Nusrat Ghani MP

Biography
Nusrat Ghani was appointed Minister of State at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy in September 2022.
She was previously Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Transport from January 2018 to February 2020.
Nusrat was a Government Whip between July 2019 and December 2019, and an Assistant Government Whip from January 2018 to July 2019.
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 elected Conservative MP for Wealden in 2015.
In parliament Nusrat has been a member of a number of Select Committees, including:
- Business Energy and Industrial Strategy Select Committee (2020 to 2022)
- Speaker’s Committee on the Electoral Commission (2017 to 2018)
- Foreign Affairs Committee (2017 to 2018)
- Armed Forces Bill Committee (2015)
- Home Affairs Committee (2015 to 2017)
Most recently, in her role as a member of the BEIS Select Committee, she has led on a number of enquires, including a probe into the use of Uyghur slave labour in UK supply chains.
Nusrat was part of the UK delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly from 2020 to 2022 and the Rapporteur of the Science and Technology Committee.
For her work in raising awareness of the plight of Uyghurs in Xinjiang, Nusrat was nominated for the NATO Women of Peace and Security Prize, finishing runner-up to the Honourable Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.
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.
Minister of State (Minister for Industry and Investment Security)
Responsibilities include:
- advanced manufacturing, including aerospace, Made Smarter, defence
- automotive, including the Office for Zero Emission Vehicles
- infrastructure and materials, including steel, energy intensive industries, chemicals, construction
- life sciences, including vaccine production
- professional and business services
- maritime and shipbuilding
- critical minerals and critical mineral supply chains
- industrial decarbonisation
- economic shocks
- supply chains
- levelling up and regional growth
- investment pipeline and opportunities
- Investment Security Unit
- skills
- retained EU law and Brexit opportunities
- better regulation
Previous roles in government
Announcements
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- Government awards £45 million to maintain flagship scientific research vessels including RRS Sir David Attenborough
- Government Office for Technology Transfer launches with events in London and Manchester
- Life-size replica rocket lands in London
- Government injects funding boost for cutting-edge vaccine site in Darlington
- 3D printing at record scale and AI for steelmaking among tech awarded share of £14 million government funding
- Disabled people to benefit from better journeys thanks to service station funding
- Light dues 2020 to 2021
- Celebrating Maritime 2050 one-year-on
- 100 years of maritime history and opportunities for 2020
- Maritime minister undertakes future of shipping industry tour, as ports cyber security guidance is updated