New ministers appointed with responsibilities for decarbonisation and Net Zero
Sun 25 September 2022
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Lucy Frazer KC MP is the newly appointed Minister of State at the Department for Transport with responsibility for the transport decarbonisation agenda. Ms Frazer was appointed by the new Prime Minister, Liz Truss, in the reshuffle announced in early-September. She will be reporting to the new Secretary of State, Rt Hon Anne-Marie Trevelyan MP.
There are changes in other Government departments with direct impacts on the transport decarbonisation agenda. Jacob Rees-Mogg MP has become Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) with Graham Stuart MP, the BEIS minister for climate with responsibility for net zero.
Meanwhile, Chris Skidmore MP, who was responsible for signing Net Zero legislation into law in 2019, has been appointed by the BEIS Secretary to Chair a review into the UK's overall Net Zero Strategy. (See related story.)
Defra, which has joint responsibility with DfT for the Joint Air Quality Unit (JAQU), also has a new Secretary of State: Ranil Jayawardena MP.
Lucy Frazer KC MP was elected as Conservative MP for South East Cambridgeshire in 2015. Prior to joining the Department for Transport on 7 September, she was Financial Secretary to the Treasury from September 2021 to September 2022.
Previously she was appointed Solicitor General in March 2021 (and May to July 2019) and was a Minister of State at the Ministry of Justice from July 2019 and a Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the same department since 2018.
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