Secretary for Labour and Welfare

Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Secretary for Labour and Welfare 勞工及福利局局長
Emblem of Hong Kong
Incumbent Law Chi-kwong since 1 July 2017
Labour and Welfare Bureau
Style	The Honourable
Appointer	Central People's Government nomination by Chief Executive
Inaugural holder	Matthew Cheung
Formation	1 July 2007
Website	LWB

Secretary for Labour and Welfare
Traditional Chinese	勞工及福利局局長
Transcriptions Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization Lòuh gūng kahp fūk leih guhk guhk jéung Jyutping Lou4 gung1 kap6 fuk1 lei6 guk6 guk6 zoeng2

The Secretary for Labour and Welfare (Chinese: 勞工及福利局局長) of the Hong Kong Government is responsible for labour and social welfare policy in Hong Kong. The position was created in 2007 to replace portions of the previous portfolio of Secretary for Economic Development and Labour and welfare portion from Secretary for Food and Health.

List of office holders

Political party:   Nonpartisan

Secretaries for Economic Services, 1973–1982

№	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Governor	Ref
1		Derek Jones 鍾信	November 1973	September 1976	Sir Murray MacLehose (1971–1982)
2		David Jeaffreson 謝法新	September 1976	September 1982
					Sir Edward Youde (1982–1986)

Secretaries for Education and Manpower, 1983–1997

№	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Governor	Ref
1		James Neil Henderson 韓達誠	1983	1986	Sir Edward Youde (1982–1986)
2		R. G. B. Bridge 布立之	1986	1989	Sir David Wilson (1987–1992)
3		Yeung Kai-yin 楊啟彥	1989	1991
4		John Chan 陳祖澤	1991	1993
					Chris Patten (1992–1997)
5		Leung Man-kin 梁文建	1993	1995
6		Joseph Wong 王永平	August 1995	30 June 1997

Secretaries for Education and Manpower, 1997–2002

№	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Duration	Chief Executive	Term	Ref
bgcolor=Template:Nonpartisan/meta/color align=center| 1		Joseph Wong Wing-ping 王永平	1 July 1997	3 July 2000	3 years, 2 days	Tung Chee-hwa (1997–2005)	1
bgcolor=Template:Nonpartisan/meta/color align=center| 2		Fanny Law Fan Chiu-fun 羅范椒芬	3 July 2000	3 June 2002	1 year, 362 days

Secretaries for Economic Development and Labour, 2002–2007

№	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Duration	Chief Executive	Term	Ref
rowspan=2 bgcolor=Template:Nonpartisan/meta/color align=center| 1		Stephen Ip Shu-kwan 葉澍堃	1 July 2002	30 June 2007	4 years, 364 days	Tung Chee-hwa (1997–2005)	2
Donald Tsang (2005–2012)						2

Secretaries for Labour and Welfare, 2007–present

№	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Duration	Chief Executive	Term	Ref
rowspan=2 bgcolor=Template:Nonpartisan/meta/color align=center| 1		Matthew Cheung Kin-chung 張建宗	1 July 2007	16 January 2017	9 years, 199 days	Donald Tsang (2005–2012)	3
Leung Chun-ying (2012–2017)						4
	bgcolor=Template:Nonpartisan/meta/color align=center| 2		Stephen Sui Wai-keung 蕭偉強	13 February 2017	30 June 2017		137 days
bgcolor=Template:Nonpartisan/meta/color align=center| 3		Law Chi-kwong 羅致光	1 July 2017	Incumbent	6 years, 329 days	Carrie Lam (2017–present)	5

External links

• Secretary for Labour and Welfare
• Organisation chart of Hong Kong Government