Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Bayan nadin Baldwin a matsayin firaminista, Davidson ya shiga gwamnati a matsayin Chancellor na Duchy na Lancaster, kuma ya ci gaba da zama sakataren sakataren firaministan. Koyaya, ya rasa kujerarsa a majalisa a babban zaben Disamba 1923, amma ya sake samun sa a babban zaben a watan Oktoba na shekara mai zuwa. Baldwin ya sake kafa gwamnati bayan gajeriyar gwamnatin Labour ta farko a 1924, kuma ya sanya Davidson Majalisar Dokoki da Sakataren Kudi ga Admiralty. A wannan matsayi an tilasta masa ya magance raguwa a cikin kudaden jiragen ruwa da Chancellor of the Exchequer, Winston Churchill, ya gabatar, musamman game da gina sababbin jiragen ruwa. Ya yi aiki a matsayin mataimakin babban kwamishinan farar hula a lokacin yajin aikin gama gari na 1926
, tare da alhakin talla. Ya kuma gudanar da "British Gazette" na ɗan gajeren lokaci a lokacin yajin aikin kuma ya shirya watsa shirye-shiryen labarai na hukuma.