Nusrat Ghani, a former transport minister, has become the latest construction minister.
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) confirmed her appointment yesterday (21 November).
She replaces Jackie Doyle-Price, whose low-key tenure in the post only lasted two months.
Ghani, the ninth construction minister in just four years, was elected MP for Wealden in 2015. She held the post of parliamentary under-secretary of state at the Department for Transport from January 2018 until February 2020.
Before her career in politics, she was employed by the charities Age UK and Breakthrough Breast Cancer, and later for the BBC World Service.
Construction is one of 16 different areas of responsibility in Ghani’s ministerial portfolio. It also includes: advanced manufacturing, automotive, life sciences, infrastructure and materials, maritime and shipbuilding, industrial decarbonisation, economic shocks, supply chains, skills, retained EU law and Brexit opportunities.
