Department for Business, Innovation and Skills | |
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Department overview | |
Formed | June 5, 2009 |
Jurisdiction | United Kingdom |
Headquarters | London, England |
Annual budget | £16.5 billion (current) & £1.3 billion (capital) for 2011-12 [1] |
Minister responsible | The Rt Hon. Vince Cable MP, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills |
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www.bis.gov.uk |
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The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) is a ministerial department of the United Kingdom Government created on 5 June 2009 by the merger of the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) and the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR).[2]
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The BIS Ministers are as follows:[3]
Minister | Rank | Portfolio | |
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The Rt Hon Dr Vincent Cable MP | Secretary of State President of the Board of Trade |
Overall responsibility, business and banking | |
The Rt Hon David Willetts MP | Minister of State | Universities and science, innovation, space | |
John Hayes MP | Minister of State | Further education, skills and lifelong learning | |
Mark Prisk MP | Minister of State | Business and enterprise | |
The Rt Hon Greg Clark MP | Minister of State | Decentralisation and cities | |
Lord Green | Minister of State | Trade and investment | |
Edward Davey MP | Parliamentary Under Secretary of State | Employment relations, consumer and postal affairs | |
Baroness Wilcox | Parliamentary Under Secretary of State | Intellectual property |
Key | Conservative | |
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Liberal Democrat |
John Hayes works jointly between the department and the Department for Education.[4]
Greg Clark works jointly between the department and the Department for Communities and Local Government.[5]
Lord Green works jointly between the department and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.[6]
The Permanent Secretary is Martin Donnelly, following the departure of Simon Fraser CMG, on 26 August 2010.
The department is responsible for UK Government policy in the following areas:[7]
Some policies apply to England alone due to devolution, while others are not devolved and therefore apply to other nations of the United Kingdom.
Economic policy is mostly devolved but several important policy areas are reserved to Westminster. Further and higher education policy is mostly devolved. Reserved and excepted matters are outlined below.
Scotland
Reserved matters:[8]
The Scottish Government Economy and Education Directorates handle devolved economic and further and higher education policy respectively.
Northern Ireland
Reserved matters:[9]
Excepted matter:[10]
The department's main counterparts are:[11]
Wales
Under the Welsh devolution settlement, specific policy areas are transferred to the National Assembly for Wales rather than reserved to Westminster.
Precursor departments:
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