The Department for Business, Innovation & Skills was created by merging BERR and DIUS. The key role of BIS is to build Britain’s capabilities to compete in the global economy.
The department aims to:
- Advocate the needs of business across government, especially of UK small businesses;
- Promote an enterprise environment that is good for business and good for consumers;
- Design tailored policies for sectors of the UK economy that represent key future strengths and where government policy can add to the dynamics of the market;
- Assess the changing skills needs of the UK economy, especially the intermediate and high skills vital in a global economy and design policies to meets them through public and privately funded life long training;
- Invest in the development of a higher education system committed to widening participation, equipping people with the skills and knowledge to compete in a global economy and securing and enhancing Britain’s existing world class research base;
- Continue to invest in the UK’s world class science base and develop strategies for commercialising more of that science;
- Continue to invest in skills through the Further Education system to help people through the downturn and to prepare Britain for the future;
- Deliver on the government’s ambitious objectives to expand the number of apprenticeships;
- Encourage innovation in the UK;
- Defend a sound regulatory environment that encourages enterprise and skills;
- Collaborate with the RDAs in building economic growth in the English regions;
- Work with the EU in shaping European regulation and European policies that affect the openness of the single market and the competitiveness of European and British companies;
- Continue to work to expand UK exports and encourage inward investment to the UK.
Further information:
Ministerial Correspondence Unit
Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
1 Victoria Street
London
SW1H 0ET
Email:
enquiries@bis.gsi.gov.uk
Website:
www.bis.gov.uk
Phone:
+44 (0)20 7215 5000