• Source: Department for Business, Innovation 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



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.




See also


Feltag




References






External links


Official website
bis.gov.uk/ Archived Website
Precursor departments:

Department for Business and Regulatory Reform (BERR) Archived Website
Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) Archived Website

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