| Post: | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Africa |
| Insignia: | Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom (HM Government) (2022).svg |
| Insigniacaption: | Royal Arms of His Majesty's Government |
| Department: | Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office |
| Style: | Minister |
| Nominator: | Prime Minister |
| Appointer: | The King |
| Termlength: | At His Majesty's pleasure |
| Formation: | 28 July 1999 |
| Incumbent: | The Lord Collins of Highbury |
| Incumbentsince: | 9 July 2024 |
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Africa is a junior position in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in the British government. The office was previously merged with the Minister of State for Development.[1] The incumbent is The Lord Collins of Highbury.[2]
The minister was responsible for the following:[3]
| Name | Portrait | Term of office | Length of Service | Political party | P.M. | F.Sec. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 July 1999 | 24 January 2001 | Labour | Blair | Cook | ||||||
| 24 January 2001 | 11 June 2001 | |||||||||
| Office vacant 2001–2007 | ||||||||||
| 28 June 2007 | 24 July 2009 | Labour | Brown | Miliband | ||||||
| 13 October 2009 | 11 May 2010 | |||||||||
| 11 May 2010 | 5 September 2012 | Conservative | Cameron | Hague | ||||||
| 5 September 2012 | 11 August 2014 | |||||||||
| 11 August 2014 | 16 July 2016 | Hammond | ||||||||
| 16 July 2016 | 13 June 2017 | May | Johnson | |||||||
| 15 June 2017 | 9 January 2018 | |||||||||
| 9 January 2018 | 25 July 2019 | rowspan"1" | Hunt | |||||||
| 25 July 2019 | 13 February 2020 | Johnson | Raab | |||||||
| 13 February 2020 | 16 September 2021 | |||||||||
| 16 September 2021 | 6 September 2022 | Truss | ||||||||
| 7 September 2022 | 25 October 2022 | Truss | Cleverly | |||||||
| Office merged with Minister of State for Development and became Minister of State for Development and Africa | ||||||||||
| 9 July 2024 | Incumbent | Labour | Starmer | Lammy | ||||||