blair made a number of significant changes to the shadow cabinet on 19 october 1995, following the 1995 shadow cabinet elections. foster, who had been elected to the post, acceded to blair's request that he step aside as chief whip; he was appointed shadow chancellor of the duchy of lancaster and shadow minister responsible for the citizen's charter, taking the latter from taylor, who remained shadow leader of the house. dewar was appointed chief whip under a new rule that made the job appointive and added on additional elective seat in the shadow cabinet. chris smith replaced dewar at social security, and was replaced as shadow national heritage secretary by cunningham. responsibility for the information superhighway was transferred from shadow national heritage secretary to a junior shadow trade and industry minister (geoff hoon). cunningham was in turn replaced at the trade and industry brief by beckett. harman took over the health portfolio beckett had held. blunkett added harman's employment portfolio to his own to reflect the created of the department for education and employment.