The Minister of Reconstruction was a British government post that briefly existed during the latter stages of the Second World War, charged with planning for the post-war period. A succession of government committees had failed to make much progress with the problems arising out of reconstruction and so in 1943 Winston Churchill took the bold step of appointing a single minister as a member of the War Cabinet.
Name | Term of office | Political party | Government | |||
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Christopher Addison MP for Hoxton before 1918 MP for Shoreditch after 1918 | 17 July 1917 | 10 January 1919 | Liberal | Lloyd George | ||
Auckland Geddes MP for Basingstoke | 10 January 1919 | August 1919 | Conservative |
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