The roles and responsibilities of each Minister in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) are as follows:
Right hon. David Miliband MP: Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
Overall responsibility for the work of the Office
Strategy and Policy Planning
Communications
Honours
Whitehall Liaison Department
Right hon. Lord Malloch-Brown: Minister for Africa, Asia and the UN, attending Cabinet
Afghanistan and South Asia
Africa
United Nations
Human Rights
Global Issues
Commonwealth
Ministerial Oversight for FCO Services
Ivan Lewis’ business, plus Public Diplomacy (including British Council and BBC World Service) in the Lords
Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead: Minister of State (Europe)
European Union
Europe, including Balkans, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova
Russia, South Caucasus, Central Asia
Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe and Council of Europe
FCO finance
Chris Bryant’s business in the Lords (except Public Diplomacy)
Ivan Lewis MP: Minister of State
Middle East
Counter Terrorism
Counter Proliferation
South East Asia and Far East
North America
Middle East and North Africa
Drugs and International Crime
Migration
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
Leads on Lord Malloch-Brown’s business in the Commons
Chris Bryant MP: Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
Overseas Territories
South America
Caribbean and Central America
Australasia and Pacific
Consular policy
Olympics
Shanghai Expo 2010
Protocol
HR and Diversity
Public Diplomacy, including British Council and BBC World Service
Leads on Baroness Kinnock’s business in the Commons, including Europe
Lord Mervyn Davies of Abersoch CBE: Minister for Trade and Investment
UK Trade and Investment (joint Minister with Department for Business, Innovation and Skills)
Baroness Taylor of Bolton: Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
Liaison with MOD on security and defence policy issues (joint with Ministry of Defence)
This information is publicly available on the FCO website:
ixhttp://www.fco.gov.uk/en/about-the-fco/how-we-are-organised/ministers/