United Kingdom Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Enterprise, Markets and Small Business | |
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Department for Business and Trade | |
Nominator | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom |
Appointer | The Monarch on advice of the Prime Minister |
Term length | At His Majesty's pleasure |
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Enterprise, Markets and Small Business[1] is a ministerial position in the Department for Business and Trade in the British Government. It is currently held by Kevin Hollinrake.
The position was previously housed within the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
Responsibilities
As of 2023, the Minister has the following areas of regulation and governance within their portfolio:
- small business and enterprise
- scale up strategy
- access to finance
- labour market and employment rights (including National Minimum Wage)
- postal services (including Royal Mail)
- consumer and competition policy (including subsidy control)
- mutual recognition of professional qualifications
- Office for Product Safety and Standards
- levelling up and regional growth
- corporate governance and transparency
- audit and insolvency
- hospitality
- retail
- consumer goods
- personal care
- Post Office Limited
- British Business Bank
- Low Pay Commission
- ACAS
- Small Business Commissioner
- Companies House
- Competition & Markets Authority
- Competition Service
- The Insolvency Service
- Competition Appeal Tribunal
- Central Arbitration Committee
- Certification Officer
- Office of Manpower Economics
- Office of the Regulator of Community Interest Companies
- Groceries Code Adjudicator
- Pub Code Adjudicator
- British Hallmarking Council
- Financial Reporting Council
- Regulatory Policy Committee
List of ministers
Name | Portrait | Took office | Left office | Political party | Prime Minister | ||
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Minister of State for Business and Enterprise | |||||||
Mark Prisk
MP for Hertford and Stortford |
13 May 2010 | 4 September 2012 | Conservative | David Cameron | |||
Michael Fallon
MP for Sevenoaks |
4 September 2012 | 15 July 2014 | Conservative | David Cameron | |||
Matt Hancock
MP for West Suffolk |
15 July 2014 | 11 May 2015 | Conservative | David Cameron | |||
Minister of State for Small Business, Industry and Enterprise | |||||||
Anna Soubry
MP for Broxtowe |
11 May 2015 | 15 July 2016 | Conservative | David Cameron | |||
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Small Business, Consumers and Corporate Responsibility | |||||||
Margot James
MP for Stourbridge |
17 July 2016 | 9 January 2018 | Conservative | Theresa May | |||
Andrew Griffiths
MP for Burton |
9 January 2018 | 13 July 2018 | Conservative | Theresa May | |||
Kelly Tolhurst
MP for Rochester and Strood |
19 July 2018 | 13 February 2020 | Conservative | Theresa May | |||
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Small Business, Consumers and Labour Markets | |||||||
Paul Scully
MP for Sutton and Cheam |
13 February 2020 | 8 July 2022 | Conservative | Boris Johnson | |||
Jane Hunt
MP for Loughborough |
8 July 2022 | 8 September 2022 | Conservative | Boris Johnson | |||
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Enterprise and Markets | |||||||
Dean Russell
MP for Watford |
20 September 2022 | 27 October 2022 | Conservative | Liz Truss | |||
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Enterprise, Markets and Small Business | |||||||
Kevin Hollinrake
MP for Thirsk and Malton |
27 October 2022 | Incumbent | Conservative | Rishi Sunak |
References
- ↑ "Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Enterprise, Markets and Small Business) - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 2022-11-18.
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