Ministerial role

Minister of State

Organisations: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

Responsibilities

Responsibilities include:

• Net Zero Strategy
• carbon budgets
• green finance, joint with HMT
• 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
• industrial decarbonisation
• nuclear

Previous holders of this role

1. The Rt Hon Greg Hands MP

   2021 to 2021

Announcements

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• UK funding to support developing cities and regions transition to net zero by 2050
  • 11 November 2021
  • Press release
• UK leads 45 governments in new pledges to protect nature
  • 06 November 2021
  • Press release
• End of coal in sight as UK secures ambitious commitments at COP26 summit
  • 03 November 2021
  • Press release
• Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons: UK national report for the 10th review conference
  • 01 November 2021
  • Corporate report
• UK to enshrine mandatory climate disclosures for largest companies in law
  • 29 October 2021
  • Press release
• Business department to bring over 400 key central government jobs to Salford by 2025
  • 28 October 2021
  • Press release
• New finance model to cut cost of new nuclear power stations
  • 26 October 2021
  • Press release
• Clampdown on landlords with funding boost for councils
  • 22 October 2021
  • Press release
• UK's path to net zero set out in landmark strategy
  • 19 October 2021
  • Press release
• Global offshore wind
  • 29 September 2021
  • Speech

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