Ministry of Information (United Kingdom)

WWI: 10 February 1918
WWII: 4 September 1939

Ministry of Information
	; Senate House, London, the Ministry of Information headquarters during World War II
Agency overview
Formed	WWI: 10 February 1918; WWII: 4 September 1939;
Preceding agency	Department of Information;
Dissolved	WWI: 10 January 1919; WWII: 31 March 1946;
Superseding agency	Central Office of Information;
Parent agency	Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Child agencies	War Propaganda Bureau; Department of Propaganda in Enemy Countries; Press Bureau; Photographic & Cinematograph Deptartment; War Films Committee; Anglo-Russian Commission; Art Section / Visual Publicity Branch;
Key documents	Defence of the Realm Act; D-Notice;

The Ministry of Information (MOI), headed by the Minister of Information, was a United Kingdom government department created briefly at the end of the First World War and again during the Second World War. Located in Senate House at the University of London during the 1940s, it was the central government department responsible for publicity and propaganda. The MOI was dissolved in March 1946, with its residual functions passing to the Central Office of Information (COI); which was itself dissolved in December 2011 due to the reforming of the organisation of government communications.