Ministerial role

Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change

Organisations: Department of Energy & Climate Change

Responsibilities

The Secretary of State has overall responsibility for the business of the Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) and its policies. These include:

  • overall strategy on energy, consumer and climate change policy
  • international climate change negotiations
  • energy bills and the Competition and Markets Authority investigation
  • key decisions on major programmes and new policy in DECC

DECC became part of the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy in July 2016.

Previous holders of this role

  1. The Rt Hon Amber Rudd

    2015 to 2016

  2. The Rt Hon Sir Edward Davey MP

    2012 to 2015

  3. The Rt Hon Chris Huhne

    2010 to 2012