Secretary of State for Employment

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The secretary of state for employment was a position in the Cabinet of the United Kingdom. In Template:Date, it was merged with secretary of state for education to make the secretary of state for education and employment. In Template:Date, the employment functions were hived off and transferred to the secretary of state for social security to form the secretary of state for work and pensions.

List of ministers

Labour (1916–1940)

Name		Term of office		Political party		Prime Minister
File:John Hodge.JPG	John Hodge	Template:Date	Template:Date	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Labour	rowspan=4 style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	David Lloyd George Template:Small
File:G H Roberts.JPG	George Henry Roberts	Template:Date	Template:Date	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Labour
File:Robert Horne cropped.jpg	Robert Horne	Template:Date	Template:Date	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Unionist
File:TJ Macnamara 1901.jpg	Thomas James Macnamara	Template:Date	Template:Date	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Liberal
File:Anderson Montague-Barlow.jpg	Anderson Montague-Barlow	Template:Date	Template:Date	rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Bonar Law
				style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Stanley Baldwin
File:Tom Shaw - politician.jpg	Tom Shaw	Template:Date	Template:Date	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Labour	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Ramsay MacDonald
File:Arthur Steel-Maitland.jpg	Arthur Steel-Maitland	Template:Date	Template:Date	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Stanley Baldwin
File:Margaret Bondfield 1919.jpg	Margaret Bondfield	Template:Date	Template:Date (lost seat 1931)	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Labour	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Ramsay MacDonald
	Henry Betterton	Template:Date	Template:Date	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Conservative	rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Ramsay MacDonald Template:Small
File:Oliver Stanley MP.jpg	Oliver Stanley	Template:Date	Template:Date	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Conservative
File:BrownErnest.jpg	Ernest Brown	Template:Date	Template:Date	rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Liberal National	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Stanley Baldwin Template:Small
				style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Neville Chamberlain Template:Small

Labour and national service (1940–1959)

Name		Term of office		Political party		Prime Minister
File:Ernest Bevin cph.3b17494.jpg	Ernest Bevin	Template:Date	Template:Date	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Labour	rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Winston Churchill Template:Small
File:Rab Butler.png	R. A. Butler	Template:Date	Template:Date	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Conservative	Winston Churchill Template:Small
File:George Isaacs in 1943 (3x4 crop).jpg	George Isaacs	Template:Date	Template:Date	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Labour	rowspan=3 style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Clement Attlee
File:Aneurin Bevan (crop).jpg	Aneurin Bevan	Template:Date	Template:Date (resigned)	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Labour
File:Alfred Robens, Baron Robens of Woldingham.jpg	Alfred Robens	Template:Date	Template:Date	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Labour
File:Walter Monckton cropped.png	Walter Monckton	Template:Date	Template:Date	rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Winston Churchill
				rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Anthony Eden
File:The National Archives UK - CO 1069-166-17 Macleod crop.jpg	Iain Macleod	Template:Date	Template:Date	rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Conservative
				rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Harold Macmillan
File:Heathdod.JPG	Edward Heath	Template:Date	Template:Date	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Conservative

Labour (1959–1968)

Name		Term of office		Political party		Prime Minister
File:Sir Edward Heath (cropped).jpg	Edward Heath	Template:Date	Template:Date	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Conservative	rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Harold Macmillan
File:John Hare, 1st Viscount Blakenham, in 1949.jpg	John Hare	Template:Date	Template:Date	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Conservative
File:Blank.jpg	Joseph Godber	Template:Date	Template:Date	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Alec Douglas-Home
File:Blank.jpg	Ray Gunter	Template:Date	Template:Date	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Labour	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Harold Wilson

List of secretaries of state

Employment and productivity (1968–1970)

Name		Term of office		Political party		Prime Minister
File:Barbara Castle, 1965 (cropped).jpg	Barbara Castle	Template:Date	Template:Date	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Labour	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Harold Wilson

Employment (1970–1995)

Name		Term of office		Political party		Prime Minister
File:Robert Carr2.jpg	Robert Carr	Template:Date	Template:Date	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Conservative	rowspan=3 style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Edward Heath
File:Blank.jpg	Maurice Macmillan	Template:Date	Template:Date	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Conservative
File:Blank.jpg	William Whitelaw	Template:Date	Template:Date	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Conservative
File:Michael Foot (1981).jpg	Michael Foot	Template:Date	Template:Date	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Labour	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Harold Wilson
File:Blank.jpg	Albert Booth	Template:Date	Template:Date	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Labour	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	James Callaghan
File:Blank.jpg	James Prior	Template:Date	Template:Date	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Conservative	rowspan=6 style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Margaret Thatcher
File:Norman Tebbit Edinburgh University Politics Society 2008.JPG	Norman Tebbit	Template:Date	Template:Date	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Conservative
File:Official portrait of Lord King of Bridgwater crop 2.jpg	Tom King	Template:Date	Template:Date	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Conservative
File:Lord young of Graffham.jpg	David Young, Baron Young of Graffham	Template:Date	Template:Date	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Conservative
File:Official portrait of Lord Fowler crop 2.jpg	Norman Fowler	Template:Date	Template:Date	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Conservative
File:Michael Howard as Home Secretary.jpg	Michael Howard	Template:Date	Template:Date	rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Conservative
				rowspan=4 style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		John Major
File:Gillian Shephard official portrait (cropped).jpg	Gillian Shephard	Template:Date	Template:Date	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Conservative
File:Official portrait of Lord Hunt of Wirral crop 2.jpg	David Hunt	Template:Date	Template:Date	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Conservative
File:Michael Portillo.jpg	Michael Portillo	Template:Date	Template:Date	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Conservative

Education and employment (1995–2001)

Name		Term of office		Political party		Prime Minister
File:Gillian Shephard official portrait (cropped).jpg	Gillian Shephard	Template:Date	Template:Date	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	John Major
File:David Blunkett DfEE (upscaled) (cropped).jpg	David Blunkett	Template:Date	Template:Date	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Labour	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Tony Blair

The office was merged with the Department of Social Security to form the Department for Work and Pensions in Template:Date.

See also

• Department for Work and Pensions