Secretary of State for Business, Innovation & Skills
Website
www.gov.uk/bis
The Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (DBIS) was the department for economic growth. The department invests in skills and education to promote trade, boost innovation and help people to start and grow a business. DBIS also protects consumers and reduces the impact of regulation.
Ministers
Minister
Portfolio
Secretary of State for Business, Innovation & Skills
Overall responsibility for strategy and policy across the Department for Business, Innovations & Skills
Minister for Business & Enterprise
Business sectors, including low carbon economy, low emission vehicles, electronics
Small business, enterprise and access to finance
Competitiveness and economic growth
Deregulation and better regulation
Regional and local economic development (including grants for business investment)
Olympic legacy
Minister for Employment Relations & Consumer Affairs
Post Office
Employment relations (including ACAS)
Consumer policy, consumer credit and consumer affairs
Competition policy
Corporate governance
Company law
Social enterprise
Insolvency Service (including company investigations)
Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill
Minister for Skills
Further education
Adult skills
Skills Funding Agency
Skills strategy
Lifelong learning
Informal adult learning
Apprenticeships
UK Commission for Employment and Skills
Sector skills councils
Workplace training reforms
Qualifications reform programme
Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill
Minister for Universities & Science
Higher education (including the Higher Education Funding Council for England and Student Loans Company)
Science and research (including research councils)
Life sciences
Innovation
Technology and the arts - National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA)
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