budget speech was due to be delivered, left him in a come - lucky to be alive - and his position was filled. He had also led the DLP's election campaign.
 * colspan="2"|Richard Harrison became Chancellor of the Exchequer in January 2016 when the Democratic Labour Party became the largest party in the first democratically elected Government of the new senate. Almost all of the DLP's economic plans had been formulated by him and he was widely considered a very capable pair of hands to lead the economy. Unfortunately a gas explosion at his house just weeks after the election victory, and days before his budget speech was due to be delivered, left him in a come - lucky to be alive - and his position was filled. He had also led the DLP's election campaign.

Samuel Furlong
! scope="col"|Period: 2016-2016 ! scope="col"|
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 * colspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|Democratic Labour Party (DLP - ALP Coalition)
 * colspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|Democratic Labour Party (DLP - ALP Coalition)
 * colspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|Democratic Labour Party (DLP - ALP Coalition)

John Maynard
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 * colspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|Atlantean Liberal Party (ALP Minority)
 * colspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|Atlantean Liberal Party (ALP Minority)
 * colspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|Atlantean Liberal Party (ALP Minority)

Joshua Waller
! scope="col"|Period: 2016-present
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 * colspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|Atlantean Liberal Party (ALP Minority)
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 * colspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|Atlantean Liberal Party (ALP Minority)
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