Secretary for Labour and Welfare

The Secretary for Labour and Welfare (Chinese: 勞工及福利局局長) of the Hong Kong Government is responsible for labour and social welfare policy in Hong Kong. The position was created in 2007 to replace portions of the previous portfolio of Secretary for Economic Development and Labour and welfare portion from Secretary for Food and Health.

Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Secretary for Labour and Welfare 勞工及福利局局長
Emblem of Hong Kong
Incumbent Chris Sun since 1 July 2022
Labour and Welfare Bureau
Style	The Honourable
Appointer	Central People's Government nomination by Chief Executive
Inaugural holder	Matthew Cheung
Formation	1 July 2007
Salary	HK$4,021,200 per annum[1]
Website	LWB

Secretary for Labour and Welfare
Traditional Chinese	勞工及福利局局長
Transcriptions Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization Lòuh gūng kahp fūk leih guhk guhk jéung Jyutping Lou4 gung1 kap6 fuk1 lei6 guk6 guk6 zoeng2

Labour affairs were handled by different ministers before the creation of this position:

• Secretary for Social Services before 1983;
• Secretary for Education and Manpower between 1983 and 2002;
• Secretary for Economic Development and Labour between 2002 and 2007.

Welfare affairs were included in the portfolio of:

• Secretary for Social Services before 1983;
• Secretary for Health and Welfare between 1983 and 2002;
• Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food between 2002 and 2007.

List of office holders

Political party:   Nonpartisan

No.	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Duration	Chief Executive	Term	Ref
1		Matthew Cheung Kin-chung 張建宗	1 July 2007	16 January 2017	9 years, 199 days	Donald Tsang (2005–2012)	3
						Leung Chun-ying (2012–2017)	4
2		Stephen Sui Wai-keung 蕭偉強	13 February 2017	30 June 2017	137 days
3		Law Chi-kwong 羅致光	1 July 2017	30 June 2022	5 years, 0 days	Carrie Lam (2017–2022)	5
4		Chris Sun Yuk-han 孫玉菡	1 July 2022	Incumbent	2 years, 329 days	John Lee (2022–present)	6