Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean
Royal Arms of Her Majesty's Government
Incumbent Vicky Ford since 16 September 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Style	Minister
Nominator	Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Appointer	The Monarch on advice of the Prime Minister
Term length	At Her Majesty's pleasure
Website	Official website

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean is a junior position in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in the British government. The post is currently held by Vicky Ford MP.

Responsibilities[]

The minister is responsible for the following:^[1]

• Sub-Saharan Africa
• economic development
• oversight of international financial institutions
• CDC (UK government's development finance institution)
• research and evidence
• medical procurement
• wider supply chains

List[]

Name		Portrait	Term of office		Length of Service	Political party	P.M.		F.Sec.
	Peter Hain MP for Neath		28 July 1999	24 January 2001	1 year, 5 months and 27 days	Labour		Blair	Cook
	Brian Wilson MP for Cunninghame North		24 January 2001	11 June 2001	4 months and 18 days
Office vacant 2001–07
	The Right Honourable Mark Malloch Brown The Lord Malloch-Brown		28 June 2007	24 July 2009	2 years and 26 days	Labour		Brown	Miliband
	The Right Honourable Glenys Kinnock The Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead		13 October 2009	11 May 2010	6 months and 28 days
	Henry Bellingham MP for North West Norfolk		11 May 2010	5 September 2012	2 years, 3 months and 25 days	Conservative		Cameron	Hague
	The Right Honourable Mark Simmonds MP for Boston and Skegness		5 September 2012	11 August 2014
									Hammond
	James Duddridge MP for Rochford and Southend East		11 August 2014	16 July 2016
	The Right Honourable Tobias Ellwood MP for Bournemouth East		16 July 2016	13 June 2017				May	Johnson
	Rory Stewart MP for Penrith and The Border		15 June 2017	9 January 2018
	Harriett Baldwin MP for West Worcestershire		9 January 2018	25 July 2019
									Hunt
	Andrew Stephenson MP for Pendle		25 July 2019	13 February 2020				Johnson	Raab
	James Duddridge MP for Rochford and Southend East		13 February 2020	16 September 2021
	Vicky Ford MP for Chelmsford		16 September 2021	Incumbent					Truss

See also[]

• Foreign and Commonwealth Office
• Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
• Minister of State for Europe
• Minister of State for Foreign Affairs
• Minister of State for Middle East and North Africa
• Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs

References[]