Secretary of State for Employment
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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)
| Name | Term of office | Political Party | Prime Minister | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| File:John Hodge.JPG | John Hodge | 10 December 1916 | 17 August 1917 | style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Labour | rowspan=4 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | David Lloyd George (Coalition)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
| File:G H Roberts.JPG | George Henry Roberts | 17 August 1917 | 10 January 1919 | style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Labour | ||
| File:Robert Horne cropped.jpg | Robert Horne | 10 January 1919 | 19 March 1920 | style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Unionist | ||
| File:TJ Macnamara 1901.jpg | Thomas James Macnamara | 19 March 1920 | 19 October 1922 | style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Liberal | ||
| File:Anderson Montague-Barlow.jpg | Anderson Montague-Barlow | 31 October 1922 | 22 January 1924 | rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Conservative | style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Bonar Law |
| style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Stanley Baldwin | ||||||
| File:Tom Shaw - politician.jpg | Tom Shaw | 22 January 1924 | 3 November 1924 | style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Labour | style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Ramsay MacDonald |
| File:Arthur Steel-Maitland.jpg | Arthur Steel-Maitland | 6 November 1924 | 4 June 1929 | style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Conservative | style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Stanley Baldwin |
| File:Margaret Bondfield 1919.jpg | Margaret Bondfield | 7 June 1929 | 24 August 1931 (lost seat 1931) |
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Labour | style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Ramsay MacDonald |
| Henry Betterton | 25 August 1931 | 29 June 1934 | style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Conservative | rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Ramsay MacDonald (1st & 2nd National Min.)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
| File:Oliver Stanley MP.jpg | Oliver Stanley | 29 June 1934 | 7 June 1935 | style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Conservative | ||
| File:BrownErnest.jpg | Ernest Brown | 7 June 1935 | 13 May 1940 | rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Liberal National | style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Stanley Baldwin (3rd National Min.)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
| style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Neville Chamberlain (4th Nat.Min.; War Coalition)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | ||||||
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Minister of Labour and National Service (1940–1959)
| Name | Term of office | Political Party | Prime Minister | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| File:Ernest Bevin cph.3b17494.jpg | Ernest Bevin | 13 May 1940 | 23 May 1945 | style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Labour | rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Winston Churchill (War Coalition)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
| File:Rab Butler.png | R. A. Butler | 25 May 1945 | 26 July 1945 | style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Conservative | Winston Churchill (Caretaker Min.)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
| File:George Isaacs in 1943 (3x4 crop).jpg | George Isaacs | 3 August 1945 | 17 January 1951 | style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Labour | rowspan=3 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Clement Attlee |
| File:Aneurin Bevan (crop).jpg | Aneurin Bevan | 17 January 1951 | 23 April 1951 (resigned) |
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Labour | ||
| File:Alfred Robens, Baron Robens of Woldingham.jpg | Alfred Robens | 24 April 1951 | 26 October 1951 | style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Labour | ||
| File:Walter Monckton cropped.png | Walter Monckton | 28 October 1951 | 20 December 1955 | rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Conservative | style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Winston Churchill |
| rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Anthony Eden | ||||||
| File:The National Archives UK - CO 1069-166-17 Macleod crop.jpg | Iain Macleod | 20 December 1955 | 14 October 1959 | rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Conservative | ||
| rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Harold Macmillan | ||||||
| File:Heathdod.JPG | Edward Heath | 14 October 1959 | 12 November 1959 | style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Conservative | ||
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Minister of Labour (1959–1968)
| Name | Term of office | Political Party | Prime Minister | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| File:Sir Edward Heath (cropped).jpg | Edward Heath | 12 November 1959 | 7 July 1960 | style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Conservative | rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Harold Macmillan |
| File:John Hare, 1st Viscount Blakenham, in 1949.jpg | John Hare | 27 July 1960 | 20 October 1963 | style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Conservative | ||
| File:Blank.jpg | Joseph Godber | 20 October 1963 | 16 October 1964 | style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Conservative | style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Alec Douglas-Home |
| File:Blank.jpg | Ray Gunter | 18 October 1964 | 6 April 1968 | style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Labour | style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Harold Wilson |
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Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity (1968–1970)
| Name | Term of office | Political Party | Prime Minister | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| File:Barbara Castle, 1965 (cropped).jpg | Barbara Castle | 6 April 1968 | 19 June 1970 | style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Labour | style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Harold Wilson |
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Secretary of State for Employment (1970–1995)
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Secretary of State for Education and Employment (1995–2001)
| Name | Term of office | Political Party | Prime Minister | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| File:Gillian Shephard official portrait (cropped).jpg | Gillian Shephard | 5 July 1995 | 2 May 1997 | style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Conservative | style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | John Major |
| File:David Blunkett DfEE (upscaled) (cropped).jpg | David Blunkett | 2 May 1997 | 8 June 2001 | style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Labour | style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Tony Blair |
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The office was merged with the Department of Social Security to form the Department for Work and Pensions in 2001.