Ministerial role

Minister of State (Minister for Asia)

Organisations: Department for International Development and Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Responsibilities

The Minister’s responsibilities include:

• East Asia and South East Asia
• economic diplomacy
• trade
• Economics Unit
• Prosperity Fund
• soft power, including British Council, BBC World Service and scholarships
• third-country agreements
• consular

Previous holders of this role

1. The Rt Hon Nigel Adams

   2020 to 2020

Announcements

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• Minister for Asia to attend ASEAN Day celebrations in London
  • 07 August 2020
  • Press release
• Digital diplomacy: UK’s Asia Minister discusses science and business links with Vietnam as part of ‘renewed focus’ on relations
  • 16 July 2020
  • Press release
• Minister Adams statement on clearance operations in Rakhine State, Myanmar
  • 27 June 2020
  • Press release
• Repatriation during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic: Minister Adams' statement, 29 April 2020
  • 29 April 2020
  • Oral statement
• UK set to bring home hundreds more British travellers from across the Philippines
  • 21 April 2020
  • Press release
• UK and Mexico commit to collaboration on climate change and trade
  • 09 March 2020
  • Press release

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