– Oliver Stanley succeeds Leslie Hore-Belisha as Secretary of State for War. April 1940 – Hoare swaps Lord Privy Seal with Wood for Secretary of State for Air. Lord Chatfield leaves the Government and the office of Minister for Coordination of Defence is abolished. Key office holders not in the Cabinet Lord Caldecote – Lord Chancellor Lord Stanhope – Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Lords Sir John Anderson – Secretary of State for the Home Department Malcolm MacDonald – Secretary of State for the Colonies Anthony Eden – Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs Lord Zetland – Secretary of State for India and Burma John Colville – Secretary of State for Scotland Oliver Stanley – President of the Board of Trade Lord De La Warr – President of the Board of Education Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith – Minister of Agriculture Ernest Brown – Minister of Labour and National Service Walter Elliot – Minister of Health Euan Wallace – Minister of Transport Leslie Burgin – Minister of Supply William Shepherd Morrison – Minister of Food and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Herwald Ramsbotham – First Commissioner of Works Lord Macmillan – Minister of Information Ronald Cross – Minister of Economic Warfare Sir Walter Womersley – Minister of Pensions George Tryon – Postmaster General Lord Winterton – Paymaster-General Sir Donald Somervell – Attorney General Sir Terence O'Connor – Solicitor General David Margesson – Chief Whip Changes October 1939 – The position of Minister of Shipping is created, with Sir John Gilmour the first holder. November 1939 – Lord Winterton resigns as Paymaster-General and no successor is appointed. January 1940 – Oliver Stanley becomes Secretary of State for War and a member of the War Cabinet in succession to Leslie Hore-Belisha (resigned) (see above) and is succeeded as President of the Board of Trade by Andrew Duncan. Lord Macmillan resigns as Minister of Information and is succeeded by Sir John Reith. April 1940 – Robert Hudson succeeds Sir John Gilmour (deceased) as Minister of Shipping. Lord De La Warr exchanges President of the Board of Education with Herwald Ramsbotham for First Commissioner of Works. William Shepherd Morrison swaps the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster for the Postmaster General with George Tryon and is succeeded as Minister of Food by Lord Woolton. May 1940 – Sir Terence O'Connor dies and no new Solicitor General is appointed before