Ministerial role

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Enterprise and Markets)

Organisations: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

Responsibilities

Responsibilities include:

  • Small business, enterprise and access to finance
  • COVID-19 business support
  • business frameworks
  • consumer and competition policy
  • better regulation
  • Office for Product Safety and Standards
  • labour markets
  • recognition of professional qualifications
  • Groceries Code Adjudicator and Pubs Code Adjudicator 
  • postal affairs
  • subsidy control
  • British Business Bank
  • EU issues, internal market implementation and trade (Commons lead)
  • intellectual property 
  • retained EU laws (Commons lead)
  • Brexit opportunities (Commons lead)

Previous holders of this role

  1. Dean Russell

    2022 to 2022