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and junior ministers to account and is the lead spokesperson on energy and

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issues for their party. The post currently holds the

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to account in Parliament. A previous Official Opposition post of shadow secretary of state for energy existed until the

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was merged into the

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(DTI) in 1992. In 2008, the Department for Energy and Climate Change was split from the DTI's successor department, effectively reviving the former department and the need for an Opposition shadow. Following

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's appointment as Prime Minister in July 2016, the department was disbanded and merged with the

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to form the

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, with the consequent ending of this shadow post. It was revived during the

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and given to

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, the former Labour leader, who was then serving as Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy before his appointment.

List of shadow secretaries for energy

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List of shadow secretaries for energy

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