Ministerial role

Minister of State for Asia and the Pacific at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Organisations: Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Responsibilities

Responsibilities include:

  • Asia (except Central Asia)
  • Australasia and the Pacific
  • communications, public diplomacy and scholarships
  • British Council
  • economic diplomacy (including climate change, illegal wildlife trade and international energy policy)
  • ministerial oversight of Foreign & Commonwealth Office Services
  • Foreign & Commonwealth Office representative for Prosperity Fund Ministerial Board

Previous holders of this role

  1. The Rt Hon Mark Field

    2017 to 2019