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Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Defunct ministerial department of the government of the United Kingdom

Field	Value
agency_name	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

type	Department
logo	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills logo.svg
logo_width	200px
picture	File:Лондан. 2014. Жнівень 26.JPG
formed	5 June 2009
preceding1	Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform

dissolved	14 July 2016
superseding	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy; Department for International Trade
jurisdiction	United Kingdom
headquarters	1, Victoria Street, London
budget	£16.5 billion (current) and £1.3 billion (capital) for 2011-12
child1_agency	Companies House
child2_agency	HM Land Registry
child3_agency	Insolvency Service
child4_agency	Intellectual Property Office
child5_agency	Met Office
child6_agency	National Measurement and Regulation Office
child7_agency	Skills Funding Agency
child8_agency	UK Space Agency
website	www.gov.uk/bis

||preceding1 = Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform

Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) was a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom. It was created by the Gordon Brown premiership on 5 June 2009 by the merger of the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills and the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform. It was disbanded by the Theresa May premiership 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	Prime Minister	Labour Party (UK)}}"
Peter Mandelson	[[File:Peter Mandelson at Politics of Climate Change 3.jpg	60px]]	5 June 2009	11 May 2010	Labour	Gordon Brown
Vince Cable	[[File:Vince Cable, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation & Skills (cropped).jpg	60px]]	12 May 2010	12 May 2015	Liberal Democrats	David Cameron
(Coalition)
Sajid Javid	[[File:Sajid Javid Secretary of State.jpg	60px]]	12 May 2015	14 July 2016	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:

business regulation and support
company law
competition
consumer affairs
corporate governance
employment relations
export licensing
further education
higher education
innovation
insolvency
intellectual property
outer space
postal affairs
regional and local economic development
science and research
skills
trade
training

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:

Competition
Customer protection
Import and export control
Insolvency
Intellectual property
Outer space
Postal services
Product standards, safety and liability
Research councils
Telecommunications
Time
Business associations
Weights and measures in relation to goods

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

Northern Ireland

Reserved matters:

Consumer safety in relation to goods
Import and export controls, external trade
Intellectual property
Postal services
Telecommunications
Units of measurement

Excepted matter:

outer space

The department's main counterparts are:

Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment (general economic policy)
Department for Employment and Learning (employment relations, further and higher education policy)

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

References

(2011). "Budget 2011". HM Treasury.
[http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page19525 Prime Minister's Office: Changes to the machinery of Government] {{webarchive. link. (8 June 2009)
(12 September 2012). "Department for Business, Innovation and Skills". gov.uk.
"Scotland Act 1998, Schedule 5, Part II". Opsi.gov.uk.
(1998-06-25). "Northern Ireland Act 1998, Schedule 3". Opsi.gov.uk.
(1998-06-25). "Northern Ireland Act 1998, Schedule 2". Opsi.gov.uk.
(2012-10-05). "Departments (Transfer and Assignment of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) 1999". Opsi.gov.uk.

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