Minister of State (Minister for Energy, Clean Growth and Climate Change)
Responsibilities
Responsibilities include:
- carbon budgets
- green finance
- low carbon generation
- energy retail markets
- electricity and gas wholesale markets and networks
- oil and gas, including shale gas
- security of supply
- energy security, including resilience
- international energy
- EU energy and climate
- nuclear
- construction
Current role holder
The Rt Hon Anne-Marie Trevelyan MP
Anne-Marie Trevelyan was appointed as Minister of State (Minister for Energy, Clean Growth and Climate Change) at the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on 8 January 2021.
Anne-Marie Trevelyan was appointed as the UK International Champion on Adaptation and Resilience for the COP26 Presidency on 7 November 2020.
Previously Anne-Marie was the Secretary of State for International Development from February to September 2020. She was Minister of State for the Armed Forces from 17 December 2019 to 13 February 2020, and Minister for Defence Procurement from 27 July 2019 to 16 December 2019.
Anne-Marie was first elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for the Berwick-upon-Tweed constituency at the 2015 general election.
A chartered accountant by trade, Anne-Marie sat on the House of Commons’ Public Accounts Committee from July 2015 to May 2017 and December 2018 to July 2019. She has previously served as the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Defence. As an MP, she has campaigned with colleagues for greater autism awareness and has focused on the Armed Forces Covenant.
Her wider interests involve spending time with her family, making the most of the incredible landscape her vast and varied constituency affords and putting her passion for singing to good use by taking part in Singing for Syrians concerts in Westminster.
Previous holders of this role
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The Rt Hon Kwasi Kwarteng MP
2019 to 2021
Announcements
Subscriptions
- £166 million cash injection for green technology and 60,000 UK jobs
- Business Secretary co-chairs second UK Steel Council meeting of 2021: 19 May
- New UK funding to boost climate disaster responses
- Global summit to help those most vulnerable fight climate change
- North Sea deal to protect jobs in green energy transition
- Distilleries ready to raise a toast and go green
- Scotland's whisky distilleries ready to go green
- £150 million government investment to save the world's rainforests
- Over £90 million government funding to power green technologies
- Business Secretary co-chairs UK Steel Council meeting: 5 March 2021