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Defunct ministerial department of the government of the United Kingdom
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Welsh
:
Yr Adran Fusnes, Arloesi a Sgiliau
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Formed
| 5 June 2009
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Preceding Department
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Dissolved
| 14 July 2016
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Superseding agency
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Jurisdiction
| United Kingdom
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Headquarters
| 1,
Victoria Street
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London
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Annual budget
| £16.5 billion (current) and £1.3 billion (capital) for 2011-12
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Website
| www.gov.uk/bis
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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.
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Secretaries of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
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The
Permanent Secretary
was
Sir Martin Donnelly
.
Responsibilities
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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:
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Devolution
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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:
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The Scottish Government
Economy
and
Education
Directorates handle devolved economic and further and higher education policy respectively.
Northern Ireland
Reserved matters:
[5]
Excepted matter:
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The department's main counterparts are:
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Wales
Under the Welsh devolution settlement, specific policy areas are transferred to the
Welsh Government
rather than reserved to Westminster.
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Precursor departments:
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