Ministerial role

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport

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Responsibilities

The minister is responsible for:

• accessibility across all transport modes
• buses and taxis
• high speed rail (HS2)
• maritime
• Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA)
• maritime security
• skills and apprenticeships
• the Year of Engineering

Current role holder: Nusrat Ghani MP

Nusrat Ghani MP was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Transport and Assistant Government Whip on 9 January 2018. She was elected Conservative MP for Wealden in 2015.

Education

Nusrat was the first woman in her family to be formally educated. She attended state comprehensive school before studying at Birmingham City University (BA Government and Politics) and Leeds University (MA International Relations).

Political career

Nusrat was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Home Office in 2017. She also served as the Chair of the Prime Minister’s Apprenticeship Diversity Network.

Select Committee membership:

• Committee on Arms Export Controls (October 2017 to January 2018)
• Speaker’s Committee on the Electoral Commission (September 2017 to January 2018)
• Foreign Affairs Committee (September 2017 to January 2018)
• Armed Forces Bill Committee (October 2015 to November 2015)
• Home Affairs Committee (July 2015 to May 2017)

Career outside politics

Before beginning her career in politics, Nusrat was employed by the charities Age UK and Breakthrough Breast Cancer, and later for the BBC World Service.

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Announcements

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1. Sussex economy boosted by multimillion pound road improvements

   • 20 August 2018
   • News story

2. Next steps towards a fully inclusive transport network

   • 25 July 2018
   • News story

3. Transport industry leading the way in apprenticeships

   • 19 July 2018
   • News story

4. Minister urges UK fishermen to sign up for safety improvements

   • 13 July 2018
   • News story

5. Charities encouraged to bid for life-saving cash

   • 10 July 2018
   • News story

6. Real time information to transform bus travel in England

   • 5 July 2018
   • News story

7. Government puts disabled passengers first by backing innovative projects to improve train journeys

   • 26 June 2018
   • News story

8. £8 million of extra HS2 funding to benefit local communities and woodlands between Birmingham and Crewe

   • 25 June 2018
   • News story

9. LEGO® teams up with Year of Engineering campaign to inspire and develop the engineers of the future

   • 21 June 2018
   • News story

10. Framework document for High Speed 2 Ltd (May 2018)

    • 23 May 2018
    • Statement to Parliament

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