Ministerial role

Secretary of State for International Trade and President of the Board of Trade

Organisations: Department for International Trade and UK Export Finance

Responsibilities

The Secretary of State’s principal responsibility is delivering the department’s priority outcomes:

  • securing world-class free trade agreements and reducing market access barriers, ensuring that consumers and businesses can benefit from both
  • encouraging economic growth and a green industrial revolution across all parts of the UK through attracting and retaining inward investment
  • supporting UK business to take full advantage of trade opportunities, including those arising from delivering free trade agreements (FTAs), facilitating UK exports
  • championing the rules-based international trading system and operating the UK’s new trading system, including protecting UK businesses from unfair trade practices

Previous holders of this role

  1. The Rt Hon Kemi Badenoch MP

    2022 to 2023

  2. The Rt Hon Anne-Marie Trevelyan

    2021 to 2022

  3. The Rt Hon Elizabeth Truss

    2019 to 2021

  4. The Rt Hon Liam Fox

    2016 to 2019