Secretary Of State For Transport

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 Secetary 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.

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

MINISTER OF TRANSPORT

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.

Frederick Leathers, 1st Baron Leathers ( May 1 , 1941 - July 26 , 1945 )

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 .

Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Viscount Swinton ( October 8 , 1944 - July 26 , 1945 )

Reginald Thomas Herbert Fletcher, 1st Baron Winster ( August 4 , 1945 - October 4 , 1946 )

Harry Louis Nathan, 1st Baron Nathan ( October 4 , 1946 - May 31 , 1948 )

Francis Aungier Pakenham, 1st Baron Pakenham ( May 31 , 1948 - June 1 , 1951 )

David Rees-Williams, 1st Baron Ogmore ( June 1 , 1951 - October 26 , 1951 )

John Maclay ( October 31 , 1951 - May 7 , 1952 )

Alan Lennox-Boyd ( May 7 , 1952 - October 1 , 1953 )

MINISTER OF TRANSPORT

Alfred Barnes ( August 3 , 1945 - October 26 , 1951 )

John Maclay ( October 31 , 1951 - May 7 , 1952 )

Alan Lennox-Boyd ( May 7 , 1952 - October 1 , 1953 )

MINISTER OF TRANSPORT AND CIVIL AVIATION

Alan Lennox-Boyd ( October 1 , 1953 - July 28 , 1954 )

John Boyd-Carpenter ( July 28 , 1954 - December 20 , 1955 )

Harold Watkinson ( December 20 , 1955 - October 14 , 1959 )

MINISTER OF TRANSPORT

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

Ernest Marples ( October 14 , 1959 - October 16 , 1964 )

Thomas Fraser ( October 16 , 1964 - December 23 , 1965 )

Barbara Castle ( December 23 , 1965 - April 6 , 1968 )

Richard Marsh ( April 6 , 1968 - June 19 , 1970 )

John Peyton ( June 23 , 1970 - October 15 , 1970 )

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.

MINISTER FOR TRANSPORT INDUSTRIES

John Peyton ( October 15 , 1970 - March 4 , 1974 )

MINISTER FOR TRANSPORT

Fred Mulley ( March 7 , 1974 - June 12 , 1975 )

John Gilbert ( June 12 , 1975 - September 10 , 1976 )

SECRETARY OF STATE FOR TRANSPORT

Bill Rodgers ( September 10 , 1976 - May 4 , 1979 )

MINISTER OF TRANSPORT

Norman Fowler ( May 11 , 1979 - January 5 , 1981 )

SECRETARY OF STATE FOR TRANSPORT

Norman Fowler ( January 5 , 1981 - September 14 , 1981 )

David Howell ( September 14 , 1981 - June 11 , 1983 )

Tom King ( June 11 , 1983 - October 16 , 1983 )

Nicholas Ridley ( October 16 , 1983 - May 21 , 1986 )

John Moore ( May 21 , 1986 - June 13 , 1987 )

Paul Channon ( June 13 , 1987 - July 24 , 1989 )

Cecil Parkinson ( July 24 , 1989 - November 28 , 1990 )

Malcolm Rifkind ( November 28 , 1990 - April 10 , 1992 )

John MacGregor ( April 10 , 1992 - July 20 , 1994 )

Brian Mawhinney ( July 20 , 1994 - July 5 , 1995 )

Sir George Young, Bt. ( July 5 , 1995 - May 2 , 1997 )

SECRETARY OF STATE FOR ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS

John Prescott ( May 2 , 1997 - June 8 , 2001 )

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

Gavin Strang ( May 3 , 1997 - July 27 , 1998 )

John Reid ( July 27 , 1998 - May 17 , 1999 )

Helen Liddell ( May 17 , 1999 - July 29 , 1999 )

Lord Macdonald Of Tradeston ( July 29 , 1999 - June 8 , 2001 )

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.

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.

Stephen Byers ( June 8 , 2001 - May 29 , 2002 )

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 .

SECRETARY OF STATE FOR TRANSPORT

Alistair Darling ( May 29 , 2002 -)

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