Formed 14 July 2016 Founded 14 July 2016 Jurisdiction United Kingdom | Website Official website Headquarters London | |
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Preceding agencies Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Department for Energy and Climate Change Minister responsible Greg Clark, Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Child agencies Companies House
HM Land Registry
Insolvency Service
Intellectual Property Office
Met Office
National Measurement and Regulation Office
UK Space Agency
Oil and Gas Authority Predecessor Department for Business, Innovation and Skills Profiles | ||
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) is a government department created by Theresa May on 14 July 2016 following her appointment of Prime Minister, created as a result of a merger between the Department of Energy and Climate Change and Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
Contents
BEIS will bring together responsibility for business, industrial strategy, and science and innovation with energy and climate change policy, merging the functions of the former BIS and DECC.
Ministers
The Ministers in the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy are as follows:
Responsibilities
The department is responsible for UK Government policy in the following areas:
Some policies apply to England alone due to devolution, while others are not devolved and therefore apply to other nations of the United Kingdom.
Devolution
Economic policy is mostly devolved but several important policy areas are reserved to Westminster. Reserved and excepted matters are outlined below.
Scotland
Reserved matters:
The Scottish Government Economy Directorate handles devolved economic policy.
Northern Ireland
Reserved matters:
Excepted matter: Nuclear energy is excepted.
The department's main counterpart is:
Wales Under the Welsh devolution settlement, specific policy areas are transferred to the Welsh Government rather than reserved to Westminster.