Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

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 PortfolioSecretary of State for Business, Innovation & SkillsOverall responsibility for strategy and policy across the Department for Business, Innovations & SkillsMinister 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 legacyMinister 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 BillMinister 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 BillMinister 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) 
 UK Space Agency
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Category:2009 establishments in the United Kingdom
Category:2016 disestablishments in the United Kingdom