Ministerial role

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Small Business, Consumers and Labour Markets)

Organisations: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

Responsibilities

Responsibilities include:

  • small business, enterprise and access to finance
    • promoting Net Zero with SMEs
    • COVID business support
  • internal market implementation and trade
  • subsidy control
  • consumer and competition
    • Office for Product Safety and Standards
  • labour markets
  • postal affairs
  • retail, consumer goods, personal care
  • hospitality, weddings, nightclubs and pubs
  • levelling up / regional growth
  • skills
  • economic shocks
  • devolved administrations
  • secondary legislation

Previous holders of this role

  1. Jane Hunt

    2022 to 2022

  2. Paul Scully

    2020 to 2022