Minister for Health (House of Lords)

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Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Innovation
Royal Arms of Her Majesty's Government
Incumbent The 5th Baron Bethell since 9 March 2020
Department of Health and Social Care
Style	Minister
Nominator	Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Appointer	The Monarch on advice of the Prime Minister
Term length	At Her Majesty's pleasure
Formation	1989
First holder	Gloria Hooper, Baroness Hooper
Website	www.gov.uk/government/ministers/parliamentary-under-secretary-of-state--137

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Innovation is a junior position in the Department of Health and Social Care in the British government. It is currently held by The 5th Baron Bethell, MP, who took the office on 9 March 2020.^[1][2]

The minister is responsible for the following:^[3]

• COVID-19:
  • supply (medicines and testing)
  • treatments and vaccines
  • long-term health impacts
  • test and trace: testing, trace, technology
• life sciences
• medicines
• research
• health protection
• anti-microbial resistance
• Global Health Security
• international diplomacy and relations
• data and technology
• rare diseases
• NHS security management, including cyber security
• blood and transplants and organ donation

Name		Portrait	Entered office	Left office	Political party	Notes
	The Baroness Hooper		28 July 1989	14 April 1992	Conservative	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health
	The Baroness Cumberlege		14 April 1992	2 May 1997	Conservative	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health
	The Baroness Jay of Paddington		2 May 1997	27 July 1998	Labour	Minister of State for Health
	The Baroness Hayman		28 July 1998	29 July 1999	Labour	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health
	The Lord Hunt of Kings Heath		1 January 1998	17 March 2003	Labour	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health
	The Lord Warner		13 June 2003	4 January 2007	Labour	Minister of State for National Health Services Delivery
	The Lord Hunt of Kings Heath		5 January 2007	28 June 2007	Labour	Minister of State for National Health Services Reform
	The Lord Darzi of Denham		29 June 2007	21 July 2009	Labour	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health
	The Baroness Thornton		19 February 2010	11 May 2010	Labour	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health
	The Earl Howe		17 May 2010	11 May 2015	Conservative	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health
	The Lord Prior of Brampton		14 May 2015	21 December 2016	Conservative	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for National Health Services Productivity
	The Lord O'Shaughnessy		21 December 2016	31 December 2018	Conservative	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health
	The Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford		10 January 2019	13 February 2020	Conservative	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Life Science
	The Lord Bethell		9 March 2020	Incumbent	Conservative	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Innovation