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. [1] 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. [2]

The office became the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Security.

Parliamentary Secretaries to the Ministry of Health, 1919-1968

NameEntered officeLeft office
Hon. Waldorf Astor [3] [4] 24 June 19197 April 1921
The Earl of Onslow [4] 7 April 192125 May 1923
Lord Eustace Percy [5] 25 May 192323 January 1924
Arthur Greenwood [6] [5] 23 January 192411 November 1924
Sir Kingsley Wood [7] [5] 11 November 192411 June 1929
Susan Lawrence [8] [9] 11 June 192922 September 1931
Ernest Simon [5] 22 September 193110 November 1931
Ernest Brown 10 November 193130 September 1932
Geoffrey Shakespeare [5] [10] 30 September 193230 July 1936
Robert Hudson [11] [5] 30 July 193628 May 1937
Robert Bernays [12] 28 May 193714 July 1939
Florence Horsbrugh [13] [14] [15] 14 July 193926 May 1945
Hamilton Kerr [16] [17] 26 May 194526 July 1945
Charles Key [18] 4 August 194512 February 1947
John Edwards [19] 12 February 19471 February 1949
Arthur Blenkinsop [20] 1 February 19493 November 1951
Patricia Hornsby-Smith [21] [22] 3 November 195118 January 1957
John Vaughan-Morgan [23] 18 January 195717 September 1957
Richard Thompson [24] 17 September 195722 October 1959
Edith Pitt [25] 22 October 195916 July 1962
Bernard Braine 16 July 19626 September 1962
Bernard Braine
and the Lord Newton [26] 		6 September 196224 March 1964
Bernard Braine,
the Lord Newton [26]
and the Marquess of Lothian 		24 March 19641 April 1964
Bernard Braine [27]
and the Marquess of Lothian 		1 April 196416 October 1964
Barnett Stross [28] [29] 20 October 196424 February 1965
Charles Loughlin [30] [31] 24 February 19657 January 1967
Julian Snow [32] 7 January 19671 November 1968
Became the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Security

References

  1. ↑ "Ministry of Health Act 1919". Policy Navigator. The Health Foundation. 3 June 1919. Retrieved 4 November 2025.
  2. ↑ "Department of Health and Social Security". The National Archives . Retrieved 4 November 2025. Created on 1 November 1968 by merger of the two previously separate ministeries. Responsible for administering the wide range of health, childcare and other social welfare services. In July 1988 it was divided back into its two constituent areas of health and social security.
  3. ↑ Adams, R. J. Q. (3 January 2008) [23 September 2004]. "Astor, Waldorf, second Viscount Astor (1879–1952)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 2. p. 801. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/30490 . Retrieved 3 November 2025.
  4. 1 2 Takayanagi, Mari (2012). Parliament and Women, c.1900-1945 (PDF) (PhD thesis). King's College London. pp. 50, 197. Retrieved 4 November 2025.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Prescott, William (2020). The British Conservative Party and the State, 1929-1940 (PhD thesis). Trinity College, Oxford. pp. 94, 98, 192, 199, 249, 250, 251–252, 254–255, 265. Retrieved 4 November 2025.
  6. ↑ "NATIONAL LEADERS: Rt. Hon. A. Greenwood". New Zealand Listener . Vol. 3, no. 66. 27 September 1940. p. 3. Retrieved 4 November 2025.
  7. ↑ Peden, G. C. (6 January 2011) [23 September 2004]. "Wood, Sir (Howard) Kingsley (1881–1943)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/37002. He did not hold office under Law but he served Neville Chamberlain, the Conservative minister of health, as parliamentary secretary from 11 November 1924 to 4 June 1929, forming long-lasting political links with him.
  8. ↑ "Susan Lawrence, former M.P., 76; First Woman in London County Council, Ones Labor Aide, Dies, Attlee Pays Tribute". The New York Times . 25 October 1947. p. 19. Retrieved 4 November 2025.
  9. ↑ Emery, Katherine (6 December 2023). "Parliamentary Archives: Inside the Act Room". Parliament of the United Kingdom . Retrieved 4 November 2025. In 1929, she was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health...
  10. ↑ "Success of the loan". The Age . No. 24697. 9 June 1931. p. 14. Retrieved 4 November 2025– via Trove.
  11. ↑ Mennen, Kristian Martinus (20 Apr 2023). "One movement, three clusters: the national parks movement in England and Wales, 1929-1949". Contemporary British History . 37 (2): 277. doi: 10.1080/13619462.2023.2196409 . Retrieved 3 November 2025– via Taylor & Francis. Through Mander's mediation, R.S. Hudson, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health, agreed to receive a deputation of the Standing Committee on National Parks on 15 March 1937.
  12. ↑ Khun Jr., Ferdinand (29 May 1937). "Chamberlain takes office as Premier; Appointments of Duff Cooper to Admiralty and Hoare to Home Office Puzzling". The New York Times . p. 1. Retrieved 4 November 2025. Robert Bernays, a Liberal journalist and author, wins his first Ministerial post as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health and at 35 becomes one of the youngest men in the government.
  13. ↑ "Churchill Picks Woman to Head Britain's Ministry of Education; Miss Florence Horsbrugh, 62, Gets Post--Government Appoints 5 More Aides". The New York Times . 3 November 1951. Retrieved 4 November 2025. During the war years she was parliamentary secretary to the Ministry of Health, what is known as a junior minister, and in 1945 she attended the San Francisco conference on the founding of the United Nations as a member of the British delegation.
  14. ↑ Baxter, Kenneth. "Chapter Nine: Identity, Scottish Women and Parliament 1918-1979". In Campbell, Jodi A.; Ewan, Elizabeth; Parker, Heather (eds.). The Shaping of Scottish Identities: Family, Nation and the Worlds Beyond. Centre for Scottish Studies, University of Guelph. pp. 150–151. ISBN   978-0-88955-589-1.
  15. ↑ "Baroness Florence Horsbrugh". Historic Environment Scotland . Retrieved 4 November 2025. Horsbrugh held ministerial office in the wartime coalition governments as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health, and Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food.
  16. ↑ The Times House of Commons 1955. London: The Times. 1955. p. 70.
  17. ↑ "British-American Parliamentary Conference". The Bermuda Recorder. 24 February 1965. p. 6. Retrieved 4 November 2025.
  18. ↑ Key, Florence E., ed. (7 December 1945). "The General Election". The Woman Teacher. Vol. 26, no. 15. National Union of Women Teachers. JSTOR   community.28299362 . Retrieved 4 November 2025– via JSTOR. We were also delighted to learn of the appointment of our good friend Mr. Charles Key as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health though, here again, the pleasure was mixed with regret that his appointment was not to the Ministry of Education.
  19. ↑ Pickover, Ella (5 July 2023). "NHS challenges from 1948 still faced in the health service today". The Independent . Retrieved 4 November 2025.
  20. ↑ "Laborites asking medical changes; Expansion of British Health Service Proposed -- Party Says It Would End Fees". The New York Times . 26 August 1959. p. 31. Retrieved 4 November 2025. Arthur Blenkinsop, former Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health...
  21. ↑ "2D Woman named aide to Churchill; Gets British post". The New York Times . 4 November 1951. p. 22. Retrieved 4 November 2025.
  22. ↑ "Promotion" . Northern Whig . 17 September 1957. p. 1. Retrieved 4 November 2025– via British Newspaper Archive. This is a promotion for Mr. Vaughan-Morgan, whose previous office of Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health...
  23. ↑ Cosgrave, Patrick (31 January 1995). "Obituaries:Lord Reigate". The Independent . Retrieved 4 November 2025. He was made Parliamentary Under- Secretary to the Ministry of Health in 1957 and, in September that year, he moved up a rung to become Minister of State at the Board of Trade.
  24. ↑ Ronan, Thomas P. (13 July 1958). "Britain prodded on smoking peril; Government Asked to Step Up Public's Education on Danger of Lung Cancer". The New York Times . Retrieved 4 November 2025. Richard Thompson, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health, said recently he believed the campaign was proving effective.
  25. ↑ Waggoner, Walter H. (23 October 1959). "Macmillan Completes Cabinet; Appoints Minister of Power". The New York Times . p. 5. Retrieved 4 November 2025. Miss Edith Pitt, who was Joint-Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions and is now Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health.
  26. 1 2 Cosgrave, Patrick (18 July 1992). "Obituary: Lord Newton". The Independent . Retrieved 4 November 2025.
  27. ↑ "Ministry Of Health". Parliament of the United Kingdom . 4 May 1964. Retrieved 4 November 2025. The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health (Mr. Bernard Braine
  28. ↑ "Laborites moving to balk a strike: Minister Says He'll Intervene—Wilson Appoints 32" . The New York Times . 21 October 1964. Retrieved 4 November 2025. Sir Barnett Stross, 64, a doctor who has treated many emergency patients in the House of Commons, was named Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health.
  29. ↑ Hughes, Fred (6 July 2024). "So, who might be the next Potteries MP in the ministerial ranks?". The Sentinel . Retrieved 4 November 2025– via PressReader.
  30. ↑ "Standardise drugs by law, says MP" . The Journal . Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England. 15 February 1966. p. 3. Retrieved 4 November 2025.
  31. ↑ Midlands News: 01.06.1966: Final phase of Lea Castle Hospital opened (Television production). ATV Midlands News – via Media Archive for Central England. Mr. Charles Loughlin, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health, opens final phase of Lea Castle Hospital for the mentally sick.
  32. ↑ "M.P.'S Tribute". Atherstone Herald. 12 January 1968. p. 8. Retrieved 4 November 2025– via Newspapers.com. Julian Snow, M.P. for Lichfield and Tamworth and Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health...
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