| Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Category | Shadow Cabinet Position | |||
| Inaugural holder | Oblivious | |||
| Number of Shadow Business Secretaries since September 2013 | 18 | |||
The Shadow Business Secretary, known in full as the Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, is a member of the opposition's shadow cabinet that shadows the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. The Shadow Business Secretary is responsible for holding them to account and has the ability to ask the Business Secretary two questions at question times. The current Shadow Business Secretary is Rakas21, who was appointed on 8th December 2020.
List of Shadow Business Secretaries[]
Oblivious was appointed as the first Shadow Business Secretary for the Labour Party following the first general election. Since shadow cabinet records began in September 2013, there have been 18 Shadow Business Secretaries.
| Shadow Business Secretary | Alternative Role | Party | Took office | Left office | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kittiara | Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Pensions, Industrial Relations and Welfare | Green | September 2013 | March 2014 | |
| TeeEff | Shadow Minister of State for Work, Business, Innovation and Skills | Conservative | November 2014 | July 2015 | |
| That Bearded Man | Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Skills, Work and Pensions | Labour | July 2015 | August 2015 | |
| TeeEff | Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills | Conservative | October 2015 | April 2016 | |
| McRite | Shadow Secretary of State for Enterprise, Work and Pensions | Labour | June 2016 | August 2016 | |
| TheDefiniteArticle | Shadow Secretary of State for Enterprise, Work and Pensions | Labour | August 2016 | October 2016 | |
| adam9317 | Shadow Secretary of State for Business and Industry, and Work and Pensions | Conservative | November 2016 | January 2017 | |
| fleky6910 | Shadow Secretary of State for Business and Industry, and Work and Pensions | Conservative | February 2017 | May 2017 | |
| Joel 96 | Shadow Secretary of State for Business and Industry | Conservative | June 2017 | December 2017 | |
| Obiejess | Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Trade and Infrastructure | Labour | December 2017 | February 2018 | |
| Dafios9128 | Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Welfare and Infrastructure | Labour | February 2018 | May 2018 | |
| viljo | Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Housing and Transport | Labour | May 2018 | NA | |
| Unknown | Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Housing and Transport | Labour | NA | NA | |
| Unknown | Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Housing and Transport | Conservative | NA | NA | |
| Keir Starmer | Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Energy, Industrial Strategy and Infrastructure | Labour | May 2020 | July 2020 | |
| moso2203 | Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Energy, Industrial Strategy and Infrastructure | Labour | July 2020 | November 2020 | |
| Unown Uzer | Conservative | November 2020 | December 2020 | ||
| Rakas21 | Conservative | December 2020 | incumbent | ||