Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport was a junior position at the

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Ministry of Transport A ministry of transport or transportation is a ministry responsible for transportation within a country. It usually is administered by the ''minister for transport''. The term is also sometimes applied to the departments or other government age ...

. The office was renamed Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of War Transport in 1941, but resumed its former name at the end of the

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Parliamentary Secretaries to the Ministry of Transport, 1924–41

John Moore-Brabazon Lieutenant-Colonel John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara, , HonFRPS (8 February 1884 – 17 May 1964), was an English aviation pioneer and Conservative politician. He was the first Englishman to pilot a heavier-than- ...

11 November 1924 – 14 January 1927 *''vacant'' 14 January 1927 – 4 June 1929 *

John Russell, 2nd Earl Russell John Francis Stanley Russell, 2nd Earl Russell, known as Frank Russell (12 August 18653 March 1931), was a British nobleman, barrister and politician, the elder brother of the philosopher Bertrand Russell, and the grandson of John Russell, 1st ...

11 June 1929 – 1 December 1929 *

Arthur Ponsonby Arthur Augustus William Harry Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede (16 February 1871 – 23 March 1946), was a British politician, writer, and social activist. He was the son of Sir Henry Ponsonby, Private Secretary to Queen Victoria and ...

1 December 1929 – 1 March 1931 * John Allen Parkinson 1 March 1931 – 24 August 1931 * George Gillett 4 September 1931 – 25 November 1931 * Ivor Miles Windsor-Clive, 2nd Earl of Plymouth 25 November 1931 – 29 September 1932 * Cuthbert Headlam 29 September 1932 – 5 July 1934 *''vacant'' 5 July 1934 – 18 June 1935 * Austin Hudson 18 June 1935 – 14 July 1939 *

Robert Bernays Robert Hamilton Bernays (6 May 1902 – 23 January 1945) was a Liberal Party and later Liberal National politician in the United Kingdom who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1931 to 1945. Early life Bernays was the third son and four ...

14 July 1939 – 18 May 1940 *

Frederick Montague Frederick Montague, 1st Baron Amwell, CBE (8 October 1876 – 15 October 1966) was a British Labour Party politician. Amwell was the son of John Montague and Mary Ann Manderson. His birth was registered in Holborn, Middlesex in the fourth quar ...

18 May 1940 – 1 May 1941

Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of War Transport, 1941–45

* John Jestyn Llewellin 1 May 1941 – 4 February 1942 * Sir Arthur Salter 29 June 1941 – 4 February 1942 *

Philip Noel-Baker Philip John Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, (1 November 1889 – 8 October 1982), born Philip John Baker, was a British politician, diplomat, academic, athlete, and renowned campaigner for disarmament. He carried the British team flag and won a ...

, 4 February 1942 – 26 May 1945 *

Peter Thorneycroft George Edward Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft, (26 July 1909 – 4 June 1994) was a British Conservative Party politician. He served as Chancellor of the Exchequer between 1957 and 1958. Early life Born in Dunston, Staffordshire, Thorn ...

, 26 May 1945 – 26 July 1945

Parliamentary Secretaries to the Ministry of Transport, 1945–70

George Strauss George Russell Strauss, Baron Strauss PC (18 July 1901 – 5 June 1993) was a long-serving British Labour Party politician, who was a Member of Parliament (MP) for 46 years and was Father of the House of Commons from 1974 to 1979. Early life ...

4 August 1945 – 7 October 1947 *

James Callaghan Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff, ( ; 27 March 191226 March 2005), commonly known as Jim Callaghan, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1976 to 1980. Callaghan is ...

7 October 1947 – 2 March 1950 *

George William Lucas, 1st Baron Lucas of Chilworth George William Lucas, 1st Baron Lucas of Chilworth (29 March 1896 – 11 October 1967), was a British businessman and Labour politician. Lucas was the son of Percy William Lucas and Annette Lucy Lucas of Oxford. He was involved in the motor trade ...

2 March 1950 – 26 October 1951 *

Joseph Gurney Braithwaite Sir Joseph Gurney Braithwaite, 1st Baronet (24 May 1895 – 25 June 1958) was an English Conservative Party politician. Gurney Braithwaite came from a Quaker family, the youngest son of Joseph Bevan Braithwaite (stockbroker). He was educated a ...

5 November 1951 – 1 November 1953 *

Reginald Maudling Reginald Maudling (7 March 1917 – 14 February 1979) was a British politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1962 to 1964 and as Home Secretary from 1970 to 1972. From 1955 until the late 1960s, he was spoken of as a prospecti ...

18 April 1952 – 24 November 1952 *

John Profumo John Dennis Profumo, CBE,( ; 30 January 1915 – 9 March 2006) was a British politician whose career ended in 1963 after a sexual relationship with the 19-year-old model Christine Keeler in 1961. The scandal, which became known as the Profumo ...

24 November 1952 – 9 January 1957 * Hugh Molson 11 November 1953 – 9 January 1957 * Richard Nugent 18 January 1957 – 22 October 1959 *

Airey Neave Airey Middleton Sheffield Neave, (;) (23 January 1916 – 30 March 1979) was a British soldier, lawyer and Member of Parliament (MP) from 1953 until his assassination in 1979. During World War II he was the first British prisoner-of-war ...

18 January 1957 – 16 January 1959 *

John Hay John Milton Hay (October 8, 1838July 1, 1905) was an American statesman and official whose career in government stretched over almost half a century. Beginning as a private secretary and assistant to Abraham Lincoln, Hay's highest office was Un ...

16 January 1959 – 3 May 1963 *

John Charles Compton Cavendish, 5th Baron Chesham John Charles Compton Cavendish, 5th Baron Chesham, PC (18 June 1916 – 23 December 1989), was a British Conservative politician. A member of the Cavendish family headed by the Duke of Devonshire he was the son of John Compton Cavendish, 4t ...

22 October 1959 – 16 October 1964 *

John Hughes-Hallett Vice-Admiral John Hughes-Hallett CB DSO (1 December 1901 – 5 April 1972) was a British naval commander and politician. He was the Naval Commander during the Dieppe Raid of 1942. Early life and career Hughes-Hallett was born in December 1901, ...

26 April 1961 – 16 October 1964 *

Tam Galbraith Sir Thomas Galloway Dunlop Galbraith, known as Tam Galbraith, (10 March 1917 – 2 January 1982) was a Scottish Unionist politician. Early life The eldest son and heir of Thomas Galbraith, 1st Baron Strathclyde, Galbraith was educated at Ayt ...

3 May 1963 – 16 October 1964 *

George Lindgren, Baron Lindgren George Samuel Lindgren, Baron Lindgren, JP, DL (11 November 1900 – 8 September 1971) was a British Labour Party politician. Born in Islington, London, at the 1935 general election he was an unsuccessful candidate in the safe Conservative s ...

20 October 1964 – 10 January 1966 * Stephen Swingler 20 October 1964 – 29 August 1967 * John Morris 10 January 1966 – 6 April 1968 * Neil George Carmichael 29 August 1967 – 13 October 1969 * Robert Brown 6 April 1968 – 19 June 1970 * Albert Murray 13 October 1969 – 19 June 1970 *

Michael Heseltine Michael Ray Dibdin Heseltine, Baron Heseltine, (; born 21 March 1933) is a British politician and businessman. Having begun his career as a property developer, he became one of the founders of the publishing house Haymarket. Heseltine served a ...

24 June 1970 – 15 October 1970 Lists of government ministers of the United Kingdom Defunct ministerial offices in the United Kingdom