United Kingdom Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Indo-Pacific
Royal Arms of His Majesty's Government
Incumbent Seema Malhotra since 6 September 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Reports to	Foreign Secretary
Nominator	Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Appointer	The King (on the advice of the Prime Minister)
Term length	At His Majesty's pleasure
Formation	1943
First holder	Richard Law

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Indo-Pacific is a junior-level ministerial position in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office of His Majesty's Government. The office was known as Minister of State for Europe and the Americas from 2010 to 2020.^[1] It was most recently merged into the office of Minister of State for the Pacific and the International Environment^[2] to create the new office of Minister of State for Indo-Pacific.

The Minister's responsibilities include:

• China and Northeast Asia
• Southeast Asia
• Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Islands
• Indian Ocean
• Economic security (including export controls)
• Sanctions
• Economics and evaluation (including the Chief Economist)
• Regulatory and economic diplomacy
• Technology and analysis

Minister of State			Term of office		Political party	Ministry		F.Sec.
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs
		Richard Law	25 September 1943	25 May 1945	Conservative		Churchill War	Eden
		William Mabane	25 May 1945	26 July 1945	National Liberal
		Philip Noel-Baker	3 August 1945	4 October 1946	Labour		Attlee	Bevin
		Hector McNeil	4 October 1946	28 February 1950
		Kenneth Younger	28 February 1950	26 October 1951
								Morrison
		Selwyn Lloyd	30 October 1951	18 October 1954	Conservative		Churchill III	Eden
		Gerald Isaacs, 2nd Marquess of Reading	11 November 1953	9 January 1957			Churchill III (1953–1955) Eden (1955–1957)	Eden (1953–1955) Macmillan (1955) Lloyd (1955–1959)
		Anthony Nutting	18 October 1954	3 November 1956
		Allan Noble	9 November 1956	16 January 1959			Eden	Lloyd
		David Ormsby-Gore	16 January 1957	27 June 1961			Macmillan
		John Profumo	16 January 1959	27 July 1960
		Joseph Godber	27 June 1961	27 June 1963				Douglas-Home
		Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn, 11th Earl of Dundee	9 October 1961	16 October 1964
							Douglas-Home	Butler
		Peter Thomas	27 June 1963	16 October 1964
		George Thomson	16 October 1964	31 March 1966	Labour		Wilson I & II	Gordon Walker (1964–1965) Stewart (1965–1966) Brown (1965–1968)
		Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon	16 October 1964	17 October 1968
		Walter Padley	19 October 1964	7 January 1967
		Alun Gwynne Jones, Baron Chalfont	23 October 1964	17 October 1968
		Eirene White	31 March 1966	7 January 1967				Brown (1966–1968) Stewart (1968)
		George Thomson	7 January 1967	29 August 1967
		Fred Mulley	7 January 1967	17 October 1968
		Goronwy Roberts	29 August 1967	17 October 1968
Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
		Hugh Foot	17 October 1968	19 June 1970	Labour		Wilson I & II	Stewart
		Alun Gwynne Jones, Baron Chalfont	17 October 1968	19 June 1970
		Fred Mulley	17 October 1968	13 October 1969
		Goronwy Roberts	17 October 1968	13 October 1969
		Malcolm Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd	17 October 1968	19 June 1970
		Joseph Godber	19 June 1970	9 April 1972	Conservative		Heath	Douglas-Home
		Priscilla Buchan	9 April 1972	4 March 1974
		Julian Amery	9 April 1972	4 March 1974
		Robert Lindsay, Lord Balniel	9 April 1972	4 March 1974
		David Ennals	7 March 1974	10 September 1976	Labour		Wilson III & IV	Callaghan
		Roy Hattersley	7 March 1974	10 September 1976
		Goronwy Roberts, Baron Goronwy-Roberts	4 December 1975	4 May 1979
							Callaghan
								Crosland (1976–1977) Owen (1977–1979)
		Ted Rowlands	10 September 1976	4 May 1979
		David Owen	10 September 1976	21 February 1977				Crosland
		Frank Judd	21 February 1977	4 May 1979				Owen
		Peter Blaker	4 May 1979	14 September 1981	Conservative		Thatcher I	Peter Carington
		Nicholas Ridley	4 May 1979	14 September 1981
		Richard Luce	14 September 1981	5 April 1982
		Cranley Onslow	5 April 1982	13 June 1983				Pym
		John Ganzoni, 2nd Baron Belstead	5 April 1982	13 June 1983
		Richard Luce	13 June 1983	2 September 1985			Thatcher II	Howe
		Janet Young, Baroness Young	13 June 1983	13 June 1987
		Tim Renton	2 September 1985	13 June 1987
		David Mellor	13 June 1987	25 July 1988			Thatcher III
		Simon Arthur, 4th Baron Glenarthur	13 June 1987	24 July 1989
		William Waldegrave	26 July 1988	2 November 1990
								Major (1989) Hurd (1989–1990)
		Ivon Moore-Brabazon, 3rd Baron Brabazon of Tara	24 July 1989	14 July 1990
		Malcolm Sinclair, 20th Earl of Caithness	14 July 1990	14 April 1992				Hurd
							Major I
		Douglas Hogg	2 November 1990	5 July 1995
							Major II
		Alastair Goodlad	15 April 1992	5 July 1995
		Jeremy Hanley	5 July 1995	5 May 1997				Rifkind
		Nicholas Bonsor	5 July 1995	5 May 1997
		Tony Lloyd	5 May 1997	28 July 1999	Labour		Blair I	Cook
		John Battle	28 July 1999	11 June 2001
Minister of State for the Middle East
		Elizabeth Symons, Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean	11 June 2001	5 May 2005	Labour		Blair II	Straw
Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
		Kim Howells	11 May 2005	6 October 2008	Labour		Blair III Brown	Beckett Miliband
		Bill Rammell	6 October 2008	8 June 2009	Labour		Brown	Miliband
		Ivan Lewis	8 June 2009	11 May 2010
Minister of State for Europe and the Americas
		Jeremy Browne	13 May 2010	4 September 2012	Liberal Democrat		Cameron–Clegg	Hague
		Hugo Swire	4 September 2012	15 July 2016	Conservative			Hammond
							Cameron II
		Alan Duncan	15 July 2016	22 July 2019			May I & II	Johnson Hunt
		Chris Pincher	25 July 2019	13 February 2020			Johnson I	Raab
Minister of State for Indo-Pacific
		Anne-Marie Trevelyan	26 October 2022	5 July 2024	Conservative		Sunak	Cleverly Cameron
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Indo-Pacific
		Catherine West	9 July 2024	6 September 2025	Labour		Starmer	Lammy
		Seema Malhotra	6 September 2025	Incumbent				Cooper

• Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
• Foreign Secretary
• Minister of State for Europe
• Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs