February 2023 British cabinet reshuffle

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak carried out the first cabinet reshuffle of his premiership on 7 February 2023.^[1] The reshuffle saw a significant restructuring of a number of government departments, and gave Sunak the opportunity to fill the vacancy left by Nadhim Zahawi after he was dismissed as Chairman of the Conservative Party and Minister without Portfolio on 29 January 2023, following a scandal surrounding his tax affairs.

The reshuffle saw a significant restructuring of government departments. The Department for International Trade and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) were merged to form the new Department for Business and Trade. The energy and climate policy responsibilities of BEIS were spun off to form the new Department for Energy Security and Net Zero. The science and innovation policies of BEIS were combined with the digital portfolio of the former Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) to form the new Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. The DCMS continues as the newly constituted Department for Culture, Media and Sport.^[2]

Cabinet-level changes edit

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Joined the Cabinet Portfolio created or merged

	Position before reshuffle	Position after reshuffle
Rt Hon Greg Hands MP	Minister of State for Trade Policy	Chairman of the Conservative Party Minister without Portfolio
Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP	Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy	Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero
Rt Hon Kemi Badenoch MP	Secretary of State for International Trade President of the Board of Trade	Secretary of State for Business and Trade President of the Board of Trade
Rt Hon Michelle Donelan MP	Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport	Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology
Rt Hon Lucy Frazer KC MP	Minister of State for Housing and Planning	Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
Rt Hon Oliver Dowden MP	Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster	Secretary of State in the Cabinet Office Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

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Promoted^{[note 1]}

	Department before reshuffle	Department after reshuffle
Rachel Maclean MP	Backbench MP	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Rt Hon Graham Stuart MP	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy	Energy Security and Net Zero
George Freeman MP		Science, Innovation and Technology
Nus Ghani MP		Business and Trade
Kevin Hollinrake MP
Nigel Huddleston MP	International Trade
Maria Caulfield MP
Andrew Bowie MP		Energy Security and Net Zero
Paul Scully MP	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport	Science, Innovation and Technology