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Secretary of State for Employment

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Template:Use British English Template:Use dmy datesTemplate:Short description The secretary of state for employment was a position in the Cabinet of the United Kingdom. In 1995, it was merged with secretary of state for education to make the secretary of state for education and employment. In 2001, the employment functions were hived off and transferred to the secretary of state for social security to form the secretary of state for work and pensions.

Minister of Labour (1916–1940)Edit

Name Portrait Term of office Political Party Prime Minister
style="background-color: Template:Party color"| John Hodge File:John Hodge.JPG 10 December 1916 17 August 1917 Labour rowspan=4 style="background-color: Template:Party color"| David Lloyd George
(Coalition)
style="background-color: Template:Party color"| George Henry Roberts File:G H Roberts.JPG 17 August 1917 10 January 1919 Labour
style="background-color: Template:Party color"| Sir Robert Horne File:Robert Horne cropped.jpg 10 January 1919 19 March 1920 Unionist
style="background-color: Template:Party color"| Thomas James Macnamara File:TJ Macnamara 1901.jpg 19 March 1920 19 October 1922 Liberal
rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Party color"| Sir Anderson Montague-Barlow File:Anderson Montague-Barlow.jpg 31 October 1922 22 January 1924 Conservative style="background-color: Template:Party color"| Bonar Law
style="background-color: Template:Party color"| Stanley Baldwin
style="background-color: Template:Party color"| Tom Shaw File:Tom Shaw - politician.jpg 22 January 1924 3 November 1924 Labour style="background-color: Template:Party color"| Ramsay MacDonald
style="background-color: Template:Party color"| Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, Bt File:Arthur Steel-Maitland.jpg 6 November 1924 4 June 1929 Conservative style="background-color: Template:Party color"| Stanley Baldwin
style="background-color: Template:Party color"| Margaret Bondfield File:Margaret Bondfield 1919.jpg 7 June 1929 24 August 1931
(lost seat 1931) 		Labour style="background-color: Template:Party color"| Ramsay MacDonald
style="background-color: Template:Party color"| Sir Henry Betterton, Bt 25 August 1931 29 June 1934 Conservative rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Party color"| Ramsay MacDonald
(1st & 2nd National Min.)
style="background-color: Template:Party color"| Oliver Stanley File:Oliver Stanley MP.jpg 29 June 1934 7 June 1935 Conservative
rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Ernest Brown File:BrownErnest.jpg 7 June 1935 13 May 1940 Liberal National style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Stanley Baldwin
(3rd National Min.)
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Neville Chamberlain
(4th Nat.Min.; War Coalition)

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Minister of Labour and National Service (1940–1959)Edit

Name Portrait Term of office Political Party Prime Minister
style="background-color: Template:Party color"| Ernest Bevin File:Ernest Bevin cph.3b17494.jpg 13 May 1940 23 May 1945 Labour rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Party color"| Winston Churchill
(War Coalition)
style="background-color: Template:Party color"| R. A. Butler File:Rab Butler.png 25 May 1945 26 July 1945 Conservative Winston Churchill
(Caretaker Min.)
style="background-color: Template:Party color"| George Isaacs File:No image.svg 3 August 1945 17 January 1951 Labour rowspan=3 style="background-color: Template:Party color"| Clement Attlee
style="background-color: Template:Party color"| Aneurin Bevan File:Aneurin Bevan (crop).jpg 17 January 1951 23 April 1951
(resigned) 		Labour
style="background-color: Template:Party color"| Alfred Robens File:Alfred Robens, Baron Robens of Woldingham.jpg 24 April 1951 26 October 1951 Labour
style="background-color: Template:Party color"| Walter Monckton 28 October 1951 20 December 1955 Conservative style="background-color: Template:Party color"| Sir Winston Churchill
style="background-color: Template:Party color"| rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Party color"| Sir Anthony Eden
style="background-color: Template:Party color"| Iain Macleod File:The National Archives UK - CO 1069-166-17 Macleod crop.jpg 20 December 1955 14 October 1959 Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Party color"| rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Party color"| Harold Macmillan
style="background-color: Template:Party color"| Edward Heath File:Heathdod.JPG 14 October 1959 12 November 1959 Conservative

Minister of Labour (1959–1968)Edit

Name Term of office Political Party Prime Minister
style="background-color: Template:Party color"| Edward Heath 12 November 1959 27 July 1960 Conservative rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Party color"| Harold Macmillan
style="background-color: Template:Party color"| John Hare 27 July 1960 20 October 1963 Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Party color"| Joseph Godber 20 October 1963 16 October 1964 Conservative style="background-color: Template:Party color"| Alec Douglas-Home
style="background-color: Template:Party color"| Ray Gunter 18 October 1964 6 April 1968 Labour style="background-color: Template:Party color"| Harold Wilson

Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity (1968–1970)Edit

Name Portrait Term of office Political Party Prime Minister
style="background-color: Template:Party color"| Barbara Castle File:Barbara Castle, 1965 (cropped).jpg 6 April 1968 19 June 1970 Labour style="background-color: Template:Party color"| Harold Wilson

Secretary of State for Employment (1970–1995)Edit

Name Term of office Political Party Prime Minister
style="background-color: Template:Party color"| Robert Carr 20 June 1970 7 April 1972 Conservative rowspan=3 style="background-color: Template:Party color"| Edward Heath
style="background-color: Template:Party color"| Maurice Macmillan 7 April 1972 2 December 1973 Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Party color"| William Whitelaw 2 December 1973 4 March 1974 Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Party color"| Michael Foot 5 March 1974 8 April 1976 Labour style="background-color: Template:Party color"| Harold Wilson
style="background-color: Template:Party color"| Albert Booth 8 April 1976 4 May 1979 Labour style="background-color: Template:Party color"| James Callaghan
style="background-color: Template:Party color"| James Prior 5 May 1979 14 September 1981 Conservative rowspan=6 style="background-color: Template:Party color"| Margaret Thatcher
style="background-color: Template:Party color"| Norman Tebbit 14 September 1981 16 October 1983 Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Party color"| Tom King 16 October 1983 2 September 1985 Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Party color"| The Lord Young of Graffham 2 September 1985 13 June 1987 Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Party color"| Norman Fowler 13 June 1987 3 January 1990 Conservative
rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Party color"| Michael Howard 3 January 1990 11 April 1992 Conservative
rowspan=4 style="background-color: Template:Party color"| John Major
style="background-color: Template:Party color"| Gillian Shephard 11 April 1992 27 May 1993 Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Party color"| David Hunt 27 May 1993 20 July 1994 Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Party color"| Michael Portillo 20 July 1994 5 July 1995 Conservative

Secretary of State for Education and Employment (1995–2001)Edit

Name Term of office Political Party Prime Minister
style="background-color: Template:Party color"| Gillian Shephard 5 July 1995 2 May 1997 Conservative style="background-color: Template:Party color"| John Major
style="background-color: Template:Party color"| David Blunkett 2 May 1997 8 June 2001 Labour style="background-color: Template:Party color"| Tony Blair

The office was merged with the Department of Social Security to form the Department for Work and Pensions in 2001.

See alsoEdit

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