Department for Business, Innovation and Skills explained

Agency Name:Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Welsh: Yr Adran Fusnes, Arloesi a Sgiliau
Type:Department
Formed:5 June 2009
Preceding1:Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills
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 [1]
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

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.[2]

Secretaries of State for Business, Innovation and Skills

NamePortraitwidth=130Took officewidth=130Left officeLength of termPolitical partyPrime Minister
width=160The Lord Mandelson5 June 200911 May 2010LabourGordon Brown
width=160Vince Cable12 May 201012 May 2015Liberal DemocratsDavid Cameron
(Coalition)
width=160Sajid Javid12 May 201514 July 2016ConservativeDavid 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:[3]

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:[4]

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

Northern Ireland

Reserved matters:[5]

Excepted matter:[6]

The department's main counterparts are:[7]

Wales

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

External links

Precursor departments:

Notes and References

  1. Book: Budget 2011 . 2011 . HM Treasury . London . 30 December 2011 . 48 . dead . http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110801192353/http://cdn.hm-treasury.gov.uk/2011budget_complete.pdf . 1 August 2011 .
  2. http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page19525 Prime Minister's Office: Changes to the machinery of Government
  3. Web site: Department for Business, Innovation and Skills . 12 September 2012 . gov.uk . 2016-07-18.
  4. Web site: Scotland Act 1998, Schedule 5, Part II . Opsi.gov.uk . 2012-12-04.
  5. Web site: Northern Ireland Act 1998, Schedule 3 . Opsi.gov.uk . 1998-06-25 . 2012-12-04.
  6. Web site: Northern Ireland Act 1998, Schedule 2 . Opsi.gov.uk . 1998-06-25 . 2012-12-04.
  7. Web site: Departments (Transfer and Assignment of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) 1999 . Opsi.gov.uk . 2012-10-05 . 2012-12-04.

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