Location
3, Whitehall Place
London
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Last updated
2 years 2 months ago
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Status:
Historical
Timeframe:
1962 to 1970
Review:
Company merged
About this company
General information
The Ministry of Works was a department of the UK Government formed in 1940, during the Second World War, to organise the requisitioning of property for wartime use. After the war, the ministry retained responsibility for government building projects. In 1962 it was renamed the Ministry of Public Building and Works, and acquired the extra responsibility of monitoring the building industry as well as taking over the works departments from the War Office, Air Ministry and Admiralty. 1970 Incorporated in the new Department of the Environment.