Ministerial role

Minister of State (Minister for Industry)

Responsibilities

DBT responsibilities include:

  • advanced manufacturing
  • automotive
  • aerospace
  • defence
  • consumer goods
  • chemicals and plastics
  • construction
  • infrastructure 
  • maritime and shipbuilding
  • steel
  • materials and critical minerals
  • Industrial Development Advisory Board

DESNZ responsibilities include:

  • Office For Clean Energy Jobs
  • green finance
  • green jobs and skills
  • carbon capture, usage and storage (CCUS)
  • carbon leakage
  • hydrogen
  • industrial decarbonisation and emissions trading, including fuel switching, business and commercial buildings decarbonisation
  • energy sector supply chains
  • green growth sectors
  • clean energy investments
  • mineworkers’ pensions

Current role holder

Sarah Jones MP

Sarah Jones was appointed as Minister of State at both the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, and the Department for Business and Trade, on 8 July 2024. She was elected as the MP for Croydon West, formerly Croydon Central, in June 2017.

Education

Sarah studied History at Durham University.

Political career

Sarah served in the Shadow Cabinet in a number of positions, including:

  • Shadow Minister for Industry and Decarbonisation, 2023 to 2024
  • Shadow Minister for Policing and the Fire Service, 2020 to 2023
  • Shadow Housing Minister, 2018 to 2020

Career outside politics

Sarah began her career working for Labour MP and Northern Ireland Secretary Mo Mowlam.

She later became Head of Campaigns at the housing charity Shelter before taking a similar role at the NHS Confederation.

A former senior civil servant at DCMS, Sarah was a member of the team delivering the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games.

After leaving the Civil Service, Sarah worked in a series of public and private sector roles, including the Gatwick Airport expansion campaign.

Personal life

Sarah is married and has 4 children.

More about this person

Previous holders of this role

  1. Jackie Doyle-Price

    2022 to 2022