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
Find out more about previous holders of this role in our past Secretaries of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs section.
Announcements
Subscriptions
- Expulsion of two British diplomats from Belarus: Foreign Secretary statement
- Foreign Secretary meets Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno in London
- Tackling COVID-19 together through the ACT-Accelerator: Foreign Secretary's statements
- High-level event on financing for development: UK statement on sustainable recovery after COVID-19
- Commemorating the 75th anniversary of the United Nations at UNGA 2020: UK statement
- Foreign Secretary's statement on Belarus: 24 September 2020
- Joint Communiqué on the conflict in Yemen
- Foreign Secretary statement on Alexey Navalny
- Foreign Secretary statement on Prime Minister Abe stepping down
- Foreign Secretary to host Canada’s Foreign Minister at Hampton Court Palace