Ministerial role
Minister of State (Minister for Middle East and North Africa)
Current role holder:
The Rt Hon James Cleverly MP
Responsibilities
The Minister’s responsibilities include:
- Middle East and North Africa
- conflict, humanitarian issues, human security
- CHASE (Conflict, Humanitarian and Security Department)
- Stabilisation Unit
- defence and international security
- Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OCSE) and Council of Europe
- Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF)
- safeguarding
Current role holder
The Rt Hon James Cleverly MP
James Cleverly was appointed joint Minister of State in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Department for International Development on 13 February 2020. He was first elected as the Conservative MP for Braintree in May 2015.
James was Minister without Portfolio from 24 July 2019 to 13 February 2020 and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Exiting the European Union from April 2019 to July 2019.