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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 current Secretary of State for Transport is
Ruth Kelly, who was appointed on 28 June 2007.
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.
From 2003 until June 2007 the role of Secretary of State for Transport was combined with the role of
Secretary of State for Scotland. This arrangement changed on 28 June 2007, when in the appointment of his first Cabinet, Prime Minister
Gordon Brown assigned the responsibilities of
Secretary of State for Scotland to
Des Browne, his
Secretary of State for Defence.
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 (1 May 1941 - 26 July 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 1 October 1953.
Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Viscount Swinton (8 October 1944 - 26 July 1945)
Reginald Fletcher, 1st Baron Winster (4 August 1945 - 4 October 1946)
Harry Nathan, 1st Baron Nathan (4 October 1946 - 31 May 1948)
Francis Aungier Pakenham, 1st Baron Pakenham (31 May 1948 - 1 June 1951)
David Rees-Williams, 1st Baron Ogmore (1 June 1951 - 26 October 1951)
John Maclay (31 October 1951 - 7 May 1952)
Alan Lennox-Boyd (7 May 1952 - 1 October 1953)
Minister of Transport
Alfred Barnes (3 August 1945 - 26 October 1951)
John Maclay (31 October 1951 - 7 May 1952)
Alan Lennox-Boyd (7 May 1952 - 1 October 1953)
Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation
Alan Lennox-Boyd (1 October 1953 - 28 July 1954)
John Boyd-Carpenter (28 July 1954 - 20 December 1955)
Harold Watkinson (20 December 1955 - 14 October 1959)
Minister of Transport
The Ministry was renamed back to the Ministry of Transport on October 14, 1959.
Ernest Marples (14 October 1959 - 16 October 1964)
Thomas Fraser (16 October 1964 - 23 December 1965)
Barbara Castle (23 December 1965 - 6 April 1968)
Richard Marsh (6 April 1968 - 19 June 1970)
John Peyton (23 June 1970 - 15 October 1970)
Transport responsibilities were subsumed by the Department of the Environment from 15 October 1970 to 10 September 1976. This shows the junior minister responsible for transport within that department.
Minister for Transport Industries
John Peyton (15 October 1970 - 4 March 1974)
Minister for Transport
Fred Mulley (7 March 1974 - 12 June 1975)
John Gilbert (12 June 1975 - 10 September 1976)
Secretary of State for Transport
Bill Rodgers (10 September 1976 - 4 May 1979)
Minister of Transport
Norman Fowler (11 May 1979 - 5 January 1981)
Secretary of State for Transport
Norman Fowler (5 January 1981 - 14 September 1981)
David Howell (14 September 1981 - 11 June 1983)
Tom King (11 June 1983 - 16 October 1983)
Nicholas Ridley (16 October 1983 - 21 May 1986)
John Moore (21 May 1986 - 13 June 1987)
Paul Channon (13 June 1987 - 24 July 1989)
Cecil Parkinson (24 July 1989 - 28 November 1990)
Malcolm Rifkind (28 November 1990 - 10 April 1992)
John MacGregor (10 April 1992 - 20 July 1994)
Brian Mawhinney (20 July 1994 - 5 July 1995)
Sir George Young, Bt. (5 July 1995 - 2 May 1997)
Secretary of State for Environment, Transport and the Regions
John Prescott (2 May 1997 - 8 June 2001)
From 1997 to 2001, the Ministers of State with responsibility for Transport were:
Gavin Strang (3 May 1997 - 27 July 1998)
John Reid (27 July 1998 - 17 May 1999)
Helen Liddell (17 May 1999 - 29 July 1999)
Lord Macdonald of Tradeston (29 July 1999 - 8 June 2001)
John Reid attended cabinet meetings, but wasn't 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 (8 June 2001 - 29 May 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 (29 May 2002 - 5 May 2006)
Douglas Alexander (5 May 2006 - 27 June 2007)
Ruth Kelly (28 June 2007 - present)Further Information
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