Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
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| Formed | June 5, 2009 |
| Jurisdiction | United Kingdom |
| Headquarters | London, England |
| Annual budget | £16.5 billion (current) & £1.3 billion (capital) for 2011-12 [1] |
| Minister responsible | The Rt Hon. Vince Cable MP,Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills |
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| www.bis.gov.uk | |
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The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) is a ministerial department of the United Kingdom Government created on 5 June 2009 by the merger of the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) and the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR).[2]
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[edit]Ministers
The BIS Ministers are as follows:[3]
| Minister | Rank | Portfolio | |
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| The Rt Hon Dr Vincent Cable MP | Secretary of State President of the Board of Trade |
Overall responsibility, business and banking | |
| The Rt Hon David Willetts MP | Minister of State | Universities and science, innovation, space | |
| John Hayes MP | Minister of State | Further education, skills and lifelong learning | |
| Mark Prisk MP | Minister of State | Business and enterprise | |
| The Rt Hon Greg Clark MP | Minister of State | Decentralisation and cities | |
| Lord Green | Minister of State | Trade and investment | |
| Norman Lamb MP | Parliamentary Under Secretary of State | Employment relations, consumer and postal affairs | |
| Baroness Wilcox | Parliamentary Under Secretary of State | Intellectual property | |
| Key | Conservative | |
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| Liberal Democrat |
John Hayes works jointly between the department and the Department for Education.[4]
Greg Clark works jointly between the department and the Department for Communities and Local Government.[5]
Lord Green works jointly between the department and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.[6]
The Permanent Secretary is Martin Donnelly, following the departure of Simon Fraser CMG, on 26 August 2010.
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