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. Local government functions were eventually transferred to the Minister 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, until a demerger of the Department of Health and Social Security on 25 July 1988.

Parliamentary Secretaries to the Ministry of Health, 1919-1968

NameEntered officeLeft office
Hon. Waldorf Astor24 June 19197 April 1921
The Earl of Onslow7 April 192125 May 1923
Lord Eustace Percy25 May 192323 January 1924
Arthur Greenwood23 January 192411 November 1924
Sir Kingsley Wood11 November 192411 June 1929
Susan Lawrence11 June 192922 September 1931
Ernest Simon22 September 193110 November 1931
Ernest Brown10 November 193130 September 1932
Geoffrey Shakespeare30 September 193230 July 1936
Robert Hudson30 July 193628 May 1937
Robert Bernays28 May 193714 July 1939
Florence Horsbrugh14 July 193926 May 1945
Hamilton Kerr26 May 194526 July 1945
Charles Key4 August 194512 February 1947
John Edwards12 February 19471 February 1949
Arthur Blenkinsop1 February 19493 November 1951
Patricia Hornsby-Smith3 November 195118 January 1957
John Vaughan-Morgan18 January 195717 September 1957
Richard Thompson17 September 195722 October 1959
Edith Pitt22 October 195916 July 1962
Bernard Braine16 July 19626 September 1962
Bernard Braine
and the Lord Newton		6 September24 March 1964
Bernard Braine,
the Lord Newton
and the Marquess of Lothian		24 March 19641 April 1964
Bernard Braine
and the Marquess of Lothian		1 April 196416 October 1964
Barnett Stross20 October 196424 February 1965
Charles Loughlin24 February 19657 January 1967
Julian Snow7 January 19671 November 1968