The Minister of Health and Local Government was a member of the Executive Committee of the Privy Council of Northern Ireland (Cabinet) in the Parliament of Northern Ireland which governed Northern Ireland from 1922 to 1972. The post was created in 1944 and was renamed Minister of Health and Social Services in 1965.
# Name Took office Prime MinisterParty 1. William Grant 1 June 1944 Brookeborough 2. Dehra Parker 26 August 1949 Brookeborough Post vacant 13 March 1957 Brookeborough 3. Jack Andrews 26 March 1957 Brookeborough 4. William James Morgan 17 February 1961 Brookeborough, O'Neill 5. William Craig 22 July 1964 O'Neill 6. William James Morgan 1 January 1965 O'Neill 7. Robert Porter 27 January 1969 O'Neill 8. William Fitzsimmons 12 March 1969 O'Neill, Chichester-Clark, Faulkner
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health and Local Government/Health and Social Services 1944 Sir Wilson Hungerford 1944 - 1948 vacant 1948 – 1953 Terence O'Neill 1953 – 1955 vacant 1955 – 1956 Terence O'Neill 1956 – 1963 vacant 1963 – 1964 Brian McConnell 1964 - 1965 William Fitzsimmons 1965 - 1971 vacant 1971 - 1972 Joseph Burns 1972 office abolished
References The Government of Northern Ireland