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BEIS - Organisational Changes

The new BEIS Ministerial team and portfolio splits are now confirmed as follows:
 
The Rt Hon Jacob Rees-Mogg MP
Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
The Secretary of State has overall responsibility for BEIS. This includes: 
  • leading the government’s relationship with business
  • ensuring that the country has secure energy supplies that are reliable, affordable and clean
  • ensuring the UK remains at the leading edge of science, research and innovation, this includes responsibility for:
    • the UK’s membership of Horizon Europe
    • the Advanced Research & Invention Agency
    • the Innovation Strategy and R&D People & Culture Strategy
    • the Office for AI
    • our European Space Agency membership
  • steel and metals, critical minerals and the maritime, automotive and aerospace sectors
More information on gov.uk

Graham Stuart MP
Minister of State (Minister for Climate)
Responsibilities include:
  • Net Zero Strategy
  • carbon budgets
  • low carbon generation
  • energy retail markets
  • oil and gas
  • security of supply
  • electricity and gas wholesale markets and networks
  • international energy, climate change and climate finance
  • energy security, including resilience
  • hydrogen
  • Nuclear
  • fusion
  • industrial decarbonisation
More information on gov.uk
 
Lord Callanan
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Business, Energy and Corporate Responsibility)
Responsibilities include:
  • corporate governance and responsibility
  • audit, including Financial Reporting Council
  • insolvency
  • company law, including Companies House
  • Land Registry
  • Ordnance Survey
  • better regulation
  • green finance, joint with HMT
  • smart meters and smart systems
  • energy efficiency
  • fuel poverty
  • clean heat
  • Help to Grow: digital
  • investment security
  • intellectual property
  • space strategy
  • life sciences
  • advanced manufacturing
  • professional and business services
  • Net Zero Industry Champion
  • construction
  • chemicals
  • rail
  • defence
  • supply chains
  • Made Smarter
More information on gov.uk
Dean Russell MP
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Responsibilities include:
  • small business, enterprise and access to finance
  • internal market implementation and trade
  • subsidy control
  • consumer and competition
  • labour markets
  • postal affairs
  • retail, consumer goods, personal care
  • hospitality, weddings, nightclubs and pubs
  • Levelling Up / regional growth
  • Skills
  • Economic shocks
More information on gov.uk
Jackie Doyle-Price MP
Minister of State
Jackie Doyle-Price was appointed Minister of State at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on 7 September 2022.
She was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of Health from June 2017 to July 2019.
She served as Assistant Government Whip from 13 May 2015 to 14 June 2017. She was elected Conservative MP for Thurrock in May 2010.
Responsibilities: To be confirmed.

More information on gov.uk
Nusrat Ghani MP
Minister of State
Nusrat Ghani was appointed Minster of State at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on 7 September 2022.
She was previously Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Transport from 9 January 2018 to 13 February 2020.
Nusrat was a Government Whip between 11 July 2019 and 17 December 2019, and an Assistant Government Whip from January 2018 to July 2019.
She was elected Conservative MP for Wealden in 2015.
Responsibilities: To be confirmed.

More information on gov.uk
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