The parliamentary under-secretary of state for foreign affairs was a junior position in the British government, subordinate to both the secretary of state for foreign affairs and since 1945 also to the minister of state for foreign affairs. The post is based at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, which was created by the merger of the Foreign Office, where the position was initially based, with the Commonwealth Office in 1968 and the Department for International Development in 2020. Notable holders of the office include Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville, John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley, Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, and Anthony Eden.
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs | |
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Royal Arms of HM Government | |
Incumbent since 11 May 2010Inactive Position | |
| Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office | |
| Reports to | Foreign Secretary |
| Nominator | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom |
| Appointer | The Prime Minister approved and sworn in by the Queen-in-Council |
| Term length | No fixed term |
| Formation | 1782 |
| First holder | William Fraser |
List of ministers
| Name | Portrait | Term of office | Political party | P.M. | F.Sec. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs | ||||||||
| William Fraser | 1782 | 1789 | ||||||
| Richard Brinsley Sheridan | 1782 | 1782 | Whig | Marquess of Rockingham | Fox | |||
| George Maddison | 1782 | 1783 | Earl of Shelburne | Lord Grantham | ||||
| Duke of Portland | Fox | |||||||
| St Andrew St John | 1783 | 1789 | Pitt the Younger | Earl Temple | ||||
| Duke of Leeds | ||||||||
| Dudley Ryder | 1789 | 1789 | Tory | |||||
| Sir James Burges, 1st Baronet | 1789 | January 1796 | ||||||
| Lord Grenville | ||||||||
| George Canning | January 1796 | April 1799 | Tory | |||||
| John Hookham Frere | April 1799 | September 1800 | ||||||
| Edward Fisher | September 1800 | February 1801 | ||||||
| Frederick Hervey, Baron Hervey | February 1801 | November 1803 | Addington | Lord Hawkesbury | ||||
| Charles Arbuthnot | November 1803 | June 1804 | Tory | |||||
| William Eliot | June 1804 | February 1805 | Pitt the Younger | Lord Harrowby | ||||
| Robert Ward | February 1805 | February 1806 | Lord Mulgrave | |||||
| George Walpole | February 1806 | March 1807 | Lord Grenville | Fox | ||||
| Charles Grey, Viscount Howick | ||||||||
| Sir Francis Vincent, 9th Baronet | February 1806 | March 1807 | Duke of Portland | Canning | ||||
| James Harris, Viscount FitzHarris | March 1807 | August 1807 | ||||||
| Charles Bagot | August 1807 | December 1809 | ||||||
| Perceval | Earl Bathurst | |||||||
| Culling Charles Smith | December 1809 | February 1812 | Marquess Wellesley | |||||
| Edward Cooke | February 1812 | 1817 | ||||||
| Earl of Liverpool | Marquess of Londonderry | |||||||
| Joseph Planta | 25 July 1817 | 22 January 1822 | Tory | |||||
| Richard Meade, 3rd Earl of Clanwilliam | January 1822 | January 1823 | ||||||
| Canning | ||||||||
| Lord Francis Conyngham | January 1823 | January 1826 | Tory | |||||
| Charles Ellis, 6th Baron Howard de Walden | July 1824 | June 1828 | ||||||
| Earl of Dudley | ||||||||
| Ulick de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde | January 1826 | 1827 | ||||||
| Cospatrick Douglas-Home, Lord Dunglass | June 1828 | November 1830 | Duke of Wellington | |||||
| Earl of Aberdeen | ||||||||
| Sir George Shee, 2nd Baronet | 26 November 1830 | 13 November 1834 | Whig | Earl Grey | Viscount Palmerston | |||
| Viscount Melbourne | ||||||||
| George Cowper, Viscount Fordwich | 13 November 1834 | 17 December 1834 | Duke of Wellington | Duke of Wellington | ||||
| Philip Stanhope, Viscount Mahon | 17 December 1834 | 18 April 1835 | Conservative | Peel | ||||
| William Fox-Strangways | 18 April 1835 | 7 March 1840 | Whig | Viscount Melbourne | Viscount Palmerston | |||
| Granville Leveson-Gower, Baron Leveson | 7 March 1840 | 4 September 1841 | ||||||
| Charles Canning, 2nd Viscount Canning | 4 September 1841 | 27 January 1846 | Conservative | Peel | Earl of Aberdeen | |||
| George Smythe | 27 January 1846 | 6 July 1846 | ||||||
| Edward Stanley | 6 July 1846 | 12 February 1852 | Whig | Russell | Viscount Palmerston | |||
| Earl Granville | ||||||||
| Austen Henry Layard | 12 February 1852 | 18 May 1852 | ||||||
| Edward Stanley, Baron Stanley | 18 May 1852 | 28 December 1852 | Conservative | Earl of Derby | Earl of Malmesbury | |||
| John Wodehouse, 3rd Baron Wodehouse | 28 December 1852 | 5 July 1856 | Whig | Earl of Aberdeen | Lord John Russell | |||
| Earl of Clarendon | ||||||||
| Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Earl of Shelburne | 5 July 1856 | 26 February 1858 | Viscount Palmerston | |||||
| William Vesey-FitzGerald | 26 February 1858 | 19 June 1859 | Conservative | Earl of Derby | Earl of Malmesbury | |||
| John Wodehouse, 3rd Baron Wodehouse | 19 June 1859 | 15 August 1861 | Liberal | Viscount Palmerston | Earl Russell | |||
| Austen Henry Layard | 15 August 1861 | 6 July 1866 | ||||||
| Earl Russell | Earl of Clarendon | |||||||
| Edward Egerton | 6 July 1866 | 12 December 1868 | Conservative | Earl of Derby | Edward Stanley, Baron Stanley | |||
| Disraeli | ||||||||
| Arthur Otway | 12 December 1868 | 9 January 1871 | Liberal | Gladstone | Earl of Clarendon | |||
| Earl Granville | ||||||||
| George Byng, Viscount Enfield | 9 January 1871 | 23 February 1874 | ||||||
| Robert Bourke | 23 February 1874 | 28 April 1880 | Conservative | Disraeli | Earl of Derby | |||
| Marquess of Salisbury | ||||||||
| Sir Charles Dilke, 2nd Baronet | 28 April 1880 | 1 January 1883 | Liberal | Gladstone | Earl Granville | |||
| Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice | 1 January 1883 | 25 June 1885 | ||||||
| Robert Bourke | 25 June 1885 | 28 January 1886 | Conservative | Marquess of Salisbury | Marquess of Salisbury | |||
| James Bryce | 7 February 1886 | 20 July 1886 | Liberal | Gladstone | Earl of Rosebery | |||
| Sir James Fergusson, 6th Baronet | 4 August 1886 | 22 September 1891 | Conservative | Marquess of Salisbury | Earl of Iddesleigh | |||
| Marquess of Salisbury | ||||||||
| James Lowther | 22 September 1891 | 18 August 1892 | ||||||
| Sir Edward Grey, 3rd Baronet | 18 August 1892 | 20 June 1895 | Liberal | Gladstone | Earl of Rosebery | |||
| Earl of Rosebery | ||||||||
| Earl of Kimberley | ||||||||
| George Curzon | 20 June 1895 | 15 October 1898 | Conservative | Marquess of Salisbury | Marquess of Salisbury | |||
| St John Brodrick | 15 October 1898 | 12 November 1900 | ||||||
| James Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount Cranborne | 12 November 1900 | 9 October 1903 | Marquess of Lansdowne | |||||
| Balfour | ||||||||
| Henry Percy, Earl Percy | 9 October 1903 | 18 December 1905 | ||||||
| Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice | 18 December 1905 | 19 October 1908 | Liberal | Campbell-Bannerman | Grey | |||
| Asquith | ||||||||
| Thomas McKinnon Wood | 19 October 1908 | 23 October 1911 | ||||||
| Francis Dyke Acland | 23 October 1911 | 4 February 1915 | ||||||
| Neil Primrose | 4 February 1915 | 30 May 1915 | ||||||
| Lord Robert Cecil | 30 May 1915 | 10 January 1919 | Conservative | |||||
| Lloyd George | Balfour | |||||||
| Cecil Harmsworth | 10 January 1919 | 31 October 1922 | Liberal | |||||
| Ronald McNeill | 31 October 1922 | 23 January 1924 | Conservative | Law | ||||
| Marquess Curzon of Kedleston | ||||||||
| Baldwin | ||||||||
| Arthur Ponsonby | 23 January 1924 | 11 November 1924 | Labour | MacDonald | MacDonald | |||
| Ronald McNeill | 11 November 1924 | 7 December 1925 | Conservative | Baldwin | Chamberlain | |||
| Godfrey Locker-Lampson | 7 December 1925 | 11 June 1929 | ||||||
| Hugh Dalton | 11 June 1929 | 3 September 1931 | Labour | MacDonald | Henderson | |||
| Anthony Eden | 3 September 1931 | 18 January 1934 | Conservative | Marquess of Reading | ||||
| Simon | ||||||||
| James Stanhope, 7th Earl Stanhope | 18 January 1934 | 16 June 1936 | ||||||
| Baldwin | Hoare | |||||||
| Eden | ||||||||
| Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount Cranborne | 18 June 1935 | 20 February 1938 | Baldwin (1935–37) Chamberlain (1937–40) | Eden (1935–38) Viscount Halifax (1938–40) | ||||
| Ivor Windsor-Clive, 2nd Earl of Plymouth | 30 July 1936 | 12 May 1940 | ||||||
| Rab Butler | 25 February 1938 | 20 July 1941 | Chamberlain | Viscount Halifax | ||||
| Churchill | ||||||||
| Eden | ||||||||
| Richard Law | 20 July 1941 | 25 September 1943 | ||||||
| George Hall | 25 September 1943 | 26 May 1945 | Labour | |||||
| Alec Douglas-Home, Lord Dunglass | 26 May 1945 | 26 July 1945 | Conservative | |||||
| Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat | 26 May 1945 | 26 July 1945 | ||||||
| Hector McNeil | 4 August 1945 | 4 October 1946 | Labour | Attlee | Bevin | |||
| Christopher Mayhew | 4 October 1946 | 2 March 1950 | ||||||
| William Henderson, 1st Baron Henderson | 7 June 1948 | 26 October 1951 | ||||||
| Ernest Davies | 2 March 1950 | 26 October 1951 | ||||||
| Morrison | ||||||||
| Gerald Isaacs, 2nd Marquess of Reading | 31 October 1951 | 11 November 1953 | Conservative | Churchill | Eden | |||
| Anthony Nutting | 31 October 1951 | 18 October 1954 | ||||||
| Douglas Dodds-Parker | 11 November 1953 | 18 October 1954 | ||||||
| Robin Turton | 18 October 1954 | 20 December 1955 | Churchill (1954–55) Eden (1955–56) | Eden (1954–55) Macmillan (1955) Lloyd (1955–56) | ||||
| Lord John Hope | 18 October 1954 | 9 November 1956 | ||||||
| Douglas Dodds-Parker | 20 December 1955 | 9 January 1957 | Eden | Lloyd | ||||
| David Ormsby-Gore | 9 November 1956 | 9 January 1957 | ||||||
| Ian Harvey | 18 January 1957 | 24 November 1958 | Macmillan | |||||
| Archibald Acheson, 6th Earl of Gosford | 18 January 1957 | 23 October 1958 | ||||||
| George Petty-Fitzmaurice, 8th Marquess of Lansdowne | 23 October 1958 | 20 April 1962 | ||||||
| Alec Douglas-Home | ||||||||
| John Profumo | 28 November 1958 | 16 January 1959 | Lloyd | |||||
| Robert Allan | 16 January 1959 | 7 October 1960 | ||||||
| Joseph Godber | 28 October 1960 | 27 June 1961 | Alec Douglas-Home | |||||
| Peter Thomas | 27 June 1961 | 27 June 1963 | ||||||
| Peter Smithers | 16 July 1962 | 29 January 1964 | ||||||
| Douglas-Home | Butler | |||||||
| Robert Mathew | 30 January 1964 | 16 October 1964 | ||||||
| Henry Walston, Baron Walston | 20 October 1964 | 7 January 1967 | Labour | Wilson | Walker | |||
| Stewart | ||||||||
| Brown | ||||||||
| Bill Rodgers | 7 January 1967 | 3 July 1968 | ||||||
| Maurice Foley | 3 July 1968 | 17 October 1968 | Stewart | |||||
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs | ||||||||
| Maurice Foley | 17 October 1968 | 19 June 1970 | Labour | Wilson | Stewart | |||
| William Whitlock | 17 October 1968 | 13 October 1969 | ||||||
| Evan Luard | 13 October 1969 | 19 June 1970 | ||||||
| Anthony Royle | 24 June 1970 | 8 January 1974 | Conservative | Heath | Douglas-Home | |||
| Peter Kerr, 12th Marquess of Lothian | 24 June 1970 | 9 April 1972 | ||||||
| Anthony Kershaw | 15 October 1970 | 5 June 1973 | ||||||
| Peter Blaker | 8 January 1974 | 4 March 1974 | ||||||
| Goronwy Roberts, Baron Goronwy-Roberts | 8 March 1974 | 4 December 1975 | Labour | Wilson | Callaghan | |||
| Joan Lestor | 8 March 1974 | 12 June 1975 | ||||||
| Ted Rowlands | 12 June 1975 | 14 April 1976 | ||||||
| John Tomlinson | 17 March 1976 | 4 May 1979 | Callaghan | Crosland (1976–77) Owen (1977–79) | ||||
| Evan Luard | 14 April 1976 | 4 May 1979 | ||||||
| Richard Luce | 6 May 1979 | 14 September 1981 | Conservative | Thatcher | Lord Carrington | |||
| David Trefgarne, 2nd Baron Trefgarne | 14 September 1981 | 6 April 1982 | ||||||
| Malcolm Rifkind | 6 April 1982 | 13 June 1983 | Pym | |||||
| Ray Whitney | 13 June 1983 | 11 September 1984 | Howe | |||||
| Tim Renton | 11 September 1984 | 2 September 1985 | ||||||
| Timothy Eggar | 2 September 1985 | 24 July 1989 | ||||||
| Tim Sainsbury | 24 July 1989 | 24 July 1990 | Major | |||||
| Hurd | ||||||||
| Mark Lennox-Boyd | 24 July 1990 | 20 July 1994 | ||||||
| Major | ||||||||
| Office vacant from 1994 to 1996 | ||||||||
| Liam Fox | 23 July 1996 | 1 May 1997 | Conservative | Major | Rifkind | |||
| Elizabeth Symons, Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean | 2 May 1997 | 28 June 1999 | Labour | Blair | Cook | |||
| Patricia Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Asthal | 28 July 1999 | 12 June 2001 | ||||||
| Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos | 12 June 2001 | 13 June 2003 | Straw | |||||
| Ben Bradshaw | 12 June 2001 | 29 May 2002 | ||||||
| Mike O'Brien | 29 May 2002 | 13 June 2003 | ||||||
| Bill Rammell | 28 October 2002 | 10 May 2005 | ||||||
| Chris Mullin | 13 June 2003 | 10 May 2005 | ||||||
| David Triesman, Baron Triesman | 10 May 2005 | 28 June 2007 | ||||||
| Beckett | ||||||||
| Meg Munn | 29 June 2007 | 5 October 2008 | Brown | Miliband | ||||
| Gillian Merron | 5 October 2008 | 9 June 2009 | ||||||
| Chris Bryant | 9 June 2009 | 11 May 2010 | ||||||
| Role merged into Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Asia and the Pacific | ||||||||
See also
- Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
- Foreign Secretary
- Minister of State for Europe
- Minister of State for Foreign Affairs
- Minister of State for Middle East and North Africa
- Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
- Undersecretary
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