Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health

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The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health was a junior ministerial office in the United Kingdom Government.

The Ministry of Health was created in 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 proper.

From 1968 it was amalgamated with the Ministry of Social Security under the Secretary of State for Social Services, until a demerger of the Department of Health and Social Security on 25 July 1988.

Parliamentary Secretaries to the Ministry of Health, 1919-1968

NameEntered officeLeft office
Hon. Waldorf Astor 24 June 19197 April 1921
The Earl of Onslow 7 April 192125 May 1923
Lord Eustace Percy 25 May 192323 January 1924
Arthur Greenwood 23 January 192411 November 1924
Sir Kingsley Wood 11 November 192411 June 1929
Susan Lawrence 11 June 192922 September 1931
Ernest Simon 22 September 193110 November 1931
Ernest Brown 10 November 193130 September 1932
Geoffrey Shakespeare 30 September 193230 July 1936
Robert Hudson 30 July 193628 May 1937
Robert Bernays 28 May 193714 July 1939
Florence Horsbrugh 14 July 193926 May 1945
Hamilton Kerr 26 May 194526 July 1945
Charles Key 4 August 194512 February 1947
John Edwards 12 February 19471 February 1949
Arthur Blenkinsop 1 February 19493 November 1951
Patricia Hornsby-Smith 3 November 195118 January 1957
John Vaughan-Morgan 18 January 195717 September 1957
Richard Thompson 17 September 195722 October 1959
Edith Pitt 22 October 195916 July 1962
Bernard Braine 16 July 19626 September 1962
Bernard Braine
and the Lord Newton
6 September24 March 1964
Bernard Braine,
the Lord Newton
and the Marquess of Lothian
24 March 19641 April 1964
Bernard Braine
and the Marquess of Lothian
1 April 196416 October 1964
Barnett Stross 20 October 196424 February 1965
Charles Loughlin 24 February 19657 January 1967
Julian Snow 7 January 19671 November 1968

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