title: Department of Immigration, Population Growth and Skills
text: # Department of Immigration, Population Growth and Skills
  
  The Department of Immigration, Population Growth and Skills is a provincial government department in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The department is headed by a member of the provincial cabinet, typically a Member of the House of Assembly, who is chosen by the premier and formally appointed by the Lieutenant-Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador. The current Minister of Immigration, Population Growth and Skills is Gerry Byrne.
  
  The department was created in October 2011 as the Department of Advanced Education, Skills, and Labour, by the government of Kathy Dunderdale, and incorporates most of the former Department of Human Resources, Labour and Employment as well as the advanced studies component of the Department of Education. In 2020, the department was reconfigured as Immigration, Skills and Labour.
  
  ## Ministers
  
  Key:
  
  | No. | Name | Term of office | Term of office | Political party | Premier |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Gerry Byrne | December 14, 2015 | July 31, 2017 | Liberal | Dwight Ball |
  | 2 | Al Hawkins | July 31, 2017 | November 8, 2018 | Liberal | Dwight Ball |
  | 3 | Bernard Davis | November 8, 2018 | September 6, 2019 | Liberal | Dwight Ball |
  | 4 | Christopher Mitchelmore | September 6, 2019 | August 19, 2020 | Liberal | Dwight Ball |
  | 5 | Gerry Byrne | August 19, 2020 | present | Liberal | Andrew Furey |
  