Minister of State for Development and Africa

A separate Ministry of Overseas Development was established by Harold Wilson when he came to office in 1964. The first three holders of the office served in the Cabinet, but from 29 August 1967 the office was demoted. Under Edward Heath, the Ministry was re-incorporated into the FCO on 15 October 1970. Wilson again established the Ministry in 1974, but later merged it into the FCO once again: from 10 June 1975 to 8 October 1979 the foreign secretary served as Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and Minister for Overseas Development in the cabinet, while the minister for overseas development held the rank of Minister of State within the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. The minister of state had day-to-day responsibility. Under the Labour government of the 1970s, Reg Prentice sat in the Cabinet during his term.[3] The post's last and main format was created in 1997 when the Department for International Development was made independent of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO).

In June 2020, it was announced the Department for International Development would be dissolved, and its operations would be merged into the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. The process was completed by 2 September 2020, with the last international development secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan remaining in place until that time.[4]

The position was revived at a Minister of State attending Cabinet role in 2022.

Minister			Term of office		Party	Prime Minister
Ministers of Overseas Development (1964–1970)
	Barbara Castle		18 October 1964	23 December 1965	Labour		Harold Wilson
	Anthony Greenwood		23 December 1965	11 August 1966	Labour
	Arthur Bottomley		11 August 1966	29 August 1967	Labour
	Reginald Prentice		29 August 1967	6 October 1969	Labour
	Judith Hart		6 October 1969	19 June 1970	Labour
	Richard Wood		23 June 1970	15 October 1970	Conservative		Edward Heath
Ministers for Overseas Development (1970–1997)
	Richard Wood		15 October 1970	4 March 1974	Conservative		Edward Heath
	Judith Hart		7 March 1974	10 June 1975	Labour		Harold Wilson
	Reginald Prentice		10 June 1975	21 December 1976 (resigned)	Labour
							James Callaghan
	Frank Judd		21 December 1976	21 February 1977	Labour
	Judith Hart		21 February 1977	4 May 1979	Labour
	Neil Marten		6 May 1979	6 January 1983	Conservative		Margaret Thatcher
	Timothy Raison		6 January 1983	10 September 1986	Conservative
	Chris Patten		10 September 1986	24 July 1989	Conservative
	Lynda Chalker (Member of Parliament (MP) for Wallasey until 1992)		24 July 1989	2 May 1997	Conservative
							John Major
Secretaries of State for International Development (1997–2020)
		Clare Short	3 May 1997	12 May 2003	Labour		Tony Blair
		Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos	12 May 2003	6 October 2003	Labour
		Hilary Benn	6 October 2003	28 June 2007	Labour
		Douglas Alexander	28 June 2007	11 May 2010	Labour		Gordon Brown
		Andrew Mitchell	12 May 2010	4 September 2012	Conservative		David Cameron (Coalition)
		Justine Greening	4 September 2012	14 July 2016	Conservative
							David Cameron (II)
		Priti Patel	14 July 2016	8 November 2017	Conservative		Theresa May (I)
							Theresa May (II)
		Penny Mordaunt	9 November 2017	1 May 2019	Conservative
		Rory Stewart	1 May 2019	24 July 2019	Conservative
		Alok Sharma	24 July 2019	13 February 2020	Conservative		Boris Johnson
		Anne-Marie Trevelyan	13 February 2020	2 September 2020	Conservative
Minister of State for Development (2022)
		Vicky Ford	6 September 2022	25 October 2022	Conservative		Liz Truss
Minister of State for Development and Africa (2022–present)
		Andrew Mitchell	25 October 2022	Incumbent*	Conservative		Rishi Sunak

* Incumbent's length of term last updated: 23 October 2023.