Third Lee Hsien Loong Cabinet | |
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![]() 15th Cabinet of Singapore | |
2011-2015 | |
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Date formed | 21 May 2011 |
Date dissolved | 30 September 2015 |
People and organisations | |
Head of state | S. R. Nathan (1 September 1999 – 31 August 2011) Tony Tan (since 1 September 2011) |
Head of government | Lee Hsien Loong |
Deputy head of government | Teo Chee Hean (1 April 2009 – 30 April 2019) Tharman Shanmugaratnam (21 May 2011 – 1 May 2019) |
Member party | People's Action Party |
Status in legislature | Supermajority 81 / 99 |
Opposition party | Workers' Party |
Opposition leader | Low Thia Khiang |
History | |
Election | 7 May 2011 |
Legislature term | 12th |
Budget | 2012 |
Predecessor | 2nd Lee Cabinet |
Successor | 4th Lee Cabinet |
The Third Cabinet of Lee Hsien Loong of the Government of Singapore came into existence on 21 May 2011 following the 2011 general election. While many of its members were retained from the previous government, Heng Swee Keat and Chan Chun Sing, who had both just been elected, were given ministerial appointments.
With effect from 1 August 2012, Grace Fu became only the second woman in Singapore's history to be made a full minister by being appointed a Minister in the Prime Minister's Office. (The first was Lim Hwee Hua.) From 1 November, Chan Chun Sing assumed the designation of Acting Minister for Social and Family Development, while Lawrence Wong was brought into the Cabinet for the first time as Acting Minister for Culture, Community and Youth.