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United Kingdom Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Royal Arms ofHis Majesty's Government
Incumbent Pat McFadden since 5 September 2025
Department for Work and Pensions
Style	Work and Pensions Secretary (informal) The Right Honourable (within the UK and Commonwealth)
Type	Minister of the Crown
Status	Secretary of State
Member of	Cabinet Privy Council
Reports to	The Prime Minister
Seat	Westminster
Nominator	The Prime Minister
Appointer	The Monarch (on the advice of thePrime Minister)
Term length	At His Majesty's Pleasure
Formation	10 December 1916: (as Minister for Pensions) 8 June 2001: (as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions)
First holder	George Barnes(as Minister for Pensions)
Deputy	Minister of State for Employment
Salary	£159,038 per annum (2022)^[1] (including £86,584MP salary)^[2]

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Thesecretary of state for work and pensions, also referred to as thework and pensions secretary, is asecretary of state in theGovernment of the United Kingdom, with overall responsibility for the business of theDepartment for Work and Pensions.^[3] The incumbent is a member of theCabinet of the United Kingdom.

The office holder works alongside the otherwork and pensions ministers. The correspondingshadow minister is theshadow secretary of state for work and pensions. The performance of the secretary of state is also scrutinised by theWork and Pensions Select Committee.

The office is currently held byPat McFadden.

Responsibilities

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Corresponding to what is generally known as alabour minister in many other countries, the work and pensions secretary's remit includes:

Support people ofworking age
Oversight of employers andpensions
Fiscal Consolidation
Providing support fordisability
Support for families and children^[4]

History

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It was created on 8 June 2001 by the merger of the employment division of theDepartment for Education and Employment and theDepartment of Social Security.^[5]

TheMinistry of Pensions was created in 1916 to handle the payment of war pensions to former members of the Armed Forces and their dependants. In 1944 a separateMinistry of National Insurance (titled the Ministry of Social Insurance until 17 November 1944) was formed; the two merged in 1953 as theMinistry of Pensions and National Insurance.^[5] In 1966 the Ministry was renamed theMinistry of Social Security, but this was short-lived, as the ministry merged with theMinistry of Health in 1968 to form theDepartment of Health and Social Security. Confusingly, the secretary of state responsible for this department was titled theSecretary of State for Social Services. The department was de-merged in 1988, creating the separateDepartment of Health and Department of Social Security.

List of ministers and secretaries of state

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Colour key (for political parties):
Labour / Conservative / Liberal / National Labour / National Independent

Minister of Pensions (1916–1953)

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Main article:Ministry of Pensions § Ministers

	Term of office		Political party	Cabinet
George Nicoll Barnes	10 December 1916	17 August 1917	Labour	Lloyd George
John Hodge	17 August 1917	10 January 1919	Labour
Laming Worthington-Evans	10 January 1919	2 April 1920	Conservative
Ian Macpherson	2 April 1920	19 October 1922	Liberal
George Tryon	31 October 1922	22 January 1924	Conservative	Law
George Tryon	31 October 1922	22 January 1924	Conservative	Baldwin I
Frederick Roberts	23 January 1924	3 November 1924	Labour	MacDonald I
George Tryon	11 November 1924	4 June 1929	Conservative	Baldwin II
Frederick Roberts	7 June 1929	24 August 1931	Labour	MacDonald II
George Tryon	3 September 1931	18 June 1935	Conservative	National I
George Tryon	3 September 1931	18 June 1935	Conservative	National II
Robert Hudson	18 June 1935	30 July 1936	Conservative	National III
Herwald Ramsbotham	30 July 1936	7 June 1939	Conservative	National III
Herwald Ramsbotham	30 July 1936	7 June 1939	Conservative	National IV
Walter Womersley	7 June 1939	26 July 1945	Conservative	Chamberlain War
				Churchill War
				Churchill Caretaker
Wilfred Paling	3 August 1945	17 April 1947	Labour	Attlee
John Burns Hynd	17 April 1947	7 October 1947	Labour
George Buchanan	7 October 1947	2 July 1948	Labour
Hilary Marquand	2 July 1948	17 January 1951	Labour
George Isaacs	17 January 1951	26 October 1951	Labour
Derick Heathcoat-Amory	5 November 1951	3 September 1953	Conservative	Churchill III

Minister of Social Insurance/National Insurance (1944–1953)

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Minister		Term of office		Political party	Cabinet
	William Jowitt	8 October 1944	23 May 1945	Labour	Churchill War
	Leslie Hore-Belisha	25 May 1945	26 July 1945	National Independent	Churchill Caretaker
	Jim Griffiths	4 August 1945	28 February 1950	Labour	Attlee
	Edith Summerskill	28 February 1950	26 October 1951	Labour	Attlee
	Osbert Peake	31 October 1951	3 September 1953	Conservative	Churchill III
Posts of Minister of Pensions and Minister of National Insurance merged in 1953.

Minister of Pensions and National Insurance (1953–1966)

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Main article:Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance § Ministers

	Term of office		Political party	Cabinet
Osbert Peake	3 September 1953	20 December 1955	Conservative	Churchill III
Osbert Peake	3 September 1953	20 December 1955	Conservative	Eden
John Boyd-Carpenter	20 December 1955	16 July 1962	Conservative	Eden
				Macmillan I
				Macmillan II
Niall Macpherson	16 July 1962	21 October 1963	Conservative	Macmillan II
Richard Wood	21 October 1963	16 October 1964	Conservative	Douglas-Home
Margaret Herbison	18 October 1964	6 August 1966	Labour	Wilson I

Minister of Social Security (1966–1968)

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Main article:Ministry of Social Security (United Kingdom) § Ministers

Minister			Term of office		Political party	Cabinet
		Margaret Herbison	6 August 1966	26 July 1967	Labour	Wilson II
		Judith Hart	26 July 1967	1 November 1968	Labour	Wilson II

Secretary of State for Social Services (1968–1988)

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Main article:Secretary of State for Social Services

	Term of office		Political party	Cabinet
Richard Crossman	1 November 1968	19 June 1970	Labour	Wilson II
Keith Joseph	20 June 1970	4 March 1974	Conservative	Heath
Barbara Castle	5 March 1974	8 April 1976	Labour	Wilson III
Barbara Castle	5 March 1974	8 April 1976	Labour	Wilson IV
David Ennals	8 April 1976	4 May 1979	Labour	Callaghan
Patrick Jenkin^[6]	5 May 1979	13 September 1981	Conservative	Thatcher I
Norman Fowler^[7]	14 September 1981	13 June 1987	Conservative	Thatcher II
John Moore^[8]	13 June 1987	24 July 1988	Conservative	Thatcher III

Post split into theSecretary of State for Social Security and theSecretary of State for Health in 1988.

Secretary of State for Social Security (1988–2001)

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Main article:Secretary of State for Social Security

	Term of office		Political party	Cabinet
John Moore^[8]	25 July 1988	22 July 1989	Conservative	Thatcher III
Tony Newton^[9]	23 July 1989	9 April 1992	Conservative	Thatcher III
Tony Newton^[9]	23 July 1989	9 April 1992	Conservative	Major I
Peter Lilley^[10]	10 April 1992	1 May 1997	Conservative	Major II
Harriet Harman^[11]	1 May 1997	27 July 1998	Labour	Blair I
Alistair Darling^[12]	27 July 1998	8 June 2001	Labour	Blair I

Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (2001–present)

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	Term of office		Length of term	Political party	Cabinet
Alistair Darling^[12]	8 June 2001	29 May 2002	11 months and 21 days	Labour	Blair II
Andrew Smith^[13]	29 May 2002	8 September 2004	2 years, 3 months and 10 days	Labour
Alan Johnson^[14]	8 September 2004	6 May 2005	7 months and 28 days	Labour
David Blunkett^[15]	6 May 2005	2 November 2005	5 months and 27 days	Labour	Blair III
John Hutton^[16]	2 November 2005	28 June 2007	1 year, 7 months and 26 days	Labour	Blair III
Peter Hain^[17]	28 June 2007	24 January 2008	6 months and 27 days	Labour	Brown
James Purnell^[18] MP forStalybridge and Hyde	24 January 2008	5 June 2009	1 year, 4 months and 12 days	Labour
Yvette Cooper^[19] MP forNormanton, Pontefract and Castleford	6 June 2009	6 May 2010	11 months	Labour
Iain Duncan Smith^[20] MP forChingford and Woodford Green (Tenure)	12 May 2010	18 March 2016	5 years, 10 months and 6 days	Conservative	Cameron-Clegg
	12 May 2010	18 March 2016	5 years, 10 months and 6 days	Conservative	Cameron II
Stephen Crabb^[21] MP forPreseli Pembrokeshire	19 March 2016	14 July 2016	3 months and 25 days	Conservative	Cameron II
Damian Green^[22] MP forAshford	14 July 2016	11 June 2017	10 months and 28 days	Conservative	May I
David Gauke^[23] MP forSouth West Hertfordshire	11 June 2017	8 January 2018	6 months and 28 days	Conservative	May II
Esther McVey^[24] MP forTatton	8 January 2018	15 November 2018	10 months and 7 days	Conservative
Amber Rudd^[25] MP forHastings and Rye	16 November 2018	7 September 2019	9 months and 22 days	Conservative
Amber Rudd^[25] MP forHastings and Rye	16 November 2018	7 September 2019	9 months and 22 days	Conservative	Johnson I
Thérèse Coffey^[26] MP forCoastal Suffolk	8 September 2019	6 September 2022	2 years, 11 months and 29 days	Conservative	Johnson I
Thérèse Coffey^[26] MP forCoastal Suffolk	8 September 2019	6 September 2022	2 years, 11 months and 29 days	Conservative	Johnson II
Chloe Smith^[27] MP forNorwich North	6 September 2022	25 October 2022	1 month and 19 days	Conservative	Truss
Mel Stride MP forCentral Devon	25 October 2022	5 July 2024	1 year, 8 months and 10 days	Conservative	Sunak
Liz Kendall MP forLeicester West	5 July 2024	5 September 2025	1 year and 2 months	Labour	Starmer
Pat McFadden MP forWolverhampton South East	5 September 2025	Incumbent	5 months and 9 days	Labour	Starmer

* Incumbent's length of term last updated: 14 February 2026.

Timeline

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References

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Secretaries of state for work and pensions of the United Kingdom

Ministers

Pensions	Barnes Hodge Worthington-Evans Macpherson Tryon Roberts Tryon Roberts Tryon Hudson Ramsbotham Womersley Paling Hynd Buchanan Marquand Isaacs Heathcoat-Amory
Social and national insurance	Jowitt Hore-Belisha Griffiths Summerskill Peake
Pensions and national insurance	Peake Boyd-Carpenter Macpherson Wood Herbison
Social security	Herbison Hart

Secretaries
of state

Social services	Crossman Joseph Castle Ennals Jenkin Fowler Moore
Social security	Moore Newton Lilley Harman Darling
Work and pensions	Darling A. Smith Johnson Blunkett Hutton Hain Purnell Cooper Duncan Smith Crabb Green Gauke McVey Rudd Coffey C. Smith Stride Kendall McFadden

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