Ministerial role

Minister for Exports

Organisations: UK Export Finance and Department for Business and Trade
Current role holder: Lord Offord of Garvel CVO

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

Lord Offord of Garvel CVO

Malcolm Offord is a Scottish businessman who was appointed a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Department of Business and Trade on 24 April 2023.

He was also previously a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State to the Scotland Office from 4th October 2021 until 1 March 2024.

He was born and educated in Greenock and graduated in Law from Edinburgh University in 1987 before embarking upon a 25 year career in The City of London. He returned to Scotland in 2014 and established the private equity boutique Badenoch & Co which invests in Scottish SMEs, that focus on manufacturing their products at home and selling abroad. He is a regent of Edinburgh University and a Trustee of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award.

More about this person

Previous holders of this role

  1. Andrew Bowie MP

    2022 to 2023

  2. Marcus Fysh MP

    2022 to 2022

  3. Andrew Griffith MP

    2022 to 2022

  4. Mike Freer MP

    2021 to 2022

  5. The Rt Hon Graham Stuart MP

    2020 to 2021