This petition was submitted during the 2015–2017 Conservative government

Rejected petition Bring back the Department for Energy and Climate Change

I feel that having a department for energy and climate change gives more importance to the problem of climate change than a department for "business, energy and industrial strategy" and therefore I would like to see the department for energy and climate change re-introduced.

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/161489

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