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. These departments comprise the largest part of the country's bureaucracy.

Current executive departments

All departments are listed by their present-day name with their

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article.

Former executive departments

The departments listed below are defunct agencies which have been abolished, integrated, reorganized or renamed into the existing executive departments of the Philippines.

First Republic

* Department of Agriculture, Industry and Commerce * Department of Communications and Public Works * Department of the Interior * Department of Foreign Relations * Department of Public Education * Department of Wars and Marine

Commonwealth Period

* Department of Agriculture and Commerce * Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources * Department of Commerce and Police * Department of Health and Public Welfare * Department of Finance and Justice * Department of Instruction * Department of Labor * Department of National Defense * Department of Public Instruction

Third Republic

* Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources * Department of Commerce and Industry * Department of General Services * Department of Social Welfare

Martial Law Era (Fourth Republic)

* Ministry of Agriculture and Food * Ministry of Education and Culture * Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports * Ministry of Human Settlements * Ministry of Industry * Ministry of Labor * Ministry of Local Government and Community Development * Ministry of National Defense * Ministry of Natural Resources * Ministry of Public Highways * Ministry of Public Information * Ministry of Public Works, Transportation and Communications * Ministry of Social Services and Development * Ministry of Trade and Tourism * Ministry of Youth and Sports Development

Fifth Republic

* Department of Education, Culture and Sports * Department of Environment, Energy and Natural Resources * Department of Land Reform * Department of Transportation and Communications

Agencies elevated to department rank

* Budget Commission → Ministry of Budget and Management (1978) * National Science and Technology Authority → Department of Science and Technology (1987) * Office of Energy Affairs →

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(1992) * Office of Information and Communications Technology → Department of Information and Communications Technology (2016) * Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council →

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(2019) * Philippine Overseas Employment Administration →

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(2021)

Proposed executive departments

* "Department of Sports" * "Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources", proposed by Senator

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and House Speaker

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. * "Department of Culture" or "Department of Arts and Culture" * "Department of Water Resources" * "Department of Disaster Resilience"

References

External links

Philippine government portal
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