The Rt Hon Kemi Badenoch MP
Biography
Kemi Badenoch was appointed Secretary of State for International Trade and President of the Board of Trade on 6 September 2022.
Previously she was Minister of State at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities between 16 September 2021 and 6 July 2022.
She was Minister of State (Minister for Equalities) in the Government Equalities Office between 14 February 2020 and July 2022.
She was previously Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury from 13 February 2020 to 15 September 2021 and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Education from 27 July 2019 to 13 February 2020.
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Secretary of State for International Trade and President of the Board of Trade
The Secretary of State’s principal responsibility is delivering the department’s priority outcomes:
- securing world-class free trade agreements and reducing market access barriers, ensuring that consumers and businesses can benefit from both
- encouraging economic growth and a green industrial revolution across all parts of the UK through attracting and retaining inward investment
- supporting UK business to take full advantage of trade opportunities, including those arising from delivering free trade agreements (FTAs), facilitating UK exports
- championing the rules-based international trading system and operating the UK’s new trading system, including protecting UK businesses from unfair trade practices
Previous roles in government
- Minister of State (Minister for Local Government, Faith and Communities)
- Minister of State
- Minister of State (Minister for Equalities)
- Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Equalities)
- Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury
- Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Children and Families)
Announcements
Subscriptions
- All public buildings to have separate male and female toilets
- Gender recognition application modernised
- National Windrush monument unveiled at London Waterloo Station
- Improving disabled people’s access to let residential premises: reasonable adjustments to common parts, a new duty
- Greater transparency and value for money for council finance system
- Greater protections for voters as government’s Elections Bill achieves Royal Assent
- Call for evidence launched to understand people’s experiences of extremism and its impact on social cohesion
- Infants, children and families to benefit from boost in support
- Letter from Minister Badenoch to the Electoral Commission and Metropolitan Police
- Commissioners appointed to tackle failures at Sandwell