The full line-up of the new coalition government's justice team has been announced, with four ministers appointed into the Ministry of Justice.

Nick Herbert, the Conservative MP for Arundel and South Downs, has been appointed as a Minister of State for Justice in a role that will see him divide his time between the Ministry of Justice and the Home Office.

Lord McNally, the Liberal Democrat MP for Stockport South, has also been appointed as Minister of State for Justice, although his precise role is yet to be decided.

Meanwhile, Conservative MPs Crispin Blunt and Jonathan Djanogly have both been appointed as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice.

Former shadow solicitor general Djanogly (pictured), the Conservative MP for Huntingdon, was until recently a corporate partner at SJ Berwin, before quitting the firm last year to focus on his political career.

The four Ministers will work under Ken Clarke, who was appointed Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice in Prime Minister David Cameron's new cabinet.

However, Conservative shadow justice minister Henry Bellingham MP, who had been responsible for overseeing the Legal Services Act, has not been named among the roster of new Justice Ministers, instead taking up a role as a Minister in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Clarke's appointment was greeted with surprise as he was expected to assume a prominent business portfolio in the new administration rather than join the Department of Justice, whose shadow team was led in opposition by Conservative MP Dominic Grieve.
Grieve succeeded Baroness Scotland in the role of Attorney General while Shadow attorney general Edward Garnier has taken up the post of Solicitor General.

In the previous government there were five ministers under Lord Chancellor Jack Straw – the current Labour MP for Garston and Halewood, Maria Eagle, Labour Peer Lord Bach and former Labour MPs Claire Ward, Bridget Prentice and Michael Wills.