Minister of State (Minister for Science, Research and Innovation)
Responsibilities
The minister is responsible for:
- domestic science and research ecosystem, including university research and public sector research establishments (PSREs)
- Innovation Strategy
- international science and research
- Horizon Europe
- space sector
- life sciences
- quantum
- engineering biology
- place and levelling up
- regulation of innovation, including the Regulatory Horizon Council
- R&D People and Culture Strategy
- Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA)
- Government Office for Technology Transfer (GOTT)
- UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
- UK Space Agency (UKSA)
Current role holder
Andrew Griffith MP
Andrew Griffith was appointed Minister of State for the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology on 13 November 2023.
He was previously Economic Secretary to the Treasury between 27 October 2022 and 13 November 2023.
He was Financial Secretary to the Treasury between 7 September 2022 and 27 October 2022.
He was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Department for International Trade between 8 July 2022 and 7 September 2022.
He was Parliamentary Secretary (Minister for Policy and Head of the Prime Minister’s Policy Unit) from 3 February 2022 until 8 July 2022.
He was appointed Adviser on Sustainable Infrastructure Investment from September 2021 until the end of December 2021.
He was the UK’s Net Zero Business Champion from November 2020 until the end of the Cop26 UN Climate Summit.
He was elected Conservative MP for Arundel and South Downs in 2019.
Previous holders of this role
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George Freeman MP
2023 to 2023
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George Freeman MP
2022 to 2023