Minister of State for Asia and the Middle East
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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 |
Minister of State for Asia and the Middle East is a mid-level position in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in the British government. It is currently held by Amanda Milling MP who took the office on 15 September 2021.[1]
Responsibilities[]
The minister's responsibilities include:[2]
- East Asia (including Great Britain-China Centre)
- Australia and New Zealand
- Middle East
- Overseas Territories (including Falkland Islands)
- economic cooperation and growth
- trade
- consular policy
- science and innovation
- devolution
- global health
- COVID-19
- LGBT conference
- migration
- British International Investment (BII)
- stakeholder engagement (including Wilton Park and British Council)
List[]
Name | Portrait | Term of office | Political party | P.M. | F.Sec. | |||
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Jeremy Browne | ![]() |
13 May 2010 | 4 September 2012 | Liberal Democrat | Cameron | Hague | ||
The Baroness Warsi | ![]() |
4 September 2012 | 5 August 2014 | Conservative | ||||
Hammond | ||||||||
The Baroness Anelay of St Johns | ![]() |
6 August 2014 | 17 July 2016 | |||||
Alok Sharma | ![]() |
17 July 2016 | 13 June 2017 | May | Johnson | |||
Mark Field | ![]() |
13 June 2017 | 25 July 2019[a] | |||||
Hunt | ||||||||
Heather Wheeler | ![]() |
26 July 2019 | 13 February 2020 | Johnson | Raab | |||
Nigel Adams | ![]() |
13 February 2020 | 15 September 2021 | |||||
Amanda Milling | ![]() |
15 September 2021 | Incumbent | Truss |
Notes[]
- ^ Suspended from 21 June 2019
References[]
- ^ "Minister of State (Minister for Asia)". GOV.UK. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
- ^ "The Rt Hon Amanda Milling MP". GOV.UK. Retrieved 2022-02-22.
See also[]
- Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
- Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs
- Minister of State for Europe
- Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (United Kingdom)
- Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
- Minister of State for Middle East and North Africa
Categories:
- Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
- United Kingdom–Asian relations
- Lists of government ministers of the United Kingdom
- Foreign ministers of the United Kingdom