Department for International Development ministerial roles

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

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

Minister of State (Minister for Middle East and North Africa) - Rt Hon James Cleverly MP

The Minister’s responsibilities include:

• Middle East and North Africa
• conflict, humanitarian issues, human security
• CHASE (Conflict, Humanitarian and Security Department)
• Stabilisation Unit
• defence and international security
• Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OCSE) and Council of Europe
• Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF)
• safeguarding

Minister of State (Minister for Pacific and the Environment) - Rt Hon Lord Zac Goldsmith

The Minister’s responsibilities include:

• climate change, environment and conservation, biodiversity
• oceans
• Oceania
• Blue Belt

Minister of State (Minister for Asia) - Nigel Adams MP

The Minister’s responsibilities include:

• East Asia and South East Asia
• economic diplomacy
• trade
• Economics Unit
• Prosperity Fund
• soft power, including British Council, BBC World Service and scholarships
• third-country agreements
• consular

Minister of State (Minister for South Asia and the Commonwealth) and Prime Minister’s Special Representative on Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict - Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon

Responsibilities as Minister for South Asia and the Commonwealth:

• South Asia
• Commonwealth
• UN and multilateral
• governance and democracy
• open societies and anti-corruption
• human rights, including Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative (PSVI)
• treaty policy and practice
• sanctions
• departmental operations: human resources and estates

Responsibilities as the Prime Minister’s Special Representative on Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict

• strengthen accountability and tackle impunity
• provide greater support for survivors
• ensure gender equality is fully integrated in all peace and security efforts
• deliver a more effective multilateral response to crimes of sexual violence in conflict

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Africa) - James Duddridge MP

The Minister’s responsibilities include:

• Sub-Saharan Africa
• economic development
• international financial institutions
• CDC (UK government’s development finance institution)

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for European Neighbourhood and the Americas) - Wendy Morton MP

The Minister’s responsibilities include:

• East and South-East Europe
• Central Asia
• Americas
• health, global health security, neglected tropical diseases
• water and sanitation
• nutrition
• Global Fund, GAVI (the Vaccine Alliance)

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for the Overseas Territories and Sustainable Development) - Baroness Sugg CBE

The Minister’s responsibilities include:

• Overseas Territories
• children, education and youth (including girls’ education)
• sexual and reproductive health and rights, women and girls, LGBT, civil society, inclusive societies, disability
• global partnerships and Sustainable Development Goals
• departmental operations: finance and protocol