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(Minister of Technology)

StartOctober 1964
EndOctober 1970
SuccessorsSecretary of State for Trade and Industry
UK minister in the late 1960s

The Minister of Technology was the head of the Ministry of Technology was a department of the government of the United Kingdom from 1966 until 1970.

History

The Ministry of Technology was established by the incoming government of Harold Wilson in October 1964 as part of Wilson's ambition to modernise the state for what he perceived to be the needs of the 1960s.

When Edward Heath took over as Prime Minister after the 1970 general election, he had no commitment to maintain Wilson's new Ministries. In October 1970, Heath merged the Ministry with the Board of Trade to create the Department of Trade and Industry; at the same time, the responsibilities for aerospace research, development and procurement passed to the short-lived Ministry of Aviation Supply which was disbanded in 1971 with functions passing to the Department of Trade and Industry and the Ministry of Defence[1]


 

Office Holders on Wikispooks

NameFromTo
Geoffrey Rippon20 June 197025 July 1970
Tony Benn4 July 196619 June 1970
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