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

The Ministry of Health was created in 1919 as a reconstruction of the Local Government Board
Local Government Board
The Local Government Board was a British Government supervisory body overseeing local administration in England and Wales from 1871 to 1919.The LGB was created by the Local Government Board Act 1871 The Local Government Board (LGB) was a British Government supervisory body overseeing local...

. Local government functions were eventually transferred to the Minster of Housing and Local Government, leaving the Health Ministry in charge of Health proper.

From 1968 it was amalgamated with the Ministry of Social Security under the Secretary of State for Social Services
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...

, until a demerger of the Department of Health and Social Security
Department of Health and Social Security
The Department of Health and Social Security was a ministry of the British government in existence for twenty years from 1968 until 1988, and was headed by the Secretary of State for Social Services.-History:...

 on 25 July 1988.

Parliamentary Secretaries to the Ministry of Health, 1919-1968

Name Entered office Left office
Hon. Waldorf Astor
Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor
Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor was an American-born British politician and newspaper proprietor.-Early life:...

 
24 June 1919 7 April 1921
The Earl of Onslow
Richard Onslow, 5th Earl of Onslow
Richard William Alan Onslow, 5th Earl Onslow GBE, PC , styled Viscount Cranley until 1911, was a British peer, diplomat, parliamentary secretary and government minister.-Background and education:...

 
7 April 1921 25 May 1923
Lord Eustace Percy
Eustace Percy, 1st Baron Percy of Newcastle
Eustace Sutherland Campbell Percy, 1st Baron Percy of Newcastle PC , styled Lord Eustace Percy between 1899 and 1953, was a British diplomat, Conservative politician and public servant...

 
25 May 1923 23 January 1924
Arthur Greenwood
Arthur Greenwood
Arthur Greenwood CH was a prominent member of the Labour Party from the 1920s until the late 1940s. He rose to prominence within the party as secretary of its research department from 1920 and served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health in the short-lived Labour government of 1924...

 
23 January 1924 11 November 1924
Sir Kingsley Wood
Kingsley Wood
Sir Howard Kingsley Wood was an English Conservative politician. The son of a Wesleyan Methodist minister, he qualified as a solicitor, and successfully specialised in industrial insurance...

 
11 November 1924 11 June 1929
Susan Lawrence
Susan Lawrence
Arabella Susan Lawrence was a British Labour Party politician, one of the first female Labour MPs.Lawrence was the youngest daughter of Nathaniel Lawrence, a wealthy solicitor, and Laura Bacon, daughter of Sir James Bacon, a bankruptcy judge and Vice-Chancellor. She was educated in London and at...

 
11 June 1929 22 September 1931
Ernest Simon  22 September 1931 10 November 1931
Ernest Brown
Ernest Brown
Alfred Ernest Brown CH was a British politician who served as leader of the Liberal Nationals from 1940 until 1945.-Biography:...

 
10 November 1931 30 September 1932
Geoffrey Shakespeare
Sir Geoffrey Shakespeare, 1st Baronet
Sir Geoffrey Hithersay Shakespeare, 1st Baronet PC was a British Liberal Party politician.Born in Norwich, the second son of Rev. J. H. Shakespeare, he was educated at Highgate School. He served in World War I. He studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge where he graduated with an MA and an LLB degree...

 
30 September 1932 30 July 1936
Robert Hudson
Robert Hudson, 1st Viscount Hudson
Robert Spear Hudson, 1st Viscount Hudson CH PC was a British Conservative Party politician who held a number of ministerial posts during the Second World War....

 
30 July 1936 28 May 1937
Robert Bernays
Robert Bernays
Robert Hamilton Bernays was a Liberal Party, and later Liberal National, politician in the United Kingdom who served as a Member of Parliament from 1931 to 1945....

 
28 May 1937 14 July 1939
Florence Horsbrugh
Florence Horsbrugh, Baroness Horsbrugh
Florence Gertrude Horsbrugh, Baroness Horsbrugh, GBE, PC was a Scottish Unionist Party and Conservative Party politician....

 
14 July 1939 26 May 1945
Hamilton Kerr
Sir Hamilton Kerr, 1st Baronet
Sir Hamilton William Kerr, 1st Baronet was a British Conservative Party politician.He was educated at Balliol College, Oxford...

 
26 May 1945 4 August 1945
Charles Key
Charles Key
Charles William Key, PC was a British schoolmaster and politician. Coming from a very working-class background, the generosity of a family friend made it possible for him to get a start in life and train as a teacher; he entered politics through Poplar Borough Council, and was elected to...

 
4 August 1945 12 February 1947
John Edwards  12 February 1947 1 February 1949
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....

 
1 February 1949 3 November 1951
Patricia Hornsby-Smith  3 November 1951 18 January 1957
John Vaughan-Morgan
John Vaughan-Morgan, Baron Reigate
John Kenyon Vaughan-Morgan, Baron Reigate , known as Sir John Vaughan-Morgan, Bt, between 1960 and 1970, was a British Conservative politician. He was Member of Parliament for Reigate from 1950 until his retirement in 1970. In 1957, he was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health...

 
18 January 1957 17 September 1957
Richard Thompson
Sir Richard Thompson, 1st Baronet
Sir Richard Hilton Marler Thompson, 1st Baronet was a British Conservative politician.Thompson was educated at Malvern College and in India, Burma and Sri Lanka and worked in Calcutta and the Far East in business. In World War II, he served in the Royal Navy as an ordinary seaman and became...

 
17 September 1957 22 October 1959
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...

 
22 October 1959 16 July 1962
Bernard Braine  16 July 1962 6 September 1962
Bernard Braine 
and the Lord Newton
Peter Legh, 4th Baron Newton
Peter Richard Legh, 4th Baron Newton , was a British Conservative politician who held junior ministerial positions during the 1950s and 1960s....

 
6 September 24 March 1964
Bernard Braine,
the Lord Newton
Peter Legh, 4th Baron Newton
Peter Richard Legh, 4th Baron Newton , was a British Conservative politician who held junior ministerial positions during the 1950s and 1960s....

 
and the Marquess of Lothian
Peter Kerr, 12th Marquess of Lothian
Peter Francis Walter Kerr, 12th Marquess of Lothian, KCVO was a British peer, politician and landowner....

 
24 March 1964 1 April 1964
Bernard Braine 
and the Marquess of Lothian
Peter Kerr, 12th Marquess of Lothian
Peter Francis Walter Kerr, 12th Marquess of Lothian, KCVO was a British peer, politician and landowner....

 
1 April 1964 16 October 1964
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 24 February 1965
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 7 January 1967
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 1 November 1968
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