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Minister of State for Exiting the European Union

Defunct ministerial office in the British government

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ105162416 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Minister of State for Exiting the European Union was a position in the Department for Exiting the European Union in the Government of the United Kingdom. The minister deputised for the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union.

History

David Jones was removed as minister after the 2017 general election.

Editorial summary

“Minister of State for Exiting the European Union” enters the record as defunct ministerial office in the British government. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Minister, State and Exiting can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2017—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2016-07-17. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Minister, State and Exiting.
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Why this record matters

“Minister of State for Exiting the European Union” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Minister, State and Exiting provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q105162416. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2017.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Minister of State for Exiting the European Union” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.