Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Americas and Caribbean facts for kids

Quick facts for kids United Kingdom Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Americas, Caribbean and Overseas Territories
Royal Arms of His Majesty's Government
Incumbent David Rutley since 27 October 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Style	Minister
Nominator	Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Appointer	The Monarch on advice of the Prime Minister
Term length	At His Majesty's pleasure

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Americas, Caribbean and Overseas Territories is a ministerial office in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office of the British government.

The office of Minister of State for Middle East and North Africa was held by James Cleverly MP from 13 February 2020 to 8 February 2022. In December 2021, the post adopted responsibility for North America and became the deputy to the Foreign Secretary.

The Middle East portfolio was merged into the Minister of State for Asia and the Middle East in February 2022, with Cleverly moving to the position of Minister of State for Europe and North America. The position of Minister of State for Europe and North America was split in July 2022, with Graham Stuart becoming Minister of State for Europe and Rehman Chishti assuming responsibility for North America as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for North America, Sanctions and Consular Policy.

Responsibilities

The minister is responsible for the following:

• Americas and Caribbean
• Overseas Territories, including the Falkland Islands
• consular policy
• Parliament
• Devolution
• communications
• Wilton Park and British Council
• departmental operations
• legal

List

Name		Portrait	Term of office		Political party	P.M.		F.Sec.
	Alistair Burt		13 May 2010	7 October 2013	Conservative		Cameron	Hague
	Hugh Robertson		7 October 2013	14 July 2014
	Tobias Ellwood		15 July 2014	13 June 2017				Hammond
							May	Johnson
	Alistair Burt		13 June 2017	25 March 2019
								Hunt
Minister of State for International Development and the Middle East
	Andrew Murrison		9 May 2019	13 February 2020	Conservative		Johnson	Raab
Minister of State for Middle East, North Africa and North America
	James Cleverly		13 February 2020	8 February 2022	Conservative		Johnson	Raab Truss
Role split and merged into Minister of State for Asia and the Middle East and Minister of State for Europe and North America
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for North America, Sanctions and Consular Policy Role formed out of Minister of State for Europe and North America
	Rehman Chishti		8 July 2022	7 September 2022	Conservative		Johnson	Truss
Minister of State for the Americas and the Overseas Territories
	Jesse Norman		7 September 2022	26 October 2022	Conservative		Truss	Cleverly
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Americas and Caribbean
	David Rutley		27 October 2022	14 November 2023	Conservative		Sunak	Cleverly
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Americas, Caribbean and Overseas Territories
	David Rutley		14 November 2023	Incumbent	Conservative		Sunak	Cameron

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
• Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
• Minister for Africa