This week's resuffle formed a number of new departments, among the most significant is ESZN (pronounced EzNez) - the department for Energy Security and Net Zero.
The new super ministry, headed up by Grant Shapps, is designed to expedite energy delivery with new infrastructure, connectivity, nuclear power stations, wind farms, oil and gas licences, and all the rest of it.
This jumbo department is meant to streamline the process for delivering the stations to generate our power, and the pylons to get it to our homes and businesses.
Grant Shapps will head up the new department
Victoria Jones
A new one stop shop to deliver the infrastructure we need to become more energy independent and less at risk from foreign wars or dodgy dictators.
That is the plan. There is, however, a snag.
This super ministry has not been given the control that seemed to be initially advertised.
Yesterday afternoon, Number 10 confirmed to us that planning policy for energy infrastructure will not sit with Grant Shapps and ESNZ, but instead be kept with Michael Gove at the Levelling Up department - DLUHC.
This revelation rather undermines the idea of a one stop shop to streamline energy infrastructure delivery.
Despite the entire restructuring of government being sold as a means to streamline policy delivery, ending damaging inter-departmental bargaining and bickering, it has failed to do so.
This fairly enormous oversight means our new Energy Security department is toothless.
It can’t get on and deliver energy security at all, without the say so of the bureaucrats at DLUHC.