UK/Minister/Works
 UK/Minister/Works  (Minister of Works) | |
|---|---|
 John Hope, a Scottish aristocrat and Tory politician, attended several Bilderberg meetings. | |
| Start | 1940 |
| Had responsibility for UK government building projects | |
The Ministry of Works was a department of the UK Government formed in 1940, during World War II, led by the Minister of Works, to organise the requisitioning of property for wartime use. After the war, the ministry retained responsibility for government building projects.
In 1962 it was renamed the Ministry of Public Building and Works, and acquired the extra responsibility of monitoring the building industry as well as taking over the works departments from the War Office, Air Ministry and Admiralty. The Chief Architect of the Ministry from 1951 to 1970 was Eric Bedford. In 1970 the ministry was absorbed into the Department of the Environment (DoE), although from 1972 most former works functions were transferred to the largely autonomous Property Services Agency (PSA). Subsequent reorganisation of PSA into Property Holdings was followed by abolition in 1996 when individual government departments took on responsibility for managing their own estate portfolios.
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| Name | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| John Hope | 22 October 1959 | 16 July 1962 |
