Ministerial role

Minister of State (Minister for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation)

Organisations: Department for Education and Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

Responsibilities

The minister’s Department for Education responsibilities include:

  • universities and higher education reform
  • higher education student finance (including the Student Loans Company)
  • widening participation in higher education
  • education exports (including international students, international research)
  • tackling extremism in higher education

The minister’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy responsibilities include:

  • science and research
  • innovation
  • intellectual property
  • space
  • agri-tech
  • technology

Previous holders of this role

  1. The Rt Hon Chris Skidmore

    2019 to 2020

  2. The Rt Hon Jo Johnson

    2019 to 2019

  3. The Rt Hon Chris Skidmore

    2018 to 2019

  4. Sam Gyimah

    2018 to 2018

  5. The Rt Hon Jo Johnson

    2016 to 2018