Lawrence Wong's new Cabinet has David Neo & Jeffrey Siow as full Ministers, only 1 DPM

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Lawrence Wong announces new Cabinet lineup on 21 May

Prime Minister (PM) Lawrence Wong has introduced his new Cabinet on Wednesday (21 May), 18 days after GE2025.

The new Cabinet includes two new Ministers — David Neo and Jeffrey Siow, who will be Acting Ministers for Culture, Community and Youth, as well as Transport, respectively.

The majority of Cabinet positions remained unchanged:

Prime Minister & Minister for Finance: Mr Lawrence Wong
Senior Minister: Mr Lee Hsien Loong
Deputy Prime Minister & Minister for Trade and Industry: Mr Gan Kim Yong
Minister for Home Affairs & Coordinating Minister for National Security: Mr K Shanmugam
Minister for Foreign Affairs: Dr Vivian Balakrishnan
Minister for Manpower & Minister-in-charge of Energy and Science and Technology: Dr Tan See Leng
Minister for Health & Coordinating Minister for Social Policies: Mr Ong Ye Kung
Minister for Sustainability and the Environment & Minister-in-charge for Trade Relations: Ms Grace Fu
Minister for Social & Family Development: Mr Masagos Zulkifli Bin Masagos Mohamad
Minister for Digital Development and Information: Ms Josephine Teo
Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office & Second Minister for Finance & National Development: Ms Indranee Rajah

Cabinet Minister reshuffles & additions

The reshuffling of portfolios resulted in these changes for existing Ministers:

Minister for Education & Minister-in-charge of Public Services Integration: Mr Desmond Lee
Minister for Defence & Coordinating Minister for Public Services: Mr Chan Chun Sing
Minister for National Development: Mr Chee Hong Tat
Minister for Law & Second Minister for Home Affairs: Mr Edwin Tong

Two politicians also got selected to be new Ministers in PM Wong’s Cabinet:

Acting Minister for Transport & Senior Minister of State for Finance: Mr Jeffrey Siow
Acting Minister for Culture, Community and Youth & Senior Minister of State for Education: Mr David Neo

Source: David Neo & Jeffrey Siow on Facebook

Substantial changes in other Cabinet positions

Additionally, here are the other new appointments for Senior Ministers of State:

Senior Minister of State for Home Affairs & Acting Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs: Assoc Prof Muhammad Faishal Ibrahim
Senior Minister of State for Home Affairs & Foreign Affairs: Ms Sim Ann
Senior Minister of State for National Development & Transport: Ms Sun Xueling
Senior Minister of State for Sustainability and the Environment & Education: Dr Janil Puthucheary
Senior Minister of State for Sustainability and the Environment & Defence: Mr Zaqy Mohamad
Senior Minister of State for Health & Manpower: Dr Koh Poh Koon
Senior Minister of State for Health & Digital Development and Information: Mr Tan Kiat How
Senior Minister of State for Law & Transport: Mr Murali Pillai

Listed below are the new appointments for Ministers of State:

Minister of State for Culture, Community and Youth & Transport: Mr Baey Yam Keng
Minister of State for Culture, Community and Youth & Manpower: Mr Dinesh Vasu Dash
Minister of State for Digital Development and Information & Education: Ms Jasmin Lau
Minister of State for Trade and Industry & Foreign Affairs: Ms Gan Siow Huang
Minister of State for Trade and Industry & National Development: Mr Alvin Tan
Minister of State for Social and Family Development & Home Affairs: Mr Goh Pei Ming
Minister of State for Social and Family Development & Foreign Affairs: Mr Zhulkarnain Abdul Rahim
Minister of State for Defence: Mr Desmond Choo

The positions of Parliamentary Secretaries saw further changes:

Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Culture, Community and Youth & Sustainability and the Environment: Ms Goh Hanyan
Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Education & National Development: Dr Syed Harun Alhabsyi
Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Manpower & Finance: Mr Shawn Huang
Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Law & Social and Family Development: Mr Eric Chua

PM Lawrence Wong’s 2nd Cabinet reshuffle

Singapore’s post-GE2025 19th Cabinet is PM Lawrence Wong’s second appointed line-up, after forming the previous Cabinet in May 2024.

One interesting feature of the latest Cabinet is that there is only one Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) — Mr Gan Kim Yong.

Source: Ng Hock Sing on Facebook

Almost all Cabinets for the past 40 years have had two DPMs, except between May 2019 and June 2022.

Several Cabinet members also retired from politics, including former DPM Heng Swee Keat, former SM Mr Teo Chee Hean, and former Defence Minister Mr Ng Eng Hen.

The swearing-in ceremony will occur on Friday (23 May) for Ministers, Senior Ministers of State, and Ministers of State.

Also read: GE2025: All the winners who will be in Parliament & losers who must try again next time