Ministry of Power (United Kingdom)

This article is about the British Ministry, for its Indian counterpart, see Ministry of Power (India)

The Ministry of Power was a United Kingdom government ministry dealing with issues concerning energy.

The Ministry of Power (then named Ministry of Fuel and Power) was created on 11 June 1942 from functions separated from the Board of Trade. It took charge of coal production, allocation of fuel supplies, control of energy prices and petrol rationing.

The Ministry of Fuel and Power was renamed the Ministry of Power in January 1957. The Ministry of Power later became part of the Ministry of Technology on 6 October 1969, which merged into the Department of Trade and Industry on 20 October 1970.

Amongst those who worked at the Ministry include:

• Arthur Boissier, Director of Public Relations (1943–1945) and formerly Headmaster of Harrow School.
• Maurice Bridgeman, Principal Assistant Secretary in the Petroleum Division (1944–1946).
• Sir Donald Fergusson (1891–1963), Permanent Secretary (1945–1952).
• Lancelot Joynson-Hicks, 3rd Viscount Brentford, government minister (1951–1955).
• John Maud, later Lord Redcliffe-Maud, civil servant (1952–1958).
• Harold Wilson, Director of Economics and Statistics (1943–1944) and later Prime Minister.

See also

• Ministry of Power (India)
• Department of Energy (United Kingdom)

External links

• History of the Department of Energy
• H. W. Grimmitt, Ministry of Fuel and Power portrait at the National Portrait Gallery, London