The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) is a government department, which was 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.
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.
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Ministers
The Ministers in the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy are as follows:
In October 2016, Archie Norman, a respected businessman, was appointed as Lead Non Executive Board Member for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
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Responsibilities
The department is responsible for UK Government policy in the following areas:
- business regulation and support
- climate change policy in the United Kingdom
- company law
- competition
- consumer affairs
- corporate governance
- energy
- employment relations
- export licensing
- innovation
- insolvency
- intellectual property
- outer space
- postal affairs
- regional and local economic development
- science and research
- trade
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:
- Competition
- Customer protection
- Import and export control
- Insolvency
- Intellectual property
- nuclear energy
- Oil and gas
- Outer space
- Postal services
- Product standards, safety and liability
- Research councils
- Telecommunications
- Time
- Business associations
- Weights and measures
The Scottish Government Economy Directorate handles devolved economic policy.
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: Nuclear energy is excepted.
- outer space
The department's main counterpart is:
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment (general economic policy)
Wales Under the Welsh devolution settlement, specific policy areas are transferred to the Welsh Government rather than reserved to Westminster. [ This is no longer true since the Wales Act 2017 and needs updating] http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2016-17/wales.html
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