Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (United Kingdom)

Minister of State for Foreign Affairs is a mid-level ministerial position in Her Majesty's Government, the Minister serves as the deputy to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs.

Minister of State for Foreign Affairs
Royal Arms of Her Majesty's Government
Incumbent The Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park since 13 February 2020
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Status	Incumbent
Reports to	Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
Nominator	Secretary of State
Appointer	The Prime Minister approved and sworn in by the Queen-in-Council
Term length	No fixed term
Formation	1943
First holder	Richard Law

Ministers of State for Foreign Affairs 1943–1968

Name		Portrait	Term of office		Political party	P.M.		F.Sec.
	Richard Law		25 September 1943	25 May 1945	Conservative		Churchill	Eden
	William Mabane		25 May 1945	26 July 1945	National Liberal
	Philip Noel-Baker		3 August 1945	4 October 1946	Labour		Attlee	Bevin
	Hector McNeil		4 October 1946	28 February 1950
	Kenneth Younger		28 February 1950	26 October 1951
								Morrison
	Selwyn Lloyd		30 October 1951	18 October 1954	Conservative		Churchill	Eden
	The Marquess of Reading		11 November 1953	9 January 1957			Churchill (1953–55) Eden (1955–57)	Eden (1953–55) Macmillan (1955) Lloyd (1955–59)
	Anthony Nutting		18 October 1954	3 November 1956
	Allan Noble		9 November 1956	16 January 1959			Eden	Lloyd
	David Ormsby-Gore		16 January 1957	27 June 1961			Macmillan
	John Profumo		16 January 1959	27 July 1960
	Joseph Godber		27 June 1961	27 June 1963				Douglas-Home
	The Earl of Dundee		9 October 1961	16 October 1964
							Douglas-Home	Butler
	Peter Thomas		27 June 1963	16 October 1964
	George Thomson		16 October 1964	31 March 1966	Labour		Wilson	Gordon Walker (1964–65) Stewart (1965–66) Brown (1965–68)
	The Lord Caradon		16 October 1964	17 October 1968
	Walter Padley		19 October 1964	7 January 1967
	The Lord Chalfont		23 October 1964	17 October 1968
	Eirene White		31 March 1966	7 January 1967				Brown (1966–68) Stewart (1968)
	George Thomson		7 January 1967	29 August 1967
	Fred Mulley		7 January 1967	17 October 1968
	Goronwy Roberts		29 August 1967	17 October 1968

Ministers of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 1968–

Name		Portrait	Term of office		Political party	P.M.		F.Sec.
	The Lord Caradon		17 October 1968	19 June 1970	Labour		Wilson	Stewart
	The Lord Chalfont		17 October 1968	19 June 1970
	Fred Mulley		17 October 1968	13 October 1969
	Goronwy Roberts		17 October 1968	13 October 1969
	The Lord Shepherd		17 October 1968	19 June 1970
	Joseph Godber		19 June 1970	9 April 1972	Conservative		Heath	Douglas-Home
	The Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie		9 April 1972	4 March 1974
	Julian Amery		9 April 1972	4 March 1974
	Lord Balniel		9 April 1972	4 March 1974
	David Ennals		7 March 1974	10 September 1976	Labour		Wilson	Callaghan
	Roy Hattersley		7 March 1974	10 September 1976
	The Lord Goronwy-Roberts		4 December 1975	4 May 1979
							Callaghan
								Crosland (1976–77) Owen (1977–79)
	Ted Rowlands		10 September 1976	4 May 1979
	David Owen		10 September 1976	21 February 1977				Crosland
	Frank Judd		21 February 1977	4 May 1979				Owen
	Peter Blaker		4 May 1979	14 September 1981	Conservative		Thatcher	The Lord Carrington
	Nicholas Ridley		4 May 1979	14 September 1981
	Richard Luce		14 September 1981	5 April 1982
	Cranley Onslow		5 April 1982	13 June 1983				Pym
	The Lord Belstead		5 April 1982	13 June 1983
	Richard Luce		13 June 1983	2 September 1985				Howe
	The Baroness Young		13 June 1983	13 June 1987
	Tim Renton		2 September 1985	13 June 1987
	David Mellor		13 June 1987	25 July 1988
	The Lord Glenarthur		13 June 1987	24 July 1989
	William Waldegrave		26 July 1988	2 November 1990
								Major (1989) Hurd (1989–90)
	The Lord Brabazon of Tara		24 July 1989	14 July 1990
	The Earl of Caithness		14 July 1990	14 April 1992				Hurd
							Major
	Douglas Hogg		2 November 1990	5 July 1995
	Alastair Goodlad		15 April 1992	5 July 1995
	Jeremy Hanley		5 July 1995	5 May 1997				Rifkind
	Nicholas Bonsor		5 July 1995	5 May 1997
	Tony Lloyd		5 May 1997	28 July 1999	Labour		Blair	Cook
	John Battle		28 July 1999	11 June 2001
	The Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean Minister of State for the Middle East		11 June 2001	5 May 2005				Straw
	Kim Howells		11 May 2005	6 October 2008
								Beckett
							Brown	Miliband
	Bill Rammell		6 October 2008	8 June 2009
	Ivan Lewis		8 June 2009	11 May 2010
	The Lord Howell of Guildford Minister of State for International Energy Strategy		13 May 2010	4 September 2012	Conservative		Cameron	Hague
	Hugo Swire		4 September 2012	15 July 2016
								Hammond
	Alan Duncan Minister of State for Europe and the Americas		15 July 2016	22 July 2019			May	Johnson
								Hunt
	Christopher Pincher Minister of State for Europe and the Americas		25 July 2019	13 February 2020			Johnson	Raab
	The Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park Minister of State for Pacific and the Environment		13 February 2020	Incumbent

See also

• Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
• Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs
• Minister of State for Europe
• Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs

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