Wilson Announces More Appointments To Govt.

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30580, 24 October 1964, Page 17

Wilson Announces More Appointments To Govt.

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LONDON, October, 23. Prime Minister, Mr Harold Wilson, has announced the names of more Ministers. The list includes three women, bringing the number of women members of the new Government to six—twice as many as there were in the last.

’ Seven peers are among the latest appointments and so ; are several members of Parlia- : ment usually regarded as being on the Left Wing of the Labour Party. Miss Jennie Lee, the 59-year-old widow of Mr Aneurin Bevan, who if he had lived might himself have been Prime Minister instead of Mr Wilson, joins the Government as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Public Buildings and W’orks. In addition to helping the Minister, Mr Charles Pannell, to improve accommodation at Westminister she will have | special responsibility for arts and amenities, cultural activities and leisure other than sport. Mrs Judith Hart, who comes in as Parliamentary under-secretary of state at the Scottish office, is identified, like Miss Lee, with the party’s Left Wing, but the third woman in tonight’s list, Mrs Irene White, who becomes Pariamentary Secretary at the Colonial Office, belongs firmly to the centre. She was a member of - Labour delegations to West Africa in 1953 and the following year was included lin a Commonwealth parliamentary delegation to East and Central Africa. Mr John Stonehouse, who is generally associated with Labour’s Left Wing, becomes at 39 Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Aviation. He has been a consistent champion of African emancipation and in 1959 was expelled from Southern Rhoi desia. Two parliamentarians who have been conspicuous in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament also get jobs. They are Mr Stephen Swingler, appointed a Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, and Mr Harold I Davies, who becomes Parlia- ! mentary Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions and ! National Insurance. Mr Davies, aged 60, was one of seven members of the Parliamentary Labour Party who, in 1961, contrary to a party decision, voted against an order enabling German troops to train in Wales. Mr Richard Marsh, aged 136, becomes Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of ! ( Labour. Mr Marsh quickly won a reputation as one of the ablest young men on the : Labour benches after his ' arrival at Westminister in 1959. He was brilliant in debate and introduced a number of private member’s bills. At the Ministry of Labour he will have a key position " among junior ministers as he will be in charge of industrial training. At the other end of the age scale is Sir Barnett Stress, appointed most appropriately as he is a doctor—Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Health. He has been closely associated with the rebuilding of the village of Lidice in Czechoslovakia which was martyred by the Nazis during the war. Government appointments announced in London this week were: I Miss Jennie Lee (60), Par- | llamentary Secretary, Ministry of Public Building and Works; Mrs Judith Hart (40), ParliaI mentary Under secretary, Scottish Office; Mrs Irene W’hite (55), Parliamentary Secretary, Colonial Office: Mr Denis Howell (41), and Mr Harold James Boyden (54), Joint Parliamentary I Under-Secretaries. Department of Education and Science; Mr Reg Prentice (41), Minister of State, Department of Education and Science: Mr John Stonehouse (39), Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Aviation; Mr Stephen Swingler (49), and Lord Lindgren (64), joint Parliamentary Secretaries, Ministry of Transport; Sir Barnett Stress (64), Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Health. Lord Mitchison (74), Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Land and Natural Resources; Mr Richard Marsh (36), Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of j Labour: Mr John Mackie (55), Parliamentary Secretary, Minisi try of Agriculture; Lord Taylor i < 54), Parliamentary Secretary. I Commonwealth Relations and I Colonial Office: Mr Gerald Reynolds <37), Parliamentary Under- : secretary for Defence for the Army; Mr Bruce Millan (37), Parliamentary Under-secretary of Defence for the Royal Air Force: Lord Walston (52), Parliamentary Under - secretary Foreign Office; Lord Stonham

(55), joint Parliamentary Under(6l). and Mr George Thomas secretaries. Home Office: Mr James Mac Coll (56). Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Local Government: Mr George Willis (61), Minister of State, Scottish Office: Lord Hughes (53), joint Parliamentary Under-secretary, Scottish Office: Mr George Darling (59). Mr Edward Redhead (62), and Mr Roy Mason (39), Ministers of State, Board of Trade; Lord Rhodes (69). Parliamentary Secretary, Board of Trade; Mr John Diamond (57), Chief Secretary to the Treasury: Mr Harold Davies (60), Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance; Mr Joseph Slater (60), Assistant Post-master-General: Mr Goronwy Roberts (51), Minister of State, W’elsh Office; Mr George Gordon Stott. Q.C. (54), Lord Advocate and Mr James Graham Leechman. Q.C. <5B), Solicitor-General for Scotland.

Lord Champion (67), Minister without Portfolio; Mr Niall MacDermot (48), Financial Secretary to the Treasury; Mr John Morris (32). Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Power: Mr J. P. W. Mallalieu (56), Parliamentary Undersecretary for the Royal Navy: Mr James H. Hoy,

(55). Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. Mr Maurice Foley (39) and Mr William Rodgers (35), joint Parliamentary Under-secretaries, Department of Economic Affairs; Dr. J. Dickson Mabon (38), Parliamentary Under-sec-retary, Ministry of Land and Natural Resources; Mr Ernest Thornton (59), Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Labour; Mr A. E. Oram (51), Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Overseas Development; Mr Norman Pentland (53), Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance. Mr Harold Finch (66), Parliamentary Secretary, Welsh Office. Household Appointments Lord Shepherd (46), Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms; Lord Hobson (60), Lord in Waiting; Mr Sydney Irving (46), Treasurer of the Household; Mr Charles Frederick Grey (61), Comptroller of the Household; and Mr William Charles Whitlock (46), Vice-Chamberlain. Lords Commissioners of the Treasury (Government Whips): Mrs Harriet Slater, Mr George Rogers (58), Mr George Lawson (58), Mr John McCann (54). and Mr Ivor Davies (54).