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The Department of Prices and Consumer Protection was a short lived United Kingdom government department created by the incoming Labour government in 1974 when the functions of the Department of Trade and Industry were divided between three new departments; (the Department of Trade, the Department of Industry and the Department of Prices and Consumer Protection). In 1979 the department was abolished by the new Conservative government and its responsibilities were re-integrated into the Department of Trade.
Secretaries of State for Prices and Consumer Protection
Born Shirley Vivien Teresa Catlin, Williams was the daughter of political scientist and philosopher George Catlin and novelist Vera Brittain.
In 1974 she became Secretary of State for Prices and ConsumerProtection under Harold Wilson, and, when Wilson was succeeded in 1976 by James Callaghan, she became Secretary of State for Education.
She returned to politics as a life peer with the title Baroness Williams of Crosby in 1993, and was leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords from 2001 to 2004.
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