Minister of State for Social Care and Mental Health, United Kingdom
Alison McGovern MP is the UK’s Minister of State for Social Care and Mental Health at the Department of Health and Social Care, appointed in July 2026. Her portfolio covers adult social care, mental health, hospital discharge, frailty and dementia, end-of-life and palliative care, and disabilities and special educational needs. She has made growing the social care workforce a priority, including attracting more young people into care work. She was previously Minister of State for Local Government and Homelessness from September 2025 to July 2026, and before that a Minister of State at the Department for Work and Pensions from July 2024. First elected to Parliament in 2010 for Wirral South, she has been MP for Birkenhead since 2024.
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