Minister of State 
noun
(In the UK) a minister ranking below a Secretary of State: the Minister of State for Education...
- The Minister of State at the Department of Trade and Industry is responsible for e-commerce within the government.
- The result, 11,000 signatures on a petition that was handed over to the Minister of State at the Department of Health in November 2002.
- Under the Rainbow Coalition, he served as a Minister of State at the Department of Health from 1994-1997.