Ministerial role
Secretary of State for International Development
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.
Previous holders of this role
-
The Rt Hon Alok Sharma MP
2019 to 2020
-
The Rt Hon Rory Stewart OBE
2019 to 2019
-
The Rt Hon Penny Mordaunt MP
2017 to 2019
-
The Rt Hon Priti Patel MP
2016 to 2017
-
The Rt Hon Justine Greening
2012 to 2016
-
The Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell MP
2010 to 2012
Announcements
Subscriptions
- PM announces new funding in fight against spread of coronavirus
- UK aid protects victims of violence as Syrian regime increases attacks in Idlib
- UK supercomputer to combat Africa’s worst locust outbreak in decades
- New UK aid to help stop the spread of coronavirus around the world
- Alok Sharma's closing speech at UK-Africa Investment Summit
- International Development Secretary launches new venture to create rich pipeline of infrastructure projects across Africa
- UK Government Statement on the UK-Africa Investment Summit
- UK aims to be Africa’s partner of choice for trade and investment
- UK Government supporting City of London to mobilise billions of pounds of investment to transform Africa
- UK aid boosts support for African women entrepreneurs to expand businesses into global markets