Talk:Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero

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Merge Proposal
As per my comment on other page:

Although this was not agreed to previously I am suggesting that the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change page be merged into the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero. Below are my reasons


 * 1) Both offices have relatively similar roles - it has been argued that they are 'fundamentally different portfolios', but this is clearly not true. Both have responsibility for energy policy and climate change (now Net Zero) policy also. What's more is the Department of Energy and Climate Change was merged into the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero was split off that department. This suggests that both have similar roles
 * 2) The former Secretary of State for Energy (1974-1992) shares this page with the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change (2008-2016), despite being of two different departments at different time periods – surely the precedent should be followed for the newer office which is essentially a reconstitution of these two previous roles. This follows precedent with other UK roles and offices – where offices have changed and altered title but the same page is used for the same rough portfolio, this should be continued.
 * 3) The two pages are relatively small so is there really much point in having separate pages for a very similar portfolio. It can easily be noted that the departments were abolished and created.
 * 4) Perhaps most importantly – Wiki tries to make things easily accessible, as these roles are so similar (all are the UK Energy Secretary of their time) the continuity of this role should be maintained so all energy secretaries are in the same place. The history of the separate offices can be maintained in the body of an article that helps keep all the roles together.

Fm675 (talk) 16:51, 11 June 2024 (UTC)