Ministerial role

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Services, Small Businesses and Exports

Organisations: UK Export Finance and Department for Business and Trade
Current role holder: Gareth Thomas MP

Responsibilities

The Minister for Exports’ responsibilities include:

  • export strategy implementation and promotion across all sectors
  • supporting small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) to export
  • Export Support Service
  • trade missions and trade shows
  • free trade agreement (FTA) utilisation
  • outward direct investment delivery
  • business legislation and private members bills
  • Made in the UK, Sold to the World campaign
  • UK Internal Market and the Union
  • Board of Trade
  • UK Export Finance
  • Osaka Expo 2025
  • African Investment Summit

Current role holder

Gareth Thomas MP

Gareth Thomas was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Services, Small Businesses and Exports) at the Department for Business and Trade on 9 July 2024. He was elected as the MP for Harrow West in July 2024.

More about this person

Previous holders of this role

  1. Lord Offord of Garvel CVO

    2023 to 2024

  2. Andrew Bowie MP

    2022 to 2023

  3. Marcus Fysh

    2022 to 2022

  4. Andrew Griffith MP

    2022 to 2022

  5. Mike Freer

    2021 to 2022

  6. The Rt Hon Graham Stuart MP

    2020 to 2021