Which Liberal Democrat MP succeeded Chris Huhne as Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change in 2012?
Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change licence. The post was taken over by Ed Davey on the same day. The post was formed into the new Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy in July 2016. Colour key Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change was a British government cabinet position from 2008 to 2016. The Department for Energy and Climate Change was created on 3 October 2008 when former Prime Minister Gordon Brown reshuffled his Cabinet. The Energy and Climate Change Secretary revived the earlier post of the Secretary of State for Energy
Chris Huhne Chris Huhne Christopher Murray Paul-Huhne (born 2 July 1954), known as Chris Huhne, is an energy and climate change consultant and formerly a British journalist and politician who was the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Eastleigh from 2005 to 2013 and the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change from 2010 to 2012. From September 2013 to August 2014 he wrote a weekly column for "The Guardian". On 3 February 2012, Huhne resigned from the Cabinet when he was charged with perverting the course of justice over a 2003 speeding case. His wife at the time, Vicky Pryce,