Labour Government 1964-1970
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The Labour Government 1964–1970 was led by Prime Minister Harold Wilson
Harold Wilson
James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, FRS, FSS, PC was a British Labour Member of Parliament, Leader of the Labour Party. He was twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the 1960s and 1970s, winning four general elections, including a minority government after the...

. The Labour Party
Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...

 had won the 1964 general election by a majority of 4 seats. The Profumo affair
Profumo Affair
The Profumo Affair was a 1963 British political scandal named after John Profumo, Secretary of State for War. His affair with Christine Keeler, the reputed mistress of an alleged Russian spy, followed by lying in the House of Commons when he was questioned about it, forced the resignation of...

 had seriously damaged the previous Conservatives government, meaning Alec Douglas-Home
Alec Douglas-Home
Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel, KT, PC , known as The Earl of Home from 1951 to 1963 and as Sir Alec Douglas-Home from 1963 to 1974, was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from October 1963 to October 1964.He is the last...

's Premiership lasted only 363 days. Wilson's tiny majority led to impotency during this Parliament, and in 1966 another election was called, leading to a majority of 96 and the continuation of the Wilson government.

By 1969, the Labour Party was suffering serious electoral reverses. In May 1970, Wilson responded to an apparent recovery in his government's popularity by calling a general election, but, to the surprise of most observers, was defeated at the polls by the Conservatives under Heath.

Members

Members of the Cabinet are in bold face.
OfficeNameDatesNotes
Prime Minister
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the Head of Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom. The Prime Minister and Cabinet are collectively accountable for their policies and actions to the Sovereign, to Parliament, to their political party and...

,
First Lord of the Treasury
First Lord of the Treasury
The First Lord of the Treasury is the head of the commission exercising the ancient office of Lord High Treasurer in the United Kingdom, and is now always also the Prime Minister...


and Minister for the Civil Service
Minister for the Civil Service
In British government, the Minister for the Civil Service is responsible for making regulations regarding Her Majesty's Civil Service, the role of which is to assist the governments of the United Kingdom in formulating and implementing policies...

Harold Wilson
Harold Wilson
James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, FRS, FSS, PC was a British Labour Member of Parliament, Leader of the Labour Party. He was twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the 1960s and 1970s, winning four general elections, including a minority government after the...

16 October 1964 – 19 June 1970  
First Secretary of State
First Secretary of State
First Secretary of State is an occasionally used title within the Government of the United Kingdom, principally regarded as purely honorific. The title, which implies seniority over all other Secretaries of State, has no specific powers or authority attached to it beyond that of any other Secretary...

George Brown
George Brown, Baron George-Brown
George Alfred Brown, Baron George-Brown, PC was a British Labour politician, who served as the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1960 to 1970, and served in a number of positions in the Cabinet, most notably as Foreign Secretary, in the Labour Government of the 1960s...

16 October 1964 Office linked to Department of Economic Affairs until 29 August 1967
Michael Stewart
Michael Stewart, Baron Stewart of Fulham
Robert Michael Maitland Stewart, Baron Stewart of Fulham, CH, PC was a British Labour politician and Fabian Socialist who served twice as Foreign Secretary in the first cabinet of Harold Wilson.- Early life :...

11 August 1966 – 18 March 1968  
Barbara Castle
Barbara Castle
Barbara Anne Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn , PC, GCOT was a British Labour Party politician....

6 April 1968 Office linked to Ministry of Employment
Lord Chancellor
Lord Chancellor
The Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, or Lord Chancellor, is a senior and important functionary in the government of the United Kingdom. He is the second highest ranking of the Great Officers of State, ranking only after the Lord High Steward. The Lord Chancellor is appointed by the Sovereign...

Lord Gardiner 16 October 1964  
Lord President of the Council
Lord President of the Council
The Lord President of the Council is the fourth of the Great Officers of State of the United Kingdom, ranking beneath the Lord High Treasurer and above the Lord Privy Seal. The Lord President usually attends each meeting of the Privy Council, presenting business for the monarch's approval...

 
and Leader of the House of Commons
Leader of the House of Commons
The Leader of the House of Commons is a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom who is responsible for arranging government business in the House of Commons...

Herbert Bowden
Herbert Bowden
Herbert William Bowden, Baron Aylestone, CH CBE PC was a British Labour politician.Born in Cardiff, Wales, Bowden was a councillor on Leicester City Council 1938–45 and president of Leicester Labour Party in 1938. He served in the Royal Air Force during World War II...

16 October 1964
Richard Crossman
Richard Crossman
Richard Howard Stafford Crossman OBE was a British author and Labour Party politician who was a Cabinet Minister under Harold Wilson, and was the editor of the New Statesman. A prominent socialist intellectual, he became one of the Labour Party's leading Zionists and anti-communists...

11 August 1966  
Fred Peart
Fred Peart, Baron Peart
Thomas Frederick "Fred" Peart, Baron Peart, PC was a British Labour politician who served in the Labour governments of the 1960s and 1970s and was a candidate for Deputy Leader of the Party....

18 October 1968  
Lord Privy Seal
Lord Privy Seal
The Lord Privy Seal is the fifth of the Great Officers of State in the United Kingdom, ranking beneath the Lord President of the Council and above the Lord Great Chamberlain. The office is one of the traditional sinecure offices of state...

The Earl of Longford
Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford
Francis Aungier Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford KG, PC , known as the Lord Pakenham from 1945 to 1961, was a British politician, author, and social reformer...

18 October 1964 also Leader of the House of Lords
Leader of the House of Lords
The Leader of the House of Lords is a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom who is responsible for arranging government business in the House of Lords. The role is always held in combination with a formal Cabinet position, usually one of the sinecure offices of Lord President of the Council,...

Sir Frank Soskice
Frank Soskice
Frank Soskice, Baron Stow Hill PC was a British lawyer and Labour Party politician.-Background and education:...

23 December 1965  
The Earl of Longford
Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford
Francis Aungier Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford KG, PC , known as the Lord Pakenham from 1945 to 1961, was a British politician, author, and social reformer...

6 April 1966 also Leader of the House of Lords
Leader of the House of Lords
The Leader of the House of Lords is a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom who is responsible for arranging government business in the House of Lords. The role is always held in combination with a formal Cabinet position, usually one of the sinecure offices of Lord President of the Council,...

Lord Shackleton 16 January 1968 also Leader of the House of Lords
Leader of the House of Lords
The Leader of the House of Lords is a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom who is responsible for arranging government business in the House of Lords. The role is always held in combination with a formal Cabinet position, usually one of the sinecure offices of Lord President of the Council,...

Fred Peart
Fred Peart, Baron Peart
Thomas Frederick "Fred" Peart, Baron Peart, PC was a British Labour politician who served in the Labour governments of the 1960s and 1970s and was a candidate for Deputy Leader of the Party....

6 April 1968  
Lord Shackleton 18 October 1968 also Leader of the House of Lords
Leader of the House of Lords
The Leader of the House of Lords is a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom who is responsible for arranging government business in the House of Lords. The role is always held in combination with a formal Cabinet position, usually one of the sinecure offices of Lord President of the Council,...

Chancellor of the Exchequer
Chancellor of the Exchequer
The Chancellor of the Exchequer is the title held by the British Cabinet minister who is responsible for all economic and financial matters. Often simply called the Chancellor, the office-holder controls HM Treasury and plays a role akin to the posts of Minister of Finance or Secretary of the...

James Callaghan
James Callaghan
Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff, KG, PC , was a British Labour politician, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1976 to 1980...

16 October 1964  
Roy Jenkins
Roy Jenkins
Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead OM, PC was a British politician.The son of a Welsh coal miner who later became a union official and Labour MP, Roy Jenkins served with distinction in World War II. Elected to Parliament as a Labour member in 1948, he served in several major posts in...

30 November 1967  
Chief Secretary to the Treasury
Chief Secretary to the Treasury
The Chief Secretary to the Treasury is the third most senior ministerial position in HM Treasury, after the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer . In recent years, the office holder has usually been given a junior position in the British Cabinet...

John Diamond 20 October 1964 Office in Cabinet from 1 November 1968
Minister of State, Treasury David John Mauerman 6 April 1968  
Bill Rodgers 13 October 1969  
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury
The Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury is a junior ministerial position in the British Government. The holder is usually the Government Chief Whip in the House of Commons. However, the office is no longer attached to the Treasury...

Edward Short 18 October 1964  
John Silkin
John Silkin
John Ernest Silkin, PC was an English Labour politician and solicitor.He was the third son of Lewis Silkin, 1st Baron Silkin, and a younger brother of Samuel Silkin, Baron Silkin of Dulwich. He was educated at Dulwich College, the University of Wales, and Trinity Hall at the University of...

4 July 1966  
Robert Mellish
Bob Mellish, Baron Mellish
Robert Joseph Mellish, Baron Mellish, PC was a British politician. He was a long-serving Labour Party MP and served as the Labour Chief Whip from 1969 until 1976 but in his later years he fell out with his local Constituency Labour Party which had become dominated by left-wingers, and eventually...

30 April 1969  
office vacant 31 May 1970  
Financial Secretary to the Treasury
Financial Secretary to the Treasury
Financial Secretary to the Treasury is a junior Ministerial post in the British Treasury. It is the 4th most significant Ministerial role within the Treasury after the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, and the Paymaster General...

Niall MacDermot
Niall MacDermot
Niall MacDermot was a British Labour Party politician.He was first elected to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament for Lewisham North, at a by-election in 1957 following the death of Conservative MP Sir Austin Hudson.MacDermot lost his seat two years later at the 1959 general election,...

21 October 1964  
Harold Lever
Harold Lever, Baron Lever of Manchester
Harold Lever, Baron Lever of Manchester, PC was a barrister and Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom....

29 August 1967  
Dick Taverne 13 October 1969  
Economic Secretary to the Treasury
Economic Secretary to the Treasury
The Economic Secretary to the Treasury is the fifth most senior ministerial post in the UK Treasury, after the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, the Paymaster-General and the Financial Secretary...

Anthony Crosland
Anthony Crosland
Charles Anthony Raven Crosland , otherwise Tony Crosland or C.A.R. Crosland, was a British Labour Party politician and author. He served as Member of Parliament for South Gloucestershire and later for Great Grimsby...

19 October 1964 de facto Minister of State for Economic Affairs. Office abolished 22 December 1964
Secretary of State for Economic Affairs
Secretary of State for Economic Affairs
The Secretary of State for Economic Affairs was briefly an office of Her Majesty's government in the United Kingdom. It was established by Harold Wilson in October 1964...

George Brown
George Brown, Baron George-Brown
George Alfred Brown, Baron George-Brown, PC was a British Labour politician, who served as the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1960 to 1970, and served in a number of positions in the Cabinet, most notably as Foreign Secretary, in the Labour Government of the 1960s...

16 October 1964  
Michael Stewart
Michael Stewart, Baron Stewart of Fulham
Robert Michael Maitland Stewart, Baron Stewart of Fulham, CH, PC was a British Labour politician and Fabian Socialist who served twice as Foreign Secretary in the first cabinet of Harold Wilson.- Early life :...

11 August 1966  
Peter Shore
Peter Shore
Peter David Shore, Baron Shore of Stepney PC was a British Labour politician and former Cabinet Minister, noted in part for his opposition to the United Kingdom's entry into the European Economic Community. His idiosyncratic left-wing nationalism led to comparison with the French politician...

29 August 1967 Office abolished 6 October 1969
Minister of State for Economic Affairs Anthony Crosland
Anthony Crosland
Charles Anthony Raven Crosland , otherwise Tony Crosland or C.A.R. Crosland, was a British Labour Party politician and author. He served as Member of Parliament for South Gloucestershire and later for Great Grimsby...

20 October 1964 Nominally Economic Secretary to the Treasury
Economic Secretary to the Treasury
The Economic Secretary to the Treasury is the fifth most senior ministerial post in the UK Treasury, after the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, the Paymaster-General and the Financial Secretary...

 until 22 December 1964
Austen Albu
Austen Albu
Austen Harry Albu was a British Labour Member of Parliament for Edmonton. He first won the seat at a by-election in 1948, and held it until his retirement at the February 1974 general election...

27 January 1965 – 7 January 1967  
Thomas Urwin 6 April 1968 – 6 October 1969  
Under-Secretary of State for Economic Affairs Maurice Foley
Maurice Foley (politician)
Maurice Anthony Foley was a British Labour Party politician. He was elected as Member of Parliament for West Bromwich at a by-election in 1963, and represented the constituency until his resignation from the House of Commons in 1973...

21 October 1964 – 6 April 1966  
Bill Rodgers 21 October 1964 – 7 January 1967  
Harold Lever
Harold Lever, Baron Lever of Manchester
Harold Lever, Baron Lever of Manchester, PC was a barrister and Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom....

7 January 1967 – 29 August 1967  
Peter Shore
Peter Shore
Peter David Shore, Baron Shore of Stepney PC was a British Labour politician and former Cabinet Minister, noted in part for his opposition to the United Kingdom's entry into the European Economic Community. His idiosyncratic left-wing nationalism led to comparison with the French politician...

7 January 1967 – 29 August 1967  
Alan Williams
Alan Williams
Alan John Williams is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Swansea West from 1964 to 2010.-Early life:...

29 August 1967 – 6 October 1969  
Edmund Dell
Edmund Dell
Edmund Emanuel Dell was a British politician and businessman.Dell was born in London, the son of a Jewish manufacturer. In World War II he served in the Rifle Corps and the Royal Artillery, leaving as a first lieutenant...

29 August 1967 – 6 April 1968  
Lords of the Treasury
Lord of the Treasury
In the United Kingdom, there are at least six Lords of the Treasury who serve concurrently. Traditionally, this board consists of the First Lord of the Treasury, the Second Lord of the Treasury, and four or more junior lords .Strictly they are commissioners for exercising the office of Lord...

George Rogers 21 October 1964 – 11 January 1966  
George Lawson
George Lawson (UK politician)
George McArthur Lawson was a British Labour politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Motherwell from a by-election in 1954 until his retirement at the October 1974 general election.- External links :...

21 October 1964 – 1 April 1967  
Jack McCann
Jack McCann
John "Jack" McCann was a British politician, who served as the Labour Member of Parliament for Rochdale....

21 October 1964 – 11 April 1966 and 29 July 1967 – 13 October 1969  
Ifor Davies
Ifor Davies
Ifor Davies was a Welsh Labour Party politician.Davies was educated at Gowerton School, Swansea Technical College and Ruskin College, Oxford. He was an industrial personnel officer and served as a councillor on Glamorgan County Council, representing Gowerton 1958-61...

21 October 1964 – 6 April 1966  
Harriet Slater
Harriet Slater
Harriet Slater CBE, née Evans, was a British Labour and Co-operative politician.Educated at Hanley High School and Dudley Teachers’ Training College, Slater was National Organiser for the Cooperative Party from 1942 to 1953, and a local councillor in Stoke-on-Trent from 1933 to 1965.She was...

21 October 1964 – 6 April 1966  
John Silkin
John Silkin
John Ernest Silkin, PC was an English Labour politician and solicitor.He was the third son of Lewis Silkin, 1st Baron Silkin, and a younger brother of Samuel Silkin, Baron Silkin of Dulwich. He was educated at Dulwich College, the University of Wales, and Trinity Hall at the University of...

11 January 1966 – 11 April 1966  
Alan Fitch
Alan Fitch
Alan Fitch was a British Labour Party politician.Fitch was educated at Kingswood School, Bath , and was a mineworker...

16 April 1966 – 13 October 1969  
Joseph Harper
Joseph Harper (English politician)
Joseph Harper was a Labour Party politician in Great Britain.He was elected as the Member of Parliament MP for Pontefract at a by-election in 1962. He was MP for the constituency and then Pontefract and Castleford until he died in office aged 64...

16 April 1966 – 19 June 1970  
William Whitlock
William Whitlock (politician)
William Charles "Bill" Whitlock was a British Labour Party politician.Whitlock was educated at Itchen Grammar School and the University of Southampton. He volunteered for the British Army upon graduation, and soon joined the Hampshires...

11 April 1966 – 7 July 1966 and 1 April 1967 – 28 July 1967  
William Howie
William Howie, Baron Howie of Troon
William Howie, Baron Howie of Troon , known as Will Howie, is a retired British Labour Party politician and former Member of Parliament ....

16 April 1966 – 1 April 1967  
Harry Gourlay
Harry Gourlay
Harry Philip Heggie Gourlay was a Scottish Labour Party politician.Gourlay was educated at Kirkcaldy High School and was a vehicles examiner...

7 July 1966 – 1 April 1967  
Brian O'Malley
Brian O'Malley
Brian Kevin O'Malley was a British Labour Party politician.O'Malley was educated at Mexborough Grammar School and Manchester University. He was a teacher and lecturer and a trade union branch official....

1 April 1967 – 13 October 1969  
Walter Harrison
Walter Harrison
Walter Harrison is a British Labour politician.Harrison was educated at Dewsbury Technical College and School of Art. He was a foreman electrician and was active in the Electricians' Trade Union...

29 October 1968 – 19 June 1970  
Neil McBride
Neil McBride
Neil McBride was a British Labour Party politician.He was Member of Parliament for Swansea East from a by-election in 1963 until his death shortly before the October 1974 general election...

13 October 1969 – 19 June 1970  
Ernest Perry 13 October 1969 – 19 June 1970  
Ernest Armstrong
Ernest Armstrong
Ernest Armstrong was a British Labour Party politician.Armstrong was educated at Wolsingham Grammar School and City of Leeds Teacher Training College, and ultimately became a headmaster...

13 October 1969 – 19 June 1970  
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Patrick Gordon Walker
Patrick Gordon Walker
Patrick Chrestien Gordon Walker, Baron Gordon-Walker CH, PC was a British Labour Party politician. He was a Member of Parliament for nearly thirty years, and served twice as a Cabinet minister...

16 October 1964  
Michael Stewart
Michael Stewart, Baron Stewart of Fulham
Robert Michael Maitland Stewart, Baron Stewart of Fulham, CH, PC was a British Labour politician and Fabian Socialist who served twice as Foreign Secretary in the first cabinet of Harold Wilson.- Early life :...

22 January 1965  
George Brown
George Brown, Baron George-Brown
George Alfred Brown, Baron George-Brown, PC was a British Labour politician, who served as the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1960 to 1970, and served in a number of positions in the Cabinet, most notably as Foreign Secretary, in the Labour Government of the 1960s...

11 August 1966 Resigned
Michael Stewart
Michael Stewart, Baron Stewart of Fulham
Robert Michael Maitland Stewart, Baron Stewart of Fulham, CH, PC was a British Labour politician and Fabian Socialist who served twice as Foreign Secretary in the first cabinet of Harold Wilson.- Early life :...

16 March 1968 Merged with Commonwealth Office 17 October 1968
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, commonly referred to as the Foreign Secretary, is a senior member of Her Majesty's Government heading the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and regarded as one of the Great Offices of State...

Michael Stewart
Michael Stewart, Baron Stewart of Fulham
Robert Michael Maitland Stewart, Baron Stewart of Fulham, CH, PC was a British Labour politician and Fabian Socialist who served twice as Foreign Secretary in the first cabinet of Harold Wilson.- Early life :...

17 October 1968  
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs is a junior ministerial position in the British government.-Ministers of State for Foreign Affairs 1945-1968:*1945: William Mabane*1945-1946: Philip Noel-Baker*1946-1950: Hector McNeil*1950-1951: Kenneth Younger...

Lord Caradon
Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon
Hugh Mackintosh Foot, Baron Caradon, GCMG KCVO OBE PC was a British colonial administrator and diplomat who oversaw moves to independence in various colonies and was UK representative to the United Nations....

16 October 1964 – 19 June 1970  
George Thomson
George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth
George Morgan Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth, KT, PC, DL, FRSE, was a journalist and British politician belonging to the Labour Party. In the 1980s, he joined the Social Democratic Party. Following the SDP's merger with the Liberal Party, he became a Liberal Democrat and sat as a Liberal...

19 June 1964 – 6 April 1966 and 7 January 1967 – 29 August 1967  
Walter Padley
Walter Padley
Walter Ernest Padley was a British Labour politician.Padley was educated at Chipping Norton Grammar School and Ruskin College, Oxford with a TUC scholarship...

19 October 1964 – 7 January 1967  
Lord Chalfont 23 October 1964 – 19 June 1970  
Eirene White
Eirene White
Eirene Lloyd White, Baroness White, née Jones was a British Labour politician and journalist....

11 April 1966 – 7 January 1967  
Frederick Mulley
Frederick Mulley
Frederick William Mulley, Baron Mulley PC was a British Labour politician, barrister-at-law, and economist.Mulley attended Warwick School between 1929 and 1936. He served in the Worcestershire Regiment in the Second World War, reaching the rank of sergeant, but was captured in 1940 and spent five...

7 January 1967 – 17 October 1968 Merged with Commonwealth Office 17 October 1968
Goronwy Roberts
Goronwy Roberts
Goronwy Owen Goronwy-Roberts, Baron Goronwy-Roberts PC, MA was a Labour Member of Parliament. The younger son of E. E...

29 August 1967 – 17 October 1968 Merged with Commonwealth Office 17 October 1968
Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs is a junior ministerial position in the British government.-Ministers of State for Foreign Affairs 1945-1968:*1945: William Mabane*1945-1946: Philip Noel-Baker*1946-1950: Hector McNeil*1950-1951: Kenneth Younger...

Frederick Mulley
Frederick Mulley
Frederick William Mulley, Baron Mulley PC was a British Labour politician, barrister-at-law, and economist.Mulley attended Warwick School between 1929 and 1936. He served in the Worcestershire Regiment in the Second World War, reaching the rank of sergeant, but was captured in 1940 and spent five...

17 October 1968 – 6 October 1969  
Goronwy Roberts
Goronwy Roberts
Goronwy Owen Goronwy-Roberts, Baron Goronwy-Roberts PC, MA was a Labour Member of Parliament. The younger son of E. E...

17 October 1968 – 13 October 1969  
The Lord Shepherd
Malcolm Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd
Malcolm Newton Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd [Hereditary] and also Baron Shepherd of Spalding [Life Peerage] PC , was a British Labour politician and peer who served as Leader of the House of Lords under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan.Shepherd was the son of the Labour politician George...

17 October 1968 – 19 June 1970  
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Lord Walston 20 October 1964  
Bill Rodgers 7 January 1967  
Maurice Foley
Maurice Foley (politician)
Maurice Anthony Foley was a British Labour Party politician. He was elected as Member of Parliament for West Bromwich at a by-election in 1963, and represented the constituency until his resignation from the House of Commons in 1973...

3 July 1968 Merged with Commonwealth Office 17 October 1968
Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Maurice Foley
Maurice Foley (politician)
Maurice Anthony Foley was a British Labour Party politician. He was elected as Member of Parliament for West Bromwich at a by-election in 1963, and represented the constituency until his resignation from the House of Commons in 1973...

17 October 1968 – 19 June 1970  
William Whitlock
William Whitlock (politician)
William Charles "Bill" Whitlock was a British Labour Party politician.Whitlock was educated at Itchen Grammar School and the University of Southampton. He volunteered for the British Army upon graduation, and soon joined the Hampshires...

17 October 1968 – 13 October 1969  
Evan Luard
Evan Luard
Evan Trant Luard , most commonly known as Evan Luard, was a British Labour and SDP politician....

13 October 1969 – 19 June 1970  
Secretary of State for the Home Department Sir Frank Soskice
Frank Soskice
Frank Soskice, Baron Stow Hill PC was a British lawyer and Labour Party politician.-Background and education:...

18 October 1964  
Roy Jenkins
Roy Jenkins
Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead OM, PC was a British politician.The son of a Welsh coal miner who later became a union official and Labour MP, Roy Jenkins served with distinction in World War II. Elected to Parliament as a Labour member in 1948, he served in several major posts in...

23 December 1965  
James Callaghan
James Callaghan
Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff, KG, PC , was a British Labour politician, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1976 to 1980...

30 November 1967  
Minister of State for Home Affairs Alice Bacon
Alice Bacon, Baroness Bacon
Alice Martha Bacon, Baroness Bacon, CBE was a British Labour Party politician. At the 1945 general election, she was elected as Member of Parliament for Leeds North East...

19 October 1964  
Lord Stonham 29 August 1967  
Shirley Williams 13 October 1969  
Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
-Non-permanent and parliamentary under-secretaries, 1782-present:*April 1782: Evan Nepean*April 1782: Thomas Orde*July 1782: Henry Strachey*April 1783: George North*February 1784: Hon. John Townshend*June 1789: Scrope Bernard*July 1794: The Hon...

Lord Stonham
Victor Collins, Baron Stonham
Victor John Collins, Baron Stonham PC was a British Labour Party politician.Born in Whitechapel, London, he was elected at the 1945 general election as Member of Parliament for Taunton, in Somerset. He lost his seat at the 1950, to the Conservative Henry Hopkinson...

20 October 1964 – 29 August 1967  
George Thomas
George Thomas, 1st Viscount Tonypandy
Thomas George Thomas, 1st Viscount Tonypandy PC was a British Labour Party politician and Speaker of the House of Commons. Born in Port Talbot, Wales, he initially worked as a teacher in both London and Cardiff...

20 October 1964 – 6 April 1966  
Maurice Foley
Maurice Foley (politician)
Maurice Anthony Foley was a British Labour Party politician. He was elected as Member of Parliament for West Bromwich at a by-election in 1963, and represented the constituency until his resignation from the House of Commons in 1973...

6 April 1966 – 7 January 1967  
Dick Taverne 6 April 1966 – 6 April 1968  
David Ennals 7 January 1967 – 1 November 1968  
Elystan Morgan
Elystan Morgan
Dafydd Elystan Elystan-Morgan, Baron Elystan-Morgan , known as Elystan Morgan, is a Welsh politician.Morgan was educated at Ardwyn Grammar School, Aberystwyth and the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth...

6 April 1968 – 19 June 1970  
Merlyn Rees 1 November 1968 – 19 June 1970  
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food was a UK cabinet position, responsible for the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. The post was originally named President of the Board of Agriculture and was created in 1889...

Fred Peart
Fred Peart, Baron Peart
Thomas Frederick "Fred" Peart, Baron Peart, PC was a British Labour politician who served in the Labour governments of the 1960s and 1970s and was a candidate for Deputy Leader of the Party....

18 October 1964  
Cledwyn Hughes
Cledwyn Hughes
Cledwyn Hughes, Baron Cledwyn of Penrhos, CH, PC, , was a Welsh Labour politician.Born in Holyhead and educated at the Holyhead Grammar School and at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, he served in the RAFVR in the Second World War. He became a solicitor and a town clerk of Holyhead...

6 April 1968  
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food John Mackie
John Mackie, Baron John-Mackie
John Mackie, Baron John-Mackie was a British Labour MP elected for Enfield East at the general elections of 1959, 1964, 1966 and 1970...

20 October 1964 – 19 June 1970  
James Hutchison Hoy
James Hutchison Hoy
James Hutchison Hoy, Baron Hoy PC was a Scottish Labour politician and life peer.Educated at Causewayside and Sciennes Public Schools, Edinburgh, he initially worked as an interior decorator. He was elected as Labour Member of Parliament for Leith at the 1945 general election, holding the seat...

21 October 1964 – 19 June 1970  
Minister of State for Aviation Roy Jenkins
Roy Jenkins
Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead OM, PC was a British politician.The son of a Welsh coal miner who later became a union official and Labour MP, Roy Jenkins served with distinction in World War II. Elected to Parliament as a Labour member in 1948, he served in several major posts in...

18 October 1964  
Frederick Mulley
Frederick Mulley
Frederick William Mulley, Baron Mulley PC was a British Labour politician, barrister-at-law, and economist.Mulley attended Warwick School between 1929 and 1936. He served in the Worcestershire Regiment in the Second World War, reaching the rank of sergeant, but was captured in 1940 and spent five...

23 December 1965  
John Stonehouse
John Stonehouse
John Thomson Stonehouse was a British politician and minister under Harold Wilson. Stonehouse is perhaps best remembered for his unsuccessful attempt at faking his own death in 1974...

7 January 1967 Office abolished 15 February 1967
Parliamentary Secretary for Aviation John Stonehouse
John Stonehouse
John Thomson Stonehouse was a British politician and minister under Harold Wilson. Stonehouse is perhaps best remembered for his unsuccessful attempt at faking his own death in 1974...

20 October 1964  
Julian Snow
Julian Snow, Baron Burntwood
Julian Ward Snow, Baron Burntwood was a British Labour Party politician. He was a Member of Parliament for Lichfield and Tamworth from 1950 until stepping down at the 1970 general election, when his seat was won for the Conservatives by James d'Avigdor-Goldsmid...

6 April 1966 Office abolished 7 January 1967
Secretary of State for the Colonies
Secretary of State for the Colonies
The Secretary of State for the Colonies or Colonial Secretary was the British Cabinet minister in charge of managing the United Kingdom's various colonial dependencies....

Anthony Greenwood 18 October 1964  
The Earl of Longford 23 December 1965 also Leader of the House of Lords
Leader of the House of Lords
The Leader of the House of Lords is a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom who is responsible for arranging government business in the House of Lords. The role is always held in combination with a formal Cabinet position, usually one of the sinecure offices of Lord President of the Council,...

Frederick Lee 6 April 1966 Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs
Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs
The position of Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs was created in 1966 by the merger of the old positions of Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations and Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies. The position dealt with British relations with members of the Commonwealth...

 from 1 August 1966. Office abolished 7 January 1967
Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies
Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies
The Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies was a junior Ministerial post in the United Kingdom government, subordinate to the Secretary of State for the Colonies and, from 1948, also to a Minister of State....

Eirene White
Eirene White
Eirene Lloyd White, Baroness White, née Jones was a British Labour politician and journalist....

20 October 1964 – 11 October 1965  
Lord Taylor
Stephen Taylor, Baron Taylor
Stephen James Lake Taylor, Baron Taylor was a British physician, civil servant, politician and educator....

20 October 1964 – 11 April 1966 Also Under-Secretary at Commonwealth Relations
Lord Beswick 11 October 1965 – 1 August 1966 Also Under-Secretary at Commonwealth Relations
Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations
Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations
The Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations was a British Cabinet office existing between 1947 and 1966, responsible for dealing with British relationship with members of the Commonwealth of Nations . The position was created out of the old position of Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs...

Arthur Bottomley
Arthur Bottomley
Arthur George Bottomley, Baron Bottomley, OBE, PC was a British Labour politician, Member of Parliament and minister....

18 October 1964 Merged into Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs
Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs
The position of Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs was created on 1 August 1966 by the merger of the old positions of Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations and Secretary of State for the Colonies. The position dealt with British relations with members of the Commonwealth of Nations...

Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs
Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs
The position of Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs was created on 1 August 1966 by the merger of the old positions of Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations and Secretary of State for the Colonies. The position dealt with British relations with members of the Commonwealth of Nations...

Herbert Bowden
Herbert Bowden
Herbert William Bowden, Baron Aylestone, CH CBE PC was a British Labour politician.Born in Cardiff, Wales, Bowden was a councillor on Leicester City Council 1938–45 and president of Leicester Labour Party in 1938. He served in the Royal Air Force during World War II...

11 August 1966  
George Thomson
George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth
George Morgan Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth, KT, PC, DL, FRSE, was a journalist and British politician belonging to the Labour Party. In the 1980s, he joined the Social Democratic Party. Following the SDP's merger with the Liberal Party, he became a Liberal Democrat and sat as a Liberal...

29 August 1967 Merged with Foreign Office 17 October 1968
Minister of State for Commonwealth Relations
Minister of State for Commonwealth Relations
The Minister of State for Commonwealth Relations was a ministerial post in the United Kingdom Government from 1947 until 1966. The holder was responsible for assisting the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations in dealing with British relationships with members of the Commonwealth of Nations...

Cledwyn Hughes
Cledwyn Hughes
Cledwyn Hughes, Baron Cledwyn of Penrhos, CH, PC, , was a Welsh Labour politician.Born in Holyhead and educated at the Holyhead Grammar School and at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, he served in the RAFVR in the Second World War. He became a solicitor and a town clerk of Holyhead...

19 October 1964 – 6 April 1966 Merged into Minister of State for Commonwealth Affairs
Minister of State for Commonwealth Affairs
The position of Minister of State for Commonwealth Affairs was created in 1966 by the merger of the old positions of Minister of State for Commonwealth Relations and Minister of State for the Colonies. The position dealt with British relations with members of the Commonwealth of Nations...

Minister of State for Commonwealth Affairs
Minister of State for Commonwealth Affairs
The position of Minister of State for Commonwealth Affairs was created in 1966 by the merger of the old positions of Minister of State for Commonwealth Relations and Minister of State for the Colonies. The position dealt with British relations with members of the Commonwealth of Nations...

Judith Hart
Judith Hart
Judith Hart, Baroness Hart of South Lanark DBE PC was a British Labour Party politician...

6 April 1966 – 26 July 1967  
George Thomas
George Thomas, 1st Viscount Tonypandy
Thomas George Thomas, 1st Viscount Tonypandy PC was a British Labour Party politician and Speaker of the House of Commons. Born in Port Talbot, Wales, he initially worked as a teacher in both London and Cardiff...

7 January 1967 – 6 April 1968  
The Lord Shepherd
Malcolm Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd
Malcolm Newton Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd [Hereditary] and also Baron Shepherd of Spalding [Life Peerage] PC , was a British Labour politician and peer who served as Leader of the House of Lords under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan.Shepherd was the son of the Labour politician George...

26 July 1967 Merged with Foreign Office 17 October 1968
Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations
Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations
The Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations was a junior ministerial post in the United Kingdom Government from 1947 until 1966. The holder was responsible for assisting the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations in dealing with British relationship with members of the...

Lord Taylor
Stephen Taylor, Baron Taylor
Stephen James Lake Taylor, Baron Taylor was a British physician, civil servant, politician and educator....

20 October 1964 Also Under-Secretary for the Colonies
Lord Beswick 11 October 1965 Also Under-Secretary for the Colonies until 1 August 1966
Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs
Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs
The position of Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs was created in 1966 by the merger of the old positions of Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations and Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies. The position dealt with British relations with members of the Commonwealth...

|Lord Beswick 1 August 1966  
William Whitlock
William Whitlock (politician)
William Charles "Bill" Whitlock was a British Labour Party politician.Whitlock was educated at Itchen Grammar School and the University of Southampton. He volunteered for the British Army upon graduation, and soon joined the Hampshires...

26 July 1967 Merged with Foreign Office 17 October 1968
Secretary of State for Defence
Secretary of State for Defence
The Secretary of State for Defence, popularly known as the Defence Secretary, is the senior Government of the United Kingdom minister in charge of the Ministry of Defence, chairing the Defence Council. It is a Cabinet position...

Denis Healey
Denis Healey
Denis Winston Healey, Baron Healey CH, MBE, PC is a British Labour politician, who served as Secretary of State for Defence from 1964 to 1970 and Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1974 to 1979.-Early life:...

16 October 1964  
Minister of State for the Army Frederick Mulley
Frederick Mulley
Frederick William Mulley, Baron Mulley PC was a British Labour politician, barrister-at-law, and economist.Mulley attended Warwick School between 1929 and 1936. He served in the Worcestershire Regiment in the Second World War, reaching the rank of sergeant, but was captured in 1940 and spent five...

19 October 1964 Also Deputy Secretary of State
Gerald Reynolds
Gerry Reynolds (UK politician)
Gerald William Reynolds , known as Gerry Reynolds was a British Labour Party politician.Reynolds was elected as Member of Parliament for Islington North in a 1958 by-election following the death of the sitting MP Wilfred Fienburgh...

24 December 1965  
Under-Secretary of State for the Army Gerald Reynolds
Gerry Reynolds (UK politician)
Gerald William Reynolds , known as Gerry Reynolds was a British Labour Party politician.Reynolds was elected as Member of Parliament for Islington North in a 1958 by-election following the death of the sitting MP Wilfred Fienburgh...

20 October 1964  
Merlyn Rees 24 December 1965  
David Ennals 6 April 1966  
James Boyden
James Boyden
Harold James Boyden was a British Labour Party politician.Boyden was educated at Tiffin Boys' School, Kingston upon Thames, and King's College London...

7 January 1967  
Ivor Richard
Ivor Richard, Baron Richard
Ivor Seward Richard, Baron Richard, PC , is a British politician belonging to the Labour Party and former member of the Commission of the European Communities.-Background:...

13 October 1969  
Minister of State for the Navy Christopher Mayhew
Christopher Mayhew
Christopher Paget Mayhew, Baron Mayhew was a British politician who was a Labour Member of Parliament from 1945 to 1950 and from 1951 to 1974, when he left the Labour Party to become a Liberal...

19 October 1964  
Joseph William Mallalieu 19 February 1966 Office abolished 7 January 1967
Under-Secretary of State for the Navy Joseph William Mallalieu 21 October 1964  
Lord Winterbottom
Ian Winterbottom, Baron Winterbottom
Ian Winterbottom, Baron Winterbottom , was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.He was elected at the 1950 general election as Member of Parliament for Nottingham Central, a marginal constituency which the sitting Labour MP Geoffrey de Freitas had abandoned for the promising Lincoln...

6 April 1966  
Maurice Foley
Maurice Foley (politician)
Maurice Anthony Foley was a British Labour Party politician. He was elected as Member of Parliament for West Bromwich at a by-election in 1963, and represented the constituency until his resignation from the House of Commons in 1973...

7 January 1967  
David Owen
David Owen
David Anthony Llewellyn Owen, Baron Owen CH PC FRCP is a British politician.Owen served as British Foreign Secretary from 1977 to 1979, the youngest person in over forty years to hold the post; he co-authored the failed Vance-Owen and Owen-Stoltenberg peace plans offered during the Bosnian War...

3 July 1968  
Minister of State for the Air Force Lord Shackleton 19 October 1964 Office abolished 7 January 1967
Under-Secretary of State for the Air Force Bruce Millan
Bruce Millan
Bruce Millan is a Scottish Labour politician. He was born in Dundee and educated at the Harris Academy in that city.He was elected as Member of Parliament for Glasgow Craigton at the 1959 general election and served for that seat, and after its abolition for Glasgow Govan, until 1988...

20 October 1964  
Merlyn Rees 16 April 1966  
Lord Winterbottom
Ian Winterbottom, Baron Winterbottom
Ian Winterbottom, Baron Winterbottom , was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.He was elected at the 1950 general election as Member of Parliament for Nottingham Central, a marginal constituency which the sitting Labour MP Geoffrey de Freitas had abandoned for the promising Lincoln...

1 November 1968  
Minister of Defence for Administration Gerald Reynolds
Gerry Reynolds (UK politician)
Gerald William Reynolds , known as Gerry Reynolds was a British Labour Party politician.Reynolds was elected as Member of Parliament for Islington North in a 1958 by-election following the death of the sitting MP Wilfred Fienburgh...

7 January 1967  
Roy Hattersley
Roy Hattersley
Roy Sydney George Hattersley, Baron Hattersley is a British Labour politician, author and journalist from Sheffield. He served as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1983 to 1992.-Early life:...

15 July 1969  
Minister of Defence for Equipment Roy Mason
Roy Mason
Roy Mason, Baron Mason of Barnsley, PC is a British Labour politician and former Cabinet minister.He was born in Royston, and grew up in Carlton, Barnsley in South Yorkshire...

7 January 1967  
John Morris
John Morris, Baron Morris of Aberavon
John Morris, Baron Morris of Aberavon, KG, PC, QC is a retired British politician. He was a Labour Member of Parliament from 1959 to 2001 and Secretary of State for Wales from 1974 to 1979.-Background and education:...

16 April 1968  
Secretary of State for Education and Science Michael Stewart
Michael Stewart, Baron Stewart of Fulham
Robert Michael Maitland Stewart, Baron Stewart of Fulham, CH, PC was a British Labour politician and Fabian Socialist who served twice as Foreign Secretary in the first cabinet of Harold Wilson.- Early life :...

18 October 1964  
Anthony Crosland
Anthony Crosland
Charles Anthony Raven Crosland , otherwise Tony Crosland or C.A.R. Crosland, was a British Labour Party politician and author. He served as Member of Parliament for South Gloucestershire and later for Great Grimsby...

22 January 1965  
Patrick Gordon Walker
Patrick Gordon Walker
Patrick Chrestien Gordon Walker, Baron Gordon-Walker CH, PC was a British Labour Party politician. He was a Member of Parliament for nearly thirty years, and served twice as a Cabinet minister...

29 August 1967  
Edward Short 6 April 1968  
Minister of State for Education and Science Lord Bowden 19 October 1964 – 11 October 1965
Reg Prentice 20 October 1964 – 6 April 1966  
Edward Redhead
Edward Redhead
Edward Charles Redhead JP was a British civil servant and politician who became the successor to Clement Attlee as Member of Parliament for Walthamstow West.-Civil servant:...

11 October 1965 – 7 January 1967  
Goronwy Roberts
Goronwy Roberts
Goronwy Owen Goronwy-Roberts, Baron Goronwy-Roberts PC, MA was a Labour Member of Parliament. The younger son of E. E...

6 April 1966 – 29 August 1967  
Shirley Williams 7 January 1967 – 13 October 1969  
Alice Bacon
Alice Bacon, Baroness Bacon
Alice Martha Bacon, Baroness Bacon, CBE was a British Labour Party politician. At the 1945 general election, she was elected as Member of Parliament for Leeds North East...

29 August 1967 – 19 June 1970  
Gerald Fowler
Gerald Fowler
Gerald Teasdale Fowler was a British Labour Party politician.Fowler was educated at Northampton Grammar School where he was a friend of Bernard later Lord Donoughue, Lincoln College, Oxford and Frankfurt University...

13 October 1969 – 19 June 1970  
Minister of State for the Arts Jennie Lee 17 February 1967 – 19 June 1970  
Under-Secretary of State for Education James Boyden
James Boyden
Harold James Boyden was a British Labour Party politician.Boyden was educated at Tiffin Boys' School, Kingston upon Thames, and King's College London...

20 October 1964 – 24 February 1965  
Denis Howell
Denis Howell
Denis Herbert Howell, Baron Howell was a British Labour Party politician.Born in Birmingham, Howell was educated at Handsworth Grammar School, Birmingham and became a clerk and chairman of the Clerical and Administrative Workers Union standing orders committee. He was a Football League referee and...

20 October 1964 – 13 October 1969  
Jennie Lee 24 February 1965 – 17 February 1967 Arts
Joan Lestor
Joan Lestor
Joan Lestor, Baroness Lestor of Eccles was a British Labour politician.Lestor was educated at Blaenavon Secondary School, Monmouth; William Morris High School, Walthamstow and the University of London. She became a nursery school teacher and a member of the Socialist Party of Great Britain, but...

13 October 1969 – 19 June 1970  
Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity Barbara Castle
Barbara Castle
Barbara Anne Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn , PC, GCOT was a British Labour Party politician....

6 April 1968  
Minister of State for Employment and Productivity Edmund Dell
Edmund Dell
Edmund Emanuel Dell was a British politician and businessman.Dell was born in London, the son of a Jewish manufacturer. In World War II he served in the Rifle Corps and the Royal Artillery, leaving as a first lieutenant...

13 October 1969  
Under-Secretary of State for Employment Ernest Fernyhough
Ernest Fernyhough
Ernest Fernyhough was a British Labour Party politician.Fernyhough worked for the National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers from 1936....

6 April 1968 – 13 October 1969  
Roy Hattersley
Roy Hattersley
Roy Sydney George Hattersley, Baron Hattersley is a British Labour politician, author and journalist from Sheffield. He served as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1983 to 1992.-Early life:...

6 April 1968 – 13 October 1969  
Harold Walker 6 April 1968 – 13 October 1969  
Minister of Health Kenneth Robinson
Kenneth Robinson
Sir Kenneth Robinson PC was a British Labour politician who served as Minister of Health in Harold Wilson's first government, from 1964 to 1968, when the position was merged into the new title of Secretary of State for Social Services.-Early life:The son of Dr Clarence Robinson and a nurse, Ethel...

18 October 1964 Office abolished 1 November 1968
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health
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...

Sir Barnett Stross
Barnett Stross
Sir Barnett Stross KBE was a British doctor and politician. He served twenty years as a Labour Party Member of Parliament, famously led the humanitarian campaign "Lidice Shall Live" and pushed for reforms in industry to protect workers-Early life:Barnett Stross was born to a Jewish family,...

20 October 1964  
Charles Loughlin
Charles Loughlin
Charles William Loughlin was a British Labour Party politician. He was Member of Parliament for West Gloucestershire from 1959 until he stood down at the October 1974 general election...

24 February 1965  
Julian Snow
Julian Snow, Baron Burntwood
Julian Ward Snow, Baron Burntwood was a British Labour Party politician. He was a Member of Parliament for Lichfield and Tamworth from 1950 until stepping down at the 1970 general election, when his seat was won for the Conservatives by James d'Avigdor-Goldsmid...

7 January 1967  
Secretary of State for Social Services
Secretary of State for Social Services
The Secretary of State for Social Services was a position in the UK cabinet, created on 1 November 1968 with responsibility for the Department of Health and Social Security...

Richard Crossman
Richard Crossman
Richard Howard Stafford Crossman OBE was a British author and Labour Party politician who was a Cabinet Minister under Harold Wilson, and was the editor of the New Statesman. A prominent socialist intellectual, he became one of the Labour Party's leading Zionists and anti-communists...

1 November 1968 Incl. Health
Minister of State for Social Services Stephen Swingler
Stephen Swingler
Stephen Thomas Swingler, PC was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was a Member of Parliament from 1945 to 1950, and from 1951 to 1969....

1 November 1968 – 19 February 1969  
David Ennals 1 November 1968 – 19 June 1970  
Lady Serota 25 February 1969 – 19 June 1970  
Under-Secretary of State for Social Services Norman Pentland
Norman Pentland
Norman Pentland was a British Labour Member of Parliament for Chester-le-Street. He won the constituency in a by-election in 1956, and served until his death at the age of 60 in 1972....

1 November 1968 – 13 October 1969  
Charles Loughlin
Charles Loughlin
Charles William Loughlin was a British Labour Party politician. He was Member of Parliament for West Gloucestershire from 1959 until he stood down at the October 1974 general election...

1 November 1968 – 20 November 1968  
Julian Snow
Julian Snow, Baron Burntwood
Julian Ward Snow, Baron Burntwood was a British Labour Party politician. He was a Member of Parliament for Lichfield and Tamworth from 1950 until stepping down at the 1970 general election, when his seat was won for the Conservatives by James d'Avigdor-Goldsmid...

1 November 1968 – 13 October 1969  
Brian O'Malley
Brian O'Malley
Brian Kevin O'Malley was a British Labour Party politician.O'Malley was educated at Mexborough Grammar School and Manchester University. He was a teacher and lecturer and a trade union branch official....

13 October 1969 – 19 June 1970  
John Dunwoody
John Dunwoody
John Elliot Orr Dunwoody CBE was a British Labour politician.Dunwoody was educated at St Paul's School, then trained as a doctor at King's College London, and Westminster Hospital Medical School...

13 October 1969 – 19 June 1970  
Minister of Housing and Local Government Richard Crossman
Richard Crossman
Richard Howard Stafford Crossman OBE was a British author and Labour Party politician who was a Cabinet Minister under Harold Wilson, and was the editor of the New Statesman. A prominent socialist intellectual, he became one of the Labour Party's leading Zionists and anti-communists...

18 October 1964  
Anthony Greenwood 11 August 1966 Office not in Cabinet from 6 October 1969
Robert Mellish
Bob Mellish, Baron Mellish
Robert Joseph Mellish, Baron Mellish, PC was a British politician. He was a long-serving Labour Party MP and served as the Labour Chief Whip from 1969 until 1976 but in his later years he fell out with his local Constituency Labour Party which had become dominated by left-wingers, and eventually...

31 May 1970  
Minister of State for Housing and Local Government Frederick Willey
Frederick Willey
Frederick Thomas Willey was a British Labour politician.Willey was educated at Johnston School and St. John's College, Cambridge, and was called to the Bar in 1936...

17 February 1967  
Niall MacDermot
Niall MacDermot
Niall MacDermot was a British Labour Party politician.He was first elected to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament for Lewisham North, at a by-election in 1957 following the death of Conservative MP Sir Austin Hudson.MacDermot lost his seat two years later at the 1959 general election,...

29 August 1967 – 28 September 1968  
Denis Howell
Denis Howell
Denis Herbert Howell, Baron Howell was a British Labour Party politician.Born in Birmingham, Howell was educated at Handsworth Grammar School, Birmingham and became a clerk and chairman of the Clerical and Administrative Workers Union standing orders committee. He was a Football League referee and...

13 October 1969  
Minister for Planning and Land Kenneth Robinson
Kenneth Robinson
Sir Kenneth Robinson PC was a British Labour politician who served as Minister of Health in Harold Wilson's first government, from 1964 to 1968, when the position was merged into the new title of Secretary of State for Social Services.-Early life:The son of Dr Clarence Robinson and a nurse, Ethel...

1 November 1968 Office abolished 6 October 1969
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Housing and Local Government Robert Mellish
Bob Mellish, Baron Mellish
Robert Joseph Mellish, Baron Mellish, PC was a British politician. He was a long-serving Labour Party MP and served as the Labour Chief Whip from 1969 until 1976 but in his later years he fell out with his local Constituency Labour Party which had become dominated by left-wingers, and eventually...

18 October 1964 – 29 August 1967  
James MacColl
James MacColl
James Eugene MacColl was a British Labour politician.He was the younger son of Hugo MacColl, a master marine engineer. At the age of 12 he was orphaned. MacColl was educated at Sedbergh School and Balliol College, Oxford. At Oxford he became secretary of the University Labour club...

20 October 1964 – 13 October 1969  
The Lord Kennet
Wayland Young
Wayland Hilton Young, 2nd Baron Kennet was a British writer Labour Party and SDP politician who served in numerous national and international official and unofficial capacities.-Early life:...

6 April 1966 – 19 June 1970  
Arthur Skeffington
Arthur Skeffington
Arthur Massey Skeffington was a British Labour Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament for 23 years between 1945 and 1971....

17 February 1967 – 19 June 1970  
Reginald Freeson
Reginald Freeson
Reginald "Reg" Yarnitz Freeson was a British politician. He was a Labour Member of Parliament for 23 years, from 1964 to 1987, with 14 years on the front bench...

13 October 1969 – 19 June 1970  
Richard Marsh
Richard Marsh, Baron Marsh
Richard William Marsh, Baron Marsh PC was an English politician and business executive.Marsh was educated at Woolwich Polytechnic and was elected as Labour Party Member of Parliament for Greenwich at the 1959 general election...

20 October 1964 – 11 October 1965  
Ernest Thornton
Ernest Thornton
Ernest Thornton was a British Labour Party politician. He was elected Member of Parliament for Farnworth in a 1952 by-election, and served until his retirement at the 1970 general election.- External links :...

21 October 1964 – 6 April 1966  
Shirley Williams 6 April 1966 – 7 January 1967  
Ernest Fernyhough
Ernest Fernyhough
Ernest Fernyhough was a British Labour Party politician.Fernyhough worked for the National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers from 1936....

7 January 1967 – 6 April 1968  
Roy Hattersley
Roy Hattersley
Roy Sydney George Hattersley, Baron Hattersley is a British Labour politician, author and journalist from Sheffield. He served as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1983 to 1992.-Early life:...

7 January 1967 – 6 April 1968  
Minister of Labour
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...

Ray Gunter
Ray Gunter
Raymond Jones Gunter , British Labour Party politician, was born in Wales and had a background in the railway industry and the British trade union movement – specifically his union, the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association .After seeing active service in the Second World War, enlisting in the...

18 October 1964 Reorganised as Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity 6 April 1968
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster is, in modern times, a ministerial office in the government of the United Kingdom that includes as part of its duties, the administration of the estates and rents of the Duchy of Lancaster...

Douglas Houghton
Douglas Houghton
Arthur Leslie Noel Douglas Houghton, Baron Houghton of Sowerby PC CH was a British Labour politician. He was the last British Cabinet minister born in the 19th Century; since he retired in 1967, every Cabinet minister has been born since 1900...

18 October 1964  
George Thomson
George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth
George Morgan Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth, KT, PC, DL, FRSE, was a journalist and British politician belonging to the Labour Party. In the 1980s, he joined the Social Democratic Party. Following the SDP's merger with the Liberal Party, he became a Liberal Democrat and sat as a Liberal...

6 April 1966 Office not in Cabinet
Frederick Lee 7 January 1967  
George Thomson
George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth
George Morgan Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth, KT, PC, DL, FRSE, was a journalist and British politician belonging to the Labour Party. In the 1980s, he joined the Social Democratic Party. Following the SDP's merger with the Liberal Party, he became a Liberal Democrat and sat as a Liberal...

6 October 1969 Office in Cabinet
Secretary of State for Local Government and Regional Planning Anthony Crosland
Anthony Crosland
Charles Anthony Raven Crosland , otherwise Tony Crosland or C.A.R. Crosland, was a British Labour Party politician and author. He served as Member of Parliament for South Gloucestershire and later for Great Grimsby...

6 October 1969  
Minister of State for Local Government and Regional Planning Thomas Urwin 6 October 1969  
Minister for Land and Natural Resources Frederick Willey
Frederick Willey
Frederick Thomas Willey was a British Labour politician.Willey was educated at Johnston School and St. John's College, Cambridge, and was called to the Bar in 1936...

18 October 1964 Office wound up 17 February 1967
Parliamentary Secretary for Land and Natural Resources Lord Mitchison October 1964 – 6 April 1966  
Arthur Skeffington
Arthur Skeffington
Arthur Massey Skeffington was a British Labour Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament for 23 years between 1945 and 1971....

21 October 1964 – 17 February 1967  
Minister of Overseas Development
Secretary of State for International Development
In the United Kingdom, the Secretary of State for International Development is a Cabinet minister responsible for the Department for International Development and for promoting development overseas, particularly in the third world...

Barbara Castle
Barbara Castle
Barbara Anne Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn , PC, GCOT was a British Labour Party politician....

18 October 1964  
Anthony Greenwood 23 December 1965  
Arthur Bottomley
Arthur Bottomley
Arthur George Bottomley, Baron Bottomley, OBE, PC was a British Labour politician, Member of Parliament and minister....

11 August 1966  
Reginald Prentice
Reginald Prentice
Reginald Ernest Prentice, Baron Prentice, PC was a British politician who held ministerial office in both Labour and Conservative Party governments...

29 August 1967 Office no longer in Cabinet
Judith Hart
Judith Hart
Judith Hart, Baroness Hart of South Lanark DBE PC was a British Labour Party politician...

6 October 1969  
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Overseas Development Albert Oram 21 October 1964  
Ben Whitaker 13 October 1969  
Paymaster General George Wigg
George Wigg
George Edward Cecil Wigg, Baron Wigg PC was a British politician who only served in relatively junior offices but had a great deal of influence behind the scenes, especially with Harold Wilson. Wigg served in the British Army for almost all his career up to his election as Member of Parliament...

19 October 1964 – 12 November 1967  
office vacant 12 November 1967  
Lord Shackleton
Edward Shackleton, Baron Shackleton
Edward Arthur Alexander Shackleton, Baron Shackleton, KG AC OBE PC FRS , was a British geographer and Labour Party politician....

6 April 1968 also Leader of the House of Lords
Leader of the House of Lords
The Leader of the House of Lords is a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom who is responsible for arranging government business in the House of Lords. The role is always held in combination with a formal Cabinet position, usually one of the sinecure offices of Lord President of the Council,...

Judith Hart
Judith Hart
Judith Hart, Baroness Hart of South Lanark DBE PC was a British Labour Party politician...

1 November 1968  
Harold Lever
Harold Lever, Baron Lever of Manchester
Harold Lever, Baron Lever of Manchester, PC was a barrister and Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom....

6 October 1969  
Minister of Pensions and National Insurance
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions is a post in the British Cabinet, responsible for the Department for Work and Pensions. It was created on 8 June 2001 by the merger of the Employment part of the Department for Education and Employment and the Department of Social Security.The Ministry...

Margaret Herbison
Margaret Herbison
Margaret McCrorie Herbison was a Scottish Labour politician.Educated at Bellshill Academy and the University of Glasgow, her early career was spent as a teacher of English and history and as an economics lecturer for the National Council of Labour Colleges. The daughter of a miner, she would later...

18 October 1964 Minister of Social Security from 6 August 1966
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions Harold Davies
Harold Davies, Baron Davies of Leek
Harold Davies, Baron Davies of Leek, PC was a British Labour Party politician.He was elected at the 1945 general election as Member of Parliament for Leek in Staffordshire, and held the seat until his defeat at the 1970 general election by the Conservative candidate David Knox...

20 October 1964 – 6 August 1966  
Norman Pentland
Norman Pentland
Norman Pentland was a British Labour Member of Parliament for Chester-le-Street. He won the constituency in a by-election in 1956, and served until his death at the age of 60 in 1972....

21 October 1964 – 6 August 1966  
Minister without Portfolio
Minister without Portfolio
A minister without portfolio is either a government minister with no specific responsibilities or a minister that does not head a particular ministry...

Sir Eric Fletcher
Eric Fletcher, Baron Fletcher
Eric George Molyneux Fletcher, Baron Fletcher was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.Fletcher was the son of a former town clerk of Islington. He studied at Radley College and the University of London and became a solicitor, specialising in international law...

19 October 1964 – 6 April 1966  
Lord Champion
Arthur Champion, Baron Champion
Arthur Joseph Champion, Baron Champion PC was a British Labour Party politician.He was born in Glastonbury as the youngest of six children and went on to work on the railways after serving in the First World War...

21 October 1964 – 7 January 1967  
Douglas Houghton
Douglas Houghton
Arthur Leslie Noel Douglas Houghton, Baron Houghton of Sowerby PC CH was a British Labour politician. He was the last British Cabinet minister born in the 19th Century; since he retired in 1967, every Cabinet minister has been born since 1900...

6 April 1966 – 7 January 1967 In Cabinet
Lord Shackleton
Edward Shackleton, Baron Shackleton
Edward Arthur Alexander Shackleton, Baron Shackleton, KG AC OBE PC FRS , was a British geographer and Labour Party politician....

7 January 1967 – 16 January 1968  
Patrick Gordon Walker
Patrick Gordon Walker
Patrick Chrestien Gordon Walker, Baron Gordon-Walker CH, PC was a British Labour Party politician. He was a Member of Parliament for nearly thirty years, and served twice as a Cabinet minister...

7 January 1967 – 21 August 1967  
George Thomson
George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth
George Morgan Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth, KT, PC, DL, FRSE, was a journalist and British politician belonging to the Labour Party. In the 1980s, he joined the Social Democratic Party. Following the SDP's merger with the Liberal Party, he became a Liberal Democrat and sat as a Liberal...

17 October 1968 – 6 October 1969  
Peter Shore
Peter Shore
Peter David Shore, Baron Shore of Stepney PC was a British Labour politician and former Cabinet Minister, noted in part for his opposition to the United Kingdom's entry into the European Economic Community. His idiosyncratic left-wing nationalism led to comparison with the French politician...

6 October 1969 – 19 June 1970  
Postmaster-General
United Kingdom Postmaster General
The Postmaster General of the United Kingdom is a defunct Cabinet-level ministerial position in HM Government. Aside from maintaining the postal system, the Telegraph Act of 1868 established the Postmaster General's right to exclusively maintain electric telegraphs...

Tony Benn
Tony Benn
Anthony Neil Wedgwood "Tony" Benn, PC is a British Labour Party politician and a former MP and Cabinet Minister.His successful campaign to renounce his hereditary peerage was instrumental in the creation of the Peerage Act 1963...

19 October 1964  
Edward Short 4 July 1966  
Roy Mason
Roy Mason
Roy Mason, Baron Mason of Barnsley, PC is a British Labour politician and former Cabinet minister.He was born in Royston, and grew up in Carlton, Barnsley in South Yorkshire...

6 April 1968  
John Stonehouse
John Stonehouse
John Thomson Stonehouse was a British politician and minister under Harold Wilson. Stonehouse is perhaps best remembered for his unsuccessful attempt at faking his own death in 1974...

1 July 1968 Post Office became public corporation 1 October 1969
Assistant Postmaster-General
Assistant Postmaster-General
The Assistant Postmaster General is a defunct junior ministerial position in the United Kingdom Government.The title of Postmaster General was abolished under the Post Office Act 1969...

Joseph Slater
Joseph Slater, Baron Slater
Joseph Slater, Baron Slater was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.He was elected as Member of Parliament for Sedgefield in County Durham at the 1950 general election, following the retirement of John Leslie. Slater held the seat until he returned from the House of Commons at the...

20 October 1964  
Minister for Posts and Telecommunications John Stonehouse
John Stonehouse
John Thomson Stonehouse was a British politician and minister under Harold Wilson. Stonehouse is perhaps best remembered for his unsuccessful attempt at faking his own death in 1974...

1 October 1969  
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Posts and Telecommunications Joseph Slater
Joseph Slater, Baron Slater
Joseph Slater, Baron Slater was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.He was elected as Member of Parliament for Sedgefield in County Durham at the 1950 general election, following the retirement of John Leslie. Slater held the seat until he returned from the House of Commons at the...

1 October 1969  
Norman Pentland
Norman Pentland
Norman Pentland was a British Labour Member of Parliament for Chester-le-Street. He won the constituency in a by-election in 1956, and served until his death at the age of 60 in 1972....

13 October 1969  
Minister of Power Fred Lee 18 October 1964  
Richard Marsh
Richard Marsh, Baron Marsh
Richard William Marsh, Baron Marsh PC was an English politician and business executive.Marsh was educated at Woolwich Polytechnic and was elected as Labour Party Member of Parliament for Greenwich at the 1959 general election...

6 April 1966  
Ray Gunter
Ray Gunter
Raymond Jones Gunter , British Labour Party politician, was born in Wales and had a background in the railway industry and the British trade union movement – specifically his union, the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association .After seeing active service in the Second World War, enlisting in the...

6 April 1968  
Roy Mason
Roy Mason
Roy Mason, Baron Mason of Barnsley, PC is a British Labour politician and former Cabinet minister.He was born in Royston, and grew up in Carlton, Barnsley in South Yorkshire...

1 July 1968 Office abolished 6 October 1969
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Power John Morris
John Morris, Baron Morris of Aberavon
John Morris, Baron Morris of Aberavon, KG, PC, QC is a retired British politician. He was a Labour Member of Parliament from 1959 to 2001 and Secretary of State for Wales from 1974 to 1979.-Background and education:...

21 October 1964  
Lord Lindgren
George Lindgren, Baron Lindgren
George Samuel Lindgren, JP, DL was a British Labour Party politician.Born in Islington, London, at the 1935 general election, he was an unsuccessful candidate in the safe Conservative seat of Hitchin in Hertfordshire, coming a distant second with 36.7% of the votes.At the 1945 general election,...

10 January 1966  
Jeremy Bray
Jeremy Bray
Jeremy William Bray was a British Labour politician and a Member of Parliament for 31 years.Bray was educated at Kingswood School, Bath and Jesus College, Cambridge and was a Choate Fellow at Harvard University...

6 April 1966  
Reginald Freeson
Reginald Freeson
Reginald "Reg" Yarnitz Freeson was a British politician. He was a Labour Member of Parliament for 23 years, from 1964 to 1987, with 14 years on the front bench...

7 January 1967 – 6 October 1969  
Minister of Public Building and Works
First Commissioner of Works
The First Commissioner of Works and Public Buildings was a position within the government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. It took over some of the functions of the First Commissioner of Woods and Forests in 1851 when the portfolio of Crown holdings was divided into the public...

Charles Pannell
Charles Pannell
Charles Pannell, Baron Pannell was a British Labour Party politician. He was elected Member of Parliament for Leeds West at a 1949 by-election, and served until his retirement at the February 1974 general election....

19 October 1964  
Reginald Prentice
Reginald Prentice
Reginald Ernest Prentice, Baron Prentice, PC was a British politician who held ministerial office in both Labour and Conservative Party governments...

6 April 1966  
Robert Mellish
Bob Mellish, Baron Mellish
Robert Joseph Mellish, Baron Mellish, PC was a British politician. He was a long-serving Labour Party MP and served as the Labour Chief Whip from 1969 until 1976 but in his later years he fell out with his local Constituency Labour Party which had become dominated by left-wingers, and eventually...

29 August 1967  
John Silkin
John Silkin
John Ernest Silkin, PC was an English Labour politician and solicitor.He was the third son of Lewis Silkin, 1st Baron Silkin, and a younger brother of Samuel Silkin, Baron Silkin of Dulwich. He was educated at Dulwich College, the University of Wales, and Trinity Hall at the University of...

30 April 1969  
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Public Building and Works Jennie Lee 20 October 1964 Arts
James Boyden
James Boyden
Harold James Boyden was a British Labour Party politician.Boyden was educated at Tiffin Boys' School, Kingston upon Thames, and King's College London...

24 February 1965  
Lord Winterbottom
Ian Winterbottom, Baron Winterbottom
Ian Winterbottom, Baron Winterbottom , was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.He was elected at the 1950 general election as Member of Parliament for Nottingham Central, a marginal constituency which the sitting Labour MP Geoffrey de Freitas had abandoned for the promising Lincoln...

7 January 1967  
Charles Loughlin
Charles Loughlin
Charles William Loughlin was a British Labour Party politician. He was Member of Parliament for West Gloucestershire from 1959 until he stood down at the October 1974 general election...

20 November 1968  
Secretary of State for Scotland
Secretary of State for Scotland
The Secretary of State for Scotland is the principal minister of Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom with responsibilities for Scotland. He heads the Scotland Office , a government department based in London and Edinburgh. The post was created soon after the Union of the Crowns, but was...

William Ross
William Ross, Baron Ross of Marnock
William 'Willie' Ross, Baron Ross of Marnock MBE was the longest serving Secretary of State for Scotland, holding office from 1964 to 1970 and again from 1974 to 1976, throughout the Prime Ministership of Harold Wilson....

18 October 1964  
Minister of State for Scotland Eustace George Willis 20 October 1964 – 7 January 1967  
Dickson Mabon
Dickson Mabon
Dr. Jesse Dickson "Dick" Mabon PC FRSA was a Scottish politician, physician and company director. He was the founder of The Manifesto Group of Labour MPs, an alliance of moderate MPs against the perceived leftward drift of the Labour Party in the 1970s. He was a Labour Co-operative MP until...

7 January 1967 – 19 June 1970  
Lord Hughes 13 October 1969 – 19 June 1970  
Under-Secretary of State for Scotland
Under-Secretary of State for Scotland
The Under-Secretary of State for Scotland is a junior ministerial post in the United Kingdom government, supporting the Secretary of State for Scotland...

Lord Hughes 21 October 1964 – 13 October 1969  
Judith Hart
Judith Hart
Judith Hart, Baroness Hart of South Lanark DBE PC was a British Labour Party politician...

20 October 1964 – 6 April 1966  
Dickson Mabon
Dickson Mabon
Dr. Jesse Dickson "Dick" Mabon PC FRSA was a Scottish politician, physician and company director. He was the founder of The Manifesto Group of Labour MPs, an alliance of moderate MPs against the perceived leftward drift of the Labour Party in the 1970s. He was a Labour Co-operative MP until...

21 October 1964 – 7 January 1967  
Bruce Millan
Bruce Millan
Bruce Millan is a Scottish Labour politician. He was born in Dundee and educated at the Harris Academy in that city.He was elected as Member of Parliament for Glasgow Craigton at the 1959 general election and served for that seat, and after its abolition for Glasgow Govan, until 1988...

6 April 1966 – 19 June 1970  
Norman Buchan
Norman Buchan
Norman Findlay Buchan was a Labour politician, who represented the West Renfrewshire seat from 1964 until 1983 and the Paisley South seat from 1983 to 1990....

7 January 1967 – 19 June 1970  
Minister of Social Security Margaret Herbison
Margaret Herbison
Margaret McCrorie Herbison was a Scottish Labour politician.Educated at Bellshill Academy and the University of Glasgow, her early career was spent as a teacher of English and history and as an economics lecturer for the National Council of Labour Colleges. The daughter of a miner, she would later...

6 August 1966  
Judith Hart
Judith Hart
Judith Hart, Baroness Hart of South Lanark DBE PC was a British Labour Party politician...

26 July 1967 Office abolished 1 November 1968 — thereafter Health & Social Security
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Social Security Harold Davies
Harold Davies, Baron Davies of Leek
Harold Davies, Baron Davies of Leek, PC was a British Labour Party politician.He was elected at the 1945 general election as Member of Parliament for Leek in Staffordshire, and held the seat until his defeat at the 1970 general election by the Conservative candidate David Knox...

6 August 1966 – 7 January 1967  
Norman Pentland
Norman Pentland
Norman Pentland was a British Labour Member of Parliament for Chester-le-Street. He won the constituency in a by-election in 1956, and served until his death at the age of 60 in 1972....

6 August 1966 – 1 November 1968  
Charles Loughlin
Charles Loughlin
Charles William Loughlin was a British Labour Party politician. He was Member of Parliament for West Gloucestershire from 1959 until he stood down at the October 1974 general election...

7 January 1967 – 1 November 1968  
Minister of Technology
Minister of Technology
The Minister of Technology was a position in the government of the United Kingdom, sometimes abbreviated as "MinTech". The Ministry of Technology was established by the incoming government of Harold Wilson in October 1964 as part of Wilson's ambition to modernise the state for what he perceived to...

Frank Cousins
Frank Cousins
Frank Cousins PC was a British trade union leader and Labour politician.He was born in Bulwell, Nottinghamshire, and became a full-time official in the road transport section of the Transport and General Workers' Union in July 1938...

18 October 1964  
Tony Benn
Tony Benn
Anthony Neil Wedgwood "Tony" Benn, PC is a British Labour Party politician and a former MP and Cabinet Minister.His successful campaign to renounce his hereditary peerage was instrumental in the creation of the Peerage Act 1963...

4 July 1966  
Minister of State for Technology John Stonehouse
John Stonehouse
John Thomson Stonehouse was a British politician and minister under Harold Wilson. Stonehouse is perhaps best remembered for his unsuccessful attempt at faking his own death in 1974...

15 February 1967 – 1 July 1968  
Joseph Mallalieu
Joseph Mallalieu
Sir Joseph Percival William Mallalieu was a British Labour Party politician, journalist and author.Mallalieu was educated at the Dragon School in Oxford, Cheltenham College, Trinity College, Oxford and the University of Chicago. He was President of the Oxford Union in 1930 and a Rugby blue. He...

1 July 1968 – 13 October 1969  
Reg Prentice 6 October 1969 – 10 October 1969  
Lord Delacourt-Smith 13 October 1969 – 19 June 1970  
Eric Varley
Eric Varley
Eric Graham Varley, Baron Varley, PC was an English politician and former Cabinet Minister on the right wing of the Labour Party....

13 October 1969 – 19 June 1970  
Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Technology Julian Snow 19 October 1964 – 6 April 1966  
Richard Marsh
Richard Marsh, Baron Marsh
Richard William Marsh, Baron Marsh PC was an English politician and business executive.Marsh was educated at Woolwich Polytechnic and was elected as Labour Party Member of Parliament for Greenwich at the 1959 general election...

11 October 1965 – 6 April 1966  
Peter Shore
Peter Shore
Peter David Shore, Baron Shore of Stepney PC was a British Labour politician and former Cabinet Minister, noted in part for his opposition to the United Kingdom's entry into the European Economic Community. His idiosyncratic left-wing nationalism led to comparison with the French politician...

6 April 1966 – 7 January 1967  
Edmund Dell
Edmund Dell
Edmund Emanuel Dell was a British politician and businessman.Dell was born in London, the son of a Jewish manufacturer. In World War II he served in the Rifle Corps and the Royal Artillery, leaving as a first lieutenant...

6 April 1966 – 29 August 1967  
Jeremy Bray
Jeremy Bray
Jeremy William Bray was a British Labour politician and a Member of Parliament for 31 years.Bray was educated at Kingswood School, Bath and Jesus College, Cambridge and was a Choate Fellow at Harvard University...

7 January 1967 – 24 September 1969  
Gerald Fowler
Gerald Fowler
Gerald Teasdale Fowler was a British Labour Party politician.Fowler was educated at Northampton Grammar School where he was a friend of Bernard later Lord Donoughue, Lincoln College, Oxford and Frankfurt University...

29 August 1967 – 13 October 1969  
Alan Williams
Alan Williams
Alan John Williams is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Swansea West from 1964 to 2010.-Early life:...

6 October 1969 – 19 June 1970  
Neil Carmichael 13 October 1969 – 19 June 1970  
Ernest Davies 13 October 1969 – 19 June 1970  
President of the Board of Trade Douglas Jay
Douglas Jay, Baron Jay
Douglas Patrick Thomas Jay, Baron Jay, PC was a British Labour Party politician.Educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, Jay became a Fellow of All Souls between 1930 and 1937...

18 October 1964  
Anthony Crosland
Anthony Crosland
Charles Anthony Raven Crosland , otherwise Tony Crosland or C.A.R. Crosland, was a British Labour Party politician and author. He served as Member of Parliament for South Gloucestershire and later for Great Grimsby...

29 August 1967  
Roy Mason
Roy Mason
Roy Mason, Baron Mason of Barnsley, PC is a British Labour politician and former Cabinet minister.He was born in Royston, and grew up in Carlton, Barnsley in South Yorkshire...

6 October 1969  
Minister of State for Trade
Minister of State for Trade
The Minister of State for Trade is an executive position in the Government of the United Kingdom, in both the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills...

George Darling
George Darling
George Darling, Baron Darling of Hillsborough, PC was a politician in the United Kingdom. He was Labour Co-operative Member of Parliament for Sheffield Hillsborough from 1950 to 1974....

20 October 1964 – 6 April 1968  
Edward Redhead
Edward Redhead
Edward Charles Redhead JP was a British civil servant and politician who became the successor to Clement Attlee as Member of Parliament for Walthamstow West.-Civil servant:...

20 October 1964 – 11 October 1965  
Roy Mason
Roy Mason
Roy Mason, Baron Mason of Barnsley, PC is a British Labour politician and former Cabinet minister.He was born in Royston, and grew up in Carlton, Barnsley in South Yorkshire...

20 October 1964 – 7 January 1967  
Lord Brown 11 October 1965 – 19 June 1970  
Joseph William Mallalieu 7 January 1967 – 1 July 1968  
Edmund Dell
Edmund Dell
Edmund Emanuel Dell was a British politician and businessman.Dell was born in London, the son of a Jewish manufacturer. In World War II he served in the Rifle Corps and the Royal Artillery, leaving as a first lieutenant...

6 April 1968 – 13 October 1969  
William Rodgers 1 July 1968 – 13 October 1969  
Goronwy Roberts
Goronwy Roberts
Goronwy Owen Goronwy-Roberts, Baron Goronwy-Roberts PC, MA was a Labour Member of Parliament. The younger son of E. E...

13 October 1969 – 19 June 1970  
Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade
Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade
The Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade in the United Kingdom was a member of Parliament assigned to assist the Board of Trade and its President with administration and liaison with Parliament. It replaced the Vice-President of the Board of Trade....

Lord Rhodes
Hervey Rhodes
Hervey Rhodes, Baron Rhodes, KG, DFC, PC was a British Labour Party politician.Born in Saddleworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, Rhodes was educated at St Mary's School, Greenfield, then at Huddersfield Technical College...

20 October 1964  
Lord Walston 7 January 1967  
Gwyneth Dunwoody
Gwyneth Dunwoody
Gwyneth Patricia Dunwoody was a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Exeter from 1966 to 1970, and then for Crewe from 1974 to her death in 2008...

29 August 1967  
Minister of Transport
Secretary of State for Transport
The Secretary of State for Transport is the member of the cabinet responsible for the British Department for Transport. The role has had a high turnover as new appointments are blamed for the failures of decades of their predecessors...

Thomas Fraser
Tom Fraser
Tom Fraser PC was a Labour Member of Parliament for the Hamilton constituency between 1943 and 1967.He was Minister of Transport from October 16, 1964 until December 23, 1965...

18 October 1964  
Barbara Castle
Barbara Castle
Barbara Anne Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn , PC, GCOT was a British Labour Party politician....

23 December 1965  
Richard Marsh
Richard Marsh, Baron Marsh
Richard William Marsh, Baron Marsh PC was an English politician and business executive.Marsh was educated at Woolwich Polytechnic and was elected as Labour Party Member of Parliament for Greenwich at the 1959 general election...

6 April 1968  
Frederick Mulley
Frederick Mulley
Frederick William Mulley, Baron Mulley PC was a British Labour politician, barrister-at-law, and economist.Mulley attended Warwick School between 1929 and 1936. He served in the Worcestershire Regiment in the Second World War, reaching the rank of sergeant, but was captured in 1940 and spent five...

6 October 1969 Office no longer in Cabinet
Minister of State for Transport
Minister of State for Transport
The Minister of State for Transport is a junior ministerial position in the Department for Transport of the Government of the United Kingdom. The current Minister of State for Transport is Theresa Villiers MP.-Ministers of State for Transport:-References:...

Stephen Swingler
Stephen Swingler
Stephen Thomas Swingler, PC was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was a Member of Parliament from 1945 to 1950, and from 1951 to 1969....

29 August 1967 Office vacant 1 November 1968
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Transport Lord Lindgren
George Lindgren, Baron Lindgren
George Samuel Lindgren, JP, DL was a British Labour Party politician.Born in Islington, London, at the 1935 general election, he was an unsuccessful candidate in the safe Conservative seat of Hitchin in Hertfordshire, coming a distant second with 36.7% of the votes.At the 1945 general election,...

20 October 1964 – 10 January 1966  
Stephen Swingler
Stephen Swingler
Stephen Thomas Swingler, PC was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was a Member of Parliament from 1945 to 1950, and from 1951 to 1969....

20 October 1964 – 29 August 1967  
John Morris
John Morris, Baron Morris of Aberavon
John Morris, Baron Morris of Aberavon, KG, PC, QC is a retired British politician. He was a Labour Member of Parliament from 1959 to 2001 and Secretary of State for Wales from 1974 to 1979.-Background and education:...

10 January 1966 – 6 April 1968  
Neil George Carmichael 29 August 1967 – 13 October 1969  
Robert Brown
Robert Brown (English politician)
Robert Crofton Brown was an English Labour Party politician.Brown was a district gas inspector with the Northern Gas Board and a branch secretary of the National Union of General and Municipal Workers...

6 April 1968 – 19 June 1970  
Albert Murray 13 October 1969 – 19 June 1970  
Secretary of State for Wales
Secretary of State for Wales
The Secretary of State for Wales is the head of the Wales Office within the British cabinet. He or she is responsible for ensuring Welsh interests are taken into account by the government, representing the government within Wales and overseeing the passing of legislation which is only for Wales...

James Griffiths
Jim Griffiths
James "Jim" Griffiths CH , was a Welsh Labour politician, trade union leader and the first ever Secretary of State for Wales.-Background and education:...

18 October 1964  
Cledwyn Hughes
Cledwyn Hughes
Cledwyn Hughes, Baron Cledwyn of Penrhos, CH, PC, , was a Welsh Labour politician.Born in Holyhead and educated at the Holyhead Grammar School and at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, he served in the RAFVR in the Second World War. He became a solicitor and a town clerk of Holyhead...

6 April 1966  
George Thomas
George Thomas, 1st Viscount Tonypandy
Thomas George Thomas, 1st Viscount Tonypandy PC was a British Labour Party politician and Speaker of the House of Commons. Born in Port Talbot, Wales, he initially worked as a teacher in both London and Cardiff...

6 April 1968  
Minister of State for Wales Goronwy Roberts
Goronwy Roberts
Goronwy Owen Goronwy-Roberts, Baron Goronwy-Roberts PC, MA was a Labour Member of Parliament. The younger son of E. E...

20 October 1964  
George Thomas
George Thomas, 1st Viscount Tonypandy
Thomas George Thomas, 1st Viscount Tonypandy PC was a British Labour Party politician and Speaker of the House of Commons. Born in Port Talbot, Wales, he initially worked as a teacher in both London and Cardiff...

6 April 1966  
Eirene White
Eirene White
Eirene Lloyd White, Baroness White, née Jones was a British Labour politician and journalist....

7 January 1967  
Under-Secretary of State for Wales Harold Finch
Harold Finch
Sir Harold Josiah Finch was a Welsh Labour Party politician born in Barry, Glamorgan.A miners' agent in Blackwood after the First World War, Finch was a contemporary of Aneurin Bevan and accompanied him as a miners' delegate to the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool in 1925...

21 October 1964  
Ifor Davies
Ifor Davies
Ifor Davies was a Welsh Labour Party politician.Davies was educated at Gowerton School, Swansea Technical College and Ruskin College, Oxford. He was an industrial personnel officer and served as a councillor on Glamorgan County Council, representing Gowerton 1958-61...

6 April 1966  
Edward Rowlands 13 October 1969  
Attorney General
Attorney General for England and Wales
Her Majesty's Attorney General for England and Wales, usually known simply as the Attorney General, is one of the Law Officers of the Crown. Along with the subordinate Solicitor General for England and Wales, the Attorney General serves as the chief legal adviser of the Crown and its government in...

Sir Elwyn Jones
Elwyn Jones, Baron Elwyn-Jones
Frederick Elwyn Jones, Baron Elwyn-Jones CH, PC was a Welsh barrister and Labour politician.-Background and education:...

18 October 1964  
Solicitor General
Solicitor General for England and Wales
Her Majesty's Solicitor General for England and Wales, often known as the Solicitor General, is one of the Law Officers of the Crown, and the deputy of the Attorney General, whose duty is to advise the Crown and Cabinet on the law...

Sir Dingle Foot
Dingle Foot
Sir Dingle Mackintosh Foot, Q.C. was a British lawyer and politician, born in Plymouth, Devon.-Education and career:...

18 October 1964  
Sir Arthur Irvine
Arthur Irvine
Sir Arthur James Irvine, QC was a British politician.Irvine was educated at Edinburgh Academy and Oriel College, Oxford, where he was president of the Oxford Union in 1932. He became a barrister in 1935, when he was called by Middle Temple, and became secretary to the Lord Chief Justice 1935-40...

24 August 1967  
Lord Advocate
Lord Advocate
Her Majesty's Advocate , known as the Lord Advocate , is the chief legal officer of the Scottish Government and the Crown in Scotland for both civil and criminal matters that fall within the devolved powers of the Scottish Parliament...

George Gordon Stott
George Gordon Stott
George Gordon Stott was Lord Advocate of Scotland from 1964 to 1967. He became a member of the Privy Council in 1964....

20 October 1964 Not an MP
Henry Stephen Wilson 26 October 1967 Not an MP
Solicitor General for Scotland
Solicitor General for Scotland
Her Majesty's Solicitor General for Scotland is one of the Law Officers of the Crown, and the deputy of the Lord Advocate, whose duty is to advise the Crown and the Scottish Government on Scots Law...

James Graham Leechman 20 October 1964 Not an MP
Henry Stephen Wilson 11 October 1965 Not an MP
Ewan George Francis Stewart 26 October 1967 Not an MP
Treasurer of the Household
Treasurer of the Household
The position of Treasurer of the Household is theoretically held by a household official of the British monarch, under control of the Lord Steward's Department, but is, in fact, a political office held by one of the government's Deputy Chief Whips in the House of Commons...

Sydney Irving
Sydney Irving
Sydney Irving, Baron Irving of Dartford was a British Labour Co-operative politician.Irving was educated at Pendower School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and the London School of Economics...

21 October 1964  
John Silkin
John Silkin
John Ernest Silkin, PC was an English Labour politician and solicitor.He was the third son of Lewis Silkin, 1st Baron Silkin, and a younger brother of Samuel Silkin, Baron Silkin of Dulwich. He was educated at Dulwich College, the University of Wales, and Trinity Hall at the University of...

11 April 1966  
Charles Grey
Charles Grey (politician)
Charles Frederick Grey CBE was a British miner and politician; he was also an independent Methodist Minister.Grey had an elementary school education and went to work in the Durham coalfield when he left school at 14...

7 July 1966  
Charles Richard Morris 13 October 1969  
Comptroller of the Household
Comptroller of the Household
The Comptroller of the Household is an ancient position in the English royal household, currently the second-ranking member of the Lord Steward's department, and often a cabinet member. He was an ex officio member of the Board of Green Cloth, until that body was abolished in the reform of the local...

Charles Grey
Charles Grey (politician)
Charles Frederick Grey CBE was a British miner and politician; he was also an independent Methodist Minister.Grey had an elementary school education and went to work in the Durham coalfield when he left school at 14...

21 October 1964  
William Whitlock
William Whitlock (politician)
William Charles "Bill" Whitlock was a British Labour Party politician.Whitlock was educated at Itchen Grammar School and the University of Southampton. He volunteered for the British Army upon graduation, and soon joined the Hampshires...

7 July 1966  
William Howie
William Howie, Baron Howie of Troon
William Howie, Baron Howie of Troon , known as Will Howie, is a retired British Labour Party politician and former Member of Parliament ....

1 April 1967  
Ioan Evans
Ioan Evans
Ioan Lyonel Evans was a British politician. He served as a Labour Co-operative Member of Parliament from 1964 to 1970 and from 1974 until his death.-Early life:...

6 February 1968  
Vice-Chamberlain of the Household
Vice-Chamberlain of the Household
The Vice-Chamberlain of the Household is usually a junior government whip in the British House of Commons and is an officer of the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom. He or she is the Deputy to the Lord Chamberlain of the Household. The Vice-Chamberlain's main role is to compile...

William Whitlock
William Whitlock (politician)
William Charles "Bill" Whitlock was a British Labour Party politician.Whitlock was educated at Itchen Grammar School and the University of Southampton. He volunteered for the British Army upon graduation, and soon joined the Hampshires...

21 October 1964  
Jack McCann
Jack McCann
John "Jack" McCann was a British politician, who served as the Labour Member of Parliament for Rochdale....

11 April 1966  
Charles Richard Morris 29 July 1967  
Alan Fitch
Alan Fitch
Alan Fitch was a British Labour Party politician.Fitch was educated at Kingswood School, Bath , and was a mineworker...

13 October 1969  
Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms
Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms
The Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms is a UK government post since 1945 held by the Government Chief Whip in the House of Lords. Prior to 17 March 1834, the Gentlemen-at-Arms were known as the Honourable Band of Gentlemen Pensioners....

The Lord Shepherd
Malcolm Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd
Malcolm Newton Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd [Hereditary] and also Baron Shepherd of Spalding [Life Peerage] PC , was a British Labour politician and peer who served as Leader of the House of Lords under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan.Shepherd was the son of the Labour politician George...

21 October 1964  
Lord Beswick 29 July 1967  
Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard
Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard
The Captain of the Queen's Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard is a UK government post usually held by the Government Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Lords...

Lord Bowles
Frank Bowles, Baron Bowles
Francis George Bowles, Baron Bowles was a British solicitor and politician. A long-serving Member of Parliament , Bowles served briefly as a Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons, but is perhaps best known for agreeing to give up his safe seat to make way for Minister of Technology Frank...

28 December 1964  
Lords in Waiting Lord Hobson
Charles Hobson, Baron Hobson
Charles Rider Hobson, Baron Hobson was a British Labour politician.Hobson was Member of Parliament for Wembley North from 1945 to 1950 and for Keighley from 1950 to 1959...

21 October 1964 – 17 February 1966  
Lord Beswick 28 December 1964 – 11 October 1965  
Lord Sorensen
Reginald Sorensen, Baron Sorensen
Reginald William Sorensen, Baron Sorensen was a Unitarian minister and Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was a Member of Parliament for over thirty years between 1929 and 1964....

28 December 1964 – 20 April 1968  
Lady Phillips 10 December 1965 – 19 June 1970  
Lord Hilton of Upton
Albert Hilton, Baron Hilton of Upton
Albert Victor Hilton, Baron Hilton of Upton, JP was a British farm labourer and trade union official who became a Labour Party Member of Parliament and later life peer.-Farming career:...

6 April 1966 – 19 June 1970  
Lady Serota 23 April 1968 – 25 February 1969  
Lady Llewelyn-Davies 13 March 1969 – 19 June 1970  


Source: D. Butler and G. Butler, Twentieth Century British Political Facts 1900-2000
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