UK/Under-Secretary of State/Foreign Affairs

UK/Under-Secretary of State/Foreign Affairs
Junior position in the British government, vacant since 2010.

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs is a vacant junior position in the British government, subordinate to both the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and since 1945 also to the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs. The post is based at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, which was created by the merger of the Foreign Office, where the position was initially based, with the Commonwealth Office in 1968 and the Department for International Development in 2020.

The role was merged into Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Asia and the Pacific in 2010.

Notable holders of the office include Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville, John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley, Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, and Anthony Eden.

 

Office Holders on Wikispooks

Name	From	To
Lord Robert Cecil	30 May 1915	10 January 1919
James Bryce	7 February 1886	20 July 1886

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