Department for Education and Skills
The
Department for Education and Skills is a
department in the United Kingdom government created in 2001.
The
Department of Education and Science was created in 1964 with the merger of the offices of
Minister of Education and the
Minister of Science, with
Herbert Bowden (later to become Baron Aylestone) as minister.
In 1992 the responsibility for
science was transferred to the
Cabinet Office's
Office of Public Service and the
Department of Trade and Industry's
Office of Science and Technology, and the department was renamed
Department of Education.
In 1995, in the reshuffle after the
Conservative leadership election of that year, the department merged with the
Department of Employment to become the
Department for Education and Employment (DfEE).
Most recently, after the
2001 general election, the employment functions were transferred to a newly created
Department for Work and Pensions, with the DfEE becoming the
Department for Education and Skills(DfES).
Ministers in the Department for Education and Skills as of
5 May,
2006:
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Secretary of State for Education and Skills - The
Rt Hon.
Alan Johnson MP
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Ministers of State:
** ... for Schools -
Jim Knight MP
** ... for Lifelong Learning, Further and Higher Education -
Bill Rammell MP
** ... for Children, Young People and Families -
Beverley Hughes MP
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Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of State** ... for Schools -
Lord Adonis** ... Skills and Vocational Education -
Phil Hope MP
** ... Children -
Parmjit Dhanda MP
Permanent Secretaries in the Department for Education and Skills:
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David Bell: Jan 2006 - current (DfES)
*Sir
David Normington: May 2001 - Dec 2005 (Department for Education and Employment / DfES)
*Sir
Michael Bichard: July 1995 - May 2001 (DfEE)
*Sir Timothy Patrick Lankester: Feb 1994 - July 1995 (Department for Education / DfEE)
*Sir Geoffrey Holland: Jan 1993 - Jan 1994 (DfE)
*Sir John Caines: July 1989 - Jan 1993 (Department of Education and Science / DfE)
*Sir David Hancock: May 1983 - June 1989 (DES)
*Sir James Hamilton: May 1976 - May 1983 (DES)
*Sir William Pile: Aug 1970 - May 1976 (DES)
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