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.
Minister of Reconstruction (1917–1919)
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| Christopher Addison<br><small>MP for Hoxton before 1918</small><br><small>MP for Shoreditch after 1918</small>
| 17 July 1917
| 10 January 1919
| Liberal
| rowspan="2" | Lloyd George
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| Auckland Geddes<br><small>MP for Basingstoke</small>
| 10 January 1919
| August 1919
| Conservative
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|}
Minister of Reconstruction (1943–1945)
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| Frederick Marquis<br/>1st Baron Woolton
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| 11 November 1943
| 23 May 1945
| Independent
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| Churchill War
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See also
- Ministry of Reconstruction