Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

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The secretary of state for health and social care, also referred to as the health secretary, is a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom, responsible for the work of the Department of Health and Social Care, mainly overseeing health and social care in England.[1][2] The incumbent is a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.

Since devolution in 1999, the position holder's responsibility for the NHS is mainly restricted to the health service in England, whilst the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care in the Scottish Government is responsible for NHS Scotland and the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care in the Welsh Government is responsible for NHS Wales. The position can trace its roots back to the nineteenth century, and has been a secretary of state position since 1968. For 30 years, from 1988 to 2018, the position was titled Secretary of State for Health, before Prime Minister Theresa May added "and Social Care" to the designation in the 2018 British cabinet reshuffle.[3]

The officeholder works alongside other health and social care ministers. The corresponding shadow minister is the shadow secretary of state for health and social care, and the secretary of state is also scrutinised by the Health and Social Care Select Committee.[4]

The position is currently held by Wes Streeting, who has served since 5 July 2024.

Responsibilities

Corresponding to what is generally known as a health minister in many other countries, the health and social care secretary's remit includes the following:

  • oversight of England's National Health Service, including:[2]
    • delivery of care
    • performance
    • fiscal consolidation
    • financial management
  • matters concerning England's social care policy (although responsibility is shared with the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government regarding adult social care, and with the Department for Education concerning children's social care).
  • matters concerning England's national public health.
  • relations with international health partnerships, including the WHO.

Some functions are derived from legislation, for example when the position of Secretary of State for Health was established in 1988, specific functions were allocated to the post-holder drawn from the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1926, the Therapeutic Substances Act 1956, the Professions Supplementary to Medicine Act 1960(26), the National Health Service Act 1966, the Radiological Protection Act 1970, the Child Care Act 1980 and the Food Act 1984.[5]

History

The first Boards of Health were created by Orders in the Council dated 21 June, 14 November, and 21 November 1831. In 1848, a General Board of Health was established with lay members in leadership roles[6] and the first commissioner of woods and forests as its president. In 1854, this board was reconstituted, and the president was appointed separately. However, the board was abolished in 1858, and its function of overseeing local boards was transferred to a new Local Government Act Office within the Home Office. From 1871, that function was transferred to the new Local Government Board.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

The Ministry of Health was created by the Ministry of Health Act 1919 as a reconstruction of the Local Government Board. Local government functions were eventually transferred to the minister of housing and local government, leaving the Health Ministry in charge of health matters.

From 1968, it was amalgamated with the Ministry of Social Security under the secretary of state for social services, until the de-merger of the Department of Health and Social Security on 25 July 1988.

Since devolution in 1999, the position holder's responsibility for the NHS is mainly restricted to the health service in England, while the holders' counterparts in Scotland and Wales are responsible for the NHS in Scotland and Wales. Prior to devolution, the secretaries of state for Scotland and Wales had those respective responsibilities, but the Department of Health played a larger role than it does now in the coordination of health policy across Great Britain. Health services in Northern Ireland have always had separate arrangements from the rest of the UK and are currently the responsibility of the health minister in the Northern Ireland Executive.

A small number of health issues remain reserved matters, meaning they are not devolved.

According to Jeremy Hunt, the department receives more letters than any other government department, and there are 50 officials in the correspondence unit.[7]

List of ministers

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President of the Board of Health (1848–1858)

President of the Board Term of office Political party Prime Minister
As First Commissioner of Woods and ForestsScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". rowspan=5 style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Lord John Russell
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:7th Earl of Carlisle-edit.jpg The Earl of Carlisle 1848 17 April 1849 Whig
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:12th Duke of Somerset.png Lord Seymour
MP for TotnesScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		17 April 1849 1 August 1851 Whig
As First Commissioner of WorksScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:12th Duke of Somerset.png Lord Seymour
MP for TotnesScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		1 August 1851 21 February 1852 Whig
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Lord John Manners.jpg Lord John Manners
MP for ColchesterScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		4 March 1852 17 December 1852 Conservative style="background-color:Template:Party color" | The Earl of Derby
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:WilliamMolesworth.jpg William Molesworth
MP for SouthwarkScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		5 January 1853 14 October 1854 Radical rowspan=3 style="background-color:Template:Party color" | The Earl of Aberdeen
(Coalition)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
President of the Board of HealthScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
height=30 style="background-color:Template:Party color; border-bottom:solid 0 gray" | File:Sir Benjamin Hall, Bt.jpg Benjamin Hall
MP for MaryleboneScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		14 October 1854 13 August 1855 Whig
style="background-color:Template:Party color; border-top:solid 0 gray" | rowspan=4 style="background-color:Template:Party color" | The Viscount Palmerston
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:William Cowper-Temple, Lock & Whitfield woodburytype, 1876-85.jpg William Cowper
MP for HertfordScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		13 August 1855 9 February 1857 Whig
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:William Monsell, Lord Emly.jpg William Monsell
MP for County LimerickScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		9 February 1857 24 September 1857 Whig
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:William Cowper-Temple, Lock & Whitfield woodburytype, 1876-85.jpg William Cowper
MP for HertfordScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		24 September 1857 21 February 1858 Whig
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Charles Bowyer Adderley, Lord Norton.jpg Charles Adderley
MP for Staffordshire NorthernScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		8 March 1858 1 September 1858 Conservative style="background-color:Template:Party color" | The Earl of Derby
Board of Health abolished in 1858; responsibilities transferred to
the Privy Council (1858–1871), then the Local Government Board (1871–1919).

Minister of Health (1919–1968)

Minister Term of office Political party Ministry
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Dr. Christopher Addison LOC 16027831872 (cropped).jpg Christopher Addison
MP for ShoreditchScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		24 June 1919 1 April 1921 Liberal rowspan="2" Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK)|Lloyd George II
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Alfred Mond.jpg Alfred Mond
MP for Swansea WestScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		1 April 1921 19 October 1922 Liberal
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Arthur Griffith-Boscawen Westminster1899.jpg Arthur Griffith-Boscawen
MP for TauntonScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		24 October 1922 7 March 1923
(Lost seat 1922)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Conservative rowspan="2" Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK)|Law
height="30" style="background-color:Template:Party color; border-bottom:solid 0 gray" | File:Chamberlain Neville.jpg Neville Chamberlain
MP for Birmingham LadywoodScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		7 March 1923 27 August 1923 Conservative
style="background-color:Template:Party color; border-top:solid 0 gray" | rowspan="2" Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK)|Baldwin I
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:1st Viscount Brentford 1923.jpg William Joynson-Hicks
MP for TwickenhamScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		27 August 1923 22 January 1924 Conservative
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:John Wheatley MP.jpg John Wheatley
MP for Glasgow ShettlestonScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		22 January 1924 3 November 1924 Labour Template:Party shading/Labour Party (UK)|MacDonald I
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Chamberlain Neville.jpg Neville Chamberlain
MP for Birmingham Ladywood
then Birmingham EdgbastonScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		6 November 1924 4 June 1929 Conservative Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK)|Baldwin II
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:ArthurHGreenwood.jpg Arthur Greenwood
MP for Nelson and ColneScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		7 June 1929 24 August 1931 Labour Template:Party shading/Labour Party (UK)|Macdonald II
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Chamberlain Neville.jpg Neville Chamberlain
MP for Birmingham EdgbastonScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		25 August 1931 5 November 1931 Conservative Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK)|National I
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Edward Hilton Young.jpg Hilton Young
MP for SevenoaksScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		5 November 1931 7 June 1935 Conservative Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK)|National II
rowspan="2" style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Kingsley Wood cropped.jpg Kingsley Wood
MP for Woolwich WestScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		7 June 1935 16 May 1938 Conservative Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK)|National III
rowspan="2" Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK)|National IV
rowspan="2" style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Walter Elliott MP.jpg Walter Elliot
MP for Glasgow KelvingroveScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		16 May 1938 13 May 1940 Unionist
Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK)|Chamberlain War
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Malcolmmacdonald.jpg Malcolm MacDonald
MP for Ross and CromartyScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		13 May 1940 8 February 1941 National Labour rowspan="3" Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK)|Churchill War
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:BrownErnest.jpg Ernest Brown
MP for LeithScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		8 February 1941 11 November 1943 National Liberal
rowspan="2" style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Henry Willink.jpg Henry Willink
MP for Croydon NorthScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		11 November 1943 26 July 1945 Conservative
Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK)|Churchill Caretaker
rowspan="2" style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Aneurin Bevan (crop).jpg Aneurin Bevan
MP for Ebbw ValeScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		3 August 1945 17 January 1951 Labour Template:Party shading/Labour Party (UK)|Attlee I
rowspan="2" Template:Party shading/Labour Party (UK)|Attlee II
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Hilary Marquand.png Hilary Marquand
MP for Middlesbrough EastScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		17 January 1951 26 October 1951 Labour
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Harrycrookshank.jpg Harry Crookshank
MP for GainsboroughScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		30 October 1951 7 May 1952 Conservative rowspan="2" Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK)|Churchill III
style="background-color:Template:Party color; border-bottom:solid 0 gray" | File:The National Archives UK - CO 1069-166-17 Macleod crop.jpg Iain Macleod
MP for Enfield WestScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		7 May 1952 20 December 1955 Conservative
style="background-color:Template:Party color; border-top:solid 0 gray" | rowspan="2" Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK)|Eden
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:No image.svg Robin Turton
MP for Thirsk and MaltonScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		20 December 1955 16 January 1957 Conservative
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:No image.svg Dennis Vosper
MP for RuncornScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		16 January 1957 17 September 1957 Conservative rowspan="2" Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK)|Macmillan I
rowspan="2" style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:No image.svg Derek Walker-Smith
MP for East HertfordshireScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		17 September 1957 27 July 1960 Conservative
rowspan="2" Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK)|Macmillan II
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Enoch Powell Allan Warren.jpg Enoch Powell
MP for Wolverhampton South WestScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		27 July 1960 20 October 1963 Conservative
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:No image.svg Anthony Barber
MP for Doncaster then Altrincham and SaleScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		20 October 1963 16 October 1964 Conservative Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK)|Douglas-Home
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:No image.svg Kenneth Robinson
MP for St. Pancras NorthScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		18 October 1964 1 November 1968 Labour Template:Party shading/Labour Party (UK)|Wilson I
Post merged with Ministry for Social Security in 1968.

Secretary of State for Social Services (1968–1988)

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Secretary of State Term of office Political party Ministry
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Crossland MP.jpg Richard Crossman
MP for Coventry EastScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		1 November 1968 19 June 1970 Labour Template:Party shading/Labour Party (UK)|Wilson II
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Sir Keith Joseph visits Llangefni and Caernarfon (1469270) Crop (cropped).jpg Keith Joseph
MP for Leeds North EastScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		20 June 1970 4 March 1974 Conservative Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK)|Heath
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Barbara Castle, 1965 (cropped).jpg Barbara Castle
MP for BlackburnScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		5 March 1974 8 April 1976 Labour Template:Party shading/Labour Party (UK)|Wilson III
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:David Ennals.jpg David Ennals
MP for Norwich NorthScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		8 April 1976 4 May 1979 Labour Template:Party shading/Labour Party (UK)|Callaghan
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Patrick Jenkin
MP for Wanstead and WoodfordScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		5 May 1979 14 September 1981 Conservative rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK)|Thatcher I
rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Official portrait of Lord Fowler crop 2.jpg Norman Fowler
MP for Sutton ColdfieldScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		14 September 1981 13 June 1987 Conservative
Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK)|Thatcher II
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Mr John Moore M.P. addressing the Annual LSE Society Dinner, 5th June, 1985.jpg John Moore
MP for Croydon CentralScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		13 June 1987 25 July 1988 Conservative Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK)|Thatcher III
Post split into Secretary of State for Social Security and Secretary of State for Health in 1988.

Secretary of State for Health (1988–2018)

Secretary of State Term of office Political party Ministry
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Kenneth Clarke (cropped).gif Kenneth Clarke
MP for RushcliffeScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		25 July 1988 2 November 1990 Conservative rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK)|Thatcher III
style="background-color:Template:Party color; border-bottom:solid 0 gray" | File:William Waldegrave.gif William Waldegrave
MP for Bristol WestScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		2 November 1990 10 April 1992 Conservative
style="background-color:Template:Party color; border-top:solid 0 gray" | Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK)|Major I
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Virginia Bottomley crop (cropped).jpg Virginia Bottomley
MP for South West SurreyScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		10 April 1992 5 July 1995 Conservative rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK)|Major II
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Stephen Dorrell 2011 (cropped).jpg Stephen Dorrell
MP for Loughborough then CharnwoodScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		5 July 1995 2 May 1997 Conservative
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Frank Dobson, Secretary of State for Health (cropped).jpg Frank Dobson
MP for Holborn and St. PancrasScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		3 May 1997 11 October 1999 Labour rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Labour Party (UK)|Blair I
rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Alan Milburn.JPG Alan Milburn
MP for DarlingtonScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		11 October 1999 13 June 2003 Labour
rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Labour Party (UK)|Blair II
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:JohnReidHeadshot.jpg John Reid
MP for Hamilton North and Bellshill then Airdrie and ShottsScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		13 June 2003 6 May 2005 Labour
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Patricia Hewitt.jpg Patricia Hewitt
MP for Leicester WestScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		6 May 2005 28 June 2007 Labour Template:Party shading/Labour Party (UK)|Blair III
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Alan Johnson -9Oct2007-2.jpg Alan Johnson
MP for Kingston upon Hull West and HessleScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		28 June 2007 5 June 2009 Labour rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Labour Party (UK)| Brown
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Andy Burnham2.jpg Andy Burnham
MP for LeighScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		5 June 2009 11 May 2010 Labour
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Andrew Lansley Official.jpg Andrew Lansley
MP for South CambridgeshireScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		11 May 2010 4 September 2012 Conservative rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK)| Cameron–Clegg
(Con.–L.D.)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
rowspan=5 style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Jeremy Hunt and Dr Mark Davies visiting the Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health, 700 Second St, Washington, USA-3June2013 (cropped).jpg Jeremy Hunt
MP for South West SurreyScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		4 September 2012 8 January 2018 Conservative
Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK)|Cameron II
Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK)|May I
Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK)|May II

Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (2018–present)

Secretary of State Term of office Political party Ministry
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Jeremy Hunt with Abdulla bin Zayed Al Nahyan in London - 2018 (29653209427) (cropped).jpg Jeremy Hunt
MP for South West SurreyScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		8 January 2018 9 July 2018 Conservative rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK)|May II
style="background-color:Template:Party color; border-bottom:solid 0 gray" | File:Official portrait of Rt Hon Matt Hancock MP crop 2.jpg Matt Hancock
MP for West SuffolkScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		9 July 2018 26 June 2021 Conservative
style="background-color:Template:Party color; border-top:solid 0 gray" | Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Johnson I
style="background-color:Template:Party color; border-top:solid 0 gray" | rowspan=3 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Johnson II
style="background-color:Template:Party color; border-bottom:solid 0 gray" | File:Sajid Javid Official Portrait Cropped.jpeg Sajid Javid
MP for BromsgroveScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		26 June 2021 5 July 2022 Conservative
style="background-color:Template:Party color; border-bottom:solid 0 gray" | File:Steve Barclay Official Portrait Cropped.jpg Steve Barclay
MP for North East CambridgeshireScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		5 July 2022 6 September 2022 Conservative
style="background-color:Template:Party color; border-bottom:solid 0 gray" | File:Thérèse Coffey Official Cabinet Portrait, September 2022 (seated) (cropped).jpg Thérèse Coffey
MP for Suffolk CoastalScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		6 September 2022 25 October 2022 Conservative Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK)|Truss
style="background-color:Template:Party color; border-bottom:solid 0 gray" | File:Steve Barclay Official Cabinet Portrait, October 2022 (cropped).jpg Steve Barclay
MP for North East CambridgeshireScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		25 October 2022 13 November 2023 Conservative rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK)| Sunak
style="background-color:Template:Party color; border-bottom:solid 0 gray" | File:Official portrait of Victoria Atkins MP crop 2, 2024.jpg Victoria Atkins
MP for Louth and HorncastleScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		13 November 2023 5 July 2024 Conservative
style="background-color:Template:Party color; border-bottom:solid 0 gray" | File:Wes Streeting Official Cabinet Portrait, July 2024 (cropped).jpg Wes Streeting
MP for Ilford NorthScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		5 July 2024 Incumbent Labour Template:Party shading/Labour Party (UK)| Starmer

Timeline

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 from: 01/04/1921 till: 19/10/1922 color:Liberal      text:"Alfred Mond"
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 from: 03/08/1945 till: 17/01/1951 color:Labour       text:"Aneurin Bevan"
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 from: 10/04/1992 till: 05/07/1995 color:Conservative text:"Virginia Bottomley"
bar:Dorrell
 from: 05/07/1995 till: 02/05/1997 color:Conservative text:"Stephen Dorrell"
bar:Dobson
 from: 03/05/1997 till: 11/10/1999 color:Labour       text:"Frank Dobson"
bar:Milburn
 from: 11/10/1999 till: 13/06/2003 color:Labour       text:"Alan Milburn"
bar:Reid 
 from: 13/06/2003 till: 06/05/2005 color:Labour       text:"John Reid"
bar:Hewitt
 from: 06/05/2005 till: 28/06/2007 color:Labour       text:"Patricia Hewitt"
bar:Johnson
 from: 28/06/2007 till: 05/06/2009 color:Labour       text:"Alan Johnson"
bar:Burnham
 from: 05/06/2009 till: 11/05/2010 color:Labour       text:"Andy Burnham"
bar:Lansley
 from: 11/05/2010 till: 04/09/2012 color:Conservative text:"Andrew Lansley"
bar:Hunt
 from: 04/09/2012 till: 09/07/2018 color:Conservative text:"Jeremy Hunt"
bar:Hancock
 from: 09/07/2018 till: 26/06/2021 color:Conservative text:"Matt Hancock"
bar:Javid
 from: 26/06/2021 till: 05/07/2022 color:Conservative text:"Sajid Javid"
bar:Barclay
 from: 05/07/2022 till: 06/09/2022 color:Conservative 
 from: 25/10/2022 till: 13/11/2023 color:Conservative text:"Steve Barclay"
bar:Coffey
 from: 06/09/2022 till: 25/10/2022 color:Conservative text:"Thérèse Coffey"
bar:Atkins
 from: 13/11/2023 till: 05/07/2024 color:Conservative text:"Victoria Atkins"
bar:Streeting
 from: 05/07/2024 till: $today     color:Labour       text:"Wes Streeting"

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See also

References

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  5. ↑ UK Legislation, The Transfer of Functions (Health and Social Security) Order 1988, Schedule 2, made on 26 October 1988, accessed on 6 December 2025
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