Minister of State for Asia and the Middle East

Minister of State for Asia and the Middle East
Royal Arms of Her Majesty's Government
Incumbent Amanda Milling MP since 15 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

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.
	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

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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