Index page for British Cabinet and Government
Membership
From this page you can find changes in Departmental Ministerial
membership. The index is by Department. all Departments
are
complete from 1970 until 2009. The dates shown after each Department give the
times between which the Ministers are listed. In some cases Departments
have been merged, demerged, abolished or created. This necessarily
restricts the data given. Where known I have shown where a Department
has come from or into which pieces it has been dispersed.
The date in brackets after each Ministers name is the year that they
entered parliament. An * after this date indicates either that a
By-election was won to enter parliament, or that the Minister has been out
of the HoC for a time, further details of this have been provided at the
end of each page.
KEY
RED indicates a Minister new to the
position
BLACK indicates a Minister in place before the reshuffle
I have adopted the practise throughout these pages of listing the date of
the start of the reshuffle, or the event that triggered it. Reshuffles can
take many days to filter their way throughout government but by and large
I have presumed they have all happened on the same day. This makes it
easier to follow the results of a reshuffle but does mean that the date
given may precede the actual date of appointment by a few days.