The Council of Ministers is the principal executive organ of the Isle of Man Government. Its role is similar to, though not identical with, that of the Cabinet in the United Kingdom. Until 1990, its title was the Executive Council.
The Isle of Man Government is the government of the Isle of Man. The formal head of the Isle of Man Government is the Lieutenant Governor, the personal representative of the Lord of Mann. The executive head is the Chief Minister.
John Philip Shimmin is a former Member of the House of Keys for Douglas West.
Anne Valerie Craine is a Justice of the Peace from the Isle of Man.
Clare Margaret Christian OBE CP is a Manx politician, who was President of Tynwald until 2016. She is a former member of the Legislative Council and former Health Minister in the Isle of Man Government.
Dominic Francis Kevin Delaney is a former member of the House of Keys and the Legislative Council of the Isle of Man, where he sat as a member of the Alliance for Progressive Government. He was once called "one of the Island's most outspoken politicians".
George Martyn Quayle, MHK was a Manx politician who previously held the position of Minister of Tourism and Leisure in the Isle of Man Government and represented Middle in the House of Keys. He served as minister of the Department of Social Care.
Juan Paul Watterson FCA CMgr FCMI FRSA SHK is a Manx politician, who is Speaker of the House of Keys, and a member for Rushen, in the Isle of Man.
The Department of Health and Social Security or DHSS provided healthcare, social services, and social security.
In the Isle of Man, the Department of Local Government and the Environment or DLGE/DoLGE was responsible for the environment, social housing policy, local authorities, building control, health and safety, town planning, listed buildings and historic sites, waste disposal, conservation areas, management of the government estate, and provision of a Government Laboratory to monitor pollution, air and water quality, radioactivity and the Island's official mapping service.
The Department of Home Affairs ensures the safety, protection and security of the Isle of Man.
The Department of Infrastructure is a department of the Isle of Man Government.
The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry or DAFF is a former department of the Isle of Man Government.
Alured Arnold Callin was a Manx politician who served as a Member of the Legislative Council of the Isle of Man.
The Department of Social Care was a department of the Isle of Man Government. It was created on 1 April 2010, taking on the social services and social security functions of the former Department of Health and Social Security as well as the social housing function of the former Department of Local Government and the Environment. On 2 December 2013 as part of the Council of Ministers' plans to modernize ministerial government it was announced that the Department of Health and the Department of Social Care would merge on 1 April, subject to the approval of Tynwald. The move was by and large a reversal of one element of the restructuring of the Isle of Man Government in April 2010 which saw the former Department of Health and Social Security split to form the Department of Health and the Department of Social Care.
The Department of Health and Social Care is the largest of the seven departments of the Isle of Man Government. It was created on 1 April 2014 as a result of a merger of health and social care services from the former Department of Health and Department of Social Care. The intention to merge the two Departments was announced on 2 December 2013 as part of the Council of Ministers' plans to modernise ministerial government. The move was by and large a reversal of one element of the restructuring of the Isle of Man Government in April 2010 which saw the former Department of Health and Social Security split to form the Department of Health and the Department of Social Care.
Laurence David Skelly MLC is a Manx politician, who has served as President of Tynwald since July 2021.
Alfred Louis Cannan MHK is a Manx politician and independent Member of the House of Keys for Ayre & Michael. He has served as the Chief Minister of the Isle of Man since the 12th of October 2021. He was previously the Minister for the Treasury.
Robert Howard Quayle is the former chief minister for the Isle of Man, between 4 October 2016 and 12 October 2021. He previously served as the minister for Health and Social Care, until the elections in September 2016.
The Health Services Board was a former statutory board of the Isle of Man Government. It existed from 1954 to 1986 when it was merged with the Board of Social Security to form the Department of Health and Social Security.
