ABSTRACT

Date of appointment Secretary of State Party June 1970 Keith Joseph Conservative March 1974 Barbara Castle Labour April 1976 David Ennals Labour May 1979 Patrick Jenkin Conservative September 1981 Norman Fowler Conservative June 1987 John Moore Conservative July 1988 Kenneth Clarke Conservative November 1990 William Waldegrave Conservative April 1992 Virginia Bottomley Conservative July 1995 Stephen Dorrell Conservative May 1997 Frank Dobson Labour October 1999 Alan Milburn Labour June 2003 John Reid Labour May 2003 Patricia Hewitt Labour

Date of appointment Minister of State Party 1970-1974 Lord Aberdare Conservative 1974 Brian O'Malley Conservative 1974-1976 David Owen Labour 1976-1979 Stan Orme Labour 1976-1979 Roland Moyle Conservative 1979-1982 Gerald Vaughan Conservative 1979-1981 Reginald Prentice Conservative 1981-1982 Hugh Rossie Conservative 1982-1985 Kenneth Clarke Conservative 1983-1984 Rhodes Boyson Conservative 1984-1988 Tony Newton Conservative 1985-1986 Barney Hayhoe Conservative 1986-1987 John Major Conservative 1987-1994 Nicholas Scott Conservative 1988-1989 David Mellor Conservative 1989-1992 Virginia Bottomley Conservative 1992-1994 Brian Mawhinney Conservative 1994-1997 Gerald Malone Conservative 1997-1999 Tessa Jowell Labour 1997-1999 Alan Milburn Labour 1997-1998 Baroness Jay Labour 1999-2001 John Denham Labour 1999-2005 John Hutton Labour 2001-2003 Jacqui Smith Labour 2003 Rosie Winterton Labour 2005 Lord Warner Labour 2005 Jane Kennedy Labour