Ministerial role

Minister of State (Minister for Industry)

Organisations: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and Department for Business and Trade

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

Previous holders of this role

  1. Sarah Jones MP

    2024 to 2025

  2. Jackie Doyle-Price

    2022 to 2022