| salary = £159,038 per annum {{small|(2022)}}{{Cite web |title=Salaries of Members of His Majesty's Government – Financial Year 2022–23 |url=https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1124173/2022-12-07-Ministerial-Salaries-22-23-table.pdf |date=15 December 2022}}
(including £86,584 MP salary){{Cite web |title=Pay and expenses for MPs |url=https://www.parliament.uk/about/mps-and-lords/members/pay-mps/ |access-date=15 December 2022 |website=parliament.uk}}

| formation = 7 February 2023

| first = Grant Shapps

| website = [https://www.gov.uk/government/ministers/secretary-of-state Official website]

}}

The Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero is a Secretary of State in the Government of the United Kingdom, with responsibility for the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero. The incumbent is a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.{{Cite web |title=Secretary of State - GOV.UK |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/ministers/secretary-of-state |access-date=7 February 2023 |website=www.gov.uk |language=en}}

The incumbent Secretary of State is Ed Miliband of the Labour Party.{{Cite web |title=Ministerial Appointments: July 2024 |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/ministerial-appointments-july-2024 |access-date=2024-07-05 |website=GOV.UK |language=en}}

History

On 7 February 2023, a government reshuffle meant that the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy was split up into separate departments.{{Cite news |date=7 February 2023 |title=Sunak reshuffle: Shapps named energy secretary in department shake-up |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-64552127 |access-date=7 February 2023}}{{Cite web |title=Making government deliver for the British people |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/making-government-deliver-for-the-british-people |access-date=7 February 2023 |website=GOV.UK |language=en}} The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero took on the energy portfolio and policy functions from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.

Grant Shapps was appointed the first Secretary of State for the department, having previously been the last holder of the office of Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy from 2022 to 2023.{{Cite web |title=The Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/people/grant-shapps |access-date=7 February 2023 |website=GOV.UK |language=en}} The department was tasked by the Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, with "securing our long-term energy supply, bringing down bills and halving inflation".

List

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" ! colspan="3" \|Secretary of State !Took office !Left office !Political party ! colspan="2" \|Ministry
style="background-color:{{Party color\|Conservative Party (UK)}}" \| \|File:Grant Shapps Official Cabinet Portrait, October 2022 (cropped).jpg \|Grant Shapps {{Small\|MP for Welwyn Hatfield}} \|7 February 2023 \|31 August 2023 \| rowspan="2" \|Conservative ! rowspan="2" style="background-color:{{Party color\|Conservative Party (UK)}}" \| \| rowspan="2" \|Sunak
style="background-color:{{Party color\|Conservative Party (UK)}}" \| \|79x79px \|Claire Coutinho MP for East Surrey \|31 August 2023 \|5 July 2024
style="background-color:{{Party color\|Labour Party (UK)}}" \| \|File:Official portrait of Rt Hon Edward Miliband MP crop 2.jpg \|Ed Miliband {{Small\|MP for Doncaster North}} \|5 July 2024 \|Incumbent \| Labour ! style="background-color:{{Party color\|Labour Party (UK)}}" \| \| Starmer

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"

! colspan="3" |Secretary of State

!Took office

!Left office

!Political party

! colspan="2" |Ministry

style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

|File:Grant Shapps Official Cabinet Portrait, October 2022 (cropped).jpg

|Grant Shapps
{{Small|MP for Welwyn Hatfield}}

|7 February 2023

|31 August 2023

| rowspan="2" |Conservative