Ministerial role

Minister of State (Minister for Development)

Organisations: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Responsibilities

The minister’s responsibilities include:

• education, gender and equality
• development and open societies
• humanitarian and migration
• international finance
• British Investment Partnerships
• global health
• conflict, stabilisation and mediation
• energy, climate and the environment
• research and evidence

The minister also attends cabinet.

Previous holders of this role

1. The Rt Hon Anneliese Dodds MP

   2024 to 2025

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• UK Chair statement: Ministerial Roundtable on Sudan
  • 20 February 2025
  • News story
• The Global Partnership for Action on Gender-Based Online Harassment and Abuse calls for gender to be an integral part of the AI Action Summit
  • 10 February 2025
  • Policy paper
• Towards a Common Future: Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights for All, Minister Dodds' remarks
  • 07 February 2025
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• New partnerships for growth: FCDO Minister's speech at the LSE
  • 03 February 2025
  • Speech
• New partnerships with financial sector to unlock growth in UK and overseas
  • 03 February 2025
  • Press release
• UK announces additional humanitarian funding for Myanmar
  • 01 February 2025
  • Press release
• Middle East: Minister for Development's statement, 28 January 2025
  • 28 January 2025
  • Oral statement
• New humanitarian support for Gaza as ceasefire allows operations to scale up
  • 28 January 2025
  • Press release
• UK government boosts support for Scottish de-mining charity’s work in Ukraine and Afghanistan
  • 22 January 2025
  • Press release
• Joint article on Just Energy Transition Partnerships
  • 17 January 2025
  • News story

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