The Rt Hon Kemi Badenoch MP
Biography
The Rt Hon Kemi Badenoch MP was appointed Secretary of State for the Department for Business and Trade on 7 February 2023. She remains Secretary of State for International Trade and President of the Board of Trade on, which she was appointed to on 6 September 2022, and Minister for Women and Equalities for the Equality Hub, which she was appointed to on 25 October 2022.
Previously she was Minister of State at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities between 16 September 2021 and 6 July 2022.
She was Minister of State (Minister for Equalities) in the Equality Hub between 14 February 2020 and July 2022.
She was previously Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury from 13 February 2020 to 15 September 2021 and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Education from 27 July 2019 to 13 February 2020.
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Secretary of State for Business and Trade
The Secretary of State has overall responsibility for the Department for Business and trade. Responsibilities include:
- overall responsibility for delivery and strategy
- cross-government business engagement
- public appointments
- FTA negotiations, mandates, and decisions
- WTO, G7, and G20 ministerial meetings
- overseas network
Department for Business and Trade and UK Defence and Security Exports
President of the Board of Trade
Minister for Women and Equalities
The Minister for Women and Equalities has responsibility for:
- promoting equality of opportunity for everyone, and reducing negative disparities
- strategic oversight of Government’s equality policy, for women, ethnicity and LGBT
- sponsorship of the Social Mobility Commission and Equality and Human Rights Commission
- overview of the overarching equalities legislative framework, including the Equality Act
Before July 2014, this role was covered by the Minister for Women and the Minister for Equalities.
Equality Hub, Government Equalities Office, and Race Disparity Unit