Secretary of State for Employment

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.

	Term of office
John Hodge MP for Manchester Gorton	10 December 1916	17 August 1917	Labour	David Lloyd George (Coalition)
George Henry Roberts MP for Norwich	17 August 1917	10 January 1919	Labour
Robert Horne MP for Glasgow Hillhead	10 January 1919	19 March 1920	Unionist
Thomas James Macnamara MP for Camberwell North West	19 March 1920	19 October 1922	Liberal
Anderson Montague-Barlow MP for Salford South	31 October 1922	22 January 1924	Conservative	Bonar Law
Anderson Montague-Barlow MP for Salford South	31 October 1922	22 January 1924	Conservative	Stanley Baldwin
Tom Shaw MP for Preston	22 January 1924	3 November 1924	Labour	Ramsay MacDonald
Arthur Steel-Maitland MP for Birmingham Erdington	6 November 1924	4 June 1929	Conservative	Stanley Baldwin
Margaret Bondfield MP for Wallsend	7 June 1929	24 August 1931 (lost seat 1931)	Labour	Ramsay MacDonald
Henry Betterton MP for Rushcliffe	25 August 1931	29 June 1934	Conservative	Ramsay MacDonald (1st & 2nd National Min.)
Oliver Stanley MP for Westmorland	29 June 1934	7 June 1935	Conservative	Ramsay MacDonald (1st & 2nd National Min.)
Ernest Brown MP for Leith	7 June 1935	13 May 1940	Liberal National	Stanley Baldwin (3rd National Min.)
Ernest Brown MP for Leith	7 June 1935	13 May 1940	Liberal National	Neville Chamberlain (4th Nat.Min.; War Coalition)

	Term of office
Ernest Bevin MP for Wandsworth Central	13 May 1940	23 May 1945	Labour	Winston Churchill (War Coalition)
R. A. Butler MP for Saffron Walden	25 May 1945	26 July 1945	Conservative	Winston Churchill (Caretaker Min.)
George Isaacs MP for Southwark North until 1950 then Southwark from 1950	3 August 1945	17 January 1951	Labour	Clement Attlee
Aneurin Bevan MP for Ebbw Vale	17 January 1951	23 April 1951 (resigned)	Labour
Alfred Robens MP for Blyth Valley	24 April 1951	26 October 1951	Labour
Walter Monckton MP for Bristol West	28 October 1951	20 December 1955	Conservative	Winston Churchill
Walter Monckton MP for Bristol West	28 October 1951	20 December 1955	Conservative	Anthony Eden
Iain Macleod MP for Enfield West	20 December 1955	14 October 1959	Conservative	Anthony Eden
Iain Macleod MP for Enfield West	20 December 1955	14 October 1959	Conservative	Harold Macmillan
Edward Heath MP for Bexley	14 October 1959	12 November 1959	Conservative	Harold Macmillan

	Term of office
Edward Heath MP for Bexley	12 November 1959	7 July 1960	Conservative	Harold Macmillan
John Hare MP for Sudbury and Woodbridge	27 July 1960	20 October 1963	Conservative	Harold Macmillan
Joseph Godber MP for Grantham	20 October 1963	16 October 1964	Conservative	Alec Douglas-Home
Ray Gunter MP for Southwark	18 October 1964	6 April 1968	Labour	Harold Wilson

	Term of office
Robert Carr MP for Mitcham	20 June 1970	7 April 1972	Conservative	Edward Heath
Maurice Macmillan MP for Farnham	7 April 1972	2 December 1973	Conservative
William Whitelaw MP for Penrith and The Border	2 December 1973	4 March 1974	Conservative
Michael Foot MP for Ebbw Vale	5 March 1974	8 April 1976	Labour	Harold Wilson
Albert Booth MP for Barrow-in-Furness	8 April 1976	4 May 1979	Labour	James Callaghan
James Prior MP for Lowestoft	5 May 1979	14 September 1981	Conservative	Margaret Thatcher
Norman Tebbit MP for Chingford	14 September 1981	16 October 1983	Conservative
Tom King MP for Bridgwater	16 October 1983	2 September 1985	Conservative
David Young, Baron Young of Graffham Life peer	2 September 1985	13 June 1987	Conservative
Norman Fowler MP for Sutton Coldfield	13 June 1987	3 January 1990	Conservative
Michael Howard MP for Folkestone and Hythe	3 January 1990	11 April 1992	Conservative
Michael Howard MP for Folkestone and Hythe	3 January 1990	11 April 1992	Conservative	John Major
Gillian Shephard MP for South West Norfolk	11 April 1992	27 May 1993	Conservative
David Hunt MP for Wirral West	27 May 1993	20 July 1994	Conservative
Michael Portillo MP for Enfield Southgate	20 July 1994	5 July 1995	Conservative

Name		Term of office		Political party		Prime Minister
	Gillian Shephard MP for South West Norfolk	5 July 1995	2 May 1997		Conservative		John Major
	David Blunkett MP for Sheffield Brightside	2 May 1997	8 June 2001		Labour		Tony Blair

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