George Freeman has returned to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy as part of the new prime minister Rishi Sunak’s ministerial reshuffle.
The former science minister, who left his post during the final days of Boris Johnson’s administration, has been made a minister of state in the department.
Writing on Twitter, he said it was a “privilege and honour to be appointed by HM The King as Minister of the Crown for Science, Technology & Innovation”.
Nusrat Ghani, who briefly served as science minister under Liz Truss when she was prime minister, has also been reappointed a minister of state in the same department. It was unclear how the responsibilities would be divided between the two and whether Ms Ghani would continue in the expanded brief she was given by Ms Truss, which also included responsibility for “investment security” as well as science.
