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.

Agency overview
Headquarters	1 Victoria Street
Minister responsible	Secretary of State for Business, Innovation & Skills
Website	www.gov.uk/bis

Ministers

Minister	Portfolio
Secretary of State for Business, Innovation & Skills	Overall responsibility for strategy and policy across the Department for Business, Innovations & Skills
Minister 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 legacy
Minister 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 Bill
Minister 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 Bill
Minister 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