Minister for Health (House of Lords)

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Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Innovation

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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]

## Responsibilities

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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

## List of ministers

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Name  | Portrait  | Entered office  | Left office  | Political party  | Notes

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| 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

## References

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1. ^ "Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Innovation) - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 2020-10-31.
2. ^ "Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Care Quality - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 2020-10-31.
3. ^ "Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Innovation) - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 2020-10-31.