Ministerial role

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Organisations: Department for Transport

Responsibilities

The Minister is responsible for:

  • active travel
  • commercial spaceflight
  • decarbonisation of transport (including the Office for Zero Emission Vehicles)
  • environment (including the Joint Air Quality Unit)
  • EU and international transport
  • future of freight strategy
  • future of transport (including the Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles)
  • secondary legislation
  • transport research and science
  • women’s safety on the transport network

Previous holders of this role

  1. Trudy Harrison MP

    2021 to 2022

  2. Rachel Maclean MP

    2020 to 2021