Ministerial role

Minister of State (Minister for Industry and Investment Security)

Organisations: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

Responsibilities

Responsibilities include:

  • advanced manufacturing, including aerospace, Made Smarter, defence
  • automotive, including the Office for Zero Emission Vehicles
  • infrastructure and materials, including steel, energy intensive industries, chemicals, construction
  • life sciences, including vaccine production
  • professional and business services
  • maritime and shipbuilding
  • critical minerals and critical mineral supply chains
  • industrial decarbonisation
  • economic shocks
  • supply chains
  • levelling up and regional growth
  • investment pipeline and opportunities
  • Investment Security Unit
  • skills
  • retained EU law and Brexit opportunities
  • better regulation

Previous holders of this role

  1. Nusrat Ghani MP

    2022 to 2023