Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
The Department for Business Innovation & 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).[1]
Contents
People
Ministers
- 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
- Michael Fallon, MP Minister of State, Business and enterprise
- Matthew Hancock MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (jointly with Department of Education) - Further education, skills and lifelong learning
- Lord Green, Minister of State, Trade and investment
- Jo Swinson MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State - Employment relations, consumer and postal affairs
- Lord Younger[2] - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Intellectual property
Civil servants
The Permanent Secretary is Martin Donnelly, following the departure of Simon Fraser CMG, on 26 August 2010.
Subsidiary elements
Non-ministerial department
Office of Fair Trading | K Trade & Investment | Competition and Markets Authority
Executive agency
Companies House | UK Space Agency | The Insolvency Service | National Measurement Office | Skills Funding Agency | Intellectual Property Office | Met Office | Land Registry | Ordnance Survey
Executive non-departmental public body
Higher Education Funding Council for England | Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service | Arts and Humanities Research Council | British Hallmarking Council | Construction Industry Training Board | Economic and Social Research Council | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council | Engineering Construction Industry Training Board | Medical Research Council | Natural Environment Research Council | Office for Fair Access | Science and Technology Facilities Council | Student Loans Company | Technology Strategy Board | UK Atomic Energy Authority | UK Commission for Employment and Skills | Capital for Enterprise Limited | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council | Competition Service | Competition Commission | Consumer Focus
Advisory non-departmental public body
Council for Science and Technology | Low Pay Commission | Industrial Development Advisory Board | Land Registration Rule Committee | Regulatory Policy Committee | Export Guarantees Advisory Council
Tribunal non-departmental public body
Competition Appeal Tribunal | Central Arbitration Committee | Copyright Tribunal | Insolvency Practitioners Tribunal
Other
Certification Office | Office of Manpower Economics | UK Green Investment Bank | Groceries Code Adjudicator | Government Office for Science
Website
Official: http://www.gov.uk/bis
See also:
Precursor departments:
- Department for Business and Regulatory Reform (BERR) Archived Website
- Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) Archived Website
Notes
- ↑ Number 10, Prime Minister's Office: Changes to the machinery of Government Friday 5 June 2009
- ↑ The Viscount Younger of Leckie appointed as Business Minister
