Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Indo-Pacific

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United Kingdom
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Indo-Pacific
Coat of arms of the United Kingdom (2022, lesser arms).svg
Incumbent
Catherine West
since 9th July 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Reports to Foreign Secretary
Nominator Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Appointer The King
(on the advice of the Prime Minister)
Term length At His Majesty's pleasure
Formation1943
First holder Richard Law

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Indo-Pacific is a junior-level ministerial position in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office of His Majesty's Government. The office was known as Minister of State for Europe and the Americas from 2010 to 2020. [1] It was most recently merged into the office of Minister of State for the Pacific and the International Environment [2] to create the new office of Minister of State for Indo-Pacific.

Contents

Responsibilities

The Minister's responsibilities include:

List of ministers

Minister of StateTerm of officePolitical party P.M. F.Sec.
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs
Lord Coleraine.jpg Richard Law 25 September 194325 May 1945 Conservative Churchill Eden
Lord Mabane.jpg William Mabane 25 May 194526 July 1945 National Liberal
Philip Noel-Baker Anefo.jpg Philip Noel-Baker 3 August 19454 October 1946 Labour Attlee Bevin
No image.svg Hector McNeil 4 October 194628 February 1950
No image.svg Kenneth Younger 28 February 195026 October 1951
Morrison
Selwyn Lloyd cropped.jpg Selwyn Lloyd 30 October 195118 October 1954 Conservative Churchill Eden
Gerald Isaacs.jpg The Marquess of Reading 11 November 19539 January 1957 Churchill (1953–1955)
Eden (1955–1957)
Eden (1953–1955)
Macmillan (1955)
Lloyd (1955–1959)
No image.svg Anthony Nutting 18 October 19543 November 1956
No image.svg Allan Noble 9 November 195616 January 1959 Eden Lloyd
Sir David Ormsby-Gore.jpg David Ormsby-Gore 16 January 195727 June 1961 Macmillan
John Profumo.jpg John Profumo 16 January 195927 July 1960
No image.svg Joseph Godber 27 June 196127 June 1963 Douglas-Home
Lord Dundee.jpg The Earl of Dundee 9 October 196116 October 1964
Douglas-Home Butler
No image.svg Peter Thomas 27 June 196316 October 1964
No image.svg George Thomson 16 October 196431 March 1966 Labour Wilson Gordon Walker (1964–1965)
Stewart (1965–1966)
Brown (1965–1968)
No image.svg The Lord Caradon 16 October 196417 October 1968
No image.svg Walter Padley 19 October 19647 January 1967
Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F021984-0013, Auswartiges Amt, Staatsminister Grossbritannien.jpg The Lord Chalfont 23 October 196417 October 1968
No image.svg Eirene White 31 March 19667 January 1967 Brown (1966–1968)
Stewart (1968)
No image.svg George Thomson 7 January 196729 August 1967
Fred Mulley.PNG Fred Mulley 7 January 196717 October 1968
Goronwy Roberts.jpg Goronwy Roberts 29 August 196717 October 1968
Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
No image.svg Hugh Foot 17 October 196819 June 1970 Labour Wilson Stewart
Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F021984-0013, Auswartiges Amt, Staatsminister Grossbritannien.jpg The Lord Chalfont 17 October 196819 June 1970
Fred Mulley.PNG Fred Mulley 17 October 196813 October 1969
Goronwy Roberts.jpg Goronwy Roberts 17 October 196813 October 1969
No image.svg The Lord Shepherd 17 October 196819 June 1970
No image.svg Joseph Godber 19 June 19709 April 1972 Conservative Heath Douglas-Home
No image.svg Priscilla Buchan 9 April 19724 March 1974
Julian Amery 1965-11-10 (cropped).jpg Julian Amery 9 April 19724 March 1974
No image.svg Lord Balniel 9 April 19724 March 1974
David Ennals.jpg David Ennals 7 March 197410 September 1976 Labour Wilson Callaghan
Roy Hattersley 2012 cropped 2.jpg Roy Hattersley 7 March 197410 September 1976
Goronwy Roberts.jpg The Lord Goronwy-Roberts 4 December 19754 May 1979
Callaghan
Crosland (1976–1977)
Owen (1977–1979)
No image.svg Ted Rowlands 10 September 19764 May 1979
Official portrait of Lord Owen crop 2.jpg David Owen 10 September 197621 February 1977 Crosland
Official portrait of Lord Judd crop 2.jpg Frank Judd 21 February 19774 May 1979 Owen
No image.svg Peter Blaker 4 May 197914 September 1981 Conservative Thatcher Peter Carington
No image.svg Nicholas Ridley 4 May 197914 September 1981
Official portrait of Lord Luce crop 2.jpg Richard Luce 14 September 19815 April 1982
No image.svg Cranley Onslow 5 April 198213 June 1983 Pym
No image.svg The Lord Belstead 5 April 198213 June 1983
Official portrait of Lord Luce crop 2.jpg Richard Luce 13 June 19832 September 1985 Howe
No image.svg The Baroness Young 13 June 198313 June 1987
No image.svg Tim Renton 2 September 198513 June 1987
No image.svg David Mellor 13 June 198725 July 1988
Official portrait of Lord Glenarthur crop 2.jpg The Lord Glenarthur 13 June 198724 July 1989
William Waldegrave visiting University of Salford 1981 cropped.jpg William Waldegrave 26 July 19882 November 1990
Major (1989)
Hurd (1989–1990)
Official portrait of Lord Brabazon of Tara crop 2.jpg The Lord Brabazon of Tara 24 July 198914 July 1990
Official portrait of The Earl of Caithness crop 2.jpg The Earl of Caithness 14 July 199014 April 1992 Hurd
Major
DouglasHogg 20040917.jpg Douglas Hogg 2 November 19905 July 1995
Official portrait of Lord Goodlad crop 2.jpg Alastair Goodlad 15 April 19925 July 1995
No image.svg Jeremy Hanley 5 July 19955 May 1997 Rifkind
No image.svg Nicholas Bonsor 5 July 19955 May 1997
Official portrait of Tony Lloyd crop 2.jpg Tony Lloyd 5 May 199728 July 1999 Labour Blair Cook
JohnBattleMP.jpg John Battle 28 July 199911 June 2001
Minister of State for the Middle East
Official portrait of Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean crop 2.jpg The Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean 11 June 20015 May 2005 Labour Blair Straw
Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
Kim Howells 2.jpg Kim Howells 11 May 20056 October 2008 Labour Blair
Brown
Beckett
Miliband
Bill Rammell.jpg Bill Rammell 6 October 20088 June 2009 Labour Brown Miliband
Official portrait of Mr Ivan Lewis crop 2.jpg Ivan Lewis 8 June 200911 May 2010
Minister of State for Europe and the Americas
Jeremy Browne - Minister for Crime Prevention.jpg Jeremy Browne 13 May 20104 September 2012 Liberal Democrat Cameron Hague
Official portrait of Sir Hugo Swire crop 2.jpg Hugo Swire 4 September 201215 July 2016 Conservative Cameron Hammond
Official portrait of Sir Alan Duncan crop 2.jpg Alan Duncan 15 July 201622 July 2019 Conservative May Johnson
Hunt
Official portrait of Rt Hon Christopher Pincher MP crop 2.jpg Chris Pincher 25 July 201913 February 2020 Johnson Raab
Minister of State for Indo-Pacific
Anne-Marie Trevelyan Official Cabinet Portrait, September 2021 (cropped).jpg Anne-Marie Trevelyan 26 October 20225 July 2024 Conservative Sunak Cleverly
Cameron

See also

References

  1. "Minister of State (Minister for Europe and the Americas)". GOV.UK. Retrieved 2022-10-07.
  2. "Minister of State (Minister for the Pacific and the International Environment)". GOV.UK. Retrieved 2022-10-07.