Secretary of State for Employment

The Secretary of State for Employment was a position in the Cabinet of the United Kingdom. In 1995 it was merged with Secretary of State for Education to make the Secretary of State for Education and Employment. In 2001 the employment functions were hived off and transferred to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.

Minister of Labour (1916–1940)

Name		Portrait	Term of office		Political Party	Prime Minister
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"|	John Hodge		10 December 1916	17 August 1917	Labour	rowspan=4 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color"|	David Lloyd George (Coalition)
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"|	George Henry Roberts		17 August 1917	10 January 1919	Labour
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Unionist Party/meta/color"|	Sir Robert Horne		10 January 1919	19 March 1920	Unionist
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color"|	Thomas James Macnamara		19 March 1920	19 October 1922	Liberal
rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"|	Sir Anderson Montague-Barlow		31 October 1922	22 January 1924	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"|	Bonar Law
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"|						Stanley Baldwin
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"|	Tom Shaw		22 January 1924	3 November 1924	Labour	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"|	Ramsay MacDonald
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"|	Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, Bt		6 November 1924	4 June 1929	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"|	Stanley Baldwin
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"|	Margaret Bondfield		7 June 1929	24 August 1931 (lost seat 1931)	Labour	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"|	Ramsay MacDonald
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"|	Sir Henry Betterton, Bt		25 August 1931	29 June 1934	Conservative	rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:National Labour Organisation/meta/color"|	Ramsay MacDonald (1st & 2nd National Min.)
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"|	Oliver Stanley	File:Oliver Stanley 1941.jpg	29 June 1934	7 June 1935	Conservative
rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)/meta/color" |	Ernest Brown		7 June 1935	13 May 1940	Liberal National	style="background-color: Template:National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)/meta/color" |	Stanley Baldwin (3rd National Min.)
style="background-color: Template:National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)/meta/color" |						Neville Chamberlain (4th Nat.Min.; War Coalition)

Minister of Labour and National Service (1940–1959)

Name		Portrait	Term of office		Political Party	Prime Minister
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"|	Ernest Bevin		13 May 1940	23 May 1945	Labour	rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"|	Winston Churchill (War Coalition)
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"|	R. A. Butler		25 May 1945	26 July 1945	Conservative	Winston Churchill (Caretaker Min.)
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"|	George Isaacs		3 August 1945	17 January 1951	Labour	rowspan=3 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"|	Clement Attlee
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"|	Aneurin Bevan		17 January 1951	23 April 1951 (resigned)	Labour
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"|	Alfred Robens		24 April 1951	26 October 1951	Labour
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"|	Walter Monckton		28 October 1951	20 December 1955	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"|	Sir Winston Churchill
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"|						rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"|	Sir Anthony Eden
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"|	Iain Macleod		20 December 1955	14 October 1959	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"|						rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"|	Harold Macmillan
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"|	Edward Heath		14 October 1959	12 November 1959	Conservative

Minister of Labour (1959–1968)

Name		Term of office		Political Party	Prime Minister
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"|	Edward Heath	12 November 1959	27 July 1960	Conservative	rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"|	Harold Macmillan
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"|	John Hare	27 July 1960	20 October 1963	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"|	Joseph Godber	20 October 1963	16 October 1964	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"|	Sir Alec Douglas-Home
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"|	Ray Gunter	18 October 1964	6 April 1968	Labour	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"|	Harold Wilson

Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity (1968–1970)

Name		Portrait	Term of office		Political Party	Prime Minister
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"|	Barbara Castle		6 April 1968	19 June 1970	Labour	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"|	Harold Wilson

Secretary of State for Employment (1970–1995)

Name		Term of office		Political Party	Prime Minister
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"|	Robert Carr	20 June 1970	7 April 1972	Conservative	rowspan=3 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"|	Edward Heath
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"|	Maurice Macmillan	7 April 1972	2 December 1973	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"|	William Whitelaw	2 December 1973	4 March 1974	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"|	Michael Foot	5 March 1974	8 April 1976	Labour	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"|	Harold Wilson
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"|	Albert Booth	8 April 1976	4 May 1979	Labour	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"|	James Callaghan
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"|	James Prior	5 May 1979	14 September 1981	Conservative	rowspan=6 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"|	Margaret Thatcher
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"|	Norman Tebbit	14 September 1981	16 October 1983	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"|	Tom King	16 October 1983	2 September 1985	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"|	Lord Young of Graffham	2 September 1985	13 June 1987	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"|	Norman Fowler	13 June 1987	3 January 1990	Conservative
rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"|	Michael Howard	3 January 1990	11 April 1992	Conservative
rowspan=4 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"|					John Major
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"|	Gillian Shephard	11 April 1992	27 May 1993	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"|	David Hunt	27 May 1993	20 July 1994	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"|	Michael Portillo	20 July 1994	5 July 1995	Conservative

Secretary of State for Education and Employment (1995–2001)

Name		Term of office		Political Party	Prime Minister
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"|	Gillian Shephard	5 July 1995	2 May 1997	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"|	John Major
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"|	David Blunkett	2 May 1997	8 June 2001	Labour	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"|	Tony Blair

The office was merged with the Department of Social Security to form the Department of Work and Pensions in 2001.