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Truss scraps small business minister title

The Government has scrapped the title of a dedicated small business minister and instead bundled responsibility for SMEs as part of a much wider role.

Truss scraps small business minister title
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Dean Russell MP has been appointed Minister for Enterprise and Markets in the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whose 16 responsibilities include postal affairs, consumer and competition policy and Pubs Code Adjudicator.

This is the first-time small businesses have not had a dedicated ministerial title since the last Labour government. Mr Russell’s predecessor, Paul Scully MP, was the parliamentary under-secretary of state for small business between February 2020 until now.

Read more at smallbusiness.co.uk

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