Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Africa

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Africa is a junior position in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in the British government. The office was previously merged with the Minister of State for Development.^[1] The incumbent is The Lord Collins of Highbury.^[2]

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Africa
Royal Arms of His Majesty's Government
Incumbent The Lord Collins of Highbury since 9 July 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Style	Minister
Nominator	Prime Minister
Appointer	The King (on the advice of the Prime Minister)
Term length	At His Majesty's pleasure
Formation	28 July 1999
Website	Official website

Responsibilities

The minister was responsible for the following:^[3]

• Africa (including North Africa)
• consular policy
• Parliament
• devolution
• communications
• Wilton Park and British Council
• departmental operations
• legal

List

Name		Portrait	Term of office		Length of Service	Political party	P.M.		F.Sec.
	Peter Hain MP for Neath		28 July 1999	24 January 2001	1 year, 5 months and 27 days	Labour		Blair	Cook
	Brian Wilson MP for Cunninghame North		24 January 2001	11 June 2001	4 months and 18 days
Office vacant 2001–2007
	The Right Honourable Mark Malloch Brown The Lord Malloch-Brown		28 June 2007	24 July 2009	2 years and 26 days	Labour		Brown	Miliband
	The Right Honourable Glenys Kinnock The Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead		13 October 2009	11 May 2010	6 months and 28 days
	Henry Bellingham MP for North West Norfolk		11 May 2010	5 September 2012	6 months and 18 days	Conservative		Cameron	Hague
	The Right Honourable Mark Simmonds MP for Boston and Skegness		5 September 2012	11 August 2014	1 year, 7 months and 3 days
	James Duddridge MP for Rochford and Southend East		11 August 2014	16 July 2016	11 months and 22 days				Hammond
	The Right Honourable Tobias Ellwood MP for Bournemouth East		16 July 2016	13 June 2017	10 months and 28 days			May	Johnson
	The Right Honourable Rory Stewart MP for Penrith and The Border		15 June 2017	9 January 2018	6 months and 25 days
	Harriett Baldwin MP for West Worcestershire		9 January 2018	25 July 2019	1 year, 6 months and 16 days				Hunt
	The Right Honourable Andrew Stephenson MP for Pendle		25 July 2019	13 February 2020	6 months and 18 days			Johnson	Raab
	James Duddridge MP for Rochford and Southend East		13 February 2020	16 September 2021	1 year, 7 months and 3 days
	The Right Honourable Vicky Ford MP for Chelmsford		16 September 2021	6 September 2022	11 months and 22 days				Truss
	The Right Honourable Gillian Keegan MP for Chichester		7 September 2022	25 October 2022	1 month and 18 days			Truss	Cleverly
Office merged with Minister of State for Development and became Minister of State for Development and Africa
	The Right Honourable Ray Collins The Lord Collins of Highbury		9 July 2024	Incumbent	1 year, 1 month and 10 days	Labour		Starmer	Lammy

* Incumbent's length of term last updated: 19 August 2025.

See also

• Foreign and Commonwealth Office
• Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
• 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 Foreign Affairs