Charlotte Vere, Baroness of Norbiton, who is already a junior minister in the department, takes on the aviation brief together with local transport.

Her predecessor, Robert Courts, who has returned to the backbenches, previously held the aviation portfolio, along with maritime, which is yet to be reassigned

Vere has been at the DfT since 2019 as minister for roads, buses and places, and was previously a government whip. She supported the remain campaign in the EU membership referendum and was made a peer by David Cameron in 2016.

The DfT will be overseen by transport secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan, a Brexiteer who will be responsible for the review of the CAA’s role and changes to Atol.

Beneath her, Lucy Frazer, MP for South East Cambridgeshire, has moved from the Treasury to join the Department for Transport as a minister.
 
Frazer, formerly financial secretary, solicitor general and – briefly – a junior minister for prisons, joins other newcomers, Torbay MP Kevin Foster, who will oversee rail, and South Ribble’s Katherine Fletcher.