Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food


The Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Food Control, later the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Food was a junior Ministerial post in the Government of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1921 and then from 1939 to 1954. The post supported the Minister of Food Control, later the Minister of Food.

Parliamentary Secretaries to the Ministry of Food Control, 1916-1921

NameEntered officeLeft office
Charles Bathurst12 December 19162 July 1917
John Robert Clynes2 July 191718 July 1918
Waldorf Astor18 July 191827 January 1919
Charles McCurdy27 January 191919 April 1920
William Mitchell-Thomson19 April 192031 March 1921

Parliamentary Secretaries to the Ministry of Food, 1939-1954

NameEntered officeLeft office
Alan Lennox-Boyd11 October 193915 May 1940
Robert Boothby15 May 194022 October 1940
Gwilym Lloyd George22 October 19403 June 1942
William Mabane3 June 194223 May 1945
Florence Horsbrugh23 May 194513 July 1945
Edith Summerskill4 August 19452 March 1950
Stanley Evans2 March 195018 April 1950
Fred Willey18 April 195026 October 1951
Charles Hill31 October 195118 October 1954