Nusrat Ghani, Minister of State at His Majesty’s Government’s Department for Business and Trade is to open Seawork 2023, Europe’s largest on-water commercial marine and workboat exhibition.
Located in Southampton UK’s Mayflower Park, Seawork is the meeting place for the commercial marine and workboat sector. The Minister will give a key note speech to visitors and exhibitors, followed by a tour of Seawork and Marine Civils.
This will be Ms Ghani’s third visit to Seawork, having opened the exhibition in 2018 and 2019. Seawork is a proven platform to build business networks with an international audience of visitors.
Nusrat Ghani was appointed Minister of State at the newly created Department for Business and Trade and as the Minister of State responsible for the Investment Security Unit at the Cabinet Office on 7 February 2023.
She was previously Minister of State at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy from 27 October 2022 to 7 February 2023, and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Transport from January 2018 to February 2020.
The Investment Security Unit moved from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to the Cabinet Office in February 2023. Minister Ghani continues to be responsible for the Unit which is responsible for identifying, addressing and mitigating national security risks to the UK arising when a person gains control of a qualifying asset or qualifying entity as set out in the National Security and Investment Act.
