Ministerial role

Secretary of State for International Development

Organisations: Department for International Development
Current role holder: The Rt Hon Anne-Marie Trevelyan MP

Responsibilities

The Secretary of State leads the DFID ministerial team, sets the overall strategy and direction for the department.

  • Cabinet and Cabinet Committees
  • National Security Council
  • All major spending decisions and overall delivery and management of 0.7%
  • Communications

Current role holder

The Rt Hon Anne-Marie Trevelyan MP

Anne-Marie Trevelyan was appointed Secretary of State for International Development on 13 February 2020.

She was previously Minister of State for the Armed Forces from 17 December 2019 to 13 February 2020, and Minister for Defence Procurement from 27 July 2019 to 16 December 2019.

Anne-Marie was first elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for the Berwick-upon-Tweed constituency at the 2015 general election.

A chartered accountant by trade, Anne-Marie sat on the House of Commons’ Public Accounts Committee from July 2015 to May 2017 and December 2018 to July 2019. She has previously served as the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Defence. As an MP, she has campaigned with colleagues for greater autism awareness and has focussed on the Armed Forces Covenant.

Her wider interests involve spending time with her family, making the most of the incredible landscape her vast and varied constituency affords and putting her passion for singing to good use by taking part in Singing for Syrians concerts in Westminster.

More about this person

Previous holders of this role

  1. The Rt Hon Alok Sharma MP

    2019 to 2020

  2. The Rt Hon Rory Stewart OBE

    2019 to 2019

  3. The Rt Hon Penny Mordaunt MP

    2017 to 2019

  4. The Rt Hon Priti Patel MP

    2016 to 2017

  5. The Rt Hon Justine Greening

    2012 to 2016

  6. The Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell MP

    2010 to 2012

Announcements

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  1. PM announces new funding in fight against spread of coronavirus
    • 06 March 2020
    • Press release
  2. UK aid protects victims of violence as Syrian regime increases attacks in Idlib
    • 03 March 2020
    • Press release
  3. UK supercomputer to combat Africa’s worst locust outbreak in decades
    • 02 March 2020
    • News story
  4. New UK aid to help stop the spread of coronavirus around the world
    • 08 February 2020
    • Press release
  5. Alok Sharma's closing speech at UK-Africa Investment Summit
    • 20 January 2020
    • Speech
  6. International Development Secretary launches new venture to create rich pipeline of infrastructure projects across Africa
    • 20 January 2020
    • Press release
  7. UK Government Statement on the UK-Africa Investment Summit
    • 20 January 2020
    • Policy paper
  8. UK aims to be Africa’s partner of choice for trade and investment
    • 20 January 2020
    • Press release
  9. UK Government supporting City of London to mobilise billions of pounds of investment to transform Africa
    • 17 January 2020
    • Press release
  10. UK aid boosts support for African women entrepreneurs to expand businesses into global markets
    • 16 January 2020
    • Press release
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