Secretary of State for Employment

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
	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
	George Henry Roberts	Template:Date	Template:Date	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Labour
	Robert Horne	Template:Date	Template:Date	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Unionist
	Thomas James Macnamara	Template:Date	Template:Date	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Liberal
	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
	Arthur Steel-Maitland	Template:Date	Template:Date	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Stanley Baldwin
	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
	Oliver Stanley	Template:Date	Template:Date	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Conservative
	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
	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
	R. A. Butler	Template:Date	Template:Date	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Conservative	Winston Churchill Template:Small
	George Isaacs	Template:Date	Template:Date	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Labour	rowspan=3 style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Clement Attlee
	Aneurin Bevan	Template:Date	Template:Date (resigned)	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Labour
	Alfred Robens	Template:Date	Template:Date	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Labour
	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
	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
	Edward Heath	Template:Date	Template:Date	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Conservative

Labour (1959–1968)

Name		Term of office		Political party		Prime Minister
	Edward Heath	Template:Date	Template:Date	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Conservative	rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Harold Macmillan
	John Hare	Template:Date	Template:Date	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Conservative
	Joseph Godber	Template:Date	Template:Date	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Alec Douglas-Home
	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
	Maurice Macmillan	Template:Date	Template:Date	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Conservative
	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
	Albert Booth	Template:Date	Template:Date	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Labour	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	James Callaghan
	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