Secretary of State for Transport

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The Secretary of State for Transport is the member of the cabinet responsible for the British Department for Transport. The role has had a high turnover as new appointments are blamed for the failures of decades of their predecessors. The office used to be called the Minister of Transport, and has been merged with the Department for the Environment at various times.

The Secretary of State is supported by a small team of junior Ministers. Each Minister is a Member of Parliament from either the House of Commons or the House of Lords. The number of Ministers supporting the Secretary of State for Transport vary from time to time, but is usually about 3. The titles given to these Ministers also vary. Currently the positions are held by one Minister of State for Transport and two Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of State for Transport.

Unfortunately, as far as clarity is concerned, during the tenure of different governments the title of Minister of/for Transport has been used to refer to the Secretary of State for Transport, one or more of the junior Ministers or even both the Secretary of State and the junior Ministers at the same time.

Since 2003 the role of Secretary of State for Transport has been combined with the role of Secretary of State for Scotland.

The names provided in the sections below are those who have served in a position equivalent to the Secretary of State for Transport.

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[edit] Minister of Transport

[edit] Minister of War Transport

The Ministry of Transport absorbed the Ministry of Shipping and was renamed the Ministry of War Transport in 1941, but resumed its previous name at the end of the war.

[edit] Minister of Civil Aviation

The Ministry of Civil Aviation was created by Winston Churchill in 1944 to look at peaceful ways of using aircraft and to find something for the aircraft factories to do after the war. The new Conservative Government in 1951 appointed the same Minister to Transport and Civil Aviation, finally amalgamating the Ministries on October 1, 1953.

[edit] Minister of Transport

[edit] Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation

[edit] Minister of Transport

The Ministry was renamed back to the Ministry of Transport on October 14, 1959.

Transport responsibilities were subsumed by the Department of the Environment from October 15, 1970 to September 10, 1976. This shows the junior minister responsible for transport within that department.

[edit] Minister for Transport Industries

[edit] Minister for Transport

[edit] Secretary of State for Transport

[edit] Minister of Transport

[edit] Secretary of State for Transport

[edit] Secretary of State for Environment, Transport and the Regions

From 1997 to 2001, the Ministers of State with responsibility for Transport were:

John Reid attended cabinet meetings, but was not formally a member of the cabinet whereas Gavin Strang was given a seat in the cabinet when he held the position.

[edit] Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions

The Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions was widely considered unwieldy and so was broken up, with the Transport functions now combined with Local Government and the Regions. Critics argued from the outset that this was a mistake and that a post of Secretary of State for Transport was needed in its own right.

After Byers' resignation, such a division was made, with the portfolios of Local Government and the Regions transferred to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.

[edit] Secretary of State for Transport

Since 2003 also Secretary of State for Scotland

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