Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Indo-Pacific explained

Post:	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Indo-Pacific
Insignia:	Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom (HM Government) (2022).svg
Insigniacaption:	Royal Arms of His Majesty's Government
Incumbent:	Catherine West
Incumbentsince:	9th July 2024
Department:	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Reports To:	Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs
Nominator:	Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Appointer:	The King
Termlength:	At His Majesty's pleasure
First:	Richard Law
Formation:	1943

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Indo-Pacific is a junior-level ministerial position in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office of His Majesty's Government. The office was known as Minister of State for Europe and the Americas from 2010 to 2020.^[1] It was most recently merged into the office of Minister of State for the Pacific and the International Environment^[2] to create the new office of Minister of State for Indo-Pacific.

Responsibilities

The Minister’s responsibilities include:

• China and Northeast Asia
• Southeast Asia
• Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Islands
• Indian Ocean
• Economic security (including export controls)
• Sanctions
• Economics and evaluation (including the Chief Economist)
• Regulatory and economic diplomacy
• Technology and analysis

List of ministers

Minister of State			Term of office		Political party	P.M.		F.Sec.
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs
		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 (1953–1955) Eden (1955–1957)	Eden (1953–1955) Macmillan (1955) Lloyd (1955–1959)
		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 (1964–1965) Stewart (1965–1966) Brown (1965–1968)
		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 (1966–1968) 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
Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
		Hugh Foot	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
			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 (1976–1977) Owen (1977–1979)
			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	Peter Carington
		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 (1989–1990)
			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
Minister of State for the Middle East
		The Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean	11 June 2001	5 May 2005	Labour		Blair	Straw
Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
		Kim Howells	11 May 2005	6 October 2008	Labour		Blair Brown	Beckett Miliband
		Bill Rammell	6 October 2008	8 June 2009	Labour		Brown	Miliband
		Ivan Lewis	8 June 2009	11 May 2010
Minister of State for Europe and the Americas
		Jeremy Browne	13 May 2010	4 September 2012	Liberal Democrat		Cameron	Hague
		Hugo Swire	4 September 2012	15 July 2016	Conservative		Cameron	Hammond
		Alan Duncan	15 July 2016	22 July 2019	Conservative		May	Johnson Hunt
		Chris Pincher	25 July 2019	13 February 2020			Johnson	Raab
Minister of State for Indo-Pacific
		Anne-Marie Trevelyan	26 October 2022	5 July 2024	Conservative		Sunak	Cleverly Cameron

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Minister of State (Minister for Europe and the Americas) . 2022-10-07 . GOV.UK . en.
2. Web site: Minister of State (Minister for the Pacific and the International Environment) . 2022-10-07 . GOV.UK . en.