Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Pensions

The Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Pensions was a junior Ministerial office at Parliamentary Secretary rank in the British Government, supporting the Minister for Pensions.

Establishment and history

The office was established in 1916 and filled intermittently until 1932. It was established again from 1940, with joint holders from 1951. In 1944 a separate Ministry of National Insurance was formed and from 1945 until 1951 there was a Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of National Insurance. The two departments merged in 1953. In 1966 the department became the Ministry of Social Security, and the title of the Parliamentary Secretary post changed accordingly.

Parliamentary Secretaries to the Minister of Pensions, 1916-1966

NameEntered officeLeft office
Arthur Griffith-Boscawen19161919
Sir James Craig, Bt19191920
George Tryon19201922
Vacant19221923
Charles Curtis Craig19231924
Vacant19241924
Hon. George Frederick Stanley19241929
Vacant19291931
Cuthbert Headlam1931September 1932
VacantSeptember 19321940
Ellen Wilkinson19401940
The Lord Tryon19401941
Wilfred Paling19411945
Hon. William Sidney19451945
Jennie Adamson19451946
Arthur Blenkinsop19461949
Charles Simmons19491951
John Smyth
and Robin Turton
5 November 195118 October 1954
John Smyth
and Ernest Marples
18 October 195420 December 1955
Edith Pitt
and Hon. Richard Wood
20 December 195514 April 1958
Edith Pitt
and William Fletcher-Vane
14 April 195822 October 1959
William Fletcher-Vane
and Patricia Hornsby-Smith
22 October 195920 October 1960
Patricia Hornsby-Smith20 October 196028 October 1960
Patricia Hornsby-Smith
and Bernard Braine
28 October 19608 February 1961
Patricia Hornsby-Smith
and Richard Sharples
8 February 196131 August 1961
Richard Sharples31 August 19619 October 1961
Richard Sharples
and Margaret Thatcher
9 October 196116 July 1962
Margaret Thatcher
and Lynch Maydon
16 July 196216 October 1964
Harold Davies
and Norman Pentland
20 October 19646 August 1966

Parliamentary Secretaries to the Minister of National Insurance, 1945-1951

NameEntered officeLeft office
Charles Peat22 March 194516 June 1945
George Lindgren19451946
Tom Steele19461950
Bernard Taylor19501951

Parliamentary Secretaries to the Minister of Social Security, 1966-1968

NameEntered officeLeft office
Harold Davies
and Norman Pentland
6 August 19667 January 1967
Norman Pentland
and Charles Loughlin
7 January 19671 November 1968
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