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Ministerial role

Minister of State (Minister for Trade)

Organisations: Department for Business and Trade and UK Export Finance

Responsibilities

His portfolio includes:

  • trade strategy implementation  
  • WTO and CPTPP  
  • Free Trade Agreements  
  • international industrial strategy  
  • export strategy and trade promotion  
  • EU, Windsor Framework, and UK Internal Market  
  • Ukraine reconstruction  
  • creative industries 
  • economic and investment security 
  • trade remedies 
  • sanctions  
  • import / export controls 

Public bodies:  

  • Trade Remedies Authority  
  • UK Export Finance

Previous holders of this role

  1. The Rt Hon Sir Chris Bryant MP

    2025 to 2026