The Rt Hon James Cleverly MP
Biography
James Cleverly was appointed Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs on 6 September 2022.
James was previously Secretary of State for Education from July 2022 to September 2022.
Before that, James was Minister of State for Europe and North America in the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) from February to July 2022. He was also Minister for Middle East, North Africa and North America from September 2020 to February 2022. James was first appointed as a joint Minister of State for Middle East and North Africa in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office and the Department for International Development on 13 February 2020.
James was Minister without Portfolio from July 2019 to February 2020, and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Exiting the European Union from April 2019 to July 2019. He was first elected as the Conservative MP for Braintree in May 2015.
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Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs
The Secretary of State has overall responsibility for all Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office business, including:
- overarching responsibility for the departmental portfolio and oversight of the ministerial team
- Cabinet
- Foreign Policy and National Security Council
- strategy
- intelligence policy
- honours
Previous roles in government
Announcements
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- UK to provide £16 million in humanitarian aid for Ukraine
- New UK sanctions legislation allows the government to target Belarus exports, internet propaganda, and crack down on circumvention
- Foreign Secretary visits Kyiv before Ukraine Recovery Conference
- Shared values and global partnerships: Foreign Secretary's speech
- UK to galvanise support for Ukraine’s recovery at OECD meetings
- Eleventh UK-Caribbean Ministerial Forum: communiqué and action plan
- Foreign Secretary visits British armed forces on NATO’s ‘Eastern Flank’
- UK–Brazil Partnership on Green and Inclusive Growth: joint declaration
- Blow for Putin as UK marks one year free from Russian gas
- UK-Chile High-Level Political Dialogue: joint statement 2023