Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (United Kingdom)
British Government diplomacy position
Minister of State for Indo-Pacific | |
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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office | |
Reports to | Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs |
Nominator | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom |
Appointer |
The King
(on the advice of the Prime Minister ) |
Term length | At His Majesty's pleasure |
Formation | 1943 |
First holder | Richard Law |
The Minister of State for Indo-Pacific is a mid-level ministerial position in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office of His Majesty's Government . The office was known as Minister of State for Europe and the Americas from 2010 to 2020. [1] It was most recently merged into the office of Minister of State for the Pacific and the International Environment [2] to create the new office of Minister of State for Indo-Pacific .
Responsibilities
The Minister’s responsibilities include:
- China and Northeast Asia
- Southeast Asia
- Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Islands
- Indian Ocean
- Economic security (including export controls)
- Sanctions
- Economics and evaluation (including the Chief Economist)
- Regulatory and economic diplomacy
- Technology and analysis
List of ministers
Minister of State | Term of office | Political party | P.M. | F.Sec. | ||||
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Minister of State for Foreign Affairs | ||||||||
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Richard Law | 25 September 1943 | 25 May 1945 | Conservative | Churchill | Eden | ||
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William Mabane | 25 May 1945 | 26 July 1945 | National Liberal | ||||
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Philip Noel-Baker | 3 August 1945 | 4 October 1946 | Labour | Attlee | Bevin | ||
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Hector McNeil | 4 October 1946 | 28 February 1950 | |||||
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Kenneth Younger | 28 February 1950 | 26 October 1951 | |||||
Morrison | ||||||||
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Selwyn Lloyd | 30 October 1951 | 18 October 1954 | Conservative | Churchill | Eden | ||
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The Marquess of Reading | 11 November 1953 | 9 January 1957 |
Churchill
(1953–1955)
Eden (1955–1957) |
Eden
(1953–1955)
Macmillan (1955) Lloyd (1955–1959) |
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Anthony Nutting | 18 October 1954 | 3 November 1956 | |||||
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Allan Noble | 9 November 1956 | 16 January 1959 | Eden | Lloyd | |||
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David Ormsby-Gore | 16 January 1957 | 27 June 1961 | Macmillan | ||||
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John Profumo | 16 January 1959 | 27 July 1960 | |||||
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Joseph Godber | 27 June 1961 | 27 June 1963 | Douglas-Home | ||||
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The Earl of Dundee | 9 October 1961 | 16 October 1964 | |||||
Douglas-Home | Butler | |||||||
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Peter Thomas | 27 June 1963 | 16 October 1964 | |||||
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George Thomson | 16 October 1964 | 31 March 1966 | Labour | Wilson |
Gordon Walker
(1964–1965)
Stewart (1965–1966) Brown (1965–1968) |
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The Lord Caradon | 16 October 1964 | 17 October 1968 | |||||
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Walter Padley | 19 October 1964 | 7 January 1967 | |||||
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The Lord Chalfont | 23 October 1964 | 17 October 1968 | |||||
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Eirene White | 31 March 1966 | 7 January 1967 |
Brown
(1966–1968)
Stewart (1968) |
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George Thomson | 7 January 1967 | 29 August 1967 | |||||
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Fred Mulley | 7 January 1967 | 17 October 1968 | |||||
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Goronwy Roberts | 29 August 1967 | 17 October 1968 | |||||
Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs | ||||||||
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Hugh Foot | 17 October 1968 | 19 June 1970 | Labour | Wilson | Stewart | ||
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The Lord Chalfont | 17 October 1968 | 19 June 1970 | |||||
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Fred Mulley | 17 October 1968 | 13 October 1969 | |||||
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Goronwy Roberts | 17 October 1968 | 13 October 1969 | |||||
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The Lord Shepherd | 17 October 1968 | 19 June 1970 | |||||
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Joseph Godber | 19 June 1970 | 9 April 1972 | Conservative | Heath | Douglas-Home | ||
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Priscilla Buchan | 9 April 1972 | 4 March 1974 | |||||
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Julian Amery | 9 April 1972 | 4 March 1974 | |||||
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Lord Balniel | 9 April 1972 | 4 March 1974 | |||||
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David Ennals | 7 March 1974 | 10 September 1976 | Labour | Wilson | Callaghan | ||
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Roy Hattersley | 7 March 1974 | 10 September 1976 | |||||
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The Lord Goronwy-Roberts | 4 December 1975 | 4 May 1979 | |||||
Callaghan | ||||||||
Crosland
(1976–1977)
Owen (1977–1979) |
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Ted Rowlands | 10 September 1976 | 4 May 1979 | |||||
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David Owen | 10 September 1976 | 21 February 1977 | Crosland | ||||
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Frank Judd | 21 February 1977 | 4 May 1979 | Owen | ||||
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Peter Blaker | 4 May 1979 | 14 September 1981 | Conservative | Thatcher | Peter Carington | ||
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Nicholas Ridley | 4 May 1979 | 14 September 1981 | |||||
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Richard Luce | 14 September 1981 | 5 April 1982 | |||||
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Cranley Onslow | 5 April 1982 | 13 June 1983 | Pym | ||||
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The Lord Belstead | 5 April 1982 | 13 June 1983 | |||||
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Richard Luce | 13 June 1983 | 2 September 1985 | Howe | ||||
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The Baroness Young | 13 June 1983 | 13 June 1987 | |||||
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Tim Renton | 2 September 1985 | 13 June 1987 | |||||
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David Mellor | 13 June 1987 | 25 July 1988 | |||||
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The Lord Glenarthur | 13 June 1987 | 24 July 1989 | |||||
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William Waldegrave | 26 July 1988 | 2 November 1990 | |||||
Major
(1989)
Hurd (1989–1990) |
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The Lord Brabazon of Tara | 24 July 1989 | 14 July 1990 | |||||
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The Earl of Caithness | 14 July 1990 | 14 April 1992 | Hurd | ||||
Major | ||||||||
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Douglas Hogg | 2 November 1990 | 5 July 1995 | |||||
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Alastair Goodlad | 15 April 1992 | 5 July 1995 | |||||
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Jeremy Hanley | 5 July 1995 | 5 May 1997 | Rifkind | ||||
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Nicholas Bonsor | 5 July 1995 | 5 May 1997 | |||||
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Tony Lloyd | 5 May 1997 | 28 July 1999 | Labour | Blair | Cook | ||
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John Battle | 28 July 1999 | 11 June 2001 | |||||
Minister of State for the Middle East | ||||||||
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The Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean | 11 June 2001 | 5 May 2005 | Labour | Blair | Straw | ||
Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs | ||||||||
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Kim Howells | 11 May 2005 | 6 October 2008 | Labour |
Blair
Brown |
Beckett
Miliband |
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Bill Rammell | 6 October 2008 | 8 June 2009 | Labour | Brown | Miliband | ||
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Ivan Lewis | 8 June 2009 | 11 May 2010 | |||||
Minister of State for Europe and the Americas | ||||||||
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Jeremy Browne | 13 May 2010 | 4 September 2012 | Liberal Democrat | Cameron | Hague | ||
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Hugo Swire | 4 September 2012 | 15 July 2016 | Conservative | Cameron | Hammond | ||
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Alan Duncan | 15 July 2016 | 22 July 2019 | Conservative | May |
Johnson
Hunt |
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Chris Pincher | 25 July 2019 | 13 February 2020 | Johnson | Raab | |||
Minister of State for Indo-Pacific | ||||||||
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Anne-Marie Trevelyan | 26 October 2022 | Incumbent | Conservative | Sunak | Cleverly |
See also
References
- ↑ "Minister of State (Minister for Europe and the Americas)" . GOV.UK . Retrieved 2022-10-07 .
- ↑ "Minister of State (Minister for the Pacific and the International Environment)" . GOV.UK . Retrieved 2022-10-07 .