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]

People

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

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:

Notes