Andrew Mitchell

The Right Honourable
Andrew Mitchell
MP
The Right Honourable Andrew Mitchell MP
	Official portrait, 2022
Minister of State for Development and Africa
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 25 October 2022
Prime Minister	Rishi Sunak
Preceded by	Vicky Ford; Gillian Keegan
Chief Whip of the House of Commons; Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury
	In office; 4 September 2012 – 19 October 2012
Prime Minister	David Cameron
Preceded by	Patrick McLoughlin
Succeeded by	Sir George Young
Secretary of State for International Development
	In office; 12 May 2010 – 4 September 2012
Prime Minister	David Cameron
Preceded by	Douglas Alexander
Succeeded by	Justine Greening
Shadow Secretary of State for International Development
	In office; 7 May 2005 – 11 May 2010
Leader	Michael Howard; David Cameron
Preceded by	Alan Duncan
Succeeded by	Douglas Alexander
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Social Security
	In office; 6 July 1995 – 1 May 1997
Prime Minister	John Major
Preceded by	Alistair Burt
Succeeded by	John Denham
Lord Commissioner of the Treasury
	In office; 20 July 1994 – 6 July 1995
Prime Minister	John Major
Preceded by	Irvine Patnick
Succeeded by	David Willetts
Member of Parliament; for Sutton Coldfield
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 7 June 2001
Preceded by	Norman Fowler
Majority	19,272 (36.8%)
Member of Parliament; for Gedling
	In office; 11 June 1987 – 8 April 1997
Preceded by	Philip Holland
Succeeded by	Vernon Coaker
Personal details
Born	Andrew John Bower Mitchell; 23 March 1956; London, England
Political party	Conservative
Spouse	Sharon Bennett
Parent	Sir David Mitchell (father);
Alma mater	Jesus College, Cambridge
Signature
Website	Constituency website

Andrew John Bower Mitchell (born 23 March 1956) is a British politician currently serving as the Minister of State for Development and Africa since 2022. A member of the Conservative Party, he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sutton Coldfield since 2001 having previously served as the MP for Gedling from 1987 to 1997. Mitchell served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for International Development from 2010 to 2012 and then briefly as Government Chief Whip in the House of Commons in late 2012.

Mitchell studied History at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he was elected President of the Cambridge Union in 1978. He was elected to the House of Commons for Gedling in Nottinghamshire at the 1987 general election. He served in the second Major government as a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury from 1994 to 1995 and as a junior minister at the Department of Social Security from 1995 to 1997. Mitchell lost his seat to the Labour Party's Vernon Coaker at the 1997 general election. In 2001, he contested Sutton Coldfield in the West Midlands, a safe seat for the Conservatives, and was returned to Parliament.

Mitchell was appointed to the Shadow cabinet in 2005 as Shadow Secretary of State for International Development. In this role, he founded Project Umubano, a Conservative Party social action project in Rwanda and Sierra Leone in central and west Africa. Under the coalition government of David Cameron, he served as Secretary of State for International Development from 2010 to 2012. In the September 2012 cabinet reshuffle, he was appointed Chief Whip. Amid public pressure due to the Plebgate scandal, Mitchell resigned from the government the following month, and returned to the backbenches. In 2022, after serving on the backbenches for 10 years, Mitchell made a return to government as Minister of State for Development and Africa following the appointment of Rishi Sunak as Prime Minister. He attends Cabinet in that role and deputises the foreign secretary, Lord Cameron, in the House of Commons, giving statements and answering questions on behalf of Cameron.

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