Minister of Health and Local Government

The Minister of Health and Local Government was a member of the Executive Committee of the Privy Council of Northern Ireland (Cabinet) in the Parliament of Northern Ireland which governed Northern Ireland from 1922 to 1972. The post was created in 1944 and was renamed Minister of Health and Social Services in 1965.

#	Name	Took Office	Prime Minister	Party
1.	William Grant	1 June 1944	Brookeborough		UUP
2.	Dehra Parker	26 August 1949	Brookeborough		UUP
	Post vacant	13 March 1957	Brookeborough
3.	Jack Andrews	26 March 1957	Brookeborough		UUP
4.	William James Morgan	17 February 1961	Brookeborough, O'Neill		UUP
5.	William Craig	22 July 1964	O'Neill		UUP
6.	William James Morgan	1 January 1965	O'Neill		UUP
7.	Robert Porter	27 January 1969	O'Neill		UUP
8.	William Fitzsimmons	12 March 1969	O'Neill, Chichester-Clark, Faulkner		UUP

Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health and Local Government/Health and Social Services

• 1944 Sir Wilson Hungerford
• 1944 - 1948 vacant
• 1948 – 1953 Terence O'Neill
• 1953 – 1955 vacant
• 1955 – 1956 Terence O'Neill
• 1956 – 1963 vacant
• 1963 – 1964 Brian McConnell
• 1964 - 1965 William Fitzsimmons
• 1965 - 1971 vacant
• 1971 - 1972 Joseph Burns

1972 office abolished

References

• The Government of Northern Ireland