Ministerial role

Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

Organisations: Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Responsibilities

The Foreign Secretary has overall responsibility for the work of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, with a particular focus on:

  • Strategy Directorate
  • national security
  • intelligence
  • honours
  • Europe

Previous holders of this role

  1. The Rt Hon Dominic Raab MP

    2019 to 2020

  2. The Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP

    2018 to 2019

  3. The Rt Hon Boris Johnson

    2016 to 2018

  4. The Rt Hon Philip Hammond

    2014 to 2016

  5. The Rt Hon William Hague

    2010 to 2014

  6. Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, Viscount Halifax

    1938 to 1940

  7. Sir Austen Chamberlain

    1924 to 1929

  8. George Nathaniel Curzon

    1919 to 1924

  9. Sir Edward Grey, Viscount Grey of Fallodon

    1905 to 1916

  10. Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of Lansdowne

    1900 to 1905

  11. Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

    1895 to 1900

  12. Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

    1887 to 1892

  13. Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

    1885 to 1886

  14. George Leveson Gower Earl Granville

    1880 to 1885

  15. Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

    1878 to 1880

  16. George Leveson Gower Earl Granville

    1870 to 1874

  17. George Leveson Gower Earl Granville

    1851 to 1852

  18. George Hamilton Gordon Earl of Aberdeen

    1841 to 1846

  19. George Hamilton Gordon Earl of Aberdeen

    1828 to 1830

  20. Charles James Fox

    1806 to 1806

  21. William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville

    1791 to 1801

  22. Charles James Fox

    1783 to 1783

  23. Charles James Fox

    1782 to 1782