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).

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 - 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.

Website

Official: http://www.gov.uk/bis

See also:

• http://www.bis.gov.uk/ Archived Website

Precursor departments:

• Department for Business and Regulatory Reform (BERR) Archived Website
• Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) Archived Website