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