Lord Hunt of Kings Heath OBE - Minister of State
Lord Hunt
Responsibilities
Lord Hunt leads for DECC on ensuring the UK has a secure, low-carbon and affordable energy supply. This encompasses:
- energy security, long-term energy projections and strategy
- markets, prices and regulatory framework
- low-carbon energy supply:
- renewable energy (including Severn tidal power)
- renewable heat
- nuclear strategy and delivery
- Carbon Capture & Storage / cleaner fossil fuels
- developing the gas and electricity grid, 'smart grids' and the smart meter programme
- nuclear safety, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, radioactive waste and international non-proliferation
- development consents and planning
- licensing and exploration
- offshore environment and decommissioning
- low-carbon industrial strategy.
Lord Hunt also supports the Secretary of State on international energy, and represents DECC in the House of Lords.
Biography
Lord Hunt is Minister of State for the Department of Energy and Climate Change, and Deputy Leader of the House of Lords.
He previously served as a Minister in the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Department for Work and Pensions and the Department of Health, and was appointed as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Justice on 29 June 2007.
He was raised to the peerage as Baron Hunt of Kings Heath, Birmingham in the County of West Midlands 1997.
He was educated at Leeds University.