Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (Redirected from Department for Business, Innovation & Skills)

Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Welsh: Yr Adran Fusnes, Arloesi a Sgiliau
Department overview
Formed5 June 2009
Preceding Department
Dissolved14 July 2016
Superseding agency
JurisdictionUnited Kingdom
Headquarters1, Victoria Street, London
Annual budget£16.5 billion (current) and £1.3 billion (capital) for 2011-12
Child agencies
Websitewww.gov.uk/bis

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) was 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). It was disbanded on the creation of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on 14 July 2016.

Secretaries of State for Business, Innovation and Skills

Name Portrait Took office Left office Length of term Political party Prime Minister
The Lord Mandelson 5 June 2009 11 May 2010 11 months and 6 days Labour Gordon Brown
Vince Cable 12 May 2010 12 May 2015 5 years Liberal Democrats David Cameron
(Coalition)
Sajid Javid 12 May 2015 14 July 2016 1 year, 2 months and 3 days Conservative David Cameron
(II)

The Permanent Secretary was Sir Martin Donnelly.

Responsibilities

Some policies apply to England alone due to devolution, while others are not devolved and therefore apply to other nations of the United Kingdom. The department was responsible for UK Government policy in the following areas:

Devolution

Economic policy is mostly devolved but several important policy areas are reserved to Westminster. Further and higher education policy is mostly devolved. Reserved and excepted matters are outlined below.

Scotland

Reserved matters:

The Scottish Government Economy and Education Directorates handle devolved economic and further and higher education policy respectively.

Northern Ireland

Reserved matters:

Excepted matter:

The department's main counterparts are:

Wales

Under the Welsh devolution settlement, specific policy areas are transferred to the Welsh Government rather than reserved to Westminster.


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