The secretary of state for employment was a position in the Cabinet of the United Kingdom. In , it was merged with the secretary of state for education to make the secretary of state for education and employment. In , 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 Labour David Lloyd George George Henry Roberts Labour Robert Horne Unionist Thomas James Macnamara Liberal Anderson Montague-Barlow Conservative Bonar Law Stanley Baldwin Tom Shaw Labour Ramsay MacDonald Arthur Steel-Maitland Conservative Stanley Baldwin Margaret Bondfield (lost seat 1931) Labour Ramsay MacDonald Henry Betterton Conservative Ramsay MacDonald Oliver Stanley Conservative Ernest Brown Liberal National Stanley Baldwin Neville Chamberlain
Labour and national service (1940–1959) Name Term of office Political party Prime Minister Ernest Bevin Labour Winston Churchill R. A. Butler Conservative Winston Churchill George Isaacs Labour Clement Attlee Aneurin Bevan (resigned) Labour Alfred Robens Labour Walter Monckton Conservative Winston Churchill Anthony Eden Iain Macleod Conservative Harold Macmillan Edward Heath Conservative
Labour (1959–1968) Name Term of office Political party Prime Minister Edward Heath Conservative Harold Macmillan John Hare Conservative Joseph Godber Conservative Alec Douglas-Home Ray Gunter Labour Harold Wilson
List of secretaries of state Employment and productivity (1968–1970) Name Term of office Political party Prime Minister Barbara Castle Labour Harold Wilson
Employment (1970–1995) Name Term of office Political party Prime Minister Robert Carr Conservative Edward Heath Maurice Macmillan Conservative William Whitelaw Conservative Michael Foot Labour Harold Wilson Albert Booth Labour James Callaghan James Prior Conservative Margaret Thatcher Norman Tebbit Conservative Tom King Conservative David Young, Baron Young of Graffham Conservative Norman Fowler Conservative Michael Howard Conservative John Major Gillian Shephard Conservative David Hunt Conservative Michael Portillo Conservative
Education and employment (1995–2001) Name Term of office Political party Prime Minister Gillian Shephard Conservative John Major David Blunkett Labour Tony Blair
The office was merged with the Department of Social Security to form the Department for Work and Pensions in .
See also Department for Work and Pensions
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