Lord Callanan
Biography
Lord Callanan was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on 14 February 2020.
He was Minister of State at the Department for Exiting the European Union from 27 October 2017 to 31 January 2020.
Education
He was educated at Newcastle Polytechnic where he gained a Bachelor of Science degree (BSc) in electrical and electronic engineering.
Political career
Callanan was a Conservative Councillor on Tyne and Wear County Council between 1983 and 1986 and Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council between 1987 and 1996.
He was a Member of the European Parliament for the North East England constituency from 1999, re-elected in 2004 and 2009.
He became the leader of the European Conservatives and Reformists group from 2011-2014.
Callanan was created a Life Peer on 24 September 2014 taking the title Baron Callanan, of Low Fell in the County of Tyne and Wear.
He was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Department for Transport between June and October 2017.
Career outside politics
He worked as a project engineer at Scottish and Newcastle breweries from 1986 to 1998.
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Business, Energy and Corporate Responsibility)
Responsibilities include:
- corporate governance and responsibility
- audit, including Financial Reporting Council
- insolvency
- company law, including Companies House
- Land Registry
- Ordnance Survey
- better regulation
- smart meters and smart systems
- energy efficiency
- fuel poverty
- clean heat
- Help to Grow: digital
- investment security
Previous roles in government
Announcements
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- Clampdown on landlords with funding boost for councils
- UK-led international summit sets new horizons for innovation
- Vaccine-carrying drones and self-driving cars: government fund backs cutting-edge innovation
- Next generation of heat networks to power UK's green revolution
- £4 million funding to boost UK biomass production
- Warmer, greener and cheaper homes as government opens a triple win upgrade for social housing
- New and improved National Security and Investment Act set to be up and running
- Smart technologies and data to future-proof UK energy
- End of halogen light bulbs spells brighter and cleaner future
- £44 million cash boost to cut emissions from buildings and help households save on energy bills