Cabinet changes

• Alun Michael, the Welsh Secretary, leaves the Cabinet after he was appointed first secretary to the devolved National Assembly of Wales.
• Paul Murphy, a Northern Ireland Minister, takes over to become the Welsh Secretary.

Out of government

• Tony Banks, resigns as Sports Minister to oversee Britain's 2006 World Cup bid. He may also stand to become Labour's candidate for mayor of London.
• Glenda Jackson, a junior transport minister, resigns to put her name forward as Labour's candidate to become mayor of London.
  
• Lord Simon, leaves his post at the Department of Trade and Industry.
  
• John Morris QC, leaves the post of Attorney General.
• Tony Lloyd, leaves his post as a Minister of State at the Foreign Office.
  
• Doug Henderson, leaves his position as Armed Forces Minister at the Ministry of Defence
  
• Calum Macdonald and Lord Sewel both leave the Scotland Office.
• Lord Gilbert, resigns as Minister of State at the Ministry of Defence.
• George Mudie, leaves his job as a minister in the Department for Education and Employment.
• Jon Owen Jones, leaves his job as Junior Minister at the Welsh Office.
• Lord Donoughue, leaves his ministerial job at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
• Alan Meale, leaves his job as junior minister in the Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions.

Home Office

• Lord Williams of Mostyn leaves the Home Office to become the new Attorney General.
• Paul Boateng will move sideways at the Home Office to take on Lord William's former responsibilities, which include the oversight of prisons and probation.
• Charles Clarke, a junior Education Minister, is promoted to be Minister of State at the Home Office, responsible for police and crime.
• Barbara Roche, former Financial Secretary at the Treasury becomes Minister of State at the Home Office.
• Lord Bassam of Brighton, is appointed as a junior minister.

Foreign Office

• John Battle joins the Foreign Office from the Department of Trade and Industry.
  
• Peter Hain, a junior Welsh Office minister, has also joined the Foreign Office as a minister.
• Geoff Hoon, who was promoted to the Foreign Office earlier this year, takes over as Minister for Europe.
• Baroness Scotland, becomes the first black female minister in a UK government.

Department of Health

• Lord Hunt, the former Lord in Waiting becomes a junior minister.
• Gisela Stuart, who became an MP two years ago, is promoted to the Department of Health.

Department for Education and Employment

• Malcolm Wicks, the Chairman of the Education Sub-Committee of the Education and Employment Select Committee, becomes a junior minister.
• Jacqui Smith joins the government as a junior minister.
• Michael Wills moves from junior minister at the DTI to take up a similar post in the DfEE.

Department of Trade and Industry

• Helen Liddell, moves from her position as Transport Minister to become a DTI minister.
• Richard Caborn, moves from the DETR to become Minister of State.
• Patricia Hewitt, Treasury Economic Secretary, moves to the Department of Trade and Industry.
• Alan Johnson, enters the government as a junior minister.

Treasury

• Stephen Timms, leaves the Department of Social Security to becomes Financial Secretary in the Treasury.
• Melanie Johnson, joins the government as Economic Secretary.

• Lord Macdonald, takes over as Transport Minister after moving from the Scotland Office. He will sit in on Cabinet meetings.
• Nick Raynsford, has been promoted within the department to become a Minister of State.
• Chris Mullin, chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee, receives his first government post at the Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions.
• Keith Hill, relinquishes his duties as a whip to become Transport Minister.
• Beverley Hughes, Parliamentary Private Secretary to Local Government Minister Hilary Armstrong, also enters the government for the first time as junior minister at the DETR.

Ministry of Defence

• Baroness Symons, moves from the Foreign Office to become Minister for Defence Procurement.
• John Spellar, is promoted from junior minister to Minister of State.
• Peter Kilfoyle, moves from being a minister in the Cabinet Office to junior minister at the MoD.

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

• Joyce Quin, Minister for Europe, is to become Minister of State at MAFF.
• Baroness Hayman, formerly a junior Health minister, becomes a Minister of State at MAFF.

Other moves

• George Howarth, the Home Office junior minister becomes junior minister in the Northern Ireland Office.
• Kate Hoey, leaves her job as junior minister at the Home Office to become Sports Minister.
• Ian McCartney, moves from the DTI to become the second Minister of State at the Cabinet Office.
• Jeff Rooker, moves from the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food to become Minister of State at the Department of Social Security.
  
• Brian Wilson, moves from the Department of Trade and Industry to become minister of state at the Scotland Office.
  
• David Hanson, a government whip, moves to the Welsh Office.
• David Lock, moves from being Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Lord Chancellor to become a minister in the same department.
• Gerry Sutcliffe, becomes an assistant whip.
• Lord Bach, has been appointed a Lord in Waiting.
• Paddy Tipping, Parliamentary Secretary to the President of the Council will now draw a ministerial salary.