Patel described herself as being "delighted" with the post despite a statement made in 2013 suggesting that the Department for International Development should be scrapped and replaced with a Department for International Trade and Development.
尽管帕特尔曾于2013年发表声明，表示如果取消国际发展部，并由新组建的国际贸易与发展部取而代之，自己会很开心。