Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Pensions
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The Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Pensions was a junior Ministerial office at Parliamentary Secretary rank in the United Kingdom Government, supporting the Minister for Pensions. It 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.
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Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Pensions (1916-1966)
- 1916: Arthur Griffith-Boscawen
- 1919: Sir James Craig
- 1920: Lord Tryon
- 1922: vacant
- 1923: Charles Curtis Craig
- 1924: vacant
- 1924: George Frederick Stanley
- 1929: vacant
- 1931: Cuthbert Headlam
- Office vacant from September 1932
- 1940: Ellen Wilkinson
- 1940: Lord Tryon
- 1941: Wilfred Paling
- 1945: William Sidney
- 1945: Jennie Adamson
- 1946: Arthur Blenkinsop
- 1949: Charles Simmons
- 1951: John George Smyth (to 1955)
- 1951: Robin Turton (to 1954)
- 1954: Ernest Marples(to 1955)
- 1955: Edith Pitt (to 1959)
- 1955: Richard Frederick Wood (to 1958)
- 1958: William Vane (to 1960)
- 1959: Patricia Hornsby-Smith (to 1961)
- 1960: Bernard Braine (to 1961)
- 1961: Richard Sharples (to 1962)
- 1961: Margaret Thatcher (to 1964)
- 1962: Lynch Maydon (to 1964)
- 1964: Harold Davies (to 1966)
- 1964: Norman Pentland (to 1966)
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of National Insurance (1945-1951)
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Social Security (1966-1968)
- 1966: Harold Davies (to 1967)
- 1966: Norman Pentland (to 1968)
- 1967: Charles Loughlin (to 1968)
