Minister of State for Development and Africa

The minister of state for international development, formerly the minister of state for development and Africa and the secretary of state for international development, is a senior minister of the Crown within the Government of the United Kingdom.

The officeholder headed the Department for International Development (DFID) as secretary of state from 1997 to 2020. The office formed part of the British Cabinet. The Department for International Development was abolished in September 2020, and Anne-Marie Trevelyan was the final holder of the post.

The post was made a ministerial position attending Cabinet in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in 2022. The corresponding shadow minister is the shadow cabinet minister for international development.

Former
Corresponding to what is generally known as an international development minister in many other countries, the Development Minister's remit includes:


 * Oversight of development aid
 * Oversight of international development (developing countries)
 * Delivery and management of spending 0.7% GNI on development
 * Communications for international development

Current
The Minister of State for Development's responsibilities are:


 * Africa
 * International Development Strategy, Official Development Assistance (ODA), Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI)
 * British Investment Partnerships
 * International finance
 * global education, gender and equality (including scholarships)
 * global health
 * humanitarian and migration
 * safeguarding
 * research and evidence (including Chief Scientific Advised)

History
A separate Ministry of Overseas Development was established by Harold Wilson when he came to office in 1964. The first three holders of the office served in the Cabinet, but from 29 August 1967 the office was demoted. Under Edward Heath, the Ministry was re-incorporated into the FCO on 15 October 1970. Wilson again established the Ministry in 1974, but later merged it into the FCO once again: from 10 June 1975 to 8 October 1979 the foreign secretary served as Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and Minister for Overseas Development in the cabinet, while the minister for overseas development held the rank of Minister of State within the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. The minister of state had day-to-day responsibility. Under the Labour government of the 1970s, Reg Prentice sat in the Cabinet during his term. The post's last and main format was created in 1997 when the Department for International Development was made independent of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO).

In June 2020, it was announced the Department for International Development would be dissolved, and its operations would be merged into the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. The process was completed by 2 September 2020, with the last international development secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan remaining in place until that time.

The position was revived at a Minister of State attending Cabinet role in 2022.

List of ministers and secretaries of state
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Ministers of Overseas Development (1964–1970)
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 * Mme Barbara Castle, Ministre britannique du développement outre-mer.jpg
 * | Barbara Castle
 * 18 October 1964
 * 23 December 1965
 * Labour
 * rowspan=5 style="background-color:" |
 * rowspan=5 | Wilson (I) (II)

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 * - style="height:1em"
 * Anthony Greenwood.jpg
 * Anthony Greenwood
 * 23 December 1965
 * 11 August 1966
 * Labour

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 * - style="height:1em"
 * Arthur Bottomley MP.jpg
 * Arthur Bottomley
 * 11 August 1966
 * 29 August 1967
 * Labour

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 * - style="height:1em"
 * Reginald Prentice
 * 29 August 1967
 * 6 October 1969
 * Labour
 * Labour

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 * - style="height:1em"
 * Judith Hart
 * 6 October 1969
 * 19 June 1970
 * Labour
 * Labour

! style="background-color:" |
 * - style="height:1em"
 * Richard Wood
 * 23 June 1970
 * 15 October 1970
 * Conservative
 * style="background-color:" |
 * Heath
 * Heath

! colspan=99 |

Ministers for Overseas Development (1970–1997)
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 * - style="height:1em"
 * Richard Wood
 * 15 October 1970
 * 4 March 1974
 * Conservative
 * style="background-color:" |
 * Heath
 * Heath

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 * - style="height:1em"
 * Judith Hart
 * 7 March 1974
 * 10 June 1975
 * Labour
 * rowspan=2 style="background-color:" |
 * rowspan=2 | Wilson (III)
 * rowspan=2 | Wilson (III)

! rowspan=2 style="background-color:" |
 * - style="height:1em"
 * rowspan=2 |
 * rowspan=2 | Reginald Prentice
 * rowspan=2 | 10 June 1975
 * rowspan=2 | 21 December 1976 (resigned)
 * rowspan=2 | Labour


 * - style="height:1em"
 * rowspan=3 style="background-color:" |
 * rowspan=3 | Callaghan

! style="background-color:" |
 * - style="height:1em"
 * Official portrait of Lord Judd crop 2.jpg
 * Frank Judd
 * 21 December 1976
 * 21 February 1977
 * Labour

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 * - style="height:1em"
 * Judith Hart
 * 21 February 1977
 * 4 May 1979
 * Labour
 * Labour

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 * - style="height:1em"
 * Neil Marten
 * 6 May 1979
 * 6 January 1983
 * Conservative
 * rowspan=4 style="background-color:" |
 * rowspan=4 | Thatcher (I) (II) (III)
 * rowspan=4 | Thatcher (I) (II) (III)

! style="background-color:" |
 * - style="height:1em"
 * Timothy Raison
 * 6 January 1983
 * 10 September 1986
 * Conservative
 * Conservative

! style="background-color:" |
 * - style="height:1em"
 * Official portrait of Lord Patten of Barnes crop 2.jpg
 * Chris Patten
 * 10 September 1986
 * 24 July 1989
 * Conservative

! rowspan=2 style="background-color:" |
 * - style="height:1em"
 * rowspan=2 | Official portrait of Baroness Chalker of Wallasey crop 2.jpg
 * rowspan=2 | Lynda Chalker The Baroness Chalker of Wallasey from 1992
 * rowspan=2 | 24 July 1989
 * rowspan=2 | 2 May 1997
 * rowspan=2 | Conservative


 * - style="height:1em"
 * style="background-color:" |
 * colspan=2 | Major (I) (II)

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Secretaries of State for International Development (1997–2020)
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 * - style="height:1em"
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 * Clare Short
 * 3 May 1997
 * 12 May 2003
 * Labour
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 * rowspan=3 | Blair (I) (II) (III)

! style="background-color:" |
 * - style="height:1em"
 * Valerie Amos DFID 2013.jpg
 * Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos
 * 12 May 2003
 * 6 October 2003
 * Labour

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 * - style="height:1em"
 * Hilary Benn.jpg
 * Hilary Benn
 * 6 October 2003
 * 28 June 2007
 * Labour

! style="background-color:" |
 * - style="height:1em"
 * Douglas Alexander at the India Economic Summit 2008.jpg
 * Douglas Alexander
 * 28 June 2007
 * 11 May 2010
 * Labour
 * style="background-color:" |
 * Brown

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 * - style="height:1em"
 * Andrew Mitchell Official.jpg
 * Andrew Mitchell
 * 12 May 2010
 * 4 September 2012
 * Conservative
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 * rowspan=2 | Cameron-Clegg


 * - style="height:1em"
 * rowspan=2 style="background-color:" |
 * rowspan=2 | Justine Greening.jpg
 * rowspan=2 | Justine Greening
 * rowspan=2 | 4 September 2012
 * rowspan=2 | 14 July 2016
 * rowspan=2 | Conservative
 * style="background-color:" |
 * Cameron (II)
 * Cameron (II)


 * - style="height:1em"
 * rowspan=2 style="background-color:" |
 * rowspan=2 | Priti Patel 2016.jpg
 * rowspan=2 | Priti Patel
 * rowspan=2 | 14 July 2016
 * rowspan=2 | 8 November 2017
 * rowspan=2 | Conservative
 * rowspan=2 style="background-color:" |
 * May (I)
 * rowspan=3 | May (II)
 * rowspan=3 | May (II)


 * - style="height:1em"
 * style="background-color:" |
 * Penny Mordaunt in 2019 (cropped).jpg
 * Penny Mordaunt
 * 9 November 2017
 * 1 May 2019
 * Conservative
 * style="background-color:" |


 * - style="height:1em"
 * style="background-color:" |
 * Official portrait of Rory Stewart crop 2.jpg
 * Rory Stewart
 * 1 May 2019
 * 24 July 2019
 * Conservative
 * style="background-color:" |


 * - style="height:1em"
 * rowspan=2 style="background-color:" |
 * rowspan=2 | Official portrait of Alok Sharma crop 2.jpg
 * rowspan=2 | Alok Sharma
 * rowspan=2 | 24 July 2019
 * rowspan=2 | 13 February 2020
 * rowspan=2 | Conservative
 * rowspan=2 style="background-color:" |
 * Johnson (I)
 * rowspan=3 | Johnson (II)
 * rowspan=3 | Johnson (II)


 * - style="height:1em"
 * style="background-color:" |
 * Official portrait of Mrs Anne-Marie Trevelyan crop 2.jpg
 * Anne-Marie Trevelyan
 * 13 February 2020
 * 2 September 2020
 * Conservative
 * style="background-color:" |


 * - style="height:1em"
 * style="background-color:" |
 * Vacant
 * 2 September 2020
 * 6 September 2022
 * Conservative
 * style="background-color:" |
 * style="background-color:" |

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Minister of State for Development (2022)

 * - style="height:1em"
 * style="background-color:" |
 * Official portrait of Vicky Ford MP crop 2.jpg
 * Vicky Ford
 * 6 September 2022
 * 25 October 2022
 * Conservative
 * style="background-color:" |
 * Truss

! colspan=99 |

Minister of State for Development and Africa (2022–2024)

 * - style="height:1em"
 * style="background-color:" |
 * Official portrait of Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell MP crop 2.jpg
 * Andrew Mitchell
 * 25 October 2022
 * 5 July 2024
 * Conservative
 * style="background-color:" |
 * Sunak

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Minister of State for International Development
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 * - style="height:1em"
 * Official_portrait_of_Anneliese_Dodds_MP_crop_2.jpg
 * Anneliese Dodds
 * 8 July 2024
 * Incumbent
 * Labour
 * style="background-color:" |
 * Starmer
 * }