title: Minister of Reconstruction
text: # Minister of Reconstruction
  
  The Minister of Reconstruction was a British government post that briefly existed during the latter stages of the Second World War, charged with planning for the post-war period. A succession of government committees had failed to make much progress with the problems arising out of reconstruction and so in 1943 Winston Churchill took the bold step of appointing a single minister as a member of the War Cabinet.
  
  ## Minister of Reconstruction (1917–1919)
  
  | Name | Name | Term of office | Term of office | Political party | Government |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Christopher Addison MP for Hoxton before 1918 MP for Shoreditch after 1918 | 17 July 1917 | 10 January 1919 | Liberal | Lloyd George |
  | | Auckland Geddes MP for Basingstoke | 10 January 1919 | August 1919 | Conservative | Lloyd George |
  
  ## Minister of Reconstruction (1943–1945)
  
  Colour key (for political parties):  Conservative  Independent
  
  | Name | Name | Portrait | Term of office | Term of office | Political party | Government | Government |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Frederick Marquis 1st Baron Woolton | | 11 November 1943 | 23 May 1945 | Independent | | Churchill War |
  