Ministry of Transport

1947.

1919 The Ministry of Transport was formed.

1925 Announced that Mr. Harry Booth was retiring from the office of Electricity Commissioner on January 24th, after completing over forty years in the public service. The Minister of Transport consented to his services being retained by the Electricity Commissioners in a consultative capacity for a period of twelve months.

Successor departments:

• 1919–1941: Ministry of Transport
• 1941–1946: Ministry of War Transport - after absorption of Ministry of Shipping
• 1945–1953: Ministry of Transport
• 1953–1959: Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation
• 1959–1970: Ministry of Transport
• 1970–1976: Department of the Environment
• 1976–1979: Department of Transport
• 1979–1997: Department of Transport
• 1997-2001: Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

1930 Under the Public Works Facilities Act 1930 the Air Ministry could make grants towards local authority aerodromes, the Board of Education could aid school building and the Ministry of Transport, road building.

From 1959, the ministry was organised in three main branches:

• Inland Transport
• Shipping
• Common Services.

Responsibility for civil construction and repair of ships was transferred from the Admiralty in November 1959, and a second parliamentary secretary, with special responsibility for shipping and shipbuilding, was appointed in April 1961. In February 1965, all merchant shipping and shipbuilding functions passed to the Board of Trade.

1969 The Sea Transport Division was transferred to the Board of Trade. .

In October 1969, a secretary of state for local government and regional planning was appointed, to co-ordinate policy on local government, transport and regional planning. The minister of transport thus came under his direction, though statutory powers continued to be exercised by the department.

1970 the department was absorbed as a branch of the new Department of the Environment.

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