Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (United Kingdom)
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs is a mid-level ministerial position in Her Majesty's Government, the Minister serves as the deputy to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs.
| Minister of State for Foreign Affairs | |
|---|---|
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| Foreign and Commonwealth Office | |
| Status | Incumbent |
| Reports to | Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs |
| Nominator | Secretary of State |
| Appointer | The Prime Minister approved and sworn in by the Queen-in-Council |
| Term length | No fixed term |
| Formation | 1943 |
| First holder | Richard Law |
Ministers of State for Foreign Affairs 1943–1968
| Name | Portrait | Term of office | Political party | P.M. | F.Sec. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 (1953–55) Eden (1955–57) |
Eden (1953–55) Macmillan (1955) Lloyd (1955–59) | |||
| 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 (1964–65) Stewart (1965–66) Brown (1965–68) | ||
| 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 (1966–68) 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 | |||||
Ministers of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 1968–
| Name | Portrait | Term of office | Political party | P.M. | F.Sec. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Lord Caradon | |
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 | ||
| The Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie | |
9 April 1972 | 4 March 1974 | |||||
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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 (1976–77) Owen (1977–79) | ||||||||
| 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 | The Lord Carrington | ||
| 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 (1989–90) | ||||||||
| 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 | ||||
| Sir Nicholas Bonsor, Bt | |
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 | |||||
| The Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean Minister of State for the Middle East |
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11 June 2001 | 5 May 2005 | Straw | ||||
| Kim Howells |  |
11 May 2005 | 6 October 2008 | |||||
| Beckett | ||||||||
| Brown | Miliband | |||||||
| Bill Rammell |  |
6 October 2008 | 8 June 2009 | |||||
| Ivan Lewis |  |
8 June 2009 | 11 May 2010 | |||||
| Jeremy Browne |  |
13 May 2010 | 4 September 2012 | Liberal Democrats | Cameron | Hague | ||
| The Baroness Warsi |  |
4 September 2012 | 5 August 2014 | Conservative | ||||
| Hugo Swire |  |
4 September 2012 | 15 July 2016 | |||||
| Hammond | ||||||||
| Sir Alan Duncan Minister of State for Europe and the Americas |
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15 July 2016 | 22 July 2019 | May | Johnson | |||
| Hunt | ||||||||
| Christopher Pincher Minister of State for Europe and the Americas |
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25 July 2019 | 13 February 2020 | Johnson | Raab | |||
| The Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park Minister of State for the Pacific |
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13 February 2020 | Incumbent | |||||
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