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Changes to DFID's ministerial team announced
5 October 2008
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has this afternoon announced the appointment of Ivan Lewis and Michael Foster to DFID’s ministerial team.
They will join Secretary of State for International Development, Douglas Alexander, and Gareth Thomas, who has been promoted to Minister of State for International Development. Gareth will continue his dual role with the Department for Business, Enterprise and Reulatory Reform (BERR), where he has also been promoted to Minister of State.
Former Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of State, Shahid Malik and Gillian Merron, have moved to the Ministry of Justice and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office respectively.