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as "...a member of Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom who neither has charge of any public department nor holds any other of the offices specified in Schedule 2 to this Act or any office in respect of which a salary is payable out of money provided by Parliament under section 3(1)(b) of
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Ministers of State take charge of a particular part of their department and undertake specific delegated duties. To help to identify these duties, since the 1970s Ministers of State have often been granted a courtesy title which includes the word "for" (rather than "of").
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This article is about government ministers of a specific rank in the UK. For government ministers generally, see
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Minister of State for Pacific and the Environment (joint with Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
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Minister of State for Patient Safety, Suicide Prevention and Mental Health
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Minister of State at the Department of Energy and Climate Change
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Minister of State for Regional Growth and Local Government
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Minister for the Constitution and European Union Relations
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Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
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Minister of State for Business, Energy and Clean Growth
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Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
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Minister of State for Disabled People, Health and Work
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Minister of State for Building Safety and Communities
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Minister of State for Building Safety and Communities
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Minister of State for South Asia and the Commonwealth
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Minister of State for Efficiency and Transformation
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Minister of State for Home Affairs (United Kingdom)
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Minister of State for Efficiency and Transformation
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Index

Minister (government)
Arms of the British Government
Prime Minister
Deputy Prime Minister
First Secretary
Treasury ministers
Secretary of State
Minister of state
Parliamentary under-secretary of state
Parliamentary private secretary
Lord Chancellor
Leader of the House of Commons
Leader of the House of Lords
Whips
Law officers
Sinecures
List of political offices
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minister of the Crown
UK government
Prime Minister
Secretaries of State
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Parliamentary Private Secretary
House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975
Lord Beaverbrook
War Cabinet
Ministry of Production

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