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Second Baldwin ministry
1924–1929
Stanley Baldwin
Date formed	4 November 1924
Date dissolved	4 June 1929
People and organisations
Monarch	George V
Prime Minister	Stanley Baldwin
Total no. of members	114 appointments
Member party	Conservative Party
Status in legislature	Majority 412 / 615 (67%)
Opposition party	Labour Party
Opposition leaders	Ramsay MacDonald in the House of Commons Lord Haldane (1924–1928) Lord Parmoor (1928–1929) in the House of Lords
History
Election	1924 general election
Outgoing election	1929 general election
Legislature terms	34th UK Parliament
Predecessor	First MacDonald ministry
Successor	Second MacDonald ministry

Stanley Baldwin of the Conservative Party formed the second Baldwin ministry upon his reappointment as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom by King George V after the 1924 general election. His second ministry ended following the so-called "Flapper Election" of May 1929.

• Stanley Baldwin – Prime Minister and Leader of the House of Commons
• The Viscount Cave – Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
• The Marquess Curzon of Kedleston – Leader of the House of Lords and Lord President of the Council
• The Marquess of Salisbury – Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal
• Winston Churchill – Chancellor of the Exchequer
• Sir William Joynson-Hicks – Secretary of State for the Home Department
• Sir Austen Chamberlain – Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Deputy Leader of the House of Commons
• Leo Amery – Secretary of State for the Colonies
• Sir Laming Worthington-Evans – Secretary of State for War
• The Earl of Birkenhead – Secretary of State for India
• Sir Samuel Hoare – Secretary of State for Air
• Sir John Gilmour – Secretary for Scotland
• William Clive Bridgeman – First Lord of the Admiralty
• The Viscount Cecil of Chelwood – Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
• Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister – President of the Board of Trade
• Edward Frederick Lindley Wood – Minister of Agriculture
• Lord Eustace Percy – President of the Board of Education
• The Viscount Peel – First Commissioner of Works
• Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland – Minister of Labour
• Neville Chamberlain – Minister of Health
• Sir Douglas Hogg – Attorney-General for England and Wales

• April 1925 – On Curzon's death, Lord Balfour succeeded him as Lord President. Lord Salisbury became the new Leader of the House of Lords, remaining also Lord Privy Seal.
• June 1925 – The post of Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs was created, held by Leo Amery in tandem with Secretary of State for the Colonies.
• November 1925 – Walter Guinness succeeded E.F.L. Wood as Minister of Agriculture.
• July 1926 – The post of Secretary of Scotland was upgraded to Secretary of State for Scotland.
• October 1927 – Lord Cushendun succeeded Lord Cecil of Chelwood as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
• March 1928 – Lord Hailsham (former Sir D. Hogg) succeeded Lord Cave as Lord Chancellor. Hailsham's successor as Attorney-General was not in the Cabinet.
• October 1928 – Lord Peel succeeded Lord Birkenhead as Secretary of State for India. Lord Londonderry succeeded Peel as First Commissioner of Public Works

Members of the Cabinet are in bold face.

Notes

• D. Butler and G. Butler (ed.). Twentieth Century British Political Facts 1900–2000.