The First Commissioner of Works and Public Buildings was a position within the government of the

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, and subsequent to 1922, within the government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It took over some of the functions of the First Commissioner of Woods and Forests in 1851 when the portfolio of Crown holdings was divided into the public and the commercial. The position was frequently of cabinet level. The office was renamed Minister of Works and Buildings and First Commissioner of Works in 1940, Minister of Works and Planning upon receiving statutory planning powers from the Ministry of Health in 1942, Minister of Works when those planning powers were moved to the

Ministry of Town and Country Planning The Ministry of Town and Country Planning was a ministry established in 1943 by the Churchill war ministry, the government of the United Kingdom at the time. Its remit covered England and Wales. It was established to secure "consistency and contin ...

in 1943, and finally Minister of Public Buildings and Works in 1962. In this last form the commissioner had "additional responsibility for studying the problems of the building industry". On 15 October 1970 the role was amalgamated with the Minister of Transport and the

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in the

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List of Works Commissioners and Ministers

First Commissioners of Works (1851–1940)

Ministers of Works & Buildings and First Commissioner of Works (1940–1942)

Ministers of Works and Planning (1942–1943)

Ministers of Works (1943–1962)

Ministers of Public Buildings and Works (1962–1970)

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