Department for Education and Skills
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Department for Education and Skills (DfES) is a department in the United Kingdom government created in 2001.
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The Department of Education and Science was created in 1964 with the merger of the offices of Minister of Education and the Minister of Science, with Baron Bowden as minister. In 1992 the responsibility for science was transferred to the Cabinet Office's Office of Public Service and the Department of Trade and Industry's Office of Science and Technology, and the department was renamed Department of Education. In 1995 the department merged with the Department of Employment to become the Department for Education and Employment (DfEE) and in 2001 the employment functions were transferred to a newly created Department for Work and Pensions, with the DfEE becoming the Department for Education and Skills.
Ministers in the Department for Education and Skills as of 10 May, 2005:
- Secretary of State for Education and Skills - The Rt Hon. Ruth Kelly MP
- Ministers of State:
- ... for Schools - Jacqui Smith MP
- ... for Lifelong Learning, Further and Higher Education - Bill Rammell MP
- ... for Children, Young People and Families - Beverley Hughes MP
- Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of State
- ... for Schools - The Lord Adonis
- ... Skills and Vocational Education - Phil Hope MP
- ... Children - Maria Eagle MP
Permanent Secretaries in the Department for Education and Skills.
- Sir Michael Bichard 1995 - May 2001
- David Normington May 2001 - present