Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

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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]

Ministers

  • The Rt Hon David Willetts MP, Minister of State, Universities and science, innovation, space
  • 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

Website

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

See also:

Precursor departments:

Notes