Ministerial role
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Business and Industry)
Organisations:
Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
Current role holder:
Nadhim Zahawi MP
Responsibilities
Responsibilities include:
- Industrial Strategy delivery
- Sector Deals
- sectoral lead:
- advanced manufacturing
- aerospace
- automotive
- materials (including steel)
- life sciences
- professional and business services
- nuclear
- infrastructure and construction
- rail supply chain
- defence
- maritime
- supply chains
- national security and investment
- local growth
Current role holder
Nadhim Zahawi MP
Nadhim Zahawi was appointed as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on 26 July 2019.
He was previously Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Education from 9 January 2018 to 26 July 2019.
Nadhim was elected as Conservative MP for Stratford-on-Avon in May 2010.
Previous holders of this role
-
Andrew Stephenson MP
2019 to 2019
-
Richard Harrington
2017 to 2019
-
The Rt Hon Jesse Norman MP
2016 to 2017
Announcements
Subscriptions
- £10 million boost to improve patient care with new technologies
- UK national statement to the IAEA International Conference on Nuclear Security
- New expert group to boost UK innovation
- UK Statement to the 63rd International Atomic Energy Agency General Conference
- Built environment sector deal: opening formal negotiations with the sector
- Lift off for new investment in UK SMEs to develop new aerospace technology
- New funding heralds UK's leadership in low-carbon automotive future
- West Midlands Local Industrial Strategy
- New boost for UK ambition to lead the world in zero emissions vehicles
- Scottish underwater engineering base to propel UK to the top of ‘blue economy’