David Kidney - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
David Kidney
Responsibilities
David Kidney supports the Secretary of State and Ministers of State across their remit, and leads on:
- fuel poverty strategy, including delivery and oversight of the Warm Front programme
- promoting the interests of energy consumers
- sponsorship of the Carbon Trust
- coal liabilities including coal health payments
- emergency preparedness in the power sector
- energy innovation and emerging technologies
- skills in the energy and low-carbon sector.
Biography
David joined the DECC Ministerial team on 9 June 2009 as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State.
Previously, David has been Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to Elliot Morley, Minister of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in November 2005. He was also PPS to David Miliband, the then Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, in 2006, and to Rosie Winterton who was Minister of State for Transport in 2008.
David graduated in Law from the University of Bristol and was a solicitor in Hanley and then Stafford between 1977 and 1997. He became MP for Stafford in 1997.