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Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform

Field	Value
agency_name	Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
type	Department
logo	Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform logo.svg
logo_width	250px
picture	File:Лондан. 2014. Жнівень 26.JPG
seal_width	150px
formed	28 June 2007
preceding1	Department of Trade and Industry
dissolved	6 June 2009
superseding	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
jurisdiction	United Kingdom
headquarters	Victoria Street, London

The Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) was a United Kingdom government department. The department was created on 28 June 2007 on the disbanding of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), and was itself disbanded on 6 June 2009 on the creation of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.

BERR had a wide range of responsibilities. The main areas covered were essentially those previously covered by the DTI: company law, trade, energy, business growth, employment law, regional economic development and consumer law. The principal machinery of government changes affecting the department on creation were the removal of the Office of Science and Innovation to the new Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills and the arrival of the Better Regulation Executive from the Cabinet Office. Subsequently, in October 2008, responsibility for energy policy was removed to the new Department of Energy and Climate Change. It merged with the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills in the June 2009 reshuffle to become the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.

BERR was responsible for the implementation of the Companies Act 2006 and for promoting entrepreneurship in the UK. In this context, it supported initiatives such as:

Make Your Mark, the UK's national campaign to give people the confidence, skills and ambition to be more enterprising.
Global Entrepreneurship Week, the world's first global celebration and promotion of the entrepreneurial spirit amongst young people.

Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (2007–2009)

Name	Portrait	Took office	Left office	Political party	Prime Minister	Labour Party (UK)}}"		Labour Party (UK)}}"		Labour Party (UK)}}"
John Hutton	[[File:Msc 2009-Sunday, 11.00 - 12.30 Uhr-Zwez 005 Hutton detail.jpg	60px]]	28 June 2007	3 October 2008	Labour	Gordon Brown
Peter Mandelson	[[File:Peter Mandelson at Politics of Climate Change 3.jpg	60px]]	3 October 2008	5 June 2009

References

[http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page19525 Number10: Changes to the machinery of Government] {{webarchive. link. (2009-06-08)
[http://www.makeyourmark.org.uk Welcome to Make Your Mark Entrepreneurs]. Makeyourmark.org.uk. Retrieved on 2014-04-19.

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