Minister of State for Indo-Pacific (United Kingdom)
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Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (United Kingdom)
)Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs | |
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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
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 | |||||||||
Richard Law | 25 September 1943 | 25 May 1945 | Conservative | Churchill | Eden | ||||
William Mabane | 25 May 1945 | 26 July 1945 | National Liberal | ||||||
Philip Noel-Baker | 3 August 1945 | 4 October 1946 | Labour | Attlee | Bevin | ||||
Hector McNeil | 4 October 1946 | 28 February 1950 | |||||||
Kenneth Younger | 28 February 1950 | 26 October 1951 | |||||||
Morrison | |||||||||
Selwyn Lloyd | 30 October 1951 | 18 October 1954 | Conservative | Churchill | Eden | ||||
The Marquess of Reading | 11 November 1953 | 9 January 1957 | Churchill (1953–1955) Eden (1955–1957) |
Eden (1953–1955) Macmillan (1955) Lloyd (1955–1959) | |||||
Anthony Nutting | 18 October 1954 | 3 November 1956 | |||||||
Allan Noble | 9 November 1956 | 16 January 1959 | Eden | Lloyd | |||||
David Ormsby-Gore | 16 January 1957 | 27 June 1961 | Macmillan | ||||||
John Profumo | 16 January 1959 | 27 July 1960 | |||||||
Joseph Godber | 27 June 1961 | 27 June 1963 | Douglas-Home | ||||||
The Earl of Dundee | 9 October 1961 | 16 October 1964 | |||||||
Douglas-Home | Butler | ||||||||
Peter Thomas | 27 June 1963 | 16 October 1964 | |||||||
George Thomson | 16 October 1964 | 31 March 1966 | Labour | Wilson | Gordon Walker (1964–1965) Stewart (1965–1966) Brown (1965–1968) | ||||
The Lord Caradon | 16 October 1964 | 17 October 1968 | |||||||
Walter Padley | 19 October 1964 | 7 January 1967 | |||||||
The Lord Chalfont | 23 October 1964 | 17 October 1968 | |||||||
Eirene White | 31 March 1966 | 7 January 1967 | Brown (1966–1968) Stewart (1968) | ||||||
George Thomson | 7 January 1967 | 29 August 1967 | |||||||
Fred Mulley | 7 January 1967 | 17 October 1968 | |||||||
Goronwy Roberts | 29 August 1967 | 17 October 1968 | |||||||
Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs | |||||||||
Hugh Foot | 17 October 1968 | 19 June 1970 | Labour | Wilson | Stewart | ||||
The Lord Chalfont | 17 October 1968 | 19 June 1970 | |||||||
Fred Mulley | 17 October 1968 | 13 October 1969 | |||||||
Goronwy Roberts | 17 October 1968 | 13 October 1969 | |||||||
The Lord Shepherd | 17 October 1968 | 19 June 1970 | |||||||
Joseph Godber | 19 June 1970 | 9 April 1972 | Conservative | Heath | Douglas-Home | ||||
Priscilla Buchan | 9 April 1972 | 4 March 1974 | |||||||
Julian Amery | 9 April 1972 | 4 March 1974 | |||||||
Lord Balniel | 9 April 1972 | 4 March 1974 | |||||||
David Ennals | 7 March 1974 | 10 September 1976 | Labour | Wilson | Callaghan | ||||
Roy Hattersley | 7 March 1974 | 10 September 1976 | |||||||
The Lord Goronwy-Roberts | 4 December 1975 | 4 May 1979 | |||||||
Callaghan | |||||||||
Crosland (1976–1977) Owen (1977–1979) | |||||||||
Ted Rowlands | 10 September 1976 | 4 May 1979 | |||||||
David Owen | 10 September 1976 | 21 February 1977 | Crosland | ||||||
Frank Judd | 21 February 1977 | 4 May 1979 | Owen | ||||||
Peter Blaker | 4 May 1979 | 14 September 1981 | Conservative | Thatcher | Peter Carington | ||||
Nicholas Ridley | 4 May 1979 | 14 September 1981 | |||||||
Richard Luce | 14 September 1981 | 5 April 1982 | |||||||
Cranley Onslow | 5 April 1982 | 13 June 1983 | Pym | ||||||
The Lord Belstead | 5 April 1982 | 13 June 1983 | |||||||
Richard Luce | 13 June 1983 | 2 September 1985 | Howe | ||||||
The Baroness Young | 13 June 1983 | 13 June 1987 | |||||||
Tim Renton | 2 September 1985 | 13 June 1987 | |||||||
David Mellor | 13 June 1987 | 25 July 1988 | |||||||
The Lord Glenarthur | 13 June 1987 | 24 July 1989 | |||||||
William Waldegrave | 26 July 1988 | 2 November 1990 | |||||||
Major (1989) Hurd (1989–1990) | |||||||||
The Lord Brabazon of Tara | 24 July 1989 | 14 July 1990 | |||||||
The Earl of Caithness | 14 July 1990 | 14 April 1992 | Hurd | ||||||
Major | |||||||||
Douglas Hogg | 2 November 1990 | 5 July 1995 | |||||||
Alastair Goodlad | 15 April 1992 | 5 July 1995 | |||||||
Jeremy Hanley | 5 July 1995 | 5 May 1997 | Rifkind | ||||||
Nicholas Bonsor | 5 July 1995 | 5 May 1997 | |||||||
Tony Lloyd | 5 May 1997 | 28 July 1999 | Labour | Blair | Cook | ||||
John Battle | 28 July 1999 | 11 June 2001 | |||||||
Minister of State for the Middle East | |||||||||
The Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean | 11 June 2001 | 5 May 2005 | Labour | Blair | Straw | ||||
Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs | |||||||||
Kim Howells | 11 May 2005 | 6 October 2008 | Labour | Blair Brown |
Beckett Miliband | ||||
Bill Rammell | 6 October 2008 | 8 June 2009 | Labour | Brown | Miliband | ||||
Ivan Lewis | 8 June 2009 | 11 May 2010 | |||||||
Minister of State for Europe and the Americas | |||||||||
Jeremy Browne | 13 May 2010 | 4 September 2012 | Liberal Democrat | Cameron | Hague | ||||
Hugo Swire | 4 September 2012 | 15 July 2016 | Conservative | Cameron | Hammond | ||||
Alan Duncan | 15 July 2016 | 22 July 2019 | Conservative | May | Johnson Hunt | ||||
Chris Pincher | 25 July 2019 | 13 February 2020 | Johnson | Raab | |||||
Minister of State for Indo-Pacific | |||||||||
Anne-Marie Trevelyan | 26 October 2022 | Incumbent | Conservative | Sunak | Cleverly |
See also
- Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
- Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs
- Minister of State for Europe
- Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
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.