Downing Street mulls creation of energy and climate change department

Johnson’s chief adviser Dominic Cummings is understood to be planning a reorganisation of the civil service that could include carving out responsibility for climate change from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and housing it in a separate department, as it was under the coalition government. 

The idea, first reported by the Sunday Times, has been subsequently confirmed as an option that officials are considering.