Minister of Reconstruction
The Minister of Reconstruction was a British government post that briefly existed during the latter stages of the Second World War, charged with planning for the post-war period. A succession of government committees had failed to make much progress with the problems arising out of reconstruction and so in 1943 Winston Churchill took the bold step of appointing a single minister as a member of the War Cabinet.
Minister of Reconstruction (1917–1919)
[edit]| Name | Term of office | Political party | Government | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christopher Addison MP for Hoxton before 1918 MP for Shoreditch after 1918 |
17 July 1917 | 10 January 1919 | Liberal | Lloyd George | |
| Auckland Geddes MP for Basingstoke |
10 January 1919 | August 1919 | Conservative | ||
Minister of Reconstruction (1943–1945)
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Conservative
Independent
| Name | Portrait | Term of office | Political party | Government | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frederick Marquis 1st Baron Woolton |
|
11 November 1943 | 23 May 1945 | Independent | Churchill War | ||