Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will publish the full responsibilities of Small Business Champion ministers; and whether they will publish a list of Small Business Champion ministers.
SME Ministers act as advocates for small businesses on commercial issues in their department. Working with their Commercial Directors, they will ensure that the agenda has a high profile across their department, review departmental plans, and scrutinise progress.
The Chancellor for the Duchy of Lancaster chaired a roundtable with these Ministers in Summer 2018.
The current list of Small Business Champion ministers is in the table below.
Department | Minister | Remit |
HO | Baroness Williams | Minister of State for Countering Extremism and Minister for Equalities |
MoD | Stuart Andrew | Minister for Defence Procurement |
DIT | Graeme Stuart | Minister for Investment |
BEIS | Kelly Tolhurst | Minister for Small Business |
MHCLG | Rishi Sunak | Minister for Local Government |
DDCMS | Lord Ashton | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State |
DfE | Lord Agnew | Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the School System |
Defra | George Eustice | Minister of State for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food |
FCO | Sir Alan Duncan | Minister of State for Europe and the Americas at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office |
DExEU | Kwasi Kwarteng | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State |
DFID | Lord Bates | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State |
MOJ | Rory Stewart | Minister of State for Prisons |
DfT | Baroness Sugg | Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport |
HMT | Robert Jenrick | Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury |
HMRC | Mel Stride | Financial Secretary to the Treasury |
DWP | Baroness Buscombe | Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Lords) |
NIO | John Penrose | Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Northern Ireland |
SO | Lord Duncan of Springbank | Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Scotland and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Northern Ireland |
DHSC | Steven Hammond | Minister of State for Health |
WO | Alun Cairns/Nigel Adams | Secretary of State for Wales/Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Wales Office) |
CO | Oliver Dowden | Minister for Implementation |