Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

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The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) was created on 14 July 2016 by the merger of the Department for Business Innovation & Skills (BIS) and Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC). [1]

The department brings together the responsibilities from BIS and DECC, including business, industrial strategy, science, innovation, energy, and climate change. [2]

People

Ministers

  • Greg Clark (secretary of state for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy).
  • Nick Hurd (minister of state for Climate Change and Industry).
  • Jo Johnson (minister of state for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation).
  • Baroness Neville-Rolfe (minister of state for Energy and Intellectual Property).
  • Margot James (parliamentary under secretary of state, minister for Small Business, Consumers and Corporate Responsibility).
  • Jesse Norman (parliamentary under secretary of state, minister for Industry and Energy).

Civil servants

Contact

  • General enquiries 1 Victoria Street, London, SW1H 0ET | Email: enquiries@beis.gov.uk | Telephone: 020 7215 5000
  • Whitehall office 3 Whitehall Place, London, SW1A 2AW
  • Aberdeen office AB1 Building, Crimon Place, Aberdeen, AB10 1BJ
  • Sheffield office 2 St Paul's Place, 125 Norfolk Street, Sheffield, S1 2FJ

Notes

  1. ↑ Ian Johnston, Climate change department closed by Theresa May in 'plain stupid' and 'deeply worrying' move, The Independent, 14 July 2016, accessed 14 September 2016
  2. ↑ Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, GOV.uk, accessed 25 October 2016.
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