Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health
# 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.

The office became the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Security.

## Parliamentary Secretaries to the Ministry of Health, 1919-1968

| Name | Entered office | Left office |
| - | - | - |
| Hon. Waldorf Astor | 24 June 1919 | 7 April 1921 |
| The Earl of Onslow | 7 April 1921 | 25 May 1923 |
| Lord Eustace Percy | 25 May 1923 | 23 January 1924 |
| Arthur Greenwood | 23 January 1924 | 11 November 1924 |
| Sir Kingsley Wood | 11 November 1924 | 11 June 1929 |
| Susan Lawrence | 11 June 1929 | 22 September 1931 |
| Ernest Simon | 22 September 1931 | 10 November 1931 |
| Ernest Brown | 10 November 1931 | 30 September 1932 |
| Geoffrey Shakespeare | 30 September 1932 | 30 July 1936 |
| Robert Hudson | 30 July 1936 | 28 May 1937 |
| Robert Bernays | 28 May 1937 | 14 July 1939 |
| Florence Horsbrugh | 14 July 1939 | 26 May 1945 |
| Hamilton Kerr | 26 May 1945 | 26 July 1945 |
| Charles Key | 4 August 1945 | 12 February 1947 |
| John Edwards | 12 February 1947 | 1 February 1949 |
| Arthur Blenkinsop | 1 February 1949 | 3 November 1951 |
| Patricia Hornsby-Smith | 3 November 1951 | 18 January 1957 |
| John Vaughan-Morgan | 18 January 1957 | 17 September 1957 |
| Richard Thompson | 17 September 1957 | 22 October 1959 |
| Edith Pitt | 22 October 1959 | 16 July 1962 |
| Bernard Braine | 16 July 1962 | 6 September 1962 |
| Bernard Braine and the Lord Newton | 6 September | 24 March 1964 |
| Bernard Braine, the Lord Newton and the Marquess of Lothian | 24 March 1964 | 1 April 1964 |
| Bernard Braine and the Marquess of Lothian | 1 April 1964 | 16 October 1964 |
| Barnett Stross | 20 October 1964 | 24 February 1965 |
| Charles Loughlin | 24 February 1965 | 7 January 1967 |
| Julian Snow | 7 January 1967 | 1 November 1968 |
| Became the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Security |||
