Ministerial role

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State

Contents

Responsibilities

• Asia
• United Nations and Commonwealth
• International financial institutions
• Europe and trade
• Global partnerships and Sustainable Development Goals
• Inclusive societies: civil society, Leave No One Behind, diaspora, social protection, disability, gender, ageing, faith, LGBT and VAWG
• safeguarding
• Value for money and transparency returns
• Minister for Abercrombie House, our joint head quarters in Scotland

Current role holder: Baroness Sugg CBE

Baroness Sugg CBE was appointed as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for International Development on 23 April 2019. She was a Government Whip (Baroness in Waiting) from 15 June 2017 to 26 July 2019. She was previously Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport from October 2017 to April 2019. Baroness Sugg became a Conservative life peer on 30 August 2016.

Career outside politics

Baroness Sugg previously served as Director of Operations and Campaigns at Downing Street under David Cameron.

She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2015 Dissolution Honours.

More about this person

Previous holders of this role

1. The Rt Hon Lord Bates

   • 2016 to 2019

2. The Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP

   • 2015 to 2015

Announcements

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1. UK aid to help prevent unsafe abortions

   • 18 July 2019
   • Press release

2. Delivering sustainable development goals

   • 17 July 2019
   • Speech

3. ‘Her Potential, Our Future’, Baroness Sugg speech at Women Deliver

   • 3 June 2019
   • Speech

4. New UK aid funding to tackle violence against women and girls in Syria

   • 24 May 2019
   • Press release

5. Baroness Sugg speech at Fair Fashion in Africa event

   • 3 May 2019
   • Speech

6. Lord Bates speech at the Prosperity Fund Business Forum

   • 20 June 2018
   • Speech

7. New opportunities for London businesses to deliver UK aid

   • 23 March 2018
   • Press release

8. New opportunities for Midlands businesses to deliver UK aid

   • 3 November 2017
   • Press release

9. Lord Bates speech to the International Insurance Society Global Insurance Forum

   • 20 July 2017
   • Speech

10. CDC launch new strategy to boost long-term prosperity in Africa and South Asia

    • 6 July 2017
    • Press release

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