The Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Pensions was a junior Ministerial office at Parliamentary Secretary

Parliamentary Secretary

A Parliamentary Secretary is a member of a Parliament in the Westminster system who assists a more senior minister with his or her duties.In the parliamentary systems of several Commonwealth countries, such as the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia, it is customary for the prime minister to...

 rank in the United Kingdom Government, supporting the Minister for Pensions

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...

. It was established in 1916 and filled intermittently until 1932. It was established again from 1940, with joint holders from 1951.

In 1944 a separate Ministry of National Insurance was formed and from 1945 until 1951 there was a Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of National Insurance. The two departments merged in 1953.

In 1966 the department became the Ministry of Social Security, and the title of the Parliamentary Secretary post changed accordingly.

Parliamentary Secretaries to the Minister of Pensions, 1916-1966

Name	Entered office	Left office
Arthur Griffith-Boscawen Arthur Griffith-Boscawen Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Arthur Sackville Trevor Griffith-Boscawen PC was a British Conservative Party politician whose career was cut short by losing a string of Parliamentary elections....	1916	1919
Sir James Craig, Bt James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, PC, PC , was a prominent Irish unionist politician, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party and the first Prime Minister of Northern Ireland...	1919	1920
George Tryon George Tryon, 1st Baron Tryon Major George Clement Tryon, 1st Baron Tryon, PC was a British Conservative politician who served in a number of ministerial positions in the inter-war years....	1920	1922
Vacant	1922	1923
Charles Curtis Craig Charles Curtis Craig Charles Curtis Craig , was an Irish Unionst and later Ulster Unionist politician. He was Member of Parliament for constituencies in County Antrim from 1903 to 1929, taking his seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom...	1923	1924
Vacant	1924	1924
Hon. George Frederick Stanley George Frederick Stanley Lieutenant-Colonel Sir George Frederick Stanley GCSI GCIE CMG was a British soldier and Conservative Party politician who served as a member of the UK Parliament for Preston and later, Willesdon East...	1924	1929
Vacant	1929	1931
Cuthbert Headlam	1931	September 1932
Vacant	September 1932	1940
Ellen Wilkinson Ellen Wilkinson Ellen Cicely Wilkinson was the Labour Member of Parliament for Middlesbrough and later for Jarrow on Tyneside. She was one of the first women in Britain to be elected as a Member of Parliament .- History :...	1940	1940
The Lord Tryon George Tryon, 1st Baron Tryon Major George Clement Tryon, 1st Baron Tryon, PC was a British Conservative politician who served in a number of ministerial positions in the inter-war years....	1940	1941
Wilfred Paling Wilfred Paling Wilfred Paling was a British Labour politician. He was born at Marehay, near Ripley, Derbyshire, one of eight children of a coalminer. Paling left Ripley Elementary School at the age of 13, and entered casual employment with local plumbing and building companies...	1941	1945
Hon. William Sidney William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle William Philip Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle and 6th Baron De L'Isle and Dudley VC KG GCMG GCVO KStJ PC , was the 15th Governor-General of Australia and the final non-Australian to hold the office...	1945	1945
Jennie Adamson	1945	1946
Arthur Blenkinsop Arthur Blenkinsop Arthur Blenkinsop was a British Labour Party politician.Blenkinsop was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle and the College of Commerce, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and became a chartered secretary....	1946	1949
Charles Simmons Charles Simmons (politician) Charles James "Jim" Simmons was a British lecturer, journalist and politician.Simmons was born in Moseley, Birmingham. Following elementary education, he became a Primitive Methodist lay preacher at the age of 16. In World War I he served in the Worcestershire Regiment, seeing action in France,...	1949	1951
John Smyth  and Robin Turton Robin Turton, Baron Tranmire Robert Hugh Turton, Baron Tranmire KBE, MC, PC, JP, DL was a British Conservative Party politician....	5 November 1951	18 October 1954
John Smyth  and Ernest Marples Ernest Marples Alfred Ernest Marples, Baron Marples PC was a British Conservative politician who served as Postmaster General and Minister of Transport. After his retirement from active politics in 1974 Marples was elevated to the peerage...	18 October 1954	20 December 1955
Edith Pitt Edith Pitt Dame Edith Maud Pitt, DBE was a British Conservative politician.She was elected Member of Parliament for Birmingham Edgbaston at a by-election in 1953, and served until her death shortly before the 1966 general election, in which Jill Knight was elected as her successor.Pitt had been...   and Hon. Richard Wood Richard Wood, Baron Holderness Richard Frederick Wood, Baron Holderness PC, DL was a British Conservative politician who held numerous ministerial positions from 1955 to 1974...	20 December 1955	14 April 1958
Edith Pitt Edith Pitt Dame Edith Maud Pitt, DBE was a British Conservative politician.She was elected Member of Parliament for Birmingham Edgbaston at a by-election in 1953, and served until her death shortly before the 1966 general election, in which Jill Knight was elected as her successor.Pitt had been...   and William Fletcher-Vane William Fletcher-Vane, 1st Baron Inglewood William Morgan Fletcher-Vane, 1st Baron Inglewood, TD , was a British Conservative Party politician.Inglewood was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. William Lyonel Vane, a descendant of Gilbert Vane, 2nd Baron Barnard...	14 April 1958	22 October 1959
William Fletcher-Vane William Fletcher-Vane, 1st Baron Inglewood William Morgan Fletcher-Vane, 1st Baron Inglewood, TD , was a British Conservative Party politician.Inglewood was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. William Lyonel Vane, a descendant of Gilbert Vane, 2nd Baron Barnard...   and Patricia Hornsby-Smith	22 October 1959	20 October 1960
Patricia Hornsby-Smith	20 October 1960	28 October 1960
Patricia Hornsby-Smith  and Bernard Braine	28 October 1960	8 February 1961
Patricia Hornsby-Smith  and Richard Sharples Richard Sharples Major Sir Richard Christopher Sharples KCMG OBE MC , St. George, Bermuda) was a British politician and Governor of Bermuda from late 1972 to 10 March 1973 when he was shot dead by assassins linked to the militant Black Beret Cadre, a small Bermudian Black Power group.-Career:Sharples passed out...	8 February 1961	31 August 1961
Richard Sharples Richard Sharples Major Sir Richard Christopher Sharples KCMG OBE MC , St. George, Bermuda) was a British politician and Governor of Bermuda from late 1972 to 10 March 1973 when he was shot dead by assassins linked to the militant Black Beret Cadre, a small Bermudian Black Power group.-Career:Sharples passed out...	31 August 1961	9 October 1961
Richard Sharples Richard Sharples Major Sir Richard Christopher Sharples KCMG OBE MC , St. George, Bermuda) was a British politician and Governor of Bermuda from late 1972 to 10 March 1973 when he was shot dead by assassins linked to the militant Black Beret Cadre, a small Bermudian Black Power group.-Career:Sharples passed out...   and Margaret Thatcher Margaret Thatcher Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990...	9 October 1961	16 July 1962
Margaret Thatcher Margaret Thatcher Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990...   and Lynch Maydon Lynch Maydon Lieutenant-Commander Stephen Lynch Conway Maydon, DSO and bar, DSC, RN was a British Navy officer and politician who had a brief career in government....	16 July 1962	16 October 1964
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...   and 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....	20 October 1964	6 August 1966

Parliamentary Secretaries to the Minister of National Insurance, 1945-1951

Name	Entered office	Left office
Charles Peat Charles Peat Charles Urie Peat was a British Conservative Party politician and cricketer. He was the son of William Barclay Peat, founder of the international accounting firm KPMG....	1945	1945
George 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,...	1945	1946
Tom Steele Tom Steele Tom Steele was a Scottish Labour politician.Steele worked as a station master and served on the board of the Lanark Co-operative Society....	1946	1950
Bernard Taylor Bernard Taylor, Baron Taylor of Mansfield Bernard Taylor, Baron Taylor of Mansfield, CBE, JP was a British coalminer and politician who was a Labour Party Member of Parliament for 25 years.-Mining:...	1950	1951

Parliamentary Secretaries to the Minister of Social Security, 1966-1968

Name	Entered office	Left office
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...   and 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	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....   and 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