Minister of State for Development

{{Short description|Senior ministerial position in the Government of the United Kingdom}}

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Minister of State for International Development, Latin America and Caribbean

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| insignia = Coat of arms of the United Kingdom (2022, lesser arms).svg

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| department = Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

| style = {{ubl|International Development Minister
{{small|(informal)}}|The Right Honourable
{{small|(within the UK and Commonwealth)}}|His/Her Excellency
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| image = File:Official portrait of Baroness Chapman of Darlington crop 2, 2021.jpg

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| incumbent = The Baroness Chapman of Darlington

| incumbentsince = 28 February 2025

| status = Minister of the Crown

| seat = Westminster

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| nominator = The Prime Minister

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| appointer = The Monarch

| appointer_qualified = {{Small|(on the advice of the Prime Minister)}}

| reports_to = Prime Minister
Foreign Secretary

| termlength = At His Majesty's pleasure

| first = Barbara Castle
{{small|(as Minister of Overseas Development)}}

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| formation = *18 October 1964:
{{small|(as Minister of Overseas Development)}}

25 October 2022:
{{small|(as Minister of State for Development and Africa)}}

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| website = {{URL|www.dfid.gov.uk}}

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The minister of state for development, formerly the minister of state for development and Africa{{Cite web |title=Minister of State (Development and Africa) – GOV.UK |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/ministers/minister-of-state-development-and-africa |access-date=2022-11-07 |website=www.gov.uk |language=en}} 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.

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.{{cite web |url=http://www.dfid.gov.uk/About-DFID/History1/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=2010-11-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20101011133338/http%3A//www.dfid.gov.uk/About%2DDFID/History1/ |archive-date=11 October 2010 }} 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.{{Cite news|url=https://www.itv.com/news/2020-06-16/department-for-international-development-dfid-to-merge-with-foreign-office/|title=Department for International Development to merge with Foreign Office|work=ITV News|date=16 June 2020|access-date=2 September 2020}}

In 2022, the position was revised in the as a minister of state attending Cabinet during the Truss ministry.{{cite web |last1=Wells |first1=Ione |title=New cabinet: Who is in Liz Truss's top team? |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-62796077 |website=bbc.com |publisher=BBC News |access-date=28 July 2024}} From 2022 to 2024 under the Sunak ministry, the position was combined with responsibility for Africa as the Minister of State for Development and Africa.{{cite web |title=Minister of State (Development and Africa) |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/ministers/minister-of-state-development-and-africa |website=gov.uk |access-date=28 July 2024}}

Responsibilities

The Minister's responsibilities include:{{cite web |title=Minister of State for Development |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/ministers/minister-of-state--177 |publisher=GOV.UK |access-date=27 July 2024}}

international development
Caribbean and Small Island Developing States
soft power (including FCDO arms-length bodies British Council, BBC World Service and Wilton Park)
devolution

List of ministers and secretaries of state

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! colspan=3 | Minister

! colspan=2 | Term of office

! Party

! colspan=2 | Ministry

! colspan=99 |

=Ministers of Overseas Development (1964–1970)=

|- style="height:1em"

! style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| 60px

| Barbara Castle

| 18 October 1964

| 23 December 1965

| Labour

| rowspan=5 style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| rowspan=5 | Wilson
{{small|(I) (II)}}

|- style="height:1em"

! style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| 60px

| Anthony Greenwood

| 23 December 1965

| 11 August 1966

| Labour

|- style="height:1em"

! style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| 60px

| Arthur Bottomley

| 11 August 1966

| 29 August 1967

| Labour

|- style="height:1em"

! style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| Reg Prentice

| 29 August 1967

| 6 October 1969

| Labour

|- style="height:1em"

! style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| Judith Hart

| 6 October 1969

| 19 June 1970

| Labour

|- style="height:1em"

! style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| Richard Wood

| 23 June 1970

| 15 October 1970

| Conservative

| style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| Heath

! colspan=99 |

=Ministers for Overseas Development (1970–1997)=

|- style="height:1em"

! style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| Richard Wood

| 15 October 1970

| 4 March 1974

| Conservative

| style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| Heath

|- style="height:1em"

! style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| Judith Hart

| 7 March 1974

| 10 June 1975

| Labour

| rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| rowspan=2 | Wilson
{{small|(III)}}

|- style="height:1em"

! rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| rowspan=2 |

| rowspan=2 | Reg Prentice

| rowspan=2 | 10 June 1975

| rowspan=2 | 21 December 1976
(resigned)

| rowspan=2 | Labour

|- style="height:1em"

| rowspan=3 style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| rowspan=3 | Callaghan

|- style="height:1em"

! style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| 60px

| Frank Judd

| 21 December 1976

| 21 February 1977

| Labour

|- style="height:1em"

! style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| Judith Hart

| 21 February 1977

| 4 May 1979

| Labour

|- style="height:1em"

! style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| Neil Marten

| 6 May 1979

| 6 January 1983

| Conservative

| rowspan=4 style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| rowspan=4 | Thatcher
{{small|(I) (II) (III)}}

|- style="height:1em"

! style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| Timothy Raison

| 6 January 1983

| 10 September 1986

| Conservative

|- style="height:1em"

! style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| 60px

| Chris Patten

| 10 September 1986

| 24 July 1989

| Conservative

|- style="height:1em"

! rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| rowspan=2 | 60px

| rowspan=2 | Lynda Chalker
{{small|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:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| colspan=2 | Major
{{small|(I) (II)}}

! colspan=99 |

=Secretaries of State for International Development (1997–2020)=

|- style="height:1em"

! style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| 90x90px

| Clare Short

| 3 May 1997

| 12 May 2003

| Labour

| rowspan=3 style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| rowspan=3 | Blair
{{small|(I) (II) (III)}}

|- style="height:1em"

! style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| 79x79px

| Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos

| 12 May 2003

| 6 October 2003

| Labour

|- style="height:1em"

! style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| 60px

| Hilary Benn

| 6 October 2003

| 28 June 2007

| Labour

|- style="height:1em"

! style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| 60px

| Douglas Alexander

| 28 June 2007

| 11 May 2010

| Labour

| style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| Brown

|- style="height:1em"

! style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| 60px

| Andrew Mitchell

| 12 May 2010

| 4 September 2012

| Conservative

| rowspan=2 style="background-color:#ddd" |

| rowspan=2 | Cameron-Clegg

|- style="height:1em"

| rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| rowspan=2 | 60px

| rowspan=2 | Justine Greening

| rowspan=2 | 4 September 2012

| rowspan=2 | 14 July 2016

| rowspan=2 | Conservative

| style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| Cameron
{{Small|(II)}}

|- style="height:1em"

| rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| rowspan=2 | 60px

| rowspan=2 | Priti Patel

| rowspan=2 | 14 July 2016

| rowspan=2 | 8 November 2017

| rowspan=2 | Conservative

| rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| May
{{Small|(I)}}

| rowspan=3 | May
{{Small|(II)}}

|- style="height:1em"

| style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| 60px

| style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

|- style="height:1em"

| style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| 60px

| Rory Stewart

| 1 May 2019

| 24 July 2019

| Conservative

| style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

|- style="height:1em"

| rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| rowspan=2 | 60px

| rowspan=2 | Alok Sharma

| rowspan=2 | 24 July 2019

| rowspan=2 | 13 February 2020

| rowspan=2 | Conservative

| rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| Johnson
{{Small|(I)}}

| rowspan=3 | Johnson
{{small|(II)}}

|- style="height:1em"

| style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| 60px

| Anne-Marie Trevelyan

| 13 February 2020

| 2 September 2020

| Conservative

| style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

|- style="height:1em"

| style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| Vacant

| 2 September 2020

| 6 September 2022

| Conservative

| style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

! colspan=99 |