Minister of State for Development

The **minister of state for development**, formerly the **minister of state for development and Africa** and the **secretary of state for international development**, is a senior minister of the Crown within the Government of the United Kingdom.

## List of ministers and secretaries of state

|colspan=3|Minister|colspan=2|Term of office|Party|colspan=2|Ministry|||||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|||Barbara Castle|18 October 1964|23 December 1965|Labour|rowspan=5 style="background-color:"||rowspan=5|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|style="background-color:"||Heath||||||||
||Richard Wood|15 October 1970|4 March 1974|Conservative|style="background-color:"||Heath||||||||
||Judith Hart|7 March 1974|10 June 1975|Labour|rowspan=2 style="background-color:"||rowspan=2|Wilson|||||||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Reginald Prentice|rowspan=2|10 June 1975|rowspan=2|21 December 1976 (resigned)|rowspan=2|Labour||||||
|rowspan=3 style="background-color:"||rowspan=3|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|rowspan=4 style="background-color:"||rowspan=4|Thatcher|||||||
||Timothy Raison|6 January 1983|10 September 1986|Conservative|||||||||||
||Chris Patten|10 September 1986|24 July 1989|Conservative|||||||||||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Lynda Chalker __|rowspan=2|24 July 1989|rowspan=2|2 May 1997|rowspan=2|Conservative||||||
|style="background-color:"||colspan=2|Major||||||||||||
||Clare Short|3 May 1997|12 May 2003|Labour|rowspan=3 style="background-color:"||rowspan=3|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|style="background-color:"||Brown||||||||
||Andrew Mitchell|12 May 2010|4 September 2012|Conservative|rowspan=2 style="background-color:#ddd"||rowspan=2|Cameron-Clegg|||||||
|rowspan=2 style="background-color:"||rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Justine Greening|rowspan=2|4 September 2012|rowspan=2|14 July 2016|rowspan=2|Conservative||||
|style="background-color:"||Cameron|||||||||||||
|rowspan=2 style="background-color:"||rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Priti Patel|rowspan=2|14 July 2016|rowspan=2|8 November 2017|rowspan=2|Conservative|rowspan=2 style="background-color:"||May|
|rowspan=3|May||||||||||||||
|style="background-color:"|||Penny Mordaunt|9 November 2017|1 May 2019|Conservative|style="background-color:"||||||||
|style="background-color:"|||Rory Stewart|1 May 2019|24 July 2019|Conservative|style="background-color:"||||||||
|rowspan=2 style="background-color:"||rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Alok Sharma|rowspan=2|24 July 2019|rowspan=2|13 February 2020|rowspan=2|Conservative|rowspan=2 style="background-color:"||Johnson|
|rowspan=3|Johnson||||||||||||||
|style="background-color:"|||Anne-Marie Trevelyan|13 February 2020|2 September 2020|Conservative|style="background-color:"||||||||
|style="background-color:"|||_Vacant_|2 September 2020|6 September 2022|Conservative|style="background-color:"||||||||
|style="background-color:"|||Vicky Ford|6 September 2022|25 October 2022|Conservative|style="background-color:"||Truss||||||
|style="background-color:"|||Andrew Mitchell|25 October 2022|5 July 2024|Conservative|style="background-color:"||Sunak||||||
||Anneliese Dodds|8 July 2024|_Incumbent_|Labour|style="background-color:"||Starmer||||||||

## Infobox (official post)

- **post**:
 Minister of State for
Development
- **insignia**: Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom (HM Government) (2022).svg
- **insigniacaption**: Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom, Royal Arms of His Majesty's Government
- **department**: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
- **image**: Official portrait of Anneliese Dodds MP.jpg
- **incumbent**: Anneliese Dodds
- **incumbentsince**: 8 July 2024
- **status**: Minister of the Crown
- **seat**: Westminster
- **nominator**: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, The Prime Minister
- **appointer**: Monarchy of the United Kingdom, The Monarch
- **reports to**: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Prime Minister
Foreign Secretary
- **termlength**: At His Majesty's pleasure
- **first**: Barbara Castle

- **formation**: *18 October 1964:

*25 October 2022: