Ministerial role

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Life Sciences

Organisations: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills, Department of Health and Social Care, and Office for Life Sciences

Responsibilities

This role is shared between the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and the Department for Health (DH).

Responsibilities at the Department of Health include:

  • Cancer Drugs Fund
  • data and technology
  • genomics
  • medicines and industry
  • NICE and MHRA
  • regenerative medicine
  • research and development
  • specialised commissioning
  • uptake of new drugs and med tech

Responsibilities at BIS include:

  • agritech strategy
  • life sciences industrial strategy

Previous holders of this role

  1. George Freeman MP

    2014 to 2016