Ministerial role

Minister of State (Minister for the Middle East and North Africa)

Organisations: Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Responsibilities

Responsibilities include:

  • Middle East and North Africa
  • Stabilisation Unit: oversees FCO-commissioned issues
  • national security
  • defence and international security, not including Euro-Atlantic security policy

Previous holders of this role

  1. The Rt Hon Dr Andrew Murrison MP

    2019 to 2020

  2. The Rt Hon Alistair Burt

    2017 to 2019