Ministerial role
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Reindustrialisation)
Organisations:
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Current role holder:
Blair McDougall MP
Responsibilities
BIST responsibilities to be confirmed.
DESNZ responsibilities include:
- industrial energy affordability (joint with the Minister for Energy Consumers)
- clean energy industry strategy
- refineries
- industrial decarbonisation and fuel switching
- emissions trading
- carbon leakage
- mineworkers pensions
Current role holder
Blair McDougall MP
Blair McDougall was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State jointly in the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade and the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero on 22 July 2026.
He was previously Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department for Business and Trade between 7 September 2025 and 22 July 2026. He was elected as the MP for East Renfrewshire in July 2024.