United Kingdom Special Envoy for Post-Holocaust Issues

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The United Kingdom Special Envoy for Post-Holocaust Issues is responsible for developing and implementing UK Government policy with respect to encouraging the restitution of Holocaust-era assets, including art and immovable property; ensuring the accessibility and preservation of the Bad Arolsen archival record of the Nazi era and its aftermath, and promoting Holocaust education, remembrance and research.{{Cite web|url=https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/united_kingdom_envoy_for_post_ho|title=United Kingdom Envoy for Post-Holocaust Issues - a Freedom of Information request to Foreign and Commonwealth Office|date=June 15, 2010|website=WhatDoTheyKnow}}

Robert Andrew Burns served as the first envoy from 2010 to 2015. He was succeeded by Eric Pickles, who was appointed in 2015.{{Cite web|title=The Rt Hon Lord Pickles|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/people/eric-pickles|access-date=2021-04-02|website=GOV.UK|language=en}}

List of special envoys

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| Sir Robert Andrew Burns

| 10 June 2010

| 10 September 2015

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| rowspan="2" | David Cameron

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| rowspan="6" | Eric Pickles
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| rowspan="6" | 10 September 2015

| rowspan="6" | Incumbent

| rowspan="6" |{{age in years and months|10 September 2015

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| Theresa May

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| Boris Johnson

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| Liz Truss

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| Rishi Sunak

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| rowspan="1" style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| Keir Starmer

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References

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Category:Government of the United Kingdom

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